Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs USM Anywhere comparison

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.

USM Anywhere centralizes security monitoring of networks and devices in the cloud, on premises, and in remote locations, helping you to detect threats virtually anywhere.

Discover

• Network asset discovery
• Software & services discovery
• AWS asset discovery
• Azure asset discovery
• Google Cloud Platform asset discovery

Analyze

• SIEM event correlation, auto-prioritized alarms
• User activity monitoring
• Up to 90-days of online, searchable events

Detect

• Cloud intrusion detection (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Network intrusion detection (NIDS)
• Host intrusion detection (HIDS)
• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Respond

• Forensics querying
• Automate & orchestrate response
• Notifications and ticketing

Assess

• Vulnerability scanning
• Cloud infrastructure assessment
• User & asset configuration
• Dark web monitoring

Report

• Pre-built compliance reporting templates
• Pre-built event reporting templates
• Customizable views and dashboards
• Log storage