Check Point Software acquires Dome9

Check Point Software Technologies has announced that it has acquired Dome9 of Tel Aviv, Israel. This acquisition enhances Check Point’s fully consolidated Infinity architecture and its Cloud Security offering with advanced active policy enforcement and multi-cloud protection capabilities.

As the use of cloud services significantly increases and cyberattacks on cloud data and resources become more sophisticated than ever, this acquisition strengthens Check Point’s position as a global leader in Cloud Protection. It will enable Check Point’s customers to acquire an even more powerful security visibility and control across multi-cloud environments through its Infinity’s total protection architecture.

Bhaskar Bakthavatsalu, Managing Director, India and SAARC, Check Point Software Technologies, says, “The Check Point CloudGuard security provides consistent and comprehensive cloud security for virtualized data centers to SDN, IaaS and SaaS applications, including the emerging threat of account takeover. The CloudGuard portfolio including CloudGuard SaaS and CloudGuard IaaS, seamlessly integrates with the largest number of cloud platforms and cloud-based applications, giving customers the freedom to choose the cloud solution that best aligns with their business goals without sacrificing security. Dome9 combines cloud-native security controls exposed by different public cloud providers through APIs with cloud-agnostic policy automation to provide comprehensive multi-cloud security management across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).”

With Dome 9 now –

· Cloud services and applications are never exposed as security is continuously and automatically assessed and remediated.

· Management of Cloud Security is no longer complex. Get full security visibility and control across AWS, Azure and Google.

· Cloud innovation is empowered leveraging security that is automated and aligned with DevOps

· Access control is enforced and modern threats are prevented with our market-leading breach prevention solutions