Company News: New CloudGuardWAF-as-a-Service delivers a fully managed, scalable solution that enables enterprises to navigate the digital world with confidence and resilience.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading cyber security platform provider, today announced CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service (WAFaaS), an automated, AI-powered web application firewall that provides organizations with a fully managed solution to prevent cyber threats and protect web applications from unauthorized access and data breaches. Prioritizing prevention, simplicity and scalability, the technology offers a convenient, cost-effective way to efficiently secure cloud applications and APIs.
Security professionals understand that WAF solutions require meticulous setup and ongoing maintenance to mitigate risk. But securing the cloud is paramount. Check Point's 2024 Cloud Security Report revealed that 96% of respondents expressed concerns about their ability to effectively manage cloud risk. Check Point CloudGuard WAFaaS fully managed services reduce the heavy lifting traditionally associated with maintaining a WAF solution, turning a tedious process into a streamlined operation.
“Modern cloud operations require easy, effective protection for web services and APIs, and CloudGuard WAFaaS achieves this through imperative, automated, cloud-delivered security,” said Oded Gonda, vice president of Technology & Innovation at Check Point Software Technologies. “CloudGuard WAFaaS simplifies application security for our customers, providing the highest level of threat prevention in a managed solution that can be deployed in under five minutes and effectively prevents zero-day threats.”
CloudGuard WAFaaS is a key component of Check Point's prevention-focused cloud security solution. With capabilities such as AI-based threat detection, API detection bot prevention, file security and rate limiting, CloudGuard WAFaaS provides a comprehensive suite of application and API protection for multiple clouds and modern architectures, and also includes DDoS prevention and automated certificate management.
Part of the Check Point Infinity platform for protecting the cloud, CloudGuard WAFaaS provides the following key capabilities:
- Threat Prevention: Protect against zero-day, distributed denial of service (DDoS) and bot-based attacks, ensuring comprehensive security without impacting performance.
- Contextual Analysis: Accurate detection with few false positives frees security teams from tedious firewall maintenance.
- API Security: Leverage modern API discovery capabilities to effectively reduce the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.
- One-time setup: The end-to-end deployment process can be completed in under 5 minutes
“Unlike traditional web application firewalls that rely heavily on manual intervention and frequent signature updates, the newly released Check Point CloudGuard WAFaaS leverages AI to dynamically adapt to new threats,” said Brian McHenry, head of cloud security engineering at Check Point Software. “This capability ensures organizations have a proactive defense mechanism that evolves with the threat landscape without generating time-consuming false positives.”
CloudGuard WAFaaS is available immediately through our global partner network. Visit the website to learn more or sign up for a free CloudGuard demo to experience a truly prevention-first cloud security solution.
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