Check Point Software Technologies implements Australia-based data residency instance

Check Point Software Technologies has implemented its Australia-based data residency instance of Check Point Harmony SASE and Check Point CloudGuard WAF.

It will also support Australian data residency requirements for local storage and processing of data to protect privacy, reduce operational risk and ensure compliance to legislation, including the SOCI Act, Privacy Act, My Health Records Act, APRA CPS 234 and the ASD Essential Eight.

The new Point of Presence (PoP) for Check Point CloudGuard WAF is a cloud-native Web and API security solution that provides threat prevention using contextual AI to protect apps and APIs against known and unknown threats, without relying on signatures.

Check Point CloudGuard WAF offers AI-powered, automated protection to defend applications and APIs against vulnerabilities, bot attacks, and zero-day threats.

The new PoP instance will aim to introduce reduced latency, improved performance, enhanced regulatory compliance and AI-driven protection against modern application-layer threats.

Unlike legacy WAFs that may be tied to appliances or a single cloud vendor, CloudGuard WAF is cloud-native and supports multi-cloud, hybrid, and containerised environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, etc).

Harmony SASE as a unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform consolidates Firewall-as-a-Service, Secure Web Gateway, Zero Trust Network Access, SaaS security, and SD-WAN into a single cloud-delivered solution.

Powered by AI and machine learning, it proactively blocks threats such as malware, phishing, and anomalous behaviour, while a single-pane-of-glass interface intends to streamline policy enforcement, monitoring, and reporting across the enterprise, data centre, and cloud.

“The launch of a local Harmony SASE and CloudGuard WAF instance represents a critical investment in the region and reinforces Australian enterprises requiring scalable security infrastructures that support remote work, SaaS usage, and branch connectivity, while adhering to local compliance regulations, including the ASD Essential Eight and Security of Critical Infrastructure,” said David Caspari, MD of ANZ for Check Point Software Technologies. 

“This milestone underscores our commitment to strengthening our relationship with customers while helping them to optimise their IT investments. We are excited to drive substantial value and support swift cyber security modernisation.”

Check Point Software Technologies' regional sales engineering manager for ANZ, Scott Ellis, added that Australian customers now have an enhanced cloud security strategy by being able to access a local point of presence and data residency capabilities for the key components of a hybrid mesh architecture.

"Not only are we providing customers with a better user experience, but a mesh architecture will enable Australian enterprises to customise their security posture according to their specific security requirements with the winning combination of AI-driven protection, local data residency, low-latency access, and seamless compliance," he said.

The new Check Point Australian instance is further supported by over 80 existing global PoPs.