Located in central
The main challenge for Regione Marche was the firewall management, because the IT infrastructure counted five different firewalls with five different management systems. "It was a battle to manage our security infrastructure consistently," said
After considering several options, Regione Marche found in Check Point solutions - Check Point Quantum Next Generation Security Gateways(TM), Check Point Virtual Systems and R80.40 Security Management - the best technology to meet its needs and the easiest system to configurate. The choice revealed prodigious when COVID hit. The situation immediately got worse, because within a day, most employees began working from home, which increased the need for strong security, VPN access, and high bandwidth.
The Check Point Quantum Next Generation Firewall Security Gateways(TM), combining SandBlast threat prevention, hyper-scale networking, a unified management platform, remote access VPN and IOT security implemented were three, one in each data center, and delivered secure, multi-gigabit threat prevention and zero-day protection. The Check Point Virtual Systems enabled then Regione Marche to consolidate its infrastructure by creating multiple virtualized security gateways on each Quantum Security Gateway. Specifically, the Virtual System Extension (VSX) feature provided comprehensive protection for VLANs across the Regione Marche's locations, securely connecting them to shared resources and each other. It also allowed the IT team to easily manage custom security policies based on each organization's requirements. Check Point's Virtual System Load Sharing (VSLS) capability reliably enhanced scalability by distributing traffic loads across the cluster machines. Finally, the R80.40 Security Management. Thanks to this technology, Regione Marche unified security policy control and the visibility of threats across the entire infrastructure. The team now has a single pane of glass visibility into physical and virtual elements across three data centers. They can tailor policies for each constituent's virtual system and change policy on the fly if needed.
"The process went much faster and easier than we had expected," said Cacciari. "The Check Point Quantum Security Gateways maintained firewall security and provided the VPN connection for the migration. Everything went perfectly."
The powerful, scalable security infrastructure and the unified approach together with high level technology in terms of threat prevention and protection were the instant benefits for Regione Marche. If in the past, the team could spend two or three days simply troubleshooting an issue, now with
"Regione Marche represented a very good milestone for the Italian team" underlined Marco Fanuli, Security Engineer Team Leader Italy of
About Regione Marche
Regione Marche (www.regione.marche.it) is the local government of Marche, one of
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