Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs Rapid7 Metasploit comparison

Check Point Software Technologies and Rapid7 are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Check Point Software Technologies is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.6, while Rapid7 is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.2. Check Point Software Technologies holds a 1.5% mindshare in VM, compared to Rapid7’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Check Point Software Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Rapid7 Metasploit and Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP compete in the cybersecurity space. Rapid7 Metasploit holds an advantage in threat simulation and testing, while Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is stronger in comprehensive cloud security solutions.

Features: Rapid7 Metasploit provides robust penetration testing capabilities, exploit development, and security assessment tools. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP delivers advanced cloud security, workload protection, and compliance solutions. Rapid7 aims at penetration testing, whereas CloudGuard covers broader cloud-native application security.

Room for Improvement: Rapid7 Metasploit can enhance its cloud integration capabilities, expand its feature set for cloud-native environments, and improve its scalability options for larger enterprises. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP could benefit from smoother deployment processes, more user-friendly interfaces, and better pricing structures for smaller enterprises.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Rapid7 Metasploit has a straightforward setup with interactive support, simplifying deployment. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is designed for cloud environments with integration into existing platforms, requiring more complex implementation but offering proactive service options.

Pricing and ROI: Rapid7 Metasploit typically has a lower initial cost with good ROI on focused penetration testing use. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP may have a higher setup cost, but the extensive security features provide significant ROI in comprehensive cloud environments. Despite the higher cost, CloudGuard's full feature set justifies the investment for broad use cases.

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Categories and Ranking

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

8th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud and Data Center Security (9th), Container Security (6th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (5th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (5th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (4th), Compliance Management (6th)

Rapid7 Metasploit

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

19th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is 1.5%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 Metasploit is 1.9%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management

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Yokesh Mani

Deputy Manager at Computer Age Management Services Pvt. Ltd.

Easy to write custom rules and policies in the UI with limited coding knowledge

The user interface could be improved. Sometimes, the visibility is not immediately available for the environment. We have the native servers that come with the solutions, but we cannot see them in the Check Point log. Another issue is with the integrated file monitoring. It would make sense to have stuff like file integrity monitoring and malware scanning available within this module because we don't want to integrate another product. For example, let's say it's showing a process violation. It should be able to do some additional malware scanning in that particular bucket to get some additional information. I don't want to integrate with another third-party tool or go to the native server to check something. It would be helpful to have integrated monitoring and malware scanning for the file types. There are a few flaws with the security management portal where I have limited visibility into the workload protection features. There is no error visibility where I can see the communication and workflow between services. Some of the dashboards need to be fine-tuned if they are not customized. For example, I cannot customize anything on the effective risk management dashboard. Some of the information is not correct for my tenant. With respect to passwords and user management, there are no policies I can measure at the user level. If the user was created more than six months ago, you don't need to worry about that password or do anything like two-factor authentication associated with that user. They can still log in after six months or one year. It's also a challenge to use CloudGuard's agentless workload posture with AWS. An Azure storage is summed up with a CNAPP encryption by default. We tried onboarding this data, but the problem is the attachment is not done. After a few days, we identified that it was impossible to do the encryption detection. But CloudGuard's default rules say that this has to be encrypted. The AWS module says that we cannot access this volume with this encryption, so we cannot use an agentless workload posture with AWS because of this. It is a best practice to ensure that all the volumes are being encrypted. Without the encryption, how can I do this? It is a big challenge for CloudGuard.

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Mani Bommisetty

Infrastructure patching Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Comprehensive insights with robust vulnerability detection and streamlined alert management

Rapid7 has a significant advantage in providing a clear picture of my environment. It provides insight and incident detection response capabilities. When deployed with the same agent in servers or endpoints, it identifies vulnerabilities and monitors data transmission to external sources. Rapid7 offers comprehensive features within one platform, eliminating the need to integrate multiple tools to see all alerts in one place.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

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

"The administration portal panel is very intuitive."

"The most valuable features are the ability to create pipeline rules, the enhanced NetOps security, and the deep visibility across our entire infrastructure."

"I love the work involved in maintaining and scaling security services and configurations across multiple public clouds using this solution, versus using native native cloud security controls. It is so much better. The different cloud platforms all have their own way that they handle a lot of the stuff that Dome9 handles. Even within their platform, they are in a lot of disparate places, e.g., in AWS, there are five different tools. You have to jump between them to get the same information that you can just pull in automatically on Dome9, which is just one platform. We are using multiple platforms, so that makes it even more complicated and time consuming if you had to just rely on them to get all of your information. Whereas, it's all just summarized and put together on the Dome9 end."

"The posture management and remediation features are the most valuable. We use GSL Builder to build custom rules in alignment with our organization's policies. CloudGuard has canned rules using multiple standard frameworks, but we also have additional rules."

"It presents great visibility of the traffic flow of our cloud, providing information on what data and users are circulating and in the event of a threat, it immediately identifies them by providing detailed and granular information from our entire environment."

"The solution's main benefit is that it automates all the patching and reporting parts and generates an automated report."

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"The option to generate phishing emails has proven to be very valuable in understanding the behavior of users."

"It allows us to concentrate solely on identified vulnerabilities without the hassle of additional setup."

"It's not possible to do penetration testing without being very proficient in Metasploit."

"Rapid7 Metasploit is a useful product."

