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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

SentinelOne Singularity Clo...
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Ranking in Container Security
3rd
Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
4th
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
4th
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
103
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (6th), Cloud and Data Center Security (5th), Compliance Management (3rd)
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP
Ranking in Container Security
6th
Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
6th
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
5th
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
67
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (8th), Cloud and Data Center Security (9th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (4th), Compliance Management (6th)
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto N...
Ranking in Container Security
1st
Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
1st
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
2nd
Ranking in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
108
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (5th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

Andrew W - PeerSpot reviewer
Tells us about vulnerabilities as well as their impact and helps to focus on real issues
Looking at all the different pieces, it has got everything we need. Some of the pieces we do not even use. For example, we do not have Kubernetes Security. We are not running any K8 clusters, so it is good for us. Overall, we find the solution to be fantastic. There can be additional education components. This may not be truly fair to them because of what the product is going for, but it would be great to see additional education for compliance. It is not a criticism of the tool per se, but anything to help non-development resources understand some of the complexities of the cloud is always appreciated. Any additional educational resources are always helpful for security teams, especially those without a development background.
Yokesh Mani - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Mindaugas Dailidonis - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides multi-cloud security visibility, but requires customisation and is great for AWS and Kubernetes, but average for Azure and OCI
Prisma Cloud is based on acquisitions, which is both a pro and con. Palo Alto Networks made it fast to the market, however, they are now catching up and trying to integrate their acquired solutions into the Prisma Cloud platform. Ability to See the Full Picture of Risk: The main hurdle from user standpoint for me was the ability to see the full picture without effort. This was still true when I last used it in April 2024. A user has to switch between the modules to get different pieces of information. To see the CWPP data, you need to switch to that module. To see the code security part, you need to switch to the Code Security module. It is the same story with CSPM. At least two competitors of Prisma Cloud offer a better experience when it comes to visualisation of data. They show the full view of a risk (what Prisma Cloud claims to do, but does not do well). The good news - Prisma Cloud is catching up and has slightly improved over time. The User Interface: I simply didn't like the first one, then they changed it and made it even worse. But that might be a matter of preference, not an actual negative. Ease of Building Custom Policies: The RQL and APIs are poorly documented, which significantly complicates building of custom policies. There should be no expectation that someone without a clue on how cloud services are constructed can effectively write custom policies using any of CNAPP offerings available in the market, however, this is especially true for Prisma Cloud. When we compare Prisma Cloud with competitors, for sure, it is much more difficult to create custom policies because the APIs themselves are not that well documented. When discussing this topic with their Professional Services engineer who was assigned to the project, the person admitted that at times it is trial and error path to building custom policies. The JSON preview feature did help to improve it, but you still need to guess which API to pick to get what you want. With all that said, Prisma Cloud offers a powerful custom policy building engine, and when a skilled person works on it, they can do advanced queries, joining the results of different APIs for example and using them to futher build the custom policy. Quality Control Issues: During the year-long project while working on alert triage, I encountered a number of CIEM policies that were displaying odd results, which were reported to the Customer Success team and were addressed with an update. This was an indicator that these built-in policies have not been tested that much, since the issue that was identified was impacting all users.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We liked the search bar in PingSafe. It is a global search. We were able to get some insights from there."
"The most valuable feature of PingSafe is its integration with most of our technology stack, specifically all of our cloud platforms and ticketing software."
"The most valuable features of PingSafe are cloud misconfiguration, Kubernetes, and IaC scanning."
"PingSafe has a dashboard that can detect the criticality of a particular problem, whether it falls under critical, medium, or low vulnerability."
"As a frequently audited company, we value PingSafe's compliance monitoring features. They give us a report with a compliance score for how well we meet certain regulatory standards, like HIPAA. We can show our compliance as a percentage. It's also a way to show that we are serious about security."
"Singularity Cloud Workload Security provides us with better security detection and more visibility. It is another resource that we can use to detect vulnerabilities in our company's systems. For example, it can help us detect new file processes that we are not familiar with, which could be used by attackers to exploit our systems. Singularity Cloud Workload Security can also help us diagnose and analyze data to determine whether it is malicious or not. Singularity Cloud Workload Security is like another pair of eyes that can help us protect our systems from cyberattacks."
"The most valuable feature of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is its advanced AI and machine learning capabilities, which allow it to identify and respond to threats in real time."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to gain deep visibility into the workloads inside containers."
"The valuable features of Checkpoint CloudGuard CNAPP include its automation capabilities."
"It saves time because I can look across the organization. Instead of checking 50 different accounts atomically and spending 15 minutes investigating each, I can spend 15 minutes exploring all 50 accounts. It allows me to quickly look across the org for similar problems when one comes up. That's a huge time saver."
"It provides critical insights that enable the IT team to plan and launch smart investigations when there are security breaches."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to apply common tools across all accounts."
"The feature that I value the most about Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is the possibility of checking compliance with different standards. This compliance check can be performed for each subscription or service that we have on all the different cloud providers that we use."
"The CloudGuard for Cloud Intelligence tool has several significant features that provide security to our company."
"The solution is scalable."
"The identification of misconfigurations, maintenance of compliance in a centralized way, and visibility across all the multi-cloud tenants are the key functionalities."
"Prisma Cloud has enabled us to take a very strong preventive approach to cloud security. One of the hardest things with cloud is getting visibility into workloads. With Prisma Cloud, you can go in and get that visibility, then set up policies to alert on risky behavior, e.g., if there are security groups or firewall ports open up. So, it is very helpful in preventing configuration errors in the cloud by having visibility. If there are issues, then you can find them and fix them."
"Prisma scans things and shows all the vulnerabilities and packages that are vulnerable, and which layers, by default, have vulnerabilities. So developers can easily go into the package or a particular layer and make changes to their code. It's very transparent."
"It has helped us understand the dynamic topology of our containers, and manage security through the application of policies that our pipelines apply straight from Git."
"Prisma was extremely comprehensive. It's easy to drill down to gather more information and keep going. It seemed like you could drill down forever to see what the vulnerability was linked to."
"Its ease of integration is valuable because we need to get the solution out of the door quickly, so speed and ease matter."
"You can also integrate with Amazon Managed Services. You can also get a snapshot in time, whether that's over a 24-hour period, seven days, or a month, to determine what the estate might look like at a certain point in time and generate reports from that for vulnerability management forums."
"I've been really pleasantly surprised with how Prisma Cloud is, over time, covering more and more of the topics I care about, and listening to customer feedback and growing the product in the right directions."
"My favorite feature is the CWPP module. We can define various kinds of rules for vulnerabilities, incidents, or suspicious activities."
 

