Invitalia, Italy’s national agency for inward investment and economic development, was faced with the challenge of securing critical data and assets as it pursued a cloud-first strategy. The agency, which is responsible for coordinating investment and development across the country, manages the tender process for national infrastructure projects and helps find funding for start-ups. As a critical piece of national infrastructure, Invitalia is a target for cyber criminals. The agency needed to be agile, secure, and flexible, without sitting on great swathes of unused IT resources. The cloud allowed the business to consume resources as needed, but with sensitive funding and commercial data at the center of Invitalia’s portfolio, the agency was under constant threat. Additionally, the agency was also looking to reduce the strain on its in-house cybersecurity team in the face of an escalating number of attacks.

Paschoalotto, a leading call center for the financial industry in Brazil, faced several challenges with its existing security infrastructure. The company needed to meet the highest level of security as required by customers and government privacy laws, deliver a flexible security architecture that could scale instantly in an environment of hyper-growth, and integrate the company’s multiple sites and private cloud under a single unified management system. The company's previous solution consisted of multiple vendors, which had led to occasional problems. The new solution needed to support two data centers serving seven different locations, as well as protect the company’s private cloud, all under the umbrella of a single, integrated management system. The security team required a single-vendor solution with a wide array of integrated capabilities, including demonstrated interoperability with their VMware-based private cloud infrastructure.

LAZIOCrea, the IT management body for Italy’s second largest region, Lazio, faced a significant challenge in protecting the sensitive data of nearly six million residents. The organization was tasked with ensuring compliance with the latest government-imposed security policies, which required frequent updates. The security scope of LAZIOCrea encompassed five data centers, three of which dealt with public administration services, while the other two were concerned with business continuity and disaster recovery. The organization needed a security solution that was not only easy to use, implement, and manage, but also provided comprehensive protection from cyber attacks, including virus intrusions and phishing attacks, and safeguarded all the company’s critical assets.

Canal Bank, a financial services provider in Panama, was facing a significant challenge in securing its Office 365 application users from malware, phishing, and ransomware. The bank was in the process of acquiring and implementing a new core banking system that would support multiple channels and mobile applications, and it was crucial to ensure the integrity of these new services. The bank's strategy heavily relied on cloud technology, and they were planning to move all operations to the cloud in approximately two years. The first step in this transition was moving their email platform to the cloud, which required a security solution that could be hosted externally to protect against phishing attacks and other threats. The bank's executives understood the importance of security and wanted to ensure that the emails sent and received would not pose a threat to the organization.

Enterprise Consulting Group (ECG), a provider of IT infrastructure products and services, faced the challenge of consolidating and automating management tasks for security solutions. The company needed to protect desktop, laptop, and mobile users from malware, phishing, and ransomware. ECG serves customers across various industries and supports mission-critical infrastructure projects, from initial architecture and design, through product selection, deployment, and support. As a longtime Check Point partner, ECG exclusively offers Check Point solutions to support customers’ security requirements. ECG also uses Check Point technology to protect its own network environment and stay updated with the latest security solutions.

East Coast Migrant Head Start Project (ECMHSP), a non-profit organization providing high-quality early childhood education services for children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers, faced significant challenges in protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of the people it serves. As a Federal Head Start Program, ECMHSP had to comply with strict government security rules. The primary challenge was to prevent their network and employees from being undermined by phishing attacks, which accounted for up to 90% of their security breaches. The new security architecture had to support remote access from hundreds of employees, using a wide variety of mobile devices across a wide geographical area. Additionally, given limited IT resources, ECMHSP wanted to improve the efficiency of its IT team and make its employees more productive by preventing them from being overwhelmed with spam, phishing, and other malicious attacks.

SEB Baltics, a division of the Swedish SEB financial group, faced the challenge of protecting confidential financial data without compromising its availability to customers. The bank was also dealing with the complexity of managing three separate networks, each with a different set of rules and challenges. The need for a consolidated network architecture that would provide complete protection of its assets was paramount. Additionally, the bank required a solution that would allow it to undertake necessary maintenance and make essential IT changes without impacting the security of their customers, products, and services.

LUMA Foundation, a Swiss organization that focuses on the intersection of art, culture, human rights, environment, education, and research, faced a significant challenge. The foundation needed to protect its workstations and digital assets while maintaining free and secure access for clients and visitors. This was particularly important as the foundation hosts various exhibitions and events, attracting hundreds of visitors. The challenge was to deliver a scalable solution that could meet the varying needs of the art world, balancing security with accessibility. The foundation needed to safeguard personal data and the digital works it hosts, ensuring that these works of art could not be damaged or tampered with.

