Overview
Explore
Expertise
Ecosystem
What's popular
Vermeer
Welcome to the Vermeer community page on the WWT Digital Platform. This private community site is created to improve collaboration and discussion between our organizations to drive business outcomes. Within this community, you will find links to articles, events, videos, workshops, and a broad collection of digital labs to support experimentation, education, and exploration.
Complete guide to Check Point Network Address Translation
A comprehensive guide to Check Point Network Address Translation (NAT), covering concepts, configuration, automatic and manual NAT, static and hide NAT, ARP, NAT tables, and best practices. Designed as a definitive learning resource with practical examples, troubleshooting tips, and advanced scenarios for real-world deployments.
Seeing the Firewall Clearly: Policy Insights That Actually Matter
Firewall policies grow quickly and rarely shrink, leaving rulebases cluttered, risky, and audit-heavy. Check Point Policy Insights turns policy and traffic data into continuous, actionable intelligence. It identifies unused, overlapping, and overly permissive rules, supports framework-aligned audits, and enables fast, governed cleanup directly in SmartConsole—automating work that once took days and proving why Check Point management stands out.
Why Check Point's Lakera acquisition is more than just AI
Lakera, founded in 2021, enhances AI security by detecting anomalies and adversarial attacks. Acquired by Check Point, its technology strengthens AI-driven threat prevention. Through innovative tools like Gandalf, Lakera leverages human creativity to improve AI resilience. This integration promises advanced, adaptive security, transforming Check Point's approach to AI-based threat detection.
Check Point NGFW Foundations Lab
The Check Point Foundations Lab is a training environment configured with a basic security policy that allows outbound internal traffic while permitting all other traffic freely. It provides a platform to practice building refined policies, applying NAT, restricting access, and monitoring traffic, offering hands-on experience with Check Point NGFW features in a controlled setting.
What's new
Partner POV | Securing Your AI Transformation: Check Point Helps Security Teams in AI-First World
AI's rapid evolution challenges security teams to adapt. Check Point advocates rethinking security for the AI era, emphasizing foundational strength, secure AI adoption, and AI-driven automation. Strategic acquisitions enhance visibility, AI governance, and workspace security, ensuring comprehensive protection across networks, workspaces, and AI systems. Embrace AI safely with Check Point's innovative approach.
Stop Stacking Boxes. Start Designing Security.
Back-to-back firewalls were effective 15-20 years ago, but in today's encrypted, identity-driven and rapidly evolving threat landscape, they add cost and complexity without meaningful protection. Modern security replaces duplicated perimeters with platform-integrated NGFW enforcement, segmentation and coordinated prevention—delivering stronger, measurable defense through intelligent design rather than stacked legacy controls.
Seeing the Firewall Clearly: Policy Insights That Actually Matter
Firewall policies grow quickly and rarely shrink, leaving rulebases cluttered, risky, and audit-heavy. Check Point Policy Insights turns policy and traffic data into continuous, actionable intelligence. It identifies unused, overlapping, and overly permissive rules, supports framework-aligned audits, and enables fast, governed cleanup directly in SmartConsole—automating work that once took days and proving why Check Point management stands out.
Celebrating Check Point's 2025 Americas Partner Award Winners
These awards celebrate not just results, but leadership, trust and the relentless pursuit of excellence
Check Point updates Quantum firewall to secure AI use
The R82.10 release introduces 20 new features across network, identity and AI security. It focuses on hybrid environments that span data centres, branch offices and multiple public clouds.
Securing the AI Surge with Check Point's GenAI Protect
This blog explores how GenAI has surged into daily workflows, often without visibility or guardrails, and why organizations must secure this adoption without slowing productivity. It explains the risks of shadow AI, the value of Check Point's GenAI Protect and how WWT's AI Proving Ground accelerates safe, multivendor GenAI deployment across modern enterprise environments.
WWT and Checkpoint - Email Harmony, Security and Measuring Outcomes
Please join WWT as we host our valued partner, Checkpoint. Harmony Email & Collaboration is the leading email security solution in the industry today. So much so that WWT selected Harmony Email to secure our own O365 environment. With multiple awards and recognition as the leader in email security, it's no wonder why over 45,000 customers chose HEC to be their email security provider.
Technical & Non-Technical Stakeholders are welcome and will benefit from this session!
Come learn from SMEs how Checkpoint HEC integrates with workplace collaboration suites like Office 365, Teams, G Suite, Slack, and Dropbox
from the inside via APIs.
Watch Checkpoint's AI learn communication patterns of users and their roles to understand common interactions and look for anomalous behavior and potential threats keeping users and organizations secure.
