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SHRINKHALA SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Advertising Standards Council of India
Real User
Top 10
Affordable with good threat hunting and works seamlessly with cloud servers
Pros and Cons
  • "The initial setup is easy and not complex at all."
  • "I strongly advise that the multi-layered security system of Check Point often undergoes updates and new versions keep coming."

What is our primary use case?

Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence provides network security through machine learning analytics and visualization and detecting and spotting the threat entrant detection and providing threat intelligence security proactively for restricting the endpoints at the entry stage and securing the system in the best manner possible. 

The security application works proactively and diffuses the endpoints in real-time, ensuring swift action in restraining the threat entry into our IT system.

This application supports almost all kinds of cloud and hybrid platforms and is spot on during integration with other systems.

How has it helped my organization?

Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence has significantly improved the revenue stream for my organization. Earlier, we had a third party for overall IT security and it was costly for us. We were looking for something with less cost. 

The CloudGuard intelligence helps in the proactive detection of security threats across an IT device or server and immediately takes corrective and remedial action so that the data and security loss is not to minimal. It is one of the masterpieces which is quite advanced with current market requirements and is available at affordable prices.

What is most valuable?

The solution offers proactive threat detection and immediate remediation of the same.

Threat hunting is easy with this application as its false negative rate is extremely low, and its performance is fantastic.

It offers affordable costing and an easy renewal process for continuing the agreement.

It can work seamlessly with any kind of cloud servers and platform without any tech hassle or disturbance.

Multiple users can access and monitor the application working with a single login, which is quite advantageous and works really well for us.

There is no shutdown or slowdown of the application while in operation.

What needs improvement?

I strongly advise that the multi-layered security system of Check Point often undergoes updates and new versions keep coming. It is absolutely fantastic and is worth admiring. Every now and then, we feel that their team's training and orientation process on orienting the clients and partners is low and needs to be strengthened so that every single individual is completely aware and informed of the features and their utilities. They are not clueless in utilizing the services to their maximum. We just need more focused training.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for almost foud to six months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

They offer strong and supportive customer support.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were using a third-party solution earlier, which was quite localized and was having limited utility in terms of system security. We switched to Check Point due to peer feedback and advice, as my peers were extremely happy after trial use and pushed us to try the solution due to its numerous utilities, which are customizable. It is quite affordable in comparison to its other competitors in the market.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy and not complex at all.

What about the implementation team?

We had assistance from the vendor team only.

What was our ROI?

We've seen an ROI of almost 70%.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We thoroughly examined the software and market offerings and found that CloudGuard solutions are reliable and dependable for their good work and globally accepted happy feedback by partners and users.

The setup cost is low and the implementation process is quite smooth.

Pricing is low in comparison to various competitors in the market.

Licensing and renewal of the agreement are effortless.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated other options, such as McAfee and Trend Security solutions. 

What other advice do I have?

I'd advise potential users to go for the CloudGuard Intelligence solution and strengthen their IT security. It is the best available solution in the market with strong tech support and wider acceptability globally.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
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Shay Zer - PeerSpot reviewer
Presale security at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Help us detect anomalous behavior and respond to threats before they become an issue

What is our primary use case?

We mainly use it as a CSPM solution.

How has it helped my organization?

It gives us clarity.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the ability to see our customers' environments if they use more than one cloud provider, such as AWS, Google, and Azure.

Also, CloudGuard CDR's intrusion detection and threat hunting capabilities are good enough. They help us detect anomalous behavior and respond to threats before they become an issue.

What needs improvement?

There are regulatory requirements. I would like to be able to pick the regulation I would like to scheck compliance with and it would tell you where you stand on that regulation and what you are missing to reach compliance. And it shouldn't matter which cloud we're dealing with; we would have these possibilities.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP for about two years.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability really isn't an issue with everything in the cloud. That's the essence of a cloud product: the scalability you get compared to on-prem.

How are customer service and support?

Their technical support is perfect. When we contact them, they answer immediately. Their support knows the platform very well.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did not use a different solution before.

How was the initial setup?

It's very simple to set up because it's all in the cloud.

What was our ROI?

We have seen a return on investment. It can reduce the human resources we need. Also, there is ROI from everything connected to the fact that it's in the cloud: I don't need someone for management or to pay for on-prem resources, such as CPU.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

If I compare the price of CloudGuard, Palo Alto is more expensive and others are less expensive. CloudGuard CNAPP is in the middle.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at other solutions, but with CloudGuard everything is located in the cloud. It's very convenient for us to manage our assets in the cloud.

What other advice do I have?

If they could reduce the price and provide more capabilities, it would be better.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Senior Security Specialist at Tech Mahindra Limited
Real User
Top 20
A good next-generation firewall with helpful filtering but needs better support
Pros and Cons
  • "Overall, it provides good security."
  • "Their service needs improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We have a hybrid environment so we use Check Point Cloud Guard to protect the cloud workload. On-prem, we are already using the Check Point Firewalls so we can manage both environment firewalls using the same management server, AKA the smart console, which saves time and effort to look for logs during any type of troubleshooting. It helps us avoid creating the same objects for each firewall but also provides a single pane of glass through which we can see all gateways, logs, policies, objects, user management, and traffic tracing. 

