Cloud Computing: Check Point, VMware Expand Security Partnership

Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) recently announced an expanded partnership with VMware (VMW) to combine the security vendor’s vSEC virtual network security with the VMware NSX network virtualization platform.

 

Check Point’s vSEC is a software-defined data center offering that resides inside the NSX platform. The collaboration is designed to help joint customers protect their enterprise private cloud environments by providing security controls within the data center, giving users increased ability to monitor and prevent internal breaches…

 

"Today’s dynamic data center environments require fast deployment of applications. This means that security services must keep pace with compute resources," said Scott Clinton, senior director of Partner Product Management, Networking and Security Business Unit at VMware, in a statement…

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