Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) vs Skyhigh Security comparison

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We performed a comparison between Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) and Skyhigh Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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ROI

Sentiment score

6.9

Check Point Cloud Firewall offers rapid deployment, improved security, cost savings, and efficiency through automation and centralized management.

Sentiment score

5.0

Skyhigh Security enhances efficiency, reduces manual tasks, and improves governance, though exact financial benefits are hard to quantify.

The value lies in maintaining operational integrity with zero downtime or incidents, facilitating secure, ongoing business operations.

reviewer2647578

Cybersecurity consultant at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The compliance has improved as our overall compliance score against CIS benchmark has improved from around 72 to 92% within the first three months of adoption.

reviewer2751468

Assistant Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

This helped my team cut manual review time by roughly twenty to twenty-five percent, allowing me to reallocate effort to proactive cloud security improvements.

Pedro Leão

Networking and System Consultant at Orbcom,Lda.

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With Skyhigh Security, that same analysis could often be reduced to around ten minutes

RafaelMartins

Sales Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

By moving to having more in the cloud, their cloud is automatically updated as part of a SaaS solution, which reduces the responsibility on the company to do the updates themselves.

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Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

I have seen a return on investment from using Skyhigh Security; we saved a lot of time since the dashboard gives the complete picture of the overall usage of cloud apps.

Balu Paulraj

Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.1

Check Point Cloud Firewall support is praised for expertise but needs improved documentation and quicker complex issue responses.

Sentiment score

7.3

Skyhigh Security's customer service is rated high, but technical support needs improvement in consistency and first-contact resolution.

They usually respond quite fast, and they are very knowledgeable about what they do.

Dimitris Baziotopoulos

Network security engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We had an endless loop of emails trying to fix this, and the suggestion was to reinstall the gateway and do it from scratch, which was not an option at that point because it would leave that specific location without access.

Andrei Ganciu

System administrator at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

I think TAC of Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) is very competent; they really know what they are doing.

Oscar Nunez

Ingeniero en redes y Telecomunicaciones at K-IT

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We can know the case severity such as P1, P2, or P3, allowing easy interaction from the customer support side.

Karthik Sathivel

Technical Associate Network Security at Valuepoint Systems

Weekly setup calls are conducted with all clients to discuss ongoing issues and resolutions.

DeepakGupta_

Deputy Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

There is also some really good diagnostic information built into their web gateways that they deploy on-premise if you want to do hybrid, so they get a lot of information before you even know something might be wrong.

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Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

Check Point Cloud Firewall excels in scalability and performance across multi-cloud environments, despite some management complexity and cost considerations.

Sentiment score

6.6

Skyhigh Security is highly scalable and adaptable, despite occasional documentation overload and portal slowdowns in cloud environments.

Visibility scales without performance issues as my environment expands.

Pedro Leão

Networking and System Consultant at Orbcom,Lda.

It is capable of managing the increased load and performs well as our needs expand.

Viral Shaa

IT Security Analyst at Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc.

I can deploy it everywhere I need it.

Christian Riedl

Security & Network Services at a tech company with 201-500 employees

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Scalability-wise, for monitoring cloud apps, Skyhigh Security is more scalable, and we never faced any scalability issues on the dashboards.

Balu Paulraj

Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

They have peering agreements with a lot of the major ISPs where their data centers are, which allows them to get a really good bandwidth allocation.

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Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

We upgraded with a plan for the next five to seven years to run with this solution because this easy scalability is what we are able to achieve with Skyhigh Security for our environment.

Pratap Roy

Security Consultant at RL

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.0

Check Point Cloud Firewall is stable and reliable, with seamless operation but occasional AWS integration and shared resources challenges.

Sentiment score

7.5

Skyhigh Security is largely stable and reliable, with improvements and multi-location capabilities but some regional gaps remain.

The firewall itself, Gaia itself, tells you: "Look, there is this error, this problem; verify if your device is affected; if so, here is the solution."