How has it helped my organization?

It is a next-generation firewall that helps a lot in many ways to protect my workloads from threats, such as: 

- firewall blade providing protection at Layer 3 and 4

- application filtering blade providing protection from unauthorized applications or services

- URL filtering providing protection on malicious URLs based on various categories as updated by Check Point on a daily basis

- threat prevention and sandboxing capability to actually help with unknown or zero-day threats (it tests, removes the malicious content, and then releases or blocks by itself)

Overall, it provides good security.

What is most valuable?

The threat extraction and emulation module is a savior for us from unknown threats. We know that daily millions of new threats emerge over the internet so we like that it provides protection from them all. It's good to have a sandboxing environment that can first assess the threat before releasing it to the production environment. These threats are called zero-day threats for which there is no signature or update available whether it be on an endpoint, machine, antivirus solution, or other software. Therefore, it becomes very useful to use this feature to stop threats from spreading right at the gateway itself.

What needs improvement?

Their service needs improvement. Their vendor doesn't provide good support. Also, there is no way to escalate it to Check Point so that Check Point can take action against their partner. I don't have direct support with Check Point. We have collaborative support with one of the Check Point partners who do not provide good support. When we reached out to Check Point to escalate; they denied taking any action against the vendor.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for five years.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Fabian Miranda - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud computing at Tech Data Limited
Real User
Strengthens and centralizes all the security infrastructure and reduces attacks
Pros and Cons
  • "It presents a real-time database that is always updated."
  • "The support it provides is not very good. They should improve it since we have had several setbacks due to support issues."

What is our primary use case?

Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence Security is one of the most robust tools on the market. That's why we decided to implement it in our company when all our operations were migrated to the Azure cloud area. 

We needed a tool that would provide security in the network and help analyze any vulnerabilities that we might face in these new environments. We wanted to be able to attack all the weak points that we have in the cloud in order to guarantee effective and stable security. We also have some applications in our systems that deserve excellent security.

How has it helped my organization?

Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence came to strengthen our security and has helped the IT department achieve excellent network security. 

In addition to that, it has helped us centralize all the security infrastructure in this tool and helped us a lot to counteract vulnerabilities that were present. With this product, we were able to reduce the rate of attacks that we had. The database that they have is in real-time and updated instantaneously. All these factors helped a lot to reduce vulnerabilities.

What is most valuable?

Check Point's CloudGuard Intelligence tool presents some features that should be highlighted. For example:

It presents a real-time database that is always updated.

The environment can be centralized within Check Point Infinity, and thus we can have several security tools.

It also presents a forensic analysis that helped us to determine the root of several issues. 

Integration with Sentinel can be made, which allows us to obtain more security data and analyze it.

It presents a portal that is relatively easy to use and configure.

What needs improvement?

The tool works perfectly and improvements should be made, if any, in various technical and administrative aspects.

For how long have I used the solution?

It was implemented approximately one year ago.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence has good stability. We have not presented performance problems or any other that would lead to a forced restart of the tool.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The tool presents very good and functional scalability. To this day, we have not presented any problems.

How are customer service and support?

The support it provides is not very good. They should improve it since we have had several setbacks due to support issues.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, there was no tool in the company's infrastructure. We needed the solution when we moved to the cloud and decided to improve security.

How was the initial setup?

The implementation of the tool is very easy. There are several steps in the wizard where it gets complicated around the configuration, however. If you do not have extensive knowledge of the tool, it becomes complicated.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation was done through the vendor, who gave us a support engineer to help us with the implementation and configuration of the tool. We also received some training.

What was our ROI?

By making an investment in security tools, we are doing ourselves a great favor. With this tool, we are protecting our information while maintaining operations. It is always a great investment to acquire these tools. Also, afterward, there is a noticeable economic return.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Whenever an investment is made in a security tool, it is high due to many factors. that said, investing in security will provide economic returns in the short or long term since it will greatly lighten workloads and provide security.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated many options on the market, such as Fortinet, Sophos, and Cisco NGFW. However, Check Point had better features.

What other advice do I have?

With the time that I have used this tool, we have noticed that it is a very good solution and that it has excellent features. It provides very secure connections.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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Nagendra Nekkala - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager ICT & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Helps to improve security score with real-time information
Pros and Cons
  • "Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP's initial configuration is very easy. It is plug-and-play. It also gives regular updates."
  • "The tool should incorporate more use cases like improving security scores. It should also improve documentation."

What is our primary use case?

We want network security through machine learning. The product offers threat detection and intelligence for the endpoints. It also provides real-time information on application security. 

What is most valuable?

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP's initial configuration is very easy. It is plug-and-play. It also gives regular updates. 

