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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.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Check Point SD-WAN Lab
Join us for a hands-on look at Check Point's SD-WAN solution, which centralizes routing decisions across multiple WAN links and automatically steers traffic to the best-performing path in real time. In this workshop, you'll see how Check Point builds encrypted tunnels that connect branches, data centers, and cloud networks under a single, centrally managed security policy — improving application performance, increasing resiliency through link diversity, and replacing manual, device-by-device configuration with policy-driven routing intent managed through SmartConsole.
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.
The State of Data Loss Prevention
Data Loss Prevention has regained prominence in recent years due to large scale breaches and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. Vendors with varying tech heritages have been lining up to employ new technologies and techniques against this seemingly never-ending problem.
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Hands-On Lab Workshop: Check Point SD-WAN Lab
Join us for a hands-on look at Check Point's SD-WAN solution, which centralizes routing decisions across multiple WAN links and automatically steers traffic to the best-performing path in real time. In this workshop, you'll see how Check Point builds encrypted tunnels that connect branches, data centers, and cloud networks under a single, centrally managed security policy — improving application performance, increasing resiliency through link diversity, and replacing manual, device-by-device configuration with policy-driven routing intent managed through SmartConsole.
Securing the AI Era: A Check Point & WWT Perspective on AI Security
As enterprises race to adopt generative AI and AI agents, security teams are being asked to govern risks they've never faced before — from model manipulation to shadow AI usage. In this Partner Spotlight, Check Point and WWT leaders discuss how organizations can innovate with AI while keeping their attack surface in check, drawing on Check Point's prevention-first AI strategy and WWT's AI Security practice.
What's New in R82.20, Part 1: AI Security Lands Directly on the Check Point Firewall
R82.20 revolutionizes Check Point Firewalls with AI Security, enhancing visibility and protection against AI threats. It introduces Workforce AI Security and AI Agent Security, offering granular control without new infrastructure. This release also supports SNORT 3.x, IPv6 DNS Trap, and provides a transparent TLS Inspection Block page, ensuring robust, native security.
Partner POV | Check Point Lays the Groundwork for the Future of AI Factory Security with NVIDIA
AI factories demand security that lives inside the infrastructure, not around it. NVIDIA's BlueField-4 and DOCA innovations, paired with Check Point's AI Factory Firewall, embed visibility and protection directly into the data path—securing autonomous, distributed AI operations at their source.
Getting Started with Check Point AI Red Teaming
Check Point's AI Red Teaming revolutionizes AI security by continuously testing models for adversarial weaknesses, replacing traditional, infrequent assessments. It offers dynamic risk evaluation across multiple languages and objectives, providing real-time protection and visibility. This automated platform empowers security teams to focus on genuine threats, enhancing AI application resilience.
Check Point: Check Point Revolutionizes the Firewall Market: New AI Network Firewall Closes the Network's AI Blind Spot – Everywhere
With the new AI Network Firewall, Check Point is the first to deliver AI security from the physical firewall organizations already run - extending the AI Defense Plane across their network providing security teams visibility and control over AI use by employees, applications, and agents, with no new infrastructure
Understanding Check Point's Management Hierarchy: From MDS to SMS to Gateway
Understanding Check Point's architecture—Gaia OS, Security Gateway, and Security Management Server—is crucial for effective deployment and troubleshooting. This article demystifies these foundational concepts, highlighting the separation of policy enforcement and management, and the scalability offered by Multi-Domain Management, essential for large organizations and service providers.
Partner POV | AI Red Teaming Makes the Unknowns Known
AI security is crucial as AI integrates into daily operations, posing new risks. AI red teaming identifies vulnerabilities by simulating adversarial attacks, revealing potential misuse and failures. This proactive approach ensures AI systems remain resilient, transforming unknown threats into actionable insights, and fostering safer AI adoption.
Partner POV | OpenAI Frontier AI Models Powering Check Point's Leading Cyber Security Solutions
Check Point's partnership with OpenAI integrates advanced AI models into security workflows, enhancing prevention, remediation, and operations. This collaboration sets industry standards for responsible AI deployment, ensuring safety and efficacy. By embedding AI into trusted products, Check Point transforms security from reactive to proactive, shaping the future of cybersecurity.
Partner POV | Check Point Frontier AI Models Readiness Program – Security Update
Check Point's Frontier AI Models Readiness Program proactively strengthens security against evolving AI threats. Through BLAST, an AI-driven analysis tool, vulnerabilities are identified and prioritized based on real-world exploitability. The latest Jumbo Security Release showcases comprehensive mitigations, emphasizing the importance of staying updated to ensure robust protection in an accelerating threat landscape.
When AI is the Attack Surface: Check Point's AI Defense Plane Tackles Risks
AI's rapid adoption in enterprises creates new security challenges, with 29% of organizations facing attacks on generative AI by 2025. Check Point's AI Defense Plane offers a unified security architecture to address workforce AI, agentic AI and AI application vulnerabilities, ensuring visibility, policy enforcement and protection against adversarial threats.
AI Attackers Have Arrived, Is Your Web Application and API Defense Ready?
In a world where AI-driven cyber threats outpace traditional defenses, legacy web application firewalls fall short. Check Point CloudGuard WAAP offers a proactive, AI-powered solution, adapting in real-time to novel threats. Are your defenses ready for machine-speed attacks, or are you still operating at human speed?
Check Point SASE: A Practical Hybrid Model for Secure Access
In a post-2020 world, traditional security perimeters are obsolete. Check Point's hybrid SASE model adapts by integrating endpoint enforcement, cloud inspection and secure SD-WAN, offering flexible, identity-aware access. This approach reduces tool sprawl, enhances security, and aligns with the hybrid nature of modern enterprises, users, and applications.
Check Point is building AI Security into the center of the Cyber Strategy
Check Point's cybersecurity strategy focuses on four pillars: Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security. As AI becomes integral to decision-making, Check Point emphasizes AI Security to address unique risks. Their AI Defense Plane ensures comprehensive governance, visibility, and continuous testing, redefining enterprise defense in the agentic AI era.
Securing the Browser: A Closer Look at Check Point Browse
Check Point Browse revolutionizes browser security by embedding protection directly within the browser, addressing phishing, malware, credential misuse and AI-driven data leaks. Its nano agent and extension model ensure seamless, real-time defense without relying on traditional proxies, aligning security with modern work habits and safeguarding sensitive data effortlessly.
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.
Check Point 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.