Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP Reviews

We use CloudGuard for compliance and auditing. About 20 people in our company use it, including our cloud administrators use it and security personnel. And now even our managers, our scrum masters are using it.

CloudGuard makes the management of our security controls in AWS more transparent. 

The dashboard is intuitive. You know if you're compliant or not, and then it gives you a remediation plan.

CloudGuard could be more customizable. It has built-in standards for things like GDPR compliance. But depending on your business lane, you might want to build your own controls based on your own standards. 

I've been using CloudGuard Posture Management for at least six months.

CloudGuard is pretty stable. It's rock-solid.

In terms of scalability, CloudGuard requires a little bit of work. Sometimes it does take longer for the checks to come through, but it depends on how busy you are in the cloud. 

Check Point tech support in North America is pretty good.

We really liked this other solution offered by a smaller company, and then a larger company bought it. I forgot the company's name, but the roadmap just went to pieces when it was bought out. All the tech people left the company then the chief technical officer resigned. It was terrible.

Setting up CloudGuard is pretty straightforward. The initial setup only took a few minutes. It's essentially turnkey. However, the total deployment took about half a day. For maintenance, we have two cloud administrators. That's two in case one goes on vacation, resigns, or gets sick. So you need backup.

The license for CloudGuard Posture Management is about $80 a year, and it's based on your cloud footprint, not the number of users. So you could have a million users, and it doesn't matter. 

I rate CloudGuard Posture Management seven out of 10. I would rate it higher, but I think the price point is pretty high for what it does. However, I know it's a burgeoning market. So I think the price point and some of the other features that I already mentioned, like customization, are pretty lacking. Still, if you want some cover for an internal or external audit, this is a tool for you. 

The product provides complete visibility of our cloud security posture. It supports servers and Cloud-Native Services. It provides a centralized solution for Cloud Security with risk and compliance management. 

We required it to manage various compliance requirements including live ISO, SOC, PCI and it supports everything. Our Organization is in a hybrid structure and in it, we are using various AWS and Azure accounts. Earlier, we managed everything individually, however, after the implementation of it, we now manage everything from a single solution. The single solution helps with the system, network, and security administration.

The solution provides the complete visibility of Cloud Security, as well as a number of baseline policies and rules. This helps us to manage cloud posture with less effort. After implementation, it reduced administrative effort in terms of managed security over the cloud. Now, we are not dependent on individual tools for each account as well as cloud service providers. 

After implementation, the team can generate reports from a single console for all compliance needs.

Auto Remediation is a very effective feature and it improves the need for manual intervention from the security and cloud administrator.

The baseline policy and the integration with the public cloud are very easy.

The number of compliance rulesets along with the baseline policy, support of cloud-native services, and license management are easy. Support of the CI/CD pipeline security (Code Security), Kubernetes, et cetera, is useful. 

There are very helpful and various types of reports. Reporting features are very good and anyone from the compliance team can view/generate a report according to compliance support.

Auto remediation is a very effective feature that helps ensure less manual intervention.

Support of AWS Lamda and Azure Functions helps for any potential breaches.

Almost all features are good, however, they still require improvements to the code security portion on which integration with the major source code repository is required.

Integration with CI/CD is an important aspect as it is needed to secure the environment. Having it will help a lot.

Integration with Docker is also a key feature that needs some improvements.

Integration with other third parties and with SIEM is an important aspect that should be addressed.

Currently, it provides integration with Tenable, but it would be good if it had support other VAPT software as well.

We have been using Check Point CloudGuard Posture management for the last 8+ months.

The solution is very stable and we have not found any gaps. It provides seamless integration with the public cloud.

It's a highly scalable solution and integration with the public cloud is very good. The way you can centralize the dashboard of entire cloud infra is a very impressive.

Support has been good. We implement it with the help of OEM support and whenever we've required help we've received a good response.

Earlier, we tested other tools as well, however, the features which were available via Check Point are very good and the future roadmap is also very good in regards to cloud security.

The setup is straightforward and seamless.

We implemented it with help of Check Point support. The rest was managed by our internal team as it's easy to handle.

Security is very important and gives us ROI from security itself. We also get an ROI as we have less administrative effort. We can see an ROI with the compliance and risk management on offer too.

