AlgoSec Announces Support for Check Point R80 Security Management Platform

Support for Check Point Enables Business-Driven Security Policy Management for Joint Customers

May 17, 2016

Chicago, IL (May 17, 2016) – AlgoSec, the market leader for Business-Driven Security Policy Management, today announced support for the Check Point R80 security management platform.  Available today, this support ensures that joint customers who have deployed Check Point R80 can automate and orchestrate their network security policy management using the AlgoSec Security Management solution v6.9, to deliver business agility while ensuring security and compliance across their enterprises.  AlgoSec will demonstrate support for Check Point R80 at Check Point Experience 2016, Chicago, May 16-18, 2016.

Through its business-driven approach, the AlgoSec Security Management solution intelligently automates and orchestrates network security policy management, to make enterprises more agile, more secure and more compliant all the time. Through a single pane of glass users can auto-discover application connectivity requirements, proactively analyze risk from the business perspective, and rapidly plan and execute network security changes – all with zero-touch, and seamlessly orchestrated across cloud and on-premise enterprise environments.

In addition to Check Point, AlgoSec seamlessly integrates with all leading brands of traditional and next-generation firewalls and cloud security controls, as well as routers, load balancers and web proxies, to deliver unified security policy management across any heterogeneous enterprise network.

Key benefits of the AlgoSec Security Management solution include:

• Business Application Discovery & Connectivity Management: Automatically discover, provision, change and securely decommission business application connectivity.
• Zero-Touch Security Policy Change Management: Process security policy changes in minutes, not days.
• Security Policy Risk Mitigation: Instantly assess, prioritize and mitigate risks in firewall policies, and map them to their respective business applications.
• Firewall Policy Cleanup & Optimization: Identify and remove the bloat and clutter from the security policy through actionable reports.
• Firewall Auditing & Compliance: Automatically identify gaps in compliance, and instantly generate audit-ready reports for all major regulations including PCI, HIPAA, SOX, NERC and many others.
• Effective Network Segmentation: Easily define and enforce network segmentation throughout the enterprise network and across all leading firewall platforms.

“As a long time Check Point partner, we take pride in our close collaboration which allows us to support Check Point innovations as soon as they hit the market,” said Edy Almer, VP product, AlgoSec. “Through our support for Check Point R80, joint customers can now take a business-centric approach to security policy management that ensures business agility and continuity together with a strong security and compliance posture.”

About AlgoSec

AlgoSec’s business-driven approach to security policy management enables enterprises and services providers to accelerate business application delivery, while ensuring security and compliance. Over 1,500 of the world’s leading organizations, including 20 of the Fortune 50, rely on AlgoSec to intelligently automate and orchestrate network security policy management across cloud and on-premise networks. Since its inception, AlgoSec has been committed to the success of each and every customer, and provides the industry’s only money-back guarantee.