Case Study: Athora Insurance achieves secure, agile hybrid cloud deployments with Check Point Software

How Insurance Giant Athora Enhanced Hybrid Cloud Security

Athora, a leading European savings and retirement services group with about 1,500 employees and €73.3 billion AuMA, is a cloud‑first organization operating across multiple countries and growing through acquisitions. That expansion left the company with a mix of legacy and cloud environments, creating complex hybrid‑cloud security challenges—ranging from error‑prone routing and fast‑moving cloud change to the need for a scalable, zero‑trust architecture and centrally managed threat prevention.

Athora deployed Check Point CloudGuard Network Security integrated with Azure Virtual WAN (via Azure Marketplace/Managed Application) to automate cloud security gateway provisioning and enforce identity‑based policies. The solution delivered threat prevention, secure east‑west/north‑south traffic, and simplified site‑to‑site connectivity and management—cutting workload onboarding from weeks to a day, reducing misconfiguration risk, streamlining policy management across cloud and on‑premises, and strengthening the company’s zero‑trust posture and overall reliability.

Athora Insurance

Donal Clissmann

Director of Infrastructure