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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.
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.
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.
Azure Virtual WAN: A Deep Dive Into Microsoft's Cloud Networking Architecture
Get a deep dive into Azure Virtual WAN architecture, including some key points that speak to why organizations might want to look into this as a means to connect campus and branch locations to the Azure cloud.
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From Visibility to Victory: How Check Point Is Redefining Continuous Threat Exposure Management
Cybersecurity's imbalance favors attackers, but Gartner's Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework offers a solution. Check Point's implementation of CTEM excels by transforming data into actionable insights, prioritizing real threats, and automating remediation. This approach empowers organizations to reduce exposure effectively, shifting from mere visibility to impactful security actions.
Check Point Technologies, Architecture, & Deployment Models
This learning path delivers a structured exploration of Check Point's security design principles and platform deployment models across enterprise network environments. Through guided articles, videos, & a hands-on-lab, participants will develop meaningful insightst around platform selection, deployment placement, and policy design for the data center, Internet edge, campus, and branch.
Checkpoint SD-WAN Lab
The Check Point SD-WAN lab is a hands-on environment designed to teach how Quantum SD-WAN is configiured over an existing environment that deploys Check Point security gateways . You will explore a distributed topology that includes branch sites with multiple ISP connections, centralized management, and simulated internet and MPLS transport, then configure SD-WAN objects tunnels & monitor various parameters. The lab also emphasizes operational workflows, including policy deployment, validation, & monitoring.
Check Point Training Lab
This lab is designed for internal WWT Users to utilize Check Point's training to better understand their products, including Quantum, Harmony, CloudGuard, and Infinity Core Services.
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.
Partner POV | Using AI for Covert Command-and-Control Channels
AI assistants with web-browsing capabilities could be exploited as covert command-and-control channels, blending malicious activity into legitimate traffic. This potential abuse highlights a shift towards AI-driven malware, where AI systems guide operations. As AI adoption grows, security measures must evolve to prevent these platforms from becoming network blind spots.
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.