We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management and Aqua Security Platform based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management provides a wide range of data security measures, including incident detection and detailed reporting. It also offers IAM role control and governance support. Aqua Security Platform excels in container security and on-demand patching. Users also liked its sandboxing features. Check Point CloudGuard could enhance its false positive rate and vulnerability assessments. Aqua Security Platform could reduce its resource consumption optimization while improving its log ingestion and integration with other tools.
Service and Support: Customers have generally expressed satisfaction with Check Point customer service, noting quick response times and positive support experiences, but some users say there is room for improvement. Aqua Security Platform's customer service has also been praised for being responsive and helpful, although a few users mentioned having to resolve issues on their own. Some said Aqua should provide more local support to customers in different regions.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management's initial setup is straightforward and quick, while Aqua Security Platform's setup can be more complex and time-consuming, especially for larger environments.
Pricing: Some regard Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management as a budget-friendly option, but others perceive it as costly. Aqua Security Platform's licensing is moderate and not based on user count, but some say the price could be lower.
ROI: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management provides a significant return on investment by effectively addressing compliance issues and minimizing administrative work. Users have not provided feedback on Aqua Security Platform's ROI so far.
Comparison Results: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is preferred over Aqua Security Platform. Users praise Check Point for its comprehensive data protection and 360 coverage of cloud infrastructure. Check Point offers granular reporting and customizable rulesets. Aqua Security Platform users complained about the complexity of its setup processes and suggested improvements in reporting, logging, and resource consumption.
"Cloud Native Security offers a valuable tool called an offensive search engine."
"It's helped free up staff time so that they can work on other projects."
"Our previous product took a lot of man hours to manage. Once we got Singularity Cloud Workload Security, it freed up our time to work on other tasks."
"PingSafe released a new security graph tool that helps us identify the root issue. Other tools give you a pass/fail type of profile on all misconfigurations, and those will run into the thousands. PingSafe's graphing algorithm connects various components together and tries to identify what is severe and what is not. It can correlate various vulnerabilities and datasets to test them on the back end to pinpoint the real issue."
"The real-time detection and response capabilities overall are great."
"The ease of use of the platform is very nice."
"We've seen a reduction in resources devoted to vulnerability monitoring. Before PingSafe we spent a lot of time monitoring and fixing these issues. PingSafe enabled us to divert more resources to the production environment."
"The solution helped free other staff to work on other projects or other tasks. We basically just had to do a bunch of upfront configuring. With it, we do not have to spend as much time in the console."
"Aqua Security allowed us to gain visibility into the vulnerabilities that were present in the container images, that were being rolled out, the amount of risk that we were introducing to the platform, and provided us a look into the container environment by introducing access control mechanisms. In addition, when it came to runtime-level policies, we could restrict container access to resources in our environment, such as network-level or other application-level access."
"The most helpful feature of Aqua Security is Drift Prevention, which is a feature that allows images to be immutable. In addition, one of the main reasons we went with Aqua Security is because it provides strong protection when it comes to runtime security."
"Support is very helpful."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and manage."
"The CSPM product is great at securing our cloud accounts and I really like the runtime protection for containers and functions too."
"Customers find it invaluable to have the ability to check for vulnerabilities in an image before deployment, similar to a sandbox environment."
"The solution was very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"Compliance is becoming an important tool for us as well."
"The solution has intelligence that integrates with a range of threat intelligence feeds, including Check Point's ThreatCloud, to provide real-time intelligence on emerging threats."
"The visibility in our cloud environment is the most valuable feature."
"The user interface is responsive and quite intuitive; when selecting an object it automatically shows the relevant actions."
"The administration portal panel is very intuitive."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to work with the APIs to integrate into our own backend systems."
"It saves time because I can look across the organization. Instead of checking 50 different accounts atomically and spending 15 minutes investigating each, I can spend 15 minutes exploring all 50 accounts. It allows me to quickly look across the org for similar problems when one comes up. That's a huge time saver."
"We have more visibility than ever before, appreciating the valuable and proactive insight that we receive from the platform."
"With Cloud Native Security, we can't selectively enable or disable alerts based on our specific use case."
"They need more experienced support personnel."
"There's room for improvement in the graphic explorer."
"When we get a new finding from PingSafe, I wish we could get an alert in the console, so we can work on it before we see it in the report. It would be very useful for the team that is actively working on the PingSafe platform, so we can close the issue the same day before it appears in the daily report."
"Sometimes the Storyline ID is a bit wacky."
"When you find a vulnerability and resolve it, the same issue will not occur again. I want PingSafe to block the same vulnerability from appearing again. I want something like a playbook where the steps that we take to resolve an issue are repeated when that issue happens again."
"The could improve their mean time to detect."
"Bugs need to be disclosed quickly."
"The integrations on CICD could be improved. If Aqua had more plugins or container images to integrate and automate more easily on CICD, it would be better."
"The solution could improve user-friendliness."
"Aqua Security could improve the forwarding of logging into Splunk and into other tools, it should be easier."
"We would like to see an improvement in the overview visibility that this solution offers."
"I would like Aqua Security to look into is the development of a web security portal."
"Aqua Security lacks a lot in reporting."
"They want to release improvements to their product to work with other servers because now there are more focused on the Kubernetes environment. They need to improve the normal servers. I would like to have more options."
"The user interface could be improved, especially in terms of organization and clarity."
"When rules change, it messes up the remediation. They haven't found a fix for that yet. The remediation rule goes into limbo. It's an architectural design flaw within their end compliance engine—a serious bug."
"I would like an interface more adapted to cell phones or tablets."
"We're looking for a solution that can incorporate legacy infrastructure for some of our business needs."
"Currently, this solution is somewhat expensive."
"Especially with cloud security, there's too much clutter on the screen and too many things going on."
"The software configurations theory is complicated, and without proper planning and a well-skilled technical team, it cannot perform its tasks properly."
"The biggest thing is the documentation aspect of Dome9 is a little lacking. They were purchased by Check Point about a year and a half to two years ago. When they integrated into Check Point's support system, a lot of the documentation that they had previously got mangled in the transition, e.g., linking to stuff on the Dome9 website that no longer exists. There are still a lot of spaces with incomplete links and stuff that is not as fully explained as it could be."
"The support it provides is not very good. They should improve it since we have had several setbacks due to support issues."
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Aqua Cloud Security Platform is ranked 11th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 16 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 8th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 64 reviews. Aqua Cloud Security Platform is rated 8.0, while Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Aqua Cloud Security Platform writes "Reliable with good container scanning and a straightforward setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP writes "Threat intel integration provides us visibility in case any workload is communicating with suspicious or blacklisted IPs". Aqua Cloud Security Platform is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, Snyk, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and SUSE NeuVector, whereas Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, AWS GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Qualys VMDR. See our Aqua Cloud Security Platform vs. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP report.
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