Case Study: Helmholtz‑Zentrum Dresden‑Rossendorf achieves scalable, high‑performance remote work during the pandemic with Check Point Software (Maestro)

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf - Customer Case Study

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, a major German research center of about 1,400 staff working in energy, health and matter, was running Check Point on its own open-server hardware. As traffic and performance demands grew the legacy setup began to degrade under load, reducing inspection and creating a need for a flexible, scalable security architecture and a single management view.

The institute implemented Check Point Maestro with two Hyperscale Orchestrators and two Quantum Security Gateways managed via SmartConsole R80.20, delivering unified management, HyperSync-enhanced performance and zero-downtime failover. The deployment easily scaled to support mass remote working (rapidly enabling ~800 users), improved defensive effectiveness during increased attack volume, and allows straightforward capacity expansion as needs grow.

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Uwe Konrad

Head of IT