Case Study: Marbella City Council achieves comprehensive, easy-to-manage cybersecurity for its smart-city transformation with Check Point Software

Marbella City Council Makes Smart Security Moves on Its Journey To Becoming a Smart City

Marbella City Council, a popular Smart Tourist Destination on Spain’s Costa del Sol with 150,000 residents (and far more seasonal visitors), set out to modernize as a smart city while protecting citizen data and municipal systems. The digital transformation — new apps, connected devices and remote work — expanded the attack surface across 50 sites, 1,500 workstations, 700+ mobile devices and 3,700 employees, creating compliance and visibility challenges that had to be solved on a city council budget.

Working with Telefónica Tech, Marbella deployed Check Point’s Quantum security gateways and the Harmony portfolio (Endpoint, Mobile, Email & Collaboration and Harmony Connect SASE), all managed through a unified portal. The layered solution delivered simple deployment, strong protection against zero‑day threats, phishing and ransomware, and single‑pane visibility into networks, email and endpoints; it exposed poor user practices, improved compliance and staff awareness, and gave the IT team greater security and confidence while remaining cost‑effective.

Marbella City Council

Jose Alonso Ayllon Gutiérrez

Head of New Technology Services