Partner POV | Hexstrike-AI: When LLMs Meet Zero-Day Exploitation
Hexstrike-AI, a revolutionary AI-powered security framework, is rapidly repurposed by threat actors to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, reducing attack time from days to minutes. This marks a pivotal shift in cyber operations, urging defenders to adopt adaptive AI-driven defenses and shorten patch cycles to counteract this emerging threat.
Check Point's Virtual Patching and the Evolution of Application Security
This blog discusses the Log4j crisis and highlights how Check Point's AI-driven WAAP protected customers through virtual patching. It explains the shift from WAF to WAAP, highlighting fast deployment, adaptive prevention and simple evaluation, which proves that real security comes from automation and proactive protection, rather than waiting for patches.
Check Point and the Post-Quantum Transition
Quantum computing's rise threatens classical cryptography, prompting urgent shifts to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Check Point leads this transition with quantum-ready solutions, ensuring secure communications through hybrid key exchanges and cryptographic agility. As PQC standards evolve, Check Point's architecture promises seamless adaptation, safeguarding digital infrastructures against future quantum threats.
Check Point Redefines AI Security for Enterprises with AI Cloud Protect Powered by NVIDIA BlueField
Point is currently piloting AI Cloud Protect with financial services customers and strategic partners such as World Wide Technology.
Check Point NGFW Foundations Lab
The Check Point Foundations Lab is a training environment configured with a basic security policy that allows outbound internal traffic while permitting all other traffic freely. It provides a platform to practice building refined policies, applying NAT, restricting access, and monitoring traffic, offering hands-on experience with Check Point NGFW features in a controlled setting.
Why Check Point's Lakera acquisition is more than just AI
Lakera, founded in 2021, enhances AI security by detecting anomalies and adversarial attacks. Acquired by Check Point, its technology strengthens AI-driven threat prevention. Through innovative tools like Gandalf, Lakera leverages human creativity to improve AI resilience. This integration promises advanced, adaptive security, transforming Check Point's approach to AI-based threat detection.
Complete guide to Check Point Network Address Translation
A comprehensive guide to Check Point Network Address Translation (NAT), covering concepts, configuration, automatic and manual NAT, static and hide NAT, ARP, NAT tables, and best practices. Designed as a definitive learning resource with practical examples, troubleshooting tips, and advanced scenarios for real-world deployments.
Partner POV | Check Point and Nutanix Advance Cloud Network Security
As hybrid cloud environments expand, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's integration with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure 7.3 enhances security through seamless service insertion and firewall chaining. This collaboration simplifies zero trust architecture, micro-segmentation, and compliance, offering dynamic, scalable protection without added complexity, empowering organizations to secure their networks efficiently.
Partner POV | From VPN to SASE: Enabling Hybrid Work Beyond Legacy Access
In a world of hybrid work, traditional VPNs falter under modern demands. Check Point's SASE solution offers secure, high-performance connectivity, enabling seamless remote access and robust threat prevention. Embrace a hybrid security stack that combines cloud and on-premise strengths, ensuring agility and protection wherever your team operates.
Partner POV | DMV-Themed Phishing Campaign Targeting U.S. Citizens
In May 2025, a sophisticated phishing campaign targeted U.S. citizens by impersonating state DMVs through SMS and fake websites, harvesting personal data. Analysis links the attack to a China-based threat actor. The campaign's scale and impact highlight the urgent need for public awareness and robust cybersecurity measures.
Veriti and Check Point: Redefining Threat Exposure Management
An overview of Veriti, recently acquired by Check Point, which brings continuous threat exposure management into the security stack. Veriti provides real-time visibility across security tools, identifies misconfigurations and unmitigated threats, and recommends actionable steps to reduce attack surface risk without disrupting operations. This will cover how Veriti aligns with Check Point's prevention-first approach and how it can enhance an organization's overall security posture.
Evolving Virtual Security: Comparing Check Point VSX and VSNext
Check Point VSX is a legacy virtualization platform for running multiple firewall instances on shared hardware. VSNext replaces it with a modern, modular architecture designed for automation, performance, and scalability. Unlike VSX, which relies on manual provisioning and legacy routing models, VSNext uses API-driven configuration, supports dynamic routing, and simplifies management and troubleshooting. It offers better tenant isolation, faster policy installation, and improved integration with cloud and container environments. VSNext is not backward compatible but is clearly the future of Check Point's virtual security strategy.
Partner POV | The AI Arms Race: When Attackers Leverage Cutting-Edge Tech
AI's dual role in cybersecurity is reshaping the landscape, with criminals leveraging advanced AI models for sophisticated attacks. From AI-enhanced phishing to deepfakes, these tools create highly personalized, convincing threats. As AI evolves, its potential for misuse grows, challenging organizations to stay ahead in this escalating cyber arms race.