Roddy Maccallum , Country Manager for Check Point Software Technologies in Scotland , tells us about Check Point ’ s partnership with NHS Scotland and working through COVID-19 .

Check Point Software Technologies is a leading provider of advanced cyber security solutions , supporting and securing over 100,000 customers globally across all industry verticals , having initially made its name as a firewall provider . The company ' s portfolio today is split into three core areas : Check Point Quantum , firewall and network security solutions ; Check Point CloudGuard solutions for the public and private cloud ; and Check Point Harmony , solutions for remote working that include mobile and SaaSbased protection .

These three product families can be consolidated into a single architecture called Check Point Software Infinity-Vision . " It adds real business value because customers can consolidate from potentially as many as 10 to 15 security vendors , adding security benefits in terms of shrinking that landscape but also massive commercial benefits in terms of freeing up resources and consolidating costs ."

Scotland were put under a lot of pleasure to create the app at speed and at scale . Due to the incredible trust and partnership NHS Scotland have with Check Point they were able to quickly spin up this application in Azure , as they do so knowing that all of the workloads deployed inside of their Azure platform are secure due to the world class security Check Point provides for their Azure environment “ Maccallum says .

Having witnessed first-hand the immense stress NHS staff have been under as a result of COVID-19 , Maccallum wants to express his gratitude for their efforts . " I would like to say thank you to the NHS , and I think it ' s really important to thank not just the frontline workers , but absolutely everybody connected to the NHS , from porters risking their own safety to transport patients in hospitals , to the chief executives that are under a huge amount of pressure to make sure their hospitals are able to support patients , right through to the IT teams .

" IT plays a critical role in the NHS regardless of the pandemic or not . Having had an insight into just what NHS Scotland ' s IT staff have been through over the last 18 months , I have such huge respect and admiration for those guys ."

Check Point Software has been working with NHS Scotland for over a decade , traditionally providing a basic network firewall , however Maccallum explains that this relationship flourished when Check Point Software began recruiting locally in Scotland . Today this partnership involves providing almost every element of cybersecurity to NHS Scotland , including network infrastructure and firewalling , through to securing all elements of NHS Scotland ' s public cloud workloads within Microsoft Azure .

During the pandemic Check Point Software worked with NHS Scotland on mission critical programmes such as the track and trace app , which is hosted in Azure . " The team at NHS

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