The major aerospace company, a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry, faced a significant challenge in upgrading its security infrastructure to meet Gen V and future cyber threats. The company's network infrastructure consisted of almost a dozen nodes spread around the globe, capable of delivering massive bandwidth to any link. Bandwidth could spike from one to 10 gigabits per second for long periods, often multiple times a day. The network was fully redundant, with high availability, low latency, and instant scalability mandated to meet customer Service Level Agreements (SLA’s). The security team needed a solution that would allow them to scale on demand and stay secure in the face of dynamically changing bandwidth requirements or overall latency would increase, thus violating customer SLA’s. The company needed to protect all data in transit and secure East-West traffic as well, along with addressing insider security threats that are becoming more and more prevalent in the industry.

PŸUR Business, a German Internet service provider specializing in Business to Business (B2B) customers, faced a significant challenge in providing network protection for both its internal systems and customer sites. The company needed to implement a central management system that would provide total network visibility. The challenge was not only to protect its own systems but also its customers’ networks. The company was in need of a solution that could offer effective security and total visibility with a single click.

Midwest Rubber Service & Supply Company, a global manufacturing organization, faced significant challenges in securing its cloud-based SaaS applications. The company operates across three continents and relies heavily on Microsoft Office 365 applications and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud ERP for its operations. Its servers are hosted on Microsoft Azure, and it also supports its multinational operations on a Citrix digital workspace environment. With a vast amount of data moving between sites, endpoints, and in the cloud, maintaining pervasive security was a top business imperative. The company needed to protect customer and internal data, maintain regulatory compliance, protect SaaS users from malware, phishing, and malicious attacks, and simplify management complexity.

Sysmex Europe, a manufacturer and provider of innovative analysis devices and diagnostic laboratory services, faced a significant challenge in improving the functionality and performance of its security systems. The company had been using Check Point firewalls for nearly two decades to protect itself from external network attacks. However, with the rise in cyber attacks, Sysmex Europe decided it was time to refresh and improve its security infrastructure. The existing firewall had become outdated, causing performance limitations and a capacity bottleneck. Additionally, Sysmex Europe was dealing with the complexity of managing an open configuration system that included multiple vendors. The company sought to transition from this open configuration to a single vendor for both hardware and software security, aiming for a consolidated security approach.

NetUSE AG, a leading IT system house in northern Germany, faced a significant challenge in securing its internet-active employees and providing a comprehensive security solution while maintaining operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The company, which started as one of the first Internet service providers in Germany, had expanded into a large IT security and infrastructure provider. However, the high internet usage by its employees, including private internet usage, exposed the company to various cyber threats. The company needed a robust security solution that could cover the breadth of the landscape and protect its assets from potential cyber-attacks.

IMC Companies, a leader in supply chain logistics, faced a significant challenge in protecting its expansive network from various cyber threats. The company's network, which includes trucking transport, support centers, a modern truck fleet, secure container terminals, and a proprietary real-time tracking system, moves more than one million shipping containers each year. The integrity of its data and network infrastructure is critical to its operations. IMC needed to safeguard its endpoints, including laptops, desktop computers, phones, and mobile devices from ransomware, viruses, and other threats. The solution had to be comprehensive to defend against multiple threats and fully integrated for easy management.

Old Mutual Zimbabwe, a leading financial institution, was facing significant challenges in protecting sensitive personal and financial data from hackers and malware. The company's network was exposed to external threats due to the numerous applications accessed from outside its network, particularly through the internet. The existing security solution was inadequate, making file management difficult and central management non-existent. Analyzing logs and data was a complex task, often requiring third-party tools. These management issues led to frequent timeouts, disrupting the smooth operation of the company's services.

The Piacenza Local Health Authority (AUSL Piacenza) was facing a significant challenge in consolidating, simplifying, and renewing its IT security infrastructure. The organization needed to protect both its network and endpoints, and achieve more effective reporting. They were also looking to operate with a single vendor and from one single control point. In 2017, AUSL Piacenza was searching for a single vendor that could simplify their infrastructure management, establish strong internal and external security that could be easily managed from a central location, and increase the level of threat prevention, all with state-of-the-art technology. The local health authority already had an internal security infrastructure (LAN) provided by Check Point based on the 4400 NGTP family gateways, while for VPN connections the company used devices from various other vendors. However, new and highly sophisticated cyber threats made the old architecture vulnerable and rethinking the entire defense system became necessary.

