S5 Technology Group

21/05/2026

Free.

Up to 4 days of Check Point migration services PLUS 3 months of free Check Point standard support, for Australian organisations moving off Fortinet or Palo Alto. No charge. No obligation.

What's in scope:

- Architecture review and migration planning
- Policy translation from FortiGate or Palo Alto PAN-OS to Check Point Quantum
- Cutover support and validation
- Cloud workload protection design where CloudGuard is in scope
- Hand-off documentation and a one-page executive summary your leadership can act on
- 3 months of direct Check Point standard support from cutover (new customers only)

Why now: Check Point's own benchmarking puts Fortinet's security efficacy and CVE record under a hard spotlight, and Palo Alto refresh costs have pushed plenty of teams to revisit their options. Either way, you should know what the alternative actually looks like before the next renewal.

Delivered by Australian Check Point engineers. Backed by S5, the only fully Australian-owned Check Point Elite Partner. Check Point APAC Workspace Security Partner of the Year.

The full offer, the Miercom 2026 Hybrid Mesh benchmark walkthrough, and the scoping form:

https://www.s5.technology/fortinet-to-check-point/

20/05/2026

Miercom tested every major firewall vendor in 2026. One stayed ahead.

Check Point's Hybrid Mesh (Quantum gateways and CloudGuard, unified) recorded:

- 99.79% overall security effectiveness
- 100% prevention against AI-powered phishing, including zero-days
- 99.9% malware prevention at the earliest stage
- Up to 130x fewer missed exploited vulnerabilities than the worst-performing vendor tested

S5 is Check Point APAC Workspace Security Partner of the Year. The only fully Australian-owned Check Point Elite Partner. The only Australian partner holding every available Check Point specialisation.

If your firewall refresh is on the table this year, S5 will run a scoped Hybrid Mesh assessment of your estate against the Miercom findings.

Talk to our network specialists.

08/05/2026

26 to 1.

That's the Fortinet vs Check Point count of entries in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. Anyone can verify it on the CISA site.

For broader context, Miercom's 2026 Hybrid Mesh Network Security benchmark put Check Point at 99.79% overall security effectiveness, the highest in the field.

S5 is offering up to 4 days of free Check Point migration services PLUS 3 months of free Check Point standard support for new customers, as part of our Forti-Flip programme.

The whole story, including the Miercom 2026 Hybrid Mesh benchmark walkthrough video:

https://www.s5.technology/fortinet-to-check-point/

06/05/2026

Partnership Spotlight: Check Point

S5 was named Check Point's APAC Workspace Security Partner of the Year. We're the only fully Australian-owned Check Point Elite Partner, and the only partner in Australia holding every available Check Point specialisation.

That isn't a credentials wall. It's how we run Check Point environments end to end. Network, cloud, endpoint, email. Maestro, VSX, ThreatCloud, Harmony, Infinity. Designed and operated by our engineers, not handed off.

Hybrid mesh security has become the default architecture for serious enterprise security teams in Australia. Miercom 2026 measured Check Point at 99.79% overall security effectiveness against the field. Owning that result means owning the engineering behind it, not just the licences.

We pair that capability with 24×7 CCSP support, ASD Essential 8 alignment, and three offices delivering nationally.

If you're sizing up your firewall estate or assessing workspace security as a strategic pillar, talk to our team. We'll show you what hybrid mesh looks like against your own environment.

S5. Your Enterprise Technology Partner.

04/05/2026

87% of security professionals are seeing more AI-driven threats. Few feel ready to stop them.

That's the headline from Darktrace's State of AI Cybersecurity 2026, a survey of 1,500 cyber professionals globally. It lines up with what S5 is hearing from Australian CISOs every week.

The numbers worth sitting with:

- 92% are concerned about the security implications of AI agents inside their own workforce
- 62% have experienced a deepfake-enabled social engineering attempt
- 77% of security stacks now include generative AI tools, but only 14% allow them to take autonomous action
- 96% agree AI improves speed and efficiency

AI is on both sides of the fight. Trust in autonomy is still catching up.

For Australian organisations the practical questions are familiar. Where is sensitive data exposed to AI tools? How are detection and response workflows changing? Can your team act on AI-flagged signals at the speed they now arrive?

S5 partners with Darktrace on autonomous detection and response. If your security programme is being reshaped by AI on both sides, talk to our cyber team.

Read the full Darktrace report: https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0PB0H0

03/05/2026

Our partnership with Concentric AI strengthens S5's data security capability, bringing AI-driven discovery and risk prioritisation to modern cloud and SaaS environments.

If your auditors are asking what is in your unstructured data, or your AI governance programme has stalled at the visibility step, this is where it gets unstuck.

Read more about the partnership: https://www.s5.technology/announcing-our-partnership-with-conentric-ai/

01/05/2026

Our partnership with Darktrace enhances S5’s security capability, delivering AI-driven threat detection and autonomous response that provides real-time visibility and control across cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. Read more about our partnership at https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0PzZ50

30/04/2026

CISA, the Department of War, and the Department of Energy just published joint guidance on adapting Zero Trust to operational technology. US-led, but the playbook reads almost line-for-line for Australian utilities, councils, water authorities, and critical infrastructure operators.

Three things from the advisory worth sitting with:

- Volt Typhoon and its IT-to-OT lateral-movement pattern is named explicitly. Same threat actor active against Australian critical infrastructure today.
- ISA/IEC 62443 and NIST CSF 2.0 are the reference frames. Both align with what the SOCI Act and Essential Eight already expect.
- Asset visibility is the foundation. You cannot Zero Trust what you cannot see.

Our take, plus links to S5's SCADA design whitepaper and the secure SCADA architecture case study, is on the blog.

https://www.s5.technology/zero-trust-for-ot-cisa-advisory-april-2026/

29/04/2026