Israel’s Check Point and Wiz partner to merge cyber tech
The new partnership looks to offer a comprehensive and holistic cloud protection solution against cyber threats and breaches
Sharon Wrobel is a tech reporter for The Times of Israel
Israel’s Check Point Software Technologies and cybersecurity giant Wiz announced Tuesday a partnership to integrate their technologies into a unified security platform as businesses face growing challenges to protect their hybrid cloud networks and applications from hacking attacks.
As part of the strategic partnership, Check Point’s cloud network security tools will be merged into Wiz’s cloud security platform, which it says is tailored to secure applications developers build and run in the cloud.
“This partnership between the parties was formalized to create a new security paradigm…to deliver comprehensive protection across hybrid mesh environments,” said Check Point CEO Nadav Zafrir. “Together, we are transforming how organizations manage risk, enabling teams to collaborate with greater efficiency and control.”
With hybrid work now standard and digital transformation moving data centers to the cloud, businesses face heightened network security risks, including sophisticated ransomware, malware and other breaches.
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport said that the partnership is aimed at ensuring that companies can seamlessly protect their network and cloud environments with an integrated, industry-leading solution while continuing to democratize cloud security.
The integrated cyber protection solution will be geared to enable security teams to identify and address unsecured applications more effectively and automatically prevent cloud-based attacks in real-time while ensuring threats are neutralized, the two cybersecurity giants said in a joint statement. The partnership also includes assisted migration of Check Point’s Cloud Native Application Protection (CNAPP) customers to Wiz.
Wiz was co-founded in early 2020 by Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Ami Luttwak and Roy Reznik, just as the COVID-19 pandemic started gaining pace around the world, sending entire enterprises and workers online and spurring a huge wave of migration to cloud-based servers.
In November, Wiz bought Israeli-founded cybersecurity startup Dazz to bolster its cloud security platform and help security and engineering teams better trace cloud issues back to their origin and mitigate breaches with a short response time. The deal marked the third acquisition by the cloud security unicorn in a year.
Check Point, whose shares are traded on the Nasdaq, has a market value of almost $24 billion. It was founded in 1993 by Gil Shwed, a veteran of the IDF’s 8200 unit, Marius Nacht and Shlomo Kramer.
