Telco Giant, ARSAT, Migrates to Advanced New Security Platform with Speed and Ease
The leading telco in Argentina, ARSAT, chose Check Point as its new advanced security platform for its complex infrastructure. With 60 systems to upgrade, the migration seemed daunting, but Check Point R80 Smart Move API made it easy. Each system was migrated in just 30 minutes.
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Tech system is one of the biggest Check point partners in Argentina.
Well this customer is ARSSAT which is one of the biggest ISP and data center companies in Argentina.
Thing is that they have these Cisco appliances that have really serious performance issues.
it feels old and it’s really hard to manage.
The challenge was to migrate those 60 virtual systems, which is a really big
Deployment, to Check Point without impacting production.
We wanted to have a proper threat prevention solution.
We wanted to have unified management.
They are using two data center appliances.
SandBlast network runs on the gateway.
The customer is using it’s, of course, access policy which is the firewall, IPS, antibot, antivirus.
The main value, main value of these blades is that they prevent even Gen 5 attacks.
Check Point API was critical for
these projects and we leverage the whole API and created custom tools together with Check Point made tools to migrate all the rule base.
We managed to migrate each system within 33 minutes which is a really amazing undertaking.
We do this by using Check Point SmartMove tool to migrate all the rules from Cisco to Check Point and then we created a custom solution for this customer to translate all the interfaces and routes to Check to VSX.
If we didn’t have the API this migration would take 27 hours per virtual system and we have 60 so that’s a lot of time.
I think that the star here is the Check Point API which is really strong in R 80.
So one of the main benefits that we achieved after migrating to R80 is we have a holistic view of all the Check Point deployments and we can
correlate logs more easily.
Holistic view of threat landscape