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Check Point Quantum Smart-1 Cloud

Check Point Smart-1 Cloud is Check Point security management delivered as a cloud service. Smart-1 Cloud provides security
policy management of on-premises and IaaS security gateways, security event analytics and reporting from a single userfriendly web-based SmartConsole

Features

• Smart-1 Cloud, best-in-class management solution now available as a service
• policy management
• log analysis, log retention
• Event reporting
• Check Point's SmartConsole as a web console
• Cloud management extension allows native integration with cloud platforms
• AD integration
• Automate operations with the use of REST APIs
• Zero touch deployment
• Automate operations with the use of REST APIs

Benefits

• Seamlessly expand capacity supporting additional gateways and storag
• Zero Maintenance No installation, No upgrade
• Newest features automatically updated in a unified management platform
• Zero Maintenance gives teams more control to manage their environment
• manage on-premises or CloudGuard gateways via single pane of glass
• increased operational efficiency, lower complexity of Security Management
• Speedy deployment, taking roughly one minute - 60 times faster
• "Troubleshooting part of the service, users do not need expertise"
• Highest management performance in the industry - Gold standard
• HA management with no overheads. Automatic backups every 12hrs

£1,075 a licence a year

• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

912068023766791

Contact

Liz Holmes
02076137441
publicsector@cvdgroup.com

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: There are published maintenance windows, listed here https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/Infinity_Portal/WebAdminGuides/EN/Check-Point-SmartCloud-Admin-Guide/Topics-Smart-1-Cloud/FAQ.htm?tocpath=_____12. However the environment is pro-actively monitored on an ongoing basic for service health. Updates not causing impact will not be communicated, those that will cause an impact will provide advanced warning. The cloud management service is compatible with most Check Point gateway types, however VSX and Maestro are currently roadmap. Please see the known limitations at this link https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/Infinity_Portal/WebAdminGuides/EN/Check-Point-SmartCloud-Admin-Guide/Topics-Smart-1-Cloud/Expected-Behavior-and-Known-Limitations.htm?tocpath=Expected%20Behavior%20and%20Known%20Limitations%7C_____0#Expected_Behavior_and_Known_Limitations
• System requirements:
  • Infinity portal tennancy and valid Smart-1 cloud licencing
  • Supported Check Point gateways

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: "Severity 1: Response time 30 minutes. Check Point and Customer commit necessary resources around clock for Resolution, workaround or reduce severity of issue. ; Severity 2: Response time 2 hours. Check Point and Customer commit full-time resources during normal business hours for Resolution, workaround or reduce severity of issue and alternative resources during non-Standard Business Hours.; Severity 3: Response time 4 hours. Check Point and Customer commit full-time resources during normal business hours for Resolution, workaround or reduce severity of issue. ; Severity 4: Response time 4 hours. Check Point and Customer provide resources during normal business hours for Resolution. "
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Web chat
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web chat support is accessible: Our service is B2B and currently is not tested according to EN 301 549 accessibility standards.
• Web chat accessibility testing: Our service is B2B and currently is not tested according to EN 301 549 accessibility standards.
• Onsite support: No
• Support levels: Type; Collaborative Enterprise Support: Pentesec experts backed by Check Point. ; ; Direct Enterprise Support: direct support from the Check Point experts.; ; Levels; Standard - 5 x 9 Business Day, get advanced access to our large, self-service knowledge base and a committed 30-minute response time to issues with level one severity.; Premium – 7 x 24 Every Day, enjoy all the benefits of Standard Collaborative Support, plus real-time 24×7 Global support.; Elite – 7 x 24 Every Day, receive comprehensive support plus the possibility of having an engineer on-site for critical SW issues.; Diamond – 7 x 24 Every Day, extend your Premium/Elite Support with personalised support, in-depth resources and consulting.; ; PRO - optional support add-on. When a severe issue is detected, a Check Point PRO expert proactively contacts you to help resolve the issue and prevent service downtime. Check Point PRO also provides you with a comprehensive report, delivering an overview of your overall security, diagnostics and actionable insights.; ; Please speak with Pentesec to discuss your support requirements and get the level your organisations needs.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: "A simple and documented onboarding process is avaialble for all services via the Check Point Infinity Portal. Individual Admin guides are available for each service giving details on getting started and configuration. In addition, Check Point offers a variety of other resources to educate users on their solutions such as online knowledge base, on-demand webinars, product videos and online training.; ; At additional cost, Professional Services experts can help with the planning, design, implementation, optimisation and service handover."
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: The service does not hold customer data only security configuration and log data to generate reports on the service functionality. Report information can be exported from the service web interface in order to archive the information.
• End-of-contract process: Unless the contract is renewed, functionality of the service (as described in the service features section) will cease on the day of expiration. The service will remain accessible. If the service is not renewed after 90 days of expiry the service will be terminated and all configuration deleted.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: The service is accessed via the Check Point Infinity Portal. This web-based platform delivers all the security capabilities of the Check Point Infinity consolidated architecture. With a single account, organizations can secure and manage their entire IT infrastructure – networks, cloud, IoT, endpoints and mobile – from one console, according to the services they subscribe to. The Portal provides consistent security with unified protections and management in one place and full visibility into threat posture.
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: Our service is B2B and currently is not tested according to EN 301 549 accessibility standards.
• Accessibility testing: Our service is B2B and currently is not tested according to EN 301 549 accessibility standards.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: The API is enabled by default within the environment, users simply have to create an new API key for any service that wishes to use it. There aren't any published linitations, hoever the full features list and usage guides can be found at the following URLs - https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/api_reference/index.html & https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/APIs/index.html . The Smart-1 Cloud API allows you to run operations, such as register a gateway and get the service information. To configure and view the security policy and objects in the Security Management use the Management APIs.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: The service is built on public cloud infrastructure and scales automatically to accommodate new users. Each service account is provisioned as a separate tenancy with no interaction between tenancies.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Check Point provide a public web page showing the operational status of all cloud hosted services. Within the Smart-1 console itself, users have full visibility of gateways, licence status, errors, throughputs, patch levels, security features enabled, as well as being able to monitor real time activity and VPN status and traffic. The logging view shows all output from the security policy rule logging, and Smart Event correlates these to add rich insights into security events. Additional reporting and monitoring views can createdcustomised and automated reports to show user activity, threat levels, bandwidth utilisation and more.
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
• Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: The service does not hold customer data only security configuration and log data to generate reports on the service functionality. Report information can be exported from the service web interface in order to archive the information.
• Data export formats: Other
• Other data export formats: PDF
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats: None. The service does not hold data.

