Check Point CCCS case studies
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The Check Point Certified Cloud Specialist (CCCS) is presented by Check Point as a cloud-focused certification within its broader certification program. Check Point's site lists a Certification Program among its Training Programs, alongside Training Courses, Security Awareness, CISO Training, and Secure Academy, and it links cloud security product areas such as Cloud Firewalls, Cloud Virtual WAN, WAF, and DDoS Protection under its CloudGuard cloud offering. The Check Point CCCS case studies are 5 cases and about 3,552 words.
1Shared Responsibility When a Managed Database Is Exposed
NorthBank runs its cardholder-data platform on AWS: 40 EC2 instances, 12 RDS for PostgreSQL databases, and 300 S3 buckets. A regulator's audit found three issues in the same week: one S3 bucket containing daily settlement files allowed public read; six EC2 instances had operating-system patches missing for 90 days; and an RDS security group allowed 0.0.0.0/0 to port 5432.
680 words, about 3 min2Centralized Inspection with Transit Gateway and Gateway Load Balancer
RetailCo has three AWS accounts: prod, dev, and shared-services. Each account has two VPCs in us-east-1 across two availability zones.
800 words, about 4 min3Azure Hub-and-Spoke Asymmetric Routing with a Load-Balanced Gateway Pair
Contoso migrated a three-tier application to Azure. The hub VNet contains two CloudGuard gateways behind an Azure Standard Load Balancer.
713 words, about 4 min4Reducing Posture Noise Across 150 Cloud Accounts
MediCare has 120 AWS accounts under Organizations and 30 Azure subscriptions. Six weeks ago it onboarded all of them to CloudGuard Posture Management with read-only roles and the PCI DSS and CIS Foundations rulesets.
669 words, about 3 min5Container and Serverless Gating with a No-Fix Base Image
TravelJet builds about 200 container images per week in GitHub Actions and pushes them to Amazon ECR. It runs three Kubernetes clusters and 40 Lambda functions.
690 words, about 3 min