Cyber security solutions provider, Check Point, has made its R80 unified security software available as a cloud service.

This, Check Point says, will give customers the quickest route to deploying its unified security management across their entire network from their web browser, with no deployment time needed, and no need for ongoing maintenance or manual updates.

The new R80 Security Management-as-a-Service (MaaS) solution extends Check Point’s Fast Track Network Security suite of solutions, and is said to give holistic visibility of security across organisations’ entire infrastructures in a customisable visual dashboard, enabling the most complex environments to be managed more efficiently, supposedly cutting operational time by up to 60% compared with other solutions.

Check Point claims R80 is the industry’s most advanced unified security software for on-premise and cloud environments, with more than 160 technology integrations. The latest version, R80.40 has more than 100 new features to extend protection, streamline operational processes and enhance productivity.

R80 Security MaaS delivers:

• Management of all Check Point products from the cloud, directly from a web browser
• Fully-automated updates to ensure the latest protections are always applied
• On-demand expansion to seamlessly onboard more gateways with no physical limits
• Zero maintenance makes your environments more secure, manageable and compliant
• The ability to store and access logs indefinitely

Itai Greenberg, VP of product management at Check Point, said: “R80 Management-as-a-Service further accelerates and simplifies enterprise security management processes, by eliminating manual maintenance and updates and supporting on-demand scalability.

“Together with the Fast Track Network Security suite of advanced gateways, it gives customers the quickest route to hyperscale, high-performance network security while improving the efficiency of their operations.”

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Fast Track Network Security comprises five new Quantum Security Gateways, which feature Check Point’s ThreatCloud and SandBlast Zero-Day Protection. The new range starts with the 3600 model for branch offices and extends to the large enterprise with the 16000 Turbo Hyperscale gateway, which delivers 17.6 Gbps of Gen V Threat Prevention throughput.

Fast Track Network Security’s combination of new Security Gateways, the enhanced R80.40 software and its availability as a cloud service offering enables organisations to deploy Check Point’s fully scalable protections against evolving fifth-generation threats.