The setup cost is very affordable and very easy. Integration with the public cloud is very easy. The licensing calculation is also very good and no manual effort is required.

We evaluated other tools like Rapid7, Qualys, and AWS native security tools, as well as Azure native security tools.

It's a very strong solution for cloud security posture management and very effective for large and mid-size environments. Any organization moving towards the cloud would benefit from this.  

We currently have hybrid cloud environments, so different cloud platforms are being used by the business for different use cases and systems are being deployed at a very fast pace. It's very challenging to enforce security and have eyes on everything that exists in the cloud unless you have centralized tools helping you accomplish this goal.

Today Dome9 is helping us analyze what we have out there and what our priorities should be from a remediation perspective. We do have multiple accounts today with the different cloud providers, so it's imperative to use a tool like Dome9.

We have been able to expand our visibility and security enforcement into all of our cloud environments by leveraging Dome9. The features allow us to constantly scan and take action on any configurations implemented, that aren't meeting compliance regulatory requirements.

This tool has also allowed us to keep an inventory of assets and an overall picture of what infrastructure exists today on the different cloud platforms we own. It helps to avoid unnecessary misconfigurations due to the lack of knowledge on what has been deployed.

The most valuable feature is the CloudBots for auto-remediation of security findings. It is helpful because my team handles so many security tools that it would be almost impossible with the current staff we have to support the on-premise network and have enough time to go in and maintain the desired/required security postured on the different cloud environments we own today.

One of the main reasons why we started looking into a centralized tool is so that could help us bridge that gap, and Dome9 so far has been very helpful from that perspective.

The tool has a lot of potential, but today, it lacks a lot of Scripts/Bots for Azure. This is one of the main cloud providers, so it's imperative to make this a priority in order to bring a lot of value to this tool.

The idea is to leverage Dome9 as the main central place for auto-remediation of all cloud environments so that customers don't have to spend a lot of time manually remediating. Manual remediation is very challenging once you have so many cloud accounts to support on a regular basis, and Dome9 can help do part of the job.

I have been using Dome9 for about one year.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

We did not evaluate other options before choosing Dome9.

We use the Check Point CloudGuard IaaS within our company is for the protection of our cloud assets. It is deployed on Google Cloud Platform with the help of the Firewall, Application Control, and Intrusion Prevention System software blades.

In addition, we rely heavily on the GeoIP module to restrict undesired countries from accessing our services, as for now, you can't achieve it with the GCP firewall.

There are about 30 Google Cloud projects of different sizes ranging from 10 to 250 virtual machines, and they are used for development, staging, production, etc. For every project, there is one dedicated scalable instance group of the Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateways.

Dome9 is used as an additional compliance tool to improve the security of these environments and avoid any configuration errors.

Initially, we had purchased the Dome9 solution just for its rich compliance possibilities. We have to provide the compliance reports on a regular basis to our partner companies and the regulators of the gambling and paying card areas, but now, we also rely heavily on the feature that "auto-heals" the configurations of the security groups and the firewall rules.

In addition, the Cloud infrastructure visualization feature is really good, especially for GP with its cumbersome firewall rules based on the instance tags and the service accounts.

1. This product provides a really nice visualization of the infrastructure, including network topology, firewalls, etc. It's cozy to configure stuff, and also to wander around the interface in general.
2. The Compliance Engine is powerful. We rely heavily on this feature since we must comply with the various security standards to work in the gambling sphere across the globe, and especially in the United States and European Union.
3. The solution continuously monitors config modifications and may alarm the relevant administrators, or even revert the configs automatically.

We were demotivated by the lack of native automation modules for the Terraform and Ansible tools. We think that in the era of the DevOps approach and practices, all the new products need to be released with such support, mandatorily.

In addition, we also hope that the Dome9 will eventually support the other Public Cloud platforms, like Alibaba, since we are planning to expand to the Asian market. Alibaba is the big player in this region due to the fact that Google Cloud and AWS are almost banned.

We have been using Dome9 for less than a year.

Dome9 is stable and works smoothly.

The solution is scalable. We have it run on about 30 projects without any issues.

No cases have been opened regarding Dome9 so far.

No, we are unfamiliar with the other solutions of the same kind.

The setup was straightforward, and the configuration was easy and understandable.

Our deployment was completed by our in-house team. We have a Check Point Certified engineer working in the engineering team.

