Check Point Software Corp. Annuity Blades

Organizations today demand an agile data center environment to reduce IT costs, increase business agility and remain competitive. At the same time, integrated applications, increasing utilization of virtualization technology and dynamic environments have led to a dramatic increase in network traffic going east-west, or laterally within the data center. When it comes to security, the focus has mainly been on protecting the perimeter - or north-south traffic - going into and out of the data center. There are few controls to secure east-west traffic inside the data center. This presents a security risk where threats can traverse unimpeded once inside the data center. Traditional security approaches to this problem are manual, operationally complex and slow, and are unable to keep pace with dynamic virtual network changes and rapid virtual application provisioning.

Nutanix delivers a web-scale, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution purpose built for virtualization and both containerized and private cloud environments. This solution brings the scale, resilience, and economic benefits of web-scale architecture to the enterprise through the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform, which combines the core HCI product families - Nutanix AOS and Nutanix Prism management - along with other software products that automate, secure, and back up cost-optimized infrastructure.

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for Nutanix delivers advanced threat prevention security to HCI environments. Designed for the dynamic requirements of cloud-based data centers, CloudGuard provides automated security provisioning coupled with the most comprehensive protections. Fully integrated security features include: Firewall, IPS, Application Control, IPsec VPN, Anti-Virus, Anti-Bot, Threat Extraction and Threat Emulation.

Centrally managed across hybrid infrastructures, CloudGuard provides consistent security policy enforcement, full threat visibility across physical data centers, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, and public cloud environments.