Almac Group Partners with Check Point Software

Check Point Software has announced that Almac Group, an international pharmaceutical company, has upgraded its cybersecurity defenses across its network, cloud environments and endpoints with Check Point solutions. Almac Group now has a completely unified architecture for advanced threat prevention after implementing Check Point Quantum Security Gateways, Quantum IoT Protect, CloudGuard Network Security, and Harmony Connect.

Almac Group, based in Northern Ireland, is a pharmaceutical and biotech development and manufacturing firm. It employs about 6,000 people in the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore, Japan, Denmark, and Sweden. Almac Group confronted additional cybersecurity concerns as a result of the pandemic and the global trend to remote and hybrid working, including increasing demand for VPN connectivity and throughput. Almac Group also relies on a complex web of business-critical manufacturing and laboratory technologies including Internet of Things (IoT), operational technology (OT), and more.

Check Point has consolidated and simplified Almac Group’s security infrastructure and now provides advanced threat prevention across its entire organization. The solutions implemented by Almac Group include:

Check Point Quantum Security Gateway clusters to secure the network and deliver up to 1.5 Tbps of threat prevention performance with on-demand scalability. Quantum DLP (data loss prevention) and compliance blades help Almac Group protect privileged data while ensuring adherence to compliance requirements.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to provide advanced threat prevention and automated security for Almac Group’s cloud assets. Data is protected from the most sophisticated, fifth generation attacks. Automation supports rapid deployment and automation of developer CI/CD workflows, while unified management makes it fast and easy for the security team to ensure consistent policy across on-premises and cloud environments.
Check Point Quantum IoT Protect to enable zero-trust protection for Almac Group’s IoT/OT/ICS/SCADA environments. Quantum IoT Protect identifies all IoT devices on the network and assesses their risk. It prevents unauthorized access to and from these devices through zero-trust segmentation, and it blocks threats to IoT devices. Zero-trust policy and run-time protection can be tailored per device—securing them from the moment they first connect to the network.
Check Point Harmony Connect to provide the same level of threat prevention, access control, and data protection to Almac Group’s remote users and branches without requiring local perimeter firewalls. Sites connected to the Internet and corporate cloud assets through a third-party SD-WAN solution integrated with Harmony Connect. Almac Group gains centralized control and visibility over access and data while ensuring up-to-date security with high performance.