Check Point Software Enhances Security Integration with Google Cloud Services

Check Point Software Technologies, a pioneer in cybersecurity and a global leader in security solutions, has officially announced its integration with Google Cloud Network Security. This groundbreaking move aims to streamline security in cloud environments while addressing critical issues such as downtime and performance degradation associated with firewall and gateway implementations. With this innovative integration, the deployment of firewalls in the cloud will no longer require operational interruptions, enabling organizations to improve their network security without negative impacts on performance.

Expanding Security for Hybrid Cloud Networks

For organizations across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, and government, network security and performance are paramount, especially in highly regulated fields. As a result, organizations in these sectors take their time to establish trust and confidence in network security tools and vendors. Individuals involved in mission-critical system operations understand the challenges and stringent efforts required in maintaining security, leading to a cautious approach to large-scale changes, particularly within their security stacks.

Despite these challenges, IT departments must adapt to increasingly sophisticated threats. Managing hybrid cloud networks, especially when network demand is unpredictable, presents numerous challenges in ensuring both security and performance.

- Implementation of Consistent Security Policies: Organizations face various difficulties in deploying consistent security policies across hundreds or thousands of hybrid cloud networks.
- Understanding Increasing Network Interconnections: There is a growing need to comprehend and secure the expanding network interconnections.
- Manual Traffic Routing to Security Appliances: This process can lead to mistakes within dynamic cloud environments, often consuming substantial resources.

Check Point and Google Cloud Network Security Integration

The Google Cloud Network Security Integration provides seamless integration with third-party security solutions like Check Point’s CloudGuard Network Security, equipped with AI-driven threat protection, unified logging, and granular access control to address the aforementioned challenges. This new integration enables a consistent Any-to-Any network security policy application across datacenters, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments without requiring changes to existing routing policies or network architectures.

Utilizing the new tunneling technology of GENEVE (Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation), the integration ensures that network traffic is safely delivered to CloudGuard Network Security's inbound inspection gateways and firewalls while maintaining the original packet integrity. As a result, both security and performance are assured, effectively enabling busy DevOps and network security teams to secure network traffic traversing Google Cloud and other networks.

An added benefit of this integration is how it optimizes resource utilization. Through firewall rules, fine-grained traffic matching is conducted across five layers, allowing only targeted traffic to be sent to Check Point for inspection. This high level of precision, combined with Check Point's commitment to operational efficiency in clouds, optimizes resource utilization and reduces overall security costs. Customers of both Check Point and Google gain access to enhanced flexibility and choice in their security strategies.

Scalable and Secure Network Security

Check Point leverages contextual information related to cloud configurations—such as asset tags, object names, and security groups—to automatically adjust security policies when changes occur within the network, eliminating the need for policy pushes or manual updates. By applying security policies across interconnected networks using Google Cloud-native objects and tags, Check Point minimizes security management costs while allowing organizations to efficiently scale and manage network security across all domains, regardless of location.

Accelerating Application Deployment

With Google Cloud Network Security Integration, infrastructure teams can deliver security functions as a service. This shift enables application development teams to dynamically utilize CloudGuard Network Security, shortening deployment schedules while maintaining comprehensive protection. CloudGuard Network Security is integrated with key configuration management tools like Terraform and Ansible, allowing Check Point and Google Cloud customers to programmatically manage cloud-native security gateways, thus facilitating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and accelerating CI/CD methodologies.

Simplifying Compliance Achievements

CloudGuard Network Security offers essential features that seamlessly integrate with cloud providers like Google Cloud, simplifying and reducing compliance costs related to security. While allowing extremely granular network security policy settings, these capabilities can be defined globally and applied across all Check Point gateways and firewalls within Google Cloud’s VPC, regions, and zones.

Ultimately, regardless of whether the deployment destination is a public or private cloud, users can directly access all security policies and logs from Check Point’s singular console, reaping the full benefits of integrated management without the need for multiple security tools or separate dashboards. By adopting CloudGuard Network Security, organizations can automate security, navigate complex multi-cloud environments, and operate securely across all clouds more easily than ever.

Check Point's Commitment to Cloud Security Innovation

As a trusted security partner for Google Cloud, Check Point continues to evolve solutions addressing complex security challenges within modern cloud environments. The Google Cloud Network Security Integration aligns with Check Point’s commitment to facilitating seamless security provisions that promote rather than impede cloud adoption and innovation.

By combining the diverse capabilities of Google Cloud infrastructure with Check Point’s advanced threat protection and extensive access control features, organizations can confidently accelerate their digital transformation while maintaining a robust and consistent security posture across all their technology domains.

Paul Barbosa, Vice President of Cloud Security at Check Point, stated: "Check Point aims to assist customers in seamlessly deploying sophisticated and multi-layered security between enterprise networks and Google Cloud, safeguarding cloud assets while enabling secure connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud networks. With Check Point CloudGuard Network Security integrated into Google Cloud, organizations can protect their cloud environments more efficiently while overseeing all network security through a unified console."

How to Get Started

If you are seeking a way to ensure security, increase efficiency, and accelerate your business on Google Cloud, Check Point provides the optimal solutions for you. Attend our webinar highlighting best practices related to Google or start your free trial of Google Cloud today to explore how Check Point can enhance your network security. This article is based on a blog post released on January 7, 2026 (US time).

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