Case Study: Low Cost Airline achieves consistent cloud security and stops ransomware with Check Point CloudGuard (Check Point Software)

Low Cost Airline Takes Cloud Security to New Heights with Check Point

An American low-cost airline operating 85 aircraft on 350 routes out of 120 airports needed to modernize and secure a newly virtualized environment. With legacy laptops and physical firewalls at each site, the airline faced costly, hard-to-manage infrastructure and the risk that a security or network issue at one airport could affect all locations; they needed consistent provisioning, micro-segmentation, and more automation for their VDI rollout.

The airline deployed VMware NSX alongside Check Point Infinity—CloudGuard for NSX, SandBlast zero‑day protection, and R80.10 Security Management—to enforce hypervisor-level security, automate provisioning, and centralize policy. The solution protected east–west traffic, automatically quarantined infected VMs, stopped a ransomware attack that impacted a courier, enabled fast, granular policy changes across sites, and greatly simplified security administration.

Low Cost Airline