Security company Check Point Software Technologies announced today that it is working with Amazon Web Services to bring security to the cloud:

“Its security gateways are now available to customers through Amazon Web Services, enabling organizations to extend their security to the cloud with a full range of protections, or Check Point software blades, such as Firewall, Intrusion Prevention, Application Control, URL Filtering and many more.” 

In a separate release, Check Point announced it won the encryption product of the year award for its Check Point Full Disk Encryption product at U.K.’s Computing Security Magazine’s 2011 Computing Security Awards.

To learn more about Check Point, watch its Finovate 2008 demo.

Online security company Check Point Software Technologies announced yesterday that it was positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls.

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant aims to recognize technology providers who are leaders, visionaries, niche players and challengers in high market growth industries. Leaders are defined as those who, “execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow.”

Here are the other players in the Enterprise Network Firewalls category:

Check Point Software Technologies recently announced the acquisition of Dynasec, a governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) solution provider. This move will enhance Check Point’s 3D Security platform that:

“Enables companies to view security as a business process, focusing on policy, people and enforcement. The combined security and GRC solutions will enable customers to manage their entire 3D Security process from corporate objectives, to policies and security enforcement…”

The added solutions will help clients sift through ever-changing security regulations and requirements when creating IT security policies. 

To learn more about Check Point Software Technologies, watch its Finovate 2008 demo.