Gas South, a leading provider of natural gas, faced a significant challenge when it migrated its IT infrastructure to Microsoft Azure in 2016. The company had to ensure secure access to its mission-critical applications in Azure, even in the event of a data center outage. The on-premises data center was a crucial link between users and Azure-hosted applications, but if it became inaccessible due to a storm, disaster, or power outage, no one could access the business-critical applications in the cloud. Power outages were a recurring problem due to fiber cuts from numerous construction projects in the vicinity. Furthermore, data center outages are common, with 34% of data centers surveyed suffering an outage or serious service degradation in the past year, many with serious financial consequences.

M1, Singapore's first digital network operator, embarked on a digital transformation journey with the aim of improving agility and delivering a highly personalized customer experience. The company designed its all-digital platform on four fundamental pillars: cloud-native for scalability, data analytics for actionable insights, automation for efficient integrations, and hyper-personalization of services. M1's Azure cloud infrastructure supports everything from internal systems and tools to customer-facing systems and customer data. The challenge was to defend these assets against all cyber threat vectors, which was mission-critical. The company needed to safeguard services and customer data, defend a digital infrastructure across cloud, network, and endpoints, and increase security visibility across the enterprise.

Incedo Inc., a U.S.-based digital transformation consulting, data science, and technology services firm, faced a significant challenge in consolidating multiple point solutions from different security vendors. The company needed to unify its cloud security defenses and management across a multi-cloud architecture. Additionally, it required better run-time visibility into endpoints to reduce risk. With a global presence, Incedo supports multiple, distributed cloud environments, some of which are pure cloud, while others are hybrid models that share data and workloads between the cloud and on-premises data centers. The company maintains separate environments for itself in addition to segregated environments for each client. Each environment was protected by traditional perimeter and endpoint solutions from multiple vendors. However, as the global threat environment quickly evolved, interoperability issues made it difficult to orchestrate policy and visibility across the different security solutions.

TopRx, a leading national supplier of generic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, and home health products, faced a significant challenge in extending robust protection to remote endpoints. The company needed to enhance its security posture with better visibility into threats and simplify endpoint security management. The COVID-19 pandemic forced employees to work from home, and TopRx needed to extend protection to their systems. The company's priority was ensuring nonstop operations, and a strong security posture was integral to this goal. Until the pandemic, most of the company's users and endpoints were on premises, defended behind Check Point Next Generation Security Gateways. The challenge was to find a solution that could provide continuous protection for all endpoints, whether on or off the corporate network, and proactively detect, identify, and remediate threats.

The Greek Ministry of Education was faced with the challenge of protecting 65,000 tablets used for distance learning from cyber security threats. The Ministry needed to ensure that students were protected from inappropriate websites and online predators. Additionally, they had to prevent device downtime and learning interruptions due to security threats. The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 presented a significant challenge as schools were closed and education had to be delivered remotely. The Ministry had to ensure that students from low-income homes had access to classes delivered via distance learning. The security solution installed on the tablets had to include Greek language settings, protect students from inappropriate content and online predators, and ensure the tablets were reliable each day for students to attend classes.

Comune di Avezzano, a municipality in Italy with approximately 43,000 residents, faced a significant challenge in strengthening its cybersecurity. The municipality's offices, spread across nine different locations, provide a wide range of services from registering citizens to territory management, and from emergency services to the local police. The information system is spread across over 300 workstations and is based in two data centers, one core and one dedicated to disaster recovery. The municipality was struggling to prevent against increasingly damaging phishing and malware attacks, comply with the new GDPR and AGID rules, react more quickly to cyberattacks, and manage cybersecurity more efficiently to free up IT resources.

Best Friends Animal Society, the largest nonprofit no-kill animal sanctuary in the United States, was facing challenges with their traditional infrastructure. It was slowing down their development speed and hindering their ability to meet strategic goals. They needed a solution that would allow them to quickly scale, deploy new projects, lower their operational costs, and enhance their security. After migrating to AWS Lambda, they found that their permissions were too restrictive, and their developers could not develop at the speed necessary to achieve their strategic goals because of security. Projects were getting delayed because the development team could not access AWS S3 buckets. They wanted to take advantage of the benefits serverless had to offer but knew they had to have security gates in place to protect donor information. They needed to find and implement a layer of security to their AWS Lambda deployment.

