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Check Point Software Simplifies Cloud Security with AI-Powered WAFaaS

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The New CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service offers a fully managed, scalable solution empowering businesses to navigate the digital world confidently and resiliently.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a cyber security platform provider, announced CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service (WAFaaS) — an automated, AI-powered web application firewall that offers organizations a fully managed solution to prevent cyber threats and protects web applications from unauthorized access and data breaches. Prioritizing prevention, simplicity, and scalability, this technology delivers a convenient and cost-effective way to secure cloud applications and APIs efficiently.

Security practitioners understand that WAF solutions require meticulous setup and ongoing maintenance to mitigate risks. Yet, securing the cloud is of the utmost importance. Check Point’s 2024 Cloud Security Report revealed that an overwhelming 96% of respondents reported concerns about their ability to manage cloud risks effectively. Check Point CloudGuard WAFaaS’s fully managed offering alleviates the heavy lifting traditionally associated with maintaining WAF solutions, transforming a cumbersome process into a streamlined operation.

“Modern cloud operations need straightforward and effective protection for Web Services and APIs, which CloudGuard WAFaaS provides through essential, automated, and cloud-delivered security,” said Oded Gonda, VP of Technology & Innovation at Check Point Software Technologies. “CloudGuard WAFaaS simplifies application security for our customers, providing top-notch threat prevention within a managed solution that can be deployed in under five minutes and effectively prevents zero-day threats.”

CloudGuard WAFaaS is an essential component of Check Point’s prevention-first cloud security solution. With features ranging from AI-based threat detection, API discovery, bot prevention, file security, and rate limiting, CloudGuard WAFaaS offers a comprehensive application and API protection suite for multiple cloud and modern architectures and includes DDoS prevention and automated certificate management.

As part of the Check Point Infinity Platform to defend the cloud, key features for CloudGuard WAFaaS include:

  • Threat Prevention: Protects against Zero-day exploits, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and bot-driven assaults, ensuring comprehensive security without affecting performance
  • Contextual Analysis: Precise detection, with virtually no false positives, frees security teams from tedious firewall maintenance
  • API Security: Effectively reduces the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches leveraging the latest API Discovery feature
  • One-time Set-up: End-to-end deployment process can be executed within 5 minutes

“Unlike traditional web application firewalls, which rely heavily on manual intervention and frequent signature updates, our newly released Check Point CloudGuard WAFaaS leverages AI to adapt to new threats dynamically,” said Brian McHenry, Head of Cloud Security Engineering at Check Point Software. “This capability ensures that organizations have a preventative defense mechanism that evolves with the threat landscape without generating time-consuming false positives.”

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CloudGuard WAFaaS is available immediately through our network of global partners. Visit the website for more information, or sign up for a free CloudGuard demo to experience a truly prevention-first Cloud Security solution.

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