Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, a provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, announces the results of an independently commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting which analyses the Total Economic Impact (TEI) and benefits that enterprises deploying Check Point’s CloudGuard Cloud Network Security solution can realise.
The study found that CloudGuard repaid its initial investment in under 3 months, with a 169% ROI over 3 years through higher staff productivity, reduced breach costs, timesaving for developers, and reduced compliance and audit costs.
Hybrid cloud deployments
Forrester interviewed a CloudGuard user, a large US-based healthcare company To understand the business benefits and cost savings possible with CloudGuard, Forrester interviewed a CloudGuard user, a large US-based healthcare company with annual revenues of over $10 billion. The company chose CloudGuard to protect its hybrid cloud deployments because it was concerned the native services available from its cloud providers are insufficient to secure the protected health information (PHI) which the organisation stores and processes.
The study found that in addition to CloudGuard delivering agile, seamless security across the customers' hybrid cloud assets, the cost savings, and benefits compared to cloud providers security tools included:
- Increased hybrid cloud security: The study states that the frequency and costs associated with cloud data breaches are lower with CloudGuard than with native security provided by cloud vendors. The [customer] is confident that Check Point Security meets the company’s needs, now and into the future.
- Rapid payback and ongoing ROI: CloudGuard repaid its initial investment in under 3 months, with a 169% ROI over 3 years and a net present value of $1.25M. Quantified benefits were higher staff productivity, reduced breach costs, timesaving for developers, and reduced compliance and audit costs.
- Simplified security management: CloudGuard gives single-console visibility and control across the organisation's multi-cloud This enables the creation of a consistent centralised security policy, eliminating duplication errors, reducing maintenance work and training needs.
- Flexible protection for workloads across multiple clouds: The organisation can automatically secure workloads, with auto-provisioning, auto-scaling, and automated policy updates. CloudGuard gives continuous visibility, analysis, and control of the customers’ cloud security posture from CI/CD to production.
- Real-time security compliance: A key concern for the customer was compliance with regulatory mandates such as HIPAA. CloudGuard provides real-time compliance monitoring, improving quality and automating report production, which dramatically reduces auditing work.
Multiple cloud services
With CloudGuard, they use the same set of tags across multiple clouds
After investing in CloudGuard and shifting multiple workloads to the cloud, the customer is now reaping the benefits of utilising multiple cloud services while not only achieving the same level of security but also reducing the security management costs and providing productivities to developers, stated Forrester TEI study.
CloudGuard has enabled the customer to better control the developers’ application of security rules without hindering them. Getting the security right at the beginning has eliminated rework later. The study also stated that confidence in Check Point security leads to more rapid movement to the cloud. Each cloud [service] has its own language. With CloudGuard, they use the same set of tags across multiple clouds and across different accounts and subscriptions.
They would have had to manage everything separately if they had done it natively, stated the customer in the study. The customer also stated: “We don’t need to manage 27 different things across three different clouds to accomplish the same task. We have a single management solution in CloudGuard.”
Enterprise cloud deployments
“Security is often seen as a barrier to enterprise cloud deployments because managing multiple cloud providers’ security controls adds cost and complexity, and traditional security is not agile enough to handle the cloud’s speed and scale,” said Itai Greenberg, VP of product management at Check Point Software.
“We believe Forrester’s analysis is consistent with what we hear from our CloudGuard customers: it gives them the most secure threat prevention with industry-leading security effectiveness for their hybrid cloud estates, with easy, automated single-console policy management and enforcement. This strengthens their security posture, boosts efficiency, and delivers a rapid, ongoing ROI. This increased cloud confidence allows our customers to migrate more workloads to the cloud, and faster.”
