Case Study: Comune di Avezzano achieves continuous, GDPR-compliant cybersecurity with Check Point Software

Comune di Avezzano strengthens cybersecurity with Check Point

Comune di Avezzano is a municipal government in Abruzzo, Italy, serving about 43,000 residents from nine locations with over 300 workstations and two data centers. The IT team faced escalating phishing and malware attacks (including past CryptoLocker and brute‑force incidents), tighter GDPR and AGID requirements, and the need to speed up incident response and free IT resources while guaranteeing continuity of critical municipal services.

The municipality consolidated its security on Check Point (Next Generation Threat Prevention plus SandBlast/Harmony Mobile), protecting 30 servers and 300+ clients with firewalling, VPN, IPS, anti‑phishing, HTTPS/email inspection and mobile threat defense. This delivered real‑time visibility and faster response, full protection of sensitive citizen data, guaranteed service continuity, improved monitoring and control, and compliance with GDPR, while freeing IT staff to focus on other priorities.

Comune di Avezzano

Giacomo Calisse

Network Administrator