Oscar Nunez

Ingeniero en redes y Telecomunicaciones at K-IT

If there are errors, it is sometimes challenging to elaborate or troubleshoot since it is not transparent enough to understand what to search for.

Reffat Gharaibeh

Cloud Security Architect at controlware

I have not observed any downtime.

Mantas Mazeika

Sales manager/ project manager at Atea

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We did not face any downtime on that site, so it is quite reliable.

Karthik Sathivel

Technical Associate Network Security at Valuepoint Systems

If your primary location is down, you just get diverted to the other one.

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Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

It has many gaps, so I think some customers take three months and up to six months for the deployment of Skyhigh Security.

Eunsok Kim

Secure at ESCARE COLtd

Room For Improvement

Check Point Cloud Firewall needs better integration, user interface, documentation, support, reporting, and transparent pricing for optimal performance.

Skyhigh Security needs enhancements in reporting, support, API capabilities, and performance to improve user experience and efficiency.

Scalability could be improved as well; needing to purchase a new license each time I want to add a new interface is not ideal.

Stefan Baumgartner

Security architect at Twinformatics

Better documentation would be welcome.

Dimitris Baziotopoulos

Network security engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The user interface could be more intuitive, and the initial setup and configuration can be complex, requiring a technical team.

Krishna KantUpadhyay

Android Developer at Droidforge

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There is no API available.

reviewer2847426

Security automation specialist at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Skyhigh Security does not have a local representative in the Philippines.

reviewer2866380

Product Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Skyhigh has its own DLP which is helping users not upload sensitive documents to the AI chatbot, making that a main good feature.

reviewer2867868

Information Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Setup Cost

Check Point Cloud Firewall offers competitive pricing, though complex enterprise needs may find it high; flexible licensing aids cost-efficiency.

Skyhigh Security offers flexible yet potentially higher pricing, with costs depending on user numbers and required features.

The pricing and licensing are expensive, costing between seven thousand to eight thousand dollars.

Krishna KantUpadhyay

Android Developer at Droidforge

Check Point is expensive, however, with the features and capabilities, I can justify the cost.

Thanos Constantopoulos

Manager, Managed Security Services at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

It is the highest in the market.

Daniel Sander

System engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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After switching, cost savings would be in the millions since we were having many VPN edge routers, and there were many VPN tunnels utilized on the cloud, and after moving to ZTNA, we were able to cut the cost.

reviewer2867868

Information Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The pricing and licensing was generally aligned with the number of users and the models, and the cost depends on the scope, but I think Skyhigh Security has great pricing for the market.

RafaelMartins

Sales Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Regarding pricing, the licensing and pricing for Skyhigh Security, especially for SWG, is cheap.

reviewer2866380

Product Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Check Point Cloud Firewall delivers robust security with centralized management, threat prevention, and seamless integration across cloud and hybrid environments.

Skyhigh Security excels in security through tokenization, analytics, and compliance, simplifying tool integration and enhancing remote access.

One of the most valuable features is the automated threat prevention, which helps us detect and block potential cyberattacks in real-time, minimizing data breaches.

Krishna KantUpadhyay

Android Developer at Droidforge

Centralized management is the feature I like best, resulting in reduced workload and more continuous policy.

Christian Riedl

Security & Network Services at a tech company with 201-500 employees

Network Security provides us with unified security management across hybrid and cloud as well as on-prem.

Thanos Constantopoulos

Manager, Managed Security Services at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

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Skyhigh Security dashboard helps monitor security threats, and it works well with very large enterprise environments.

Balu Paulraj

Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

By going through their Zero Trust interface, we effectively had single sign-on to the internal network remotely without a VPN, so it reduced the overhead and gave us faster access to the files.