I suggest that you pay attention to the product pricing because while there are no tricks, and the licensing model is transparent, the final numbers may surprise you.

No, we did not evaluate other options before adopting Dome9.

Request a free demo directly from Check Point and see whether Dome9 suits you.

We are a solution provider and we are evaluating multiple tools for cloud workload security and vulnerability management. We are evaluating products such as Dome9 to figure out which one would be best for our customers.

This solution is used to replace a variety of cloud security and management tools.

Dome9 can be used centrally manage many different functions that take care of operations such as scanning the network.

All of the features are very useful in today's market.

Dome9 should also support deployments that are on-premises and in a hybrid cloud.

This solution needs DLP support.

I have been using Dome9 for less than one year.

We have not experienced any issues in terms of stability, although we are still exploring the tool.

We are currently running Palo Alto Prisma and evaluating it together with Dome9.

It is easy to implement Dome9 but there are many policies that need to be configured.

Once the deployment is complete, the policies have to be set up and validated. All of the policies need to be relevant to my customers, which means that some of them will have to be disabled. For example, policy requirements will vary from country to country.

This solution can be used in many different markets such as medical or insurance, and different challenges will be present depending on the market.

 The process can take a month or a month and a half.

In addition to evaluating Dome9 and Palo Alto Prisma, we are considering Qualys, as well as a customized solution by Security Compass.

One of our customers is also using Check Point CloudGuard, which we are trying to replace with Dome9.

I would like to understand the reporting, how secure the solutions are, and how it can be implemented such that my framework is mapped to those tools.

The functionality that is used will vary depending on the use case. For example, in a recent use case that I worked on, the data packets had public access without exception. However, this should not have been allowed.

I definitely suggest that people use Dome9 because I have used it since last year and I really like the features. It is also stable. There is only one feature, DLP, that is not present and we have found in Prisma.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

I use it for cloud visibility detection and remediation. I also use it for reporting and dashboarding.

The most valuable features of CloudGuard CNAPP are its compliance engine and auto-remediation features.

CloudGuard CNAPP is a great tool that justifies its investment. Like any other tool, there are opportunities for improvement that can be addressed through a roadmap.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP for six years.

I would rate the scalability of the solution as a ten out of ten.

I would rate the technical support as seven out of ten. It is good when we get attention, but sometimes it is a bit difficult to get the attention we need.

Neutral

We opted for CloudGuard CNAPP over other solutions mostly due to its flexibility.

The implementation of the solution was easy.

There has been a significant ROI for me because now I can reduce risks effectively, and every risk I mitigate is a return on investment for the platform.

CloudGuard CNAPP has been crucial in giving us visibility into our cloud setup and has significantly lowered our risks by enabling better control over our cloud security.

I find that CloudGuard CNAPP 's cloud security posture management is exceptional for addressing both physical and digital security concerns. It offers extensive coverage and provides a straightforward yet sophisticated method for creating and implementing new security queries.

My advice would be to define your use cases very well when considering this solution.

Overall, I would rate CloudGuard CNAPP as an eight out of ten.

We use the solution to control all the emails that go out from the company. We also use it to protect our network by stopping unauthorized people from accessing it.

The product enables us to check the information that goes out of the company. We get to know if someone sends our sales emails to our competitors. We control the information that goes out of the company. It’s a good product.

The product must provide different features like antivirus.

I am currently using the solution.

The tool always performs very well. All the upgrades happen automatically. We haven't had a problem with it.

We haven’t needed much support.

Positive

The solution’s pricing is a little bit high. I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is the lowest price, and ten is the highest price.

I would like to implement all the security solutions from Check Point in our company. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.

We utilize Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management to gain visibility into our cloud environments and their configurations. The cloud services we employ include AWS, Azure, and GCP.

A while back, we deployed Kubernetes, and it was exposed to the internet, resulting in the environment being affected by malware. Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has helped our organization prevent such attacks from occurring in our environment.

The most valuable feature is the single dashboard that enables us to manage the entire cloud environment from one place.

The dashboard customization has room for improvement.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management for four years.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is highly stable. There was only one instance when the solution experienced downtime.

The technical support is good.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is expensive.

I give Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management a ten out of ten.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is an important component of a cloud environment that enables us to gain visibility across all areas and configure easily. I highly recommend this solution.