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Carmel Partners: Enhancing Network Security and Productivity with Check Point Solutions
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
- Networks & Connectivity - Gateways
Applicable Industries
- Electronics
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Tamper Detection
The Challenge
Carmel Partners, a real estate investment firm operating in select markets across the U.S., was faced with the challenge of maintaining network integrity, upholding customer confidence, and ensuring regulatory compliance while improving employee productivity. The growing multi-faceted organization needed a solution to secure network traffic, protect against data loss, and provide secure site-to-site connectivity. They also needed to equip their employees with the ability to securely share data, protect the network from next-generation and Web 2.0 threats, reduce management complexity, and improve visibility of traffic across multiple network segments.
About The Customer
Carmel Partners is a real estate investment firm that acquires, creates, and markets properties by combining cutting-edge innovation with bold investment. The company operates and invests in select markets across the U.S., including California, Colorado, Hawaii, New York, Washington, and Washington, D.C. With a growing multi-faceted organization, Carmel Partners was looking for a way to ensure business productivity, which includes securing network traffic, protecting against data loss, and providing secure site-to-site connectivity.
The Solution
Carmel Partners turned to Check Point's 4000 series appliances for a robust, scalable, and centrally managed solution. These appliances provided multi-layered security and connectivity across Carmel's distributed environment, enabling secure data sharing, application access, and other resources via IPsec VPN tunnels. The Check Point Software Blade Architecture allowed Carmel to consolidate multiple Software Blades on individual, centrally managed appliances. This integration of technologies protected the network against malicious traffic and intrusions, blocked or limited access to potentially harmful or productivity-draining applications and websites, and protected against data loss. To manage its complex security infrastructure, Carmel relied on the Check Point Smart-1 25 security management appliance, which provided real-time visibility into all its Check Point gateways and Software Blades, simplifying management and improving security.
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