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Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

The hardware and cloud usability features help my team by providing easy scalability, which is the main advantage.

reviewer2842041

Senior Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Categories and Ranking

Check Point Cloud Firewall ...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

243

Ranking in other categories

Firewalls (8th), Managed Security Services Providers (MSSP) (1st), Vulnerability Management (5th), Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions (3rd), Cloud and Data Center Security (3rd), Container Security (6th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (5th), WAN Edge (3rd), Unified Threat Management (UTM) (4th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (5th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (5th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (4th), Compliance Management (5th)

Skyhigh Security

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (7th), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (14th), Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) (7th), ZTNA as a Service (10th), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) (9th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Enterprise Networking solutions, they serve different purposes. Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) is designed for Firewalls and holds a mindshare of 2.7%, up 0.6% compared to last year.
Skyhigh Security, on the other hand, focuses on Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), holds 2.5% mindshare, up 1.8% since last year.

Firewalls Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security)	2.7%
Fortinet FortiGate	13.3%
Cisco Secure Firewall	7.8%
Other	76.2%

Firewalls

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Skyhigh Security	2.5%
Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks	10.1%
Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange Platform	8.8%
Other	78.6%

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Featured Reviews

Oscar Nunez

Ingeniero en redes y Telecomunicaciones at K-IT

Centralized management has reduced policy time and provides reliable multitenant protection

What I would like, what I think they should improve a little is the management of objects at large scale. When you work with multiple domains, there are thousands of network objects. Detecting duplicates and consistency across domains is a very manual process that should be more automated. Another thing: the SmartConsole interface is very powerful and very good, but the learning curve, compared to other solutions in the market from other manufacturers, could be modernized. I think it does not necessarily have to be done from a client application; it could be done via web, because via web I know that not all the options you have in SmartConsole are available. So it would be good if it could also be done from the web and all the options were available. Another thing that I would really like is more automation with Ansible or Terraform. I know it has improved in recent versions, but I think it is still not mature enough. Compared to other manufacturers that do have a bit more in terms of automation capabilities in integration flows with Ansible or Terraform, Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) could improve. Another thing that could be improved a little would be the TAC response time, because when there are very complex cases, I think there should be more speed initially, more ownership of those urgent cases, and not leave the customer waiting. This has happened to me: when I have cases open with Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) TAC, sometimes they do not respond and I have to keep insisting, and I think that part should improve. I do not know if it depends on who takes the ticket or on the severity of the ticket, but sometimes I have had to insist a lot, and that would be the only problem. Once they attend to me and become involved in the case, the responses they give are very professional and really help directly resolve the problems when there is a bug or troubleshooting to do. As I said, I would like to see a specific improvement in SmartConsole. I think if they improved it—how to say it—gave it a facelift so you could access all the options directly from a browser, that would be great, because sometimes, for one reason or another, you cannot download SmartConsole or, for some reason, the SmartConsole client does not start correctly, and you could do it directly from the browser. I think that would be a good option to improve. Another thing would be that in multidomain environments, I would like a global search function for objects and rules. That is, you could enter and search across all domains at once, because right now you have to go domain by domain, and in environments with many customers, you spend quite a bit of time; you have to exit one domain and enter another. So those would be the improvements I would like to see.

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DeepakGupta_

Deputy Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Centralized cloud security has improved DLP incident management and simplifies email protection

One major challenge is that downloading incidents during the investigation process takes a very long time, and this issue should be resolved. More customized columns and filtering options in incident review would be beneficial. File types should be included, such as file names along with file extensions, which are not currently available to my knowledge. Overall, Skyhigh Security is very good and just needs to improve in terms of the latency of downloading incidents.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

15%

Construction Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	132
Midsize Enterprise	53
Large Enterprise	142

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	34
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	49

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

Since we use a unified standard for using policies and modules in Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security), we can clearly plan which modules we need to activate on a parti...

What needs improvement with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

The main limitations of Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) are not in Check Point itself but in the cloud platforms on which it is deployed. Because not all clouds ha...

What is your primary use case for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) is the main manager that provides network security in different forms in my organization. The primary task that Check Point solves ...

What needs improvement with McAfee Web Gateway?

From my perspective as a distributor and based on feedback from my clients, Skyhigh Security has a bit of a disadvantage in the Philippines. First, Skyhigh Security is not offering the full SASE su...