What needs improvement?

The tool should incorporate more use cases like improving security scores. It should also improve documentation.  

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the product for a year. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The product is stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is scalable. My company has more than 1000 users. 

How are customer service and support?

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP's support is very good. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The tool's deployment is very easy and takes two weeks to complete. We need engineers to install the product. You need to ensure the overall device landscape before the product's installation. Its maintenance is easy. 

What was our ROI?

I can get 50-60 percent ROI with the tool's use. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The tool's pricing is moderate. Its licensing costs are yearly. 

What other advice do I have?

The solution helps to improve security scores, which is important for auditing and compliance. I rate it a nine out of ten. 

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Emanuel Kjellin - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Analyst at Cloud2Go
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Has great support and helped us analyze the security of our Azure environment
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is the separate environment."
  • "The license cost is expensive and has room for improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We use Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management to increase our visibility into our environment and ensure that our policies are being followed.

How has it helped my organization?

The solution has helped us analyze the security of our Azure environment. Trend Micro and Check Point analyze the Azure environment with our tenants and clients to check for security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. We need to correct these problems and alert our team and clients of any issues. The solution also compares these actions between two applications.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the separate environment. In the testing environment, we can have Client A, Client B, and Client C. We can check this information in one portal. It is possible to separate access to this information for my clients to review.

What needs improvement?

The license cost is expensive and has room for improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management for three months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I give the stability a nine out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I give the scalability a nine out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is great.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The license fee is high.

What other advice do I have?

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

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is a good solution and I recommend it.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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reviewer2119419 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Accountant at SORECO
User
Top 5
Comprehensive security, excellent intrusion alerting, and reliable threat hunting
Pros and Cons
  • "It provides the most useful tools for protecting our financial account records from hackers."
  • "Timely updates and upgrades to meet modern technological changes could help improve performance and limit the chances of downtime."

What is our primary use case?

The threat-hunting system provides forensics through machine learning visualization with real-time insights into processes from a multi-cloud environment. 

It has powerful tools that detect any threats in the network infrastructure in advance before it penetrates into our systems. 

It has repulsed many attacks that have been launched by malware attackers that could destroy data. 

The CloudGuard Intelligence provides alerts that prepare the IT team to set up effective measures after detecting threats. 

The product performance has enabled each team to work without fear of any threats.

How has it helped my organization?

It provides the most useful tools for protecting our financial account records from hackers. 

The application has boosted security from all the company sources. We have not lost confidential data to external cyber attackers since we deployed this platform. 

Faster responses to malware threats have saved the organization from engaging in insecure transaction losses. 

The product has safeguarded the entire financial system from external interference. 

We used to experience the challenges of data protection before we deployed this application. There are improvements in data management and security with a positive impact on work processes.

What is most valuable?

The advanced data analytics on the security of the applications has provided effective insights that helped in safeguarding confidential information. 

The intrusion alerts and notifications have saved us a lot of time and resources in enhancing reliable security. 

The comprehensive security from cloud and on-premises has saved data centers from attacks and provides a reliable environment for boosting production. 

Cloud threat intelligence provides useful insights that help in planning effectively during the process of implementing projects and tasks.

What needs improvement?

The security investigation features that are present have been performing excellently since we deployed this application. There are few licensing and network coverage cases, however, the customer service team is always ready to solve any problem. 

Timely updates and upgrades to meet modern technological changes could help improve performance and limit the chances of downtime. 

The performance has been stable for a long time since we deployed it. The few hitches which we have experienced can be solved without affecting the workflow performance. 

The Check Point team has done a great job, and I recommend their products to other companies.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for ten months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This solution has been stable with reliable operations.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I am impressed by its reliable performance, and I recommend it to other business enterprises.

How are customer service and support?

Customer service and support always provide effective guidelines when contacted.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

The other security products that I have worked with had responded poorly which is why we moved to Check Point.

How was the initial setup?

The setup procedure was straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation was done by the vendor.

What was our ROI?

There is increased ROI from the product's stable performance.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

This platform offers modern security for threats that will arise in any organization.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I evaluated several products. I settled on Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence based on their reliable services.

What other advice do I have?

This is a great and powerful platform for securing organizations from cyber attacks.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Senior Network/Security Engineer at Skywind Group
Real User
Provides good visualization of infrastructure and the compliance engine is powerful
Pros and Cons
  • "This product provides a really nice visualization of the infrastructure, including network topology, firewalls, etc."
  • "We were demotivated by the lack of native automation modules for the Terraform and Ansible tools."

What is our primary use case?

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.

How has it helped my organization?

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.

What is most valuable?

  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.

What needs improvement?

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.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Dome9 for less than a year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Dome9 is stable and works smoothly.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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

How are customer service and technical support?

No cases have been opened regarding Dome9 so far.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

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

How was the initial setup?

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

What about the implementation team?

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

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

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.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

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

What other advice do I have?

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

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Google
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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