Today’s enterprises demand Zero Trust security, everywhere. Cloud security teams require high-performance protection without the burden of managing firewalls at scale. For this reason, organizations are seeking managed network security solutions that reduce operational overhead while improving consistency, visibility, and prevention across complex multi-cloud environments. Responding to that demand, Check Point is continuing rollout of an AI-powered cloud firewall as a service now available for preview on Google Cloud, as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.  There will be demos of the new firewall service at the Check Point Booth #3101 in the Google Next Solution Expo. 

Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service eliminates the complex overhead of managing firewall software infrastructure, giving busy DevOps and Security teams time to focus on policy management, compliance, and other strategic initiatives.  

Continued Evolution of Cloud Firewalls 

Cloud Firewall as a Service on Google Cloud marketplace delivers the power of Cloud Firewall (formerly Guard Network Security) with advanced threat prevention, AI-driven security intelligence, automated policy enforcement, and unified management without requiring customers to deploy or maintain the underlying firewall infrastructure themselves. The firewall software infrastructure is managed 7x24x365 by security experts in the globally distributed Check Point Network Operations Center (NOC).  

According to Paul Barbosa, VP of Cloud Security at Check Point: “High performing cloud networks are not all architected the same. This makes network security more challenging in a multi-cloud world. Now with Check Point’s Cloud Firewall as a Service on Google Cloud, organizations can enjoy industry leading prevention-first efficacy with firewall software infrastructure managed by Check Point experts. No more firewall patching or upgrades to worry about. We take care of all that for them. Protecting all their critical applications and workloads with the same enterprise grade security they experience with our on premises hardware firewalls and now it’s conveniently available on Google Cloud and other marketplaces.” 

Why Managed Firewall Services Make Economic Sense

Complex cloud networking environments are costly to deploy and expensive to manage and secure. And cloud firewalls are increasingly important as organizations rely on cloud network firewalls and WAF and API security to protect their GenAI applications.  

Cloud Firewall as a Service addresses these pressures by providing firewall software infrastructure management and optimization by Check Point. For security and budget-minded organizations, Cloud Firewall as a Service delivers peace of mind by offloading the complexity and expertise of cloud firewall operations like deployment, configuration, ongoing software updates, and other firewall specific maintenance tasks. This provides peace of mind, enhances security posture, and reduces the need for cloud security expertise. Dynamic policies also provide cost savings over IP address or CIDR block based policies by reducing hours per month of mundane updates by security experts through the use of cloud native groups or tags. 

Open Garden: Freedom Without Compromise

Check Point’s open garden strategy is to partner with leading technology partners so organizations experience the same high standard of network security no matter where they run their mission critical workloads and applications.

Check Point has extensive integrations and capabilities with cloud vendors like Google Cloud, that enable robust network security within virtualized environments, with deep native service support and automation. Key integrated Cloud Firewall as a Service capabilities include the following:

Native CSP Integrations

Cloud Firewall as a Service integrates directly with a broad set of cloud vendor services to extend advanced security controls and operational visibility within public cloud environments. Deep software integration with cloud vendor virtual environments like Google Network Security Integration and load balancers enable inline security insertion and scalable traffic inspection. Transit networks and network service insertion supports centralized traffic routing and deep packet inspection by the AI-powered Cloud Firewall as a Service.

Cloud Firewall Availability and Automation

Cloud Firewall as a Service gateways and firewalls are highly available and can scale with workload demand across global regions or zones.

Check Point dynamic policies adapt using cloud-native vendor metadata and tags to secure dynamic networks without costly manual updates. They eliminate these risky and often time consuming mundane SecOps tasks:

1. No IP-based rule maintenance
2. No policy rework during autoscaling

Threat Prevention and Traffic Inspection

Cloud Firewall as a Service enforces multi-layer network security (firewall, IPS, application control, Anti-Virus/Anti-Bot, GenAI) across cloud vendor traffic flows (egress and east-west intra-VPC/VNet).  It delivers the highest firewall protection with 99.9% threat prevention according to Miercom* tests and 100% security effectiveness according to Cyberratings, stopping even advanced evasion techniques**.

It features SSL/TLS inspection (HTTPSi) for encrypted cloud traffic, including SNI support.

Centralized Hybrid Mesh Management

Check Point unifies policy and security management across on-premises, private, and public cloud networks. Check Point Security Management or Smart-1, delivers consistent, hybrid mesh firewall capabilities via a single pane of glass.

Enhanced Operational Alignment

Native integration with cloud vendor control planes improves operational visibility, simplifies deployment workflows, and enables teams to leverage cloud infrastructure monitoring and logging frameworks as part of security operations.

Explore Cloud Firewall as a Service

Cloud Firewall as a Service delivers cloud-native enforcement and threat prevention, deep integration with key cloud networking and security services, automation and IaC support, centralized management, and scalable high-availability deployment patterns tailored to leading public cloud environments.

To learn more about Cloud Firewall as a Service you can preview it now on Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure or book a live demo.

* https://www.checkpoint.com/2025-miercom-firewall-report/

** https://engage.checkpoint.com/cyber-ratings-resource-page/?fw=3027d