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.