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Publication Date: 2025-09-16 07:00:00
As hybrid cloud environments grow in popularity and AI-driven threats become more sophisticated, organizations are under increasing pressure to enhance their security posture without adding operational overhead. We’re excited to report a significant step forward in this mission: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is Nutanix Ready validated with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) Release 7.3 networking enhancements, including the Nutanix Flow Network Security solution.
Flow Network Security expands microsegmentation capabilities with entity groups, vNIC-specific policies, and global policy scopes. This integration empowers customers to seamlessly implement CloudGuard Network Security using Nutanix native Service Insertion and firewall chaining capabilities—fully integrated with Flow Virtual Networking (FVN) for streamlined, high performing, scalable network security.
This builds on the long standing partnership between Check Point and Nutanix and extends the integration introduced in our earlier blog post, Advanced Network Security with Check Point CloudGuard and Nutanix Cloud Platform.
What is Nutanix Service Insertion?
Service Insertion allows you to insert third-party virtual network services (like Check Point CloudGuard Network Security with IPS, anti-bot, etc.) into the data path between VMs—enabling L3 network service chaining. It integrates with Flow Virtual Networking (FVN) to route traffic through virtual…