Grace, a global leader in specialty chemicals and materials, faced the challenge of migrating from an on-premises approach to cloud-based services. With 18 manufacturing plants across the globe, Grace relied heavily on its network for its operations worldwide. Its WAN was based on MPLS and site-to-site technology, designed primarily to handle on-premises services. However, as the company moved towards cloud-based services like Microsoft Office 365, AWS, and Salesforce, it realized the need for a new network design approach. Grace's goal was to establish a stable, better performing, and more efficient WAN solution to support its cloud operations. The new solution needed to be based on the latest Software-defined WAN technology and comply with the company's cybersecurity requirements for Internet egress, supporting URL filtering, IPS, and threat protection. As Grace migrated to cloud office suites and more SaaS applications, it faced an increase in aggressive phishing attacks across email and enterprise apps, necessitating intelligent, proactive protection for its 5,000 SaaS users.

Zètema, an in-house department of the Municipality of Rome, is responsible for implementing strategies to strengthen and integrate museum, tourist, and cultural services. With Rome being a major tourist destination, Zètema's network connects 850 employees, more than 20 museums, and their associated bookshops, refreshment areas, and cafes. As Zètema becomes increasingly digitally connected, it is responsible for the security of its city-wide staff and the vast amount of data generated by the many visitors. Initially, Zètema relied on four firewalls from multiple vendors. However, they decided to consolidate their ageing firewalls and strengthen their security position with integrated web filtering, network segmentation, and perimeter security. The challenge was to replace the complex multi-solution security environment with a single, easy-to-manage platform.

Alrov Luxury Hotels, an Israeli hotel operator with properties in the UK, Netherlands, France, and Israel, was faced with the challenge of strengthening endpoint security to protect guest and operational data. The company's key properties, The Mamilla Hotel and the David Citadel Hotel, both located in Jerusalem, aim to provide a flawless hospitality experience for guests, which includes safeguarding guests’ data, preferences, and credentials. The challenge was to allow staff to work fluently, with a seamless user experience, while ensuring that all IT systems are managed, updated, and secured. As part of an international group of companies, Alrov needed to secure a complex, distributed IT environment across multiple sites.

The D.C. Law Firm, representing clients in complex, high-stakes regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters, faced significant security challenges. The firm's clients ranged from Fortune 500 corporations to trade associations and individuals, making the protection of sensitive data a top priority. The firm needed to meet clients' security requirements across all threat vectors and prevent SaaS application account takeovers. The international scope and high visibility of clients made security business-critical. The firm also had to ensure the productivity and availability of its attorneys, who often traveled internationally and used their own mobile devices. The firm's Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform provided some cybersecurity protection, but the security team needed better visibility into the device posture. They also wanted features that could alert users to malicious websites and block installation of rogue apps.

The premier U.S. hospital faced a significant challenge in securing its vast digital footprint, which is critical to saving lives. The hospital's network had to provide formidable barriers to cyber threats targeting a large number of computing devices, connected medical devices such as telemetry and bio-robotic systems, and building controls like heating, lighting, and refrigeration. Additionally, the hospital had to ensure data privacy and security, which are crucial to its mission as a healthcare provider. It supports research generating biomedical knowledge and intellectual property (IP) that needed protection. The hospital also had to comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) regulations governing payment transactions and with HIPAA regulations protecting patient data and personal privacy.

Stefanini, a provider of a broad portfolio of IT solutions, faced significant challenges in protecting its intellectual property and client data from cyber threats. The company's brand reputation was at stake, and it needed to improve its security management efficiency. Stefanini maintains partnerships with medium-to-large enterprises worldwide, generating up to 1 Gbps of data entering the company’s network. Diverse traffic streams enter the network to access web servers and databases, making it a potential target for zero-day or other cyberattacks. If these attacks successfully breach the network, both client and Stefanini assets are at risk.

PGNiG TERMIKA, a leading supplier of heat and electricity in Poland, faced a significant challenge in protecting its critical national infrastructure from cyber-attacks while ensuring uninterrupted service to its customers. The company needed to safeguard 3,000 users working across multiple locations and gain a better understanding of the threats targeting their increasingly connected business. The staff required remote access to manage operations from any location, further complicating the security landscape. The challenge was to simplify the task of managing security and attain visibility into any threats targeting their staff and the day-to-day operations of their critical national infrastructure.