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: "Availability and how it is calculated can be found in the Terms of Service – Cloud Services; Infinity Portal Cloud End-user License Agreement. If the Monthly Service Availability or the Monthly Service Latency of the applicable Service during a calendar month is below the thresholds specified, You may request Check Point to extend Your current Service Term by additional days (“Service Credits”) at no extra charge according to the thresholds outlined in the agreement, subject to a maximum of 1 month of Service Credits per year of Service.; ; Full details on Service Availability, Service Latency and Service Credits can be found in section ""4. Service Level"" of the Terms of Service – Cloud Services; Infinity Portal Cloud End-user License Agreement found here: https://www.checkpoint.com/about-us/cloud-terms/"
• Approach to resilience: "Service Availability Controls; - Redundant systems and networks are deployed across servicing components.; - Load balancing ensures service availability in case of component failure.; - DRP: In case of data center failure, automatic failover is deployed to an alternate data center. (Note: Selecting a specific data center (for example, in EU) will cause the loss of data center failover functionality.); - The customer account: policy, users, logs and configurations are stored in redundant locations.; - Check Point enforces internal policies to control the retention of backup data. All data is backed up at each data center, on a rotating schedule of incremental and full backups."
• Outage reporting: The current and historical status of all Check Point services is available at https://status.checkpoint.com/. This page can be accessed directly and also from within the service portal. The page shows status, uptime, historical data, incidents and any relevant post-incident reports. From this page users can also subscribe to receive updates via any of the following methods: email, SMS text message, Slack message, RSS feed.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: The service uses role-based administration to restrict access for authorised administrators. There are two types of admin roles, Global roles (which apply to the Infinity Portal platform and to all the services in the Infinity Portal.) and Specific Service roles (which apply only to a specific service. The specific service roles are in addition to the global roles and do not override them.)
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: No audit information available
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: "Standards Institution of Israel https://www.sii.org.il/en/"
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 01/03/2022
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Harmony Connect, Harmony Browse, Harmony Email and Collaboration, Smart-1 Cloud, Infinity SOC are all in progress (we have a letter of proof).
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: No
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • SOC 2 Type 2 for 2021
  • SOC 2 Type 2 in progress proof for 2022
  • ISO 27001-27017 in progress proof for 2022
  • ISO 27001-27018 in progress proof for 2022
  • ISO 27001-27036 in progress proof for 2022
  • CloudGuard PCI-DSS Level 1 Service Provider 2021-2022
  • Lapsed Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials plus accreditation (currently recertifying)

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: Check Point has an information security process in place to protect customer confidential information against accidental loss or misuse, in conformance with applicable laws and industry standards. Our security framework is based on internal security policy standard, which is very strict. The scope of our company’s security policies and standards cover critical business aspects (e.g. application development, data center services, cloud security, physical security, change management process, etc.). All employees are trained in information security policies, standards and procedures, security requirements, business controls and in the use of IT facilities. Self-audits are being done on a regular basis and corrective actions are taken when needed. Additionally, Check Point’s security policies and standards are reviewed on regular basis, 2-4 independent reviews are conducted on specific areas (i.e. source code review, SOX audit, etc.).

