Case Study: Prominent Museum in D.C. prevents SaaS account breaches and halves security overhead with Check Point Software

Prominent Museum in D.C. Safeguards Its Mission with Check Point

A prominent museum in Washington, D.C., that documents history and preserves irreplaceable artifacts and petabytes of digital archives—serving millions of visitors annually—was being targeted by escalating fifth‑generation cyber threats, phishing, hate mail and account‑hijacking attempts across a multi‑vendor hybrid cloud and SaaS environment. The museum needed to protect user identities and credentials, secure hosted applications, and unify security across on‑premises and public cloud platforms.

The museum deployed Check Point’s Infinity architecture—CloudGuard SaaS and IaaS, SandBlast and R80—to provide consistent threat prevention, identity and data protection across SaaS apps and multi‑cloud workloads while automating routine tasks. The solution prevented multiple SaaS account breaches (including Gmail hijack attempts), exposed partner email configuration issues, consolidated management into a single pane of glass, and reduced security team overhead by about 50% while enforcing uniform policies across environments.