What is your primary use case for McAfee Web Gateway?

I do not use Skyhigh Security firsthand, but M.Tech Philippines distributes Skyhigh Security as one of the authorized distributors. My main use case for Skyhigh Security in my role as a distributor...

What advice do you have for others considering McAfee Web Gateway?

I always believe that Skyhigh Security works hand-in-hand with Trellix. What we are doing in our approach is to deliver the whole use case from an end-to-end approach, and from on-premises to cloud...

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Also Known As

CloudGuard IaaS, Check Point vSEC, CloudGuard IaaS, Check Point Virtual Systems, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP

McAfee MVISION Cloud, McAfee MVISION Unified Cloud Edge, McAfee Web Gateway, McAfee MVISION CNAPP, and Skyhigh Networks, McAfee Web Gateway

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Overview

Check Point Cloud Firewall, previously known as CloudGuard Network Security, provides advanced threat prevention, centralized management, and VPN capabilities, enabling robust cloud security across various platforms including Azure and AWS.

Check Point Cloud Firewall delivers seamless cloud integration with advanced automated threat prevention and centralized management to enhance security posture. It offers auto-scaling for dynamic environments and a comprehensive policy enforcement framework in hybrid settings. The unified interface streamlines administration across cloud infrastructures, ensuring consistent protection and reducing risk.

What important features does it offer?

Advanced Threat Prevention: Safeguards against sophisticated threats.
Centralized Management: Simplifies control for cloud infrastructures.
Auto-scaling: Adapts to changing workloads seamlessly.
VPN Capabilities: Enables secure connections across environments.
Integration with Azure and AWS: Ensures compatibility with leading cloud services.
Visibility Tools: Enhanced monitoring and management for security enforcement.

What benefits can users expect?

Enhanced Security: Comprehensive threat management reduces risk.
Operational Efficiency: Automation capabilities streamline processes.
Cost Management: Efficient resource usage with auto-scaling reduces expenses.
Integration Flexibility: Adapts easily into existing cloud platforms.
Simplified Administration: Unified management reduces complexity.

In manufacturing and conglomerate sectors, Check Point Cloud Firewall is utilized for protecting cloud environments and implementing network segmentation. It supports secure cloud migration on AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring compliance, perimeter defense, and traffic inspection, facilitating sophisticated threat prevention strategies.

Skyhigh Security provides comprehensive protection with features like user behavior analytics, shadow IT identification, and data loss prevention. Its integration with IT infrastructure offers robust security insights and helps maintain compliance.

Skyhigh Security offers a user-friendly interface that simplifies navigation while delivering substantial threat protection. It enhances existing IT infrastructure integration, such as DLP and Active Directory, to strengthen security. Yet, there is room for improvement in report generation speed, interface intuitiveness, and integration with other products. Organizations utilize Skyhigh Security to audit internet behavior, secure cloud environments and control web content. It effectively manages data movement and ensures compliance, while preventing unauthorized access and bandwidth misuse.

What are the key features of Skyhigh Security?

Shadow IT Identification: Detects unauthorized IT activity to maintain security.
Cloud Service Risk Assessments: Offers detailed evaluations of cloud services' risks.
Data Loss Prevention: Protects against accidental or deliberate data breaches.
User Behavior Analytics: Analyzes user actions for potential security threats.
Security Insights: Provides comprehensive reports to understand security posture.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Threat Protection: Offers robust measures against potential security risks.
Compliance: Assists with industry regulations and standards adherence.
Integration Capabilities: Enhances protection by integrating with existing infrastructure.
User Experience: Easy navigation despite needing interface improvements.
Cloud Security: Secures cloud environments effectively.

In sectors like finance, healthcare, and technology, companies implement Skyhigh Security for its comprehensive monitoring capabilities. It helps secure access to SaaS applications and protects against threats, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and preventing data breaches while optimizing performance in cloud environments.