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: Check Point has an information security process to protect customer confidential information against accidental loss or misuse, in conformance with applicable laws and industry standards. Our security framework is based on internal security policy standard, which is very strict. The scope of our company’s security policies and standards cover critical business aspects (e.g. application development, data center services, cloud security, physical security, change management process, etc.). All employees are trained in information security policies, standards and procedures, security requirements, business controls and in the use of IT facilities. Self-audits are being done on a regular basis and corrective actions taken
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: "Check Point performs monthly vulnerability scans and employs a centrally managed configuration management system, including infrastructure-as-code systems through which predefined configurations are enforced on its servers, as well as the desired patch levels of the various software components.; There is an internal procedure that defines the Patch management process and employees are trained in the corporate security policy.; In addition to the ongoing patch management processes, Check Point performs security monitoring from three main channels:; 1. Internal Security Research (vulnerability scanners, penetration test, company’s Incident response team and researchers, etc.); 2. External sources (threat intelligence, US-CERT, publications, vendors updates, etc.)
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: "Check Point monitors the production environment with several tool such as grafana ,sumologic and implements a continuous monitoring strategy.; Check Point plans to mandate ongoing security control assessments to be completed in accordance with the FedRAMP continuous monitoring strategy and respond to security related vulnerabilities and issues generated by security assessment and monitoring activities by either fixing, remediating or implementing mitigating controls to reduce the overall risk.; The Check Point CISO team plans to use information obtained from continuous monitoring and ongoing assessments of Check Point for FedRAMP reports the security state of the system via vulnerability scan results"
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: In the event of a security incident, Check Point’s security team is responsible for investigating and responding. Check Point has clear risk and damage assessment procedures to define the SLA required to solve any security incident. Check Point’s Information Security Manager, and other managers, will coordinate security response including containment, investigation, infrastructure securing, reporting, closure and follow up. Check Point will respond using the appropriate management and technical resources in order to promptly restore operations impacted by any incident. Check Point will adhere to applicable laws and industry standards in this process, including following any required notifications.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  We have committed to achieving Carbon Net Neutrality and have in place a clear and achievable plan to get there. See section 5 for more details. We know our operations and delivering for customers has an impact on the environment. We have a carbon footprint and we have completed significant works to understand the extent of that impact on the environment. That allows us to adopt genuine and realistic targets to reduce our impact, as well as implement new ways of working to achieve those reductions. Throughout 2022-24+ we have worked with experts from Sustainable Advantage, a leading environmental consultancy, to complete a thorough ESG review, and to complete a full carbon baselining. Through this work we have adopted a bold and ambitious new Environmental Policy, which includes targets to achieve Carbon Net Zero. We also publish a Carbon Reduction Plan on our website which outlines how we plan to achieve Net Zero.

  Tackling economic inequality

  We support our staff with enhanced benefits, including additional holidays, employee assistance programs, health insurance, and other benefits. We pay our employees above the minimum wage in all our locations and invest in external benchmarking to objectively measure that we are paying fair rates for the work our people do. Our Cyber Security team, based in Peterborough, have established links with local secondary schools to support a school leaver program. We actively recruit school-leavers into appropriate roles in the business and invest in their learning. Where possible, we work with local companies to support us in our purchasing and delivery of goods and services. In addition to our supply chain, our colleagues travel across the UK to support our customers, and we spend money in the local communities we travel to.

  Equal opportunity

  We have an established D&I policy and are working hard to make the demographic profile as a business match those of the communities where our offices are based. We employ people from across the UK, and offer a hybrid working policy as standard. We also support fully remote working where the role permits, which ensures our many vacancies are open to everyone from John o’Groats to Land’s End. We publish a modern slavery statement on our website annually, which sets out how we ensure no modern slavery exists in our supply chains.

  Wellbeing

  We invest in well-being programmes, train mental health first aiders and support an employee assistance programme giving access to confidential help on any issue for any employee. Each year our employees nominate our chosen charities who we then support throughout the year as part of our charity initiatives. We ensure our chosen charities are local to our office locations. We encourage our employees to volunteer with their local communities and support them when they do through flexible working. We have colleagues who volunteer with sports clubs and charities, as well as share their expertise on committees and boards.

Pricing

• Price: £1,075 a licence a year
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Free trial includes all functionality as described in the service functionality for a limited time period of 30 days for up to 500 seats.
• Link to free trial: Contact Pentesec to request a free trial.

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at publicsector@cvdgroup.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.