"It is scalable. It's in line with our needs."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

"The solution is open source and has many small targetted penetration tests that have been written by many people that are useful. You can choose different subjects for the test, such as Oracle databases or Apache servers."

"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."

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Cons

"Check Point tools need to improve the latency in the portal since they take a long time to load."

"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 would like to see some AI on the back-end, just to assist with doing analysis and making recommendations."

"CloudGuard's reporting could be better. It's good now, but there is room for improvement. If you're looking for a centralized platform, there are a lot of features that can be appreciated. However, you want complete security integration with SaaS, DAST, secret scanning, etc., and a single platform for all these features."

"The reporting dashboard responds slowly, which leads to late report compilation."

"I am not a technical person, but generically, the user interface can be a little more intuitive. Our staff has trained network security and cloud security professionals, and they get it, but when you are trying to get to the customers to be able to pick it up and maintain it, it can be a bit difficult."

"Their service needs improvement."

"The rules are not well-tuned, and many of them generate false positives or nonsensical results."

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"Rapid7 Metasploit can add a GUI feature because it is only available online."

"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."

"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."

"Advanced Infrastructure should be implemented in the next release for better orchestration."

"If your company's patch is not up to date, but you have other detection or defense solutions such as endpoint detection and response and antivirus software, the product exploit may not work effectively. This is because its exploit database update process is slow and not real-time. For zero-day vulnerabilities or new security threats, relying on Rapid7 Metasploit alone may not be effective."

"At the time I was using it, the graphical user interface needed some improvements."

"I would like to see more capabilities, more functions, and more features. More types of attack vectors."

"It is necessary to add some training materials and a tutorial for beginners."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a very straightforward licensing model that is based on the number of assets you are discovering and managing with the solution."

"The pricing is extremely competitive."

"The licensing part still needs some work. The issue that I have is that we do not use all the services in the cloud, but sometimes, CloudGuard identifies them as an asset."

"In the beginning, the price of Dome9 was cheap, whereas now it is not."

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

"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 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."

"I would advise taking into account the existing number of devices and add a forecast of the number of devices to be added in the coming year or two, to obtain better pricing."

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"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product's pricing a six. So it's fairly priced."

"There are two versions available, one of which is the Pro version, and the other is the free version."

"Rapid7 Metasploit is an open-source solution."

"The cost is approximately $15 per device."

"The great advantage with Rapid7 Metasploit, of course, is that it's free."

"I use the open-source version of this product. Pricing is not relevant."

"We pay monthly. The pricing is reasonable."

"The pricing structure involves a one-time purchase cost of approximately twenty thousand dollars or euros for all customers."

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Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

University

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management?

The visibility in our cloud environment is the most valuable feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management?

The price is on the higher end.

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What needs improvement with Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management?

We have concerns regarding the pricing and would appreciate seeing some improvements.

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What do you like most about Rapid7 Metasploit?

I use Rapid7 Metasploit for payload generation and Post-Exploitation.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 Metasploit?

The cost is approximately $15 per device.

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What needs improvement with Rapid7 Metasploit?

The reporting feature needs improvement. The time taken to fetch reports based on the number of events can be extensive, unlike Tenable, which is more user-friendly and faster. Additionally, networ...

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Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management, Dome9, Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection, Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence

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Overview

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is a cloud-native application protection platform designed to secure your cloud environments and applications. By combining CSPM, CWPP, CSNS, and WAF capabilities, it provides a comprehensive solution to protect your cloud environment from a wide range of threats.

CloudGuard CNAPP delivers end-to-end cloud security, including workload protection, vulnerability management, and identity management, all while maintaining continuous compliance. It uses advanced AI to detect and prevent threats, offering protection for containers, serverless applications, and APIs. CloudGuard CNAPP also emphasizes simplifying security management, integrating directly with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

CloudGuard CNAPP provides customers with more context to drive actionable security and smarter prevention, from code-to-cloud, across the application lifecycle. More Context Means Actionable Security, Smarter Prevention. The primary components are:

Unified & Modular Platform - A single platform unifying SAST, CSPM, DSPM, CIEM, CWPP, WAF, and Cloud Detection and Response.
Continuous Cloud Security - Automatic enforcement of security requirements and internal policies from development to runtime.
Real-time Detection & Protection - Real-time incidents and vulnerability detection with a single-click or automated remediation.

What are the key features of CloudGuard CNAPP?

Workload Protection: Secures cloud-based workloads, including VMs, containers, and serverless functions, from vulnerabilities and attacks.
Posture Management: Continuously monitors cloud configurations and assets to ensure compliance with security standards and policies.
Threat Prevention: Uses AI-driven threat detection to block malware, ransomware, and zero-day exploits in real-time.
Compliance Automation: Automates compliance checks and ensures adherence to industry regulations, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.
Identity and Access Management (IAM) Protection: Secures identities by managing access policies and detecting misconfigurations in permissions.

What are the key benefits to consider?

Improved Cloud Visibility: Provides clear insights into cloud environments, assets, and workloads, helping teams detect misconfigurations and vulnerabilities early.
Risk Reduction: Threat prevention features help reduce the risk of breaches by identifying and blocking potential attacks before they can exploit system weaknesses.
Operational Efficiency: Automated compliance and posture management reduce the manual work needed to maintain security standards.
Multi-cloud Support: CloudGuard CNAPP integrates across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, streamlining security operations for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP simplifies cloud security management with integrated protection and automation.

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