Cons

"I export CSV. I cannot export graphs. Restricting it to the CSV format has its own disadvantages. These are all machine IP addresses and information. I cannot change it to the JSON format. The export functionality can be improved."
"We can customize security policies but lack auditing capabilities."
"I believe the UI/UX updates for SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security have room for improvement."
"The reporting works well, but sometimes the severity classifications are inaccurate. Sometimes, it flags an issue as high-impact, but it should be a lower severity."
"We wanted it to provide us with something like Claroty Hub in AWS for lateral movement. For example, if an EC2 instance or a virtual machine is compromised in a public subnet based on a particular vulnerability, such as Log4j, we want it to not be able to reach some of our databases. This kind of feature is not supported in PingSafe."
"While SentinelOne offers robust security features, its higher cost may present a challenge for budget-conscious organizations."
"In addition to our telecom and Slack channels, it would be helpful to receive Cloud Native Security security notifications in Microsoft Teams."
"The cloud-based operations might pose challenges in areas with limited or unavailable internet connectivity."
"The license cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"For businesses with varied IT ecosystems, increasing the integration capabilities with additional third-party products and services would increase flexibility and user-friendliness."
"We were demotivated by the lack of native automation modules for the Terraform and Ansible tools."
"Their service needs improvement."
"Reporting should have more options."
"Down the road, we would like to see automation. That is probably a feature that most people want. If they can automate patching a vulnerability, it will be much easier."
"I would like to see Test B functions at the application access level."
"The support it provides is not very good. They should improve it since we have had several setbacks due to support issues."
"In terms of securing cloud-native development at build time, a lot of improvement is needed. Currently, it's more a runtime solution than a build-time solution. For runtime, I would rate it at seven out of 10, but for build-time there is a lot of work to be done."
"The feedback that we have given to the Palo Alto team is that the UI can be improved. When you press the "back" button on your browser from the Investigate tab, the query that you're working on just disappears. It won't keep the query on the "back" button."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"Palo Alto needs to add more support staff to improve their response time."
"We'd like to have more native integration with clouds and additional security checks in the future."
"These tools have a set of signatures or rules that will alert you whenever something meets the criteria. In the future, they might include some machine learning or AI feature that allows you to ask questions about the context of the alert, and it will provide you answers based on the data that they have. Most vendors are doing it, and I believe they will do it in the future. The reporting bar could also use AI to add context based on the environment."
"Sometimes, on the Azure side, there are issues. Some errors aren't being found on Prisma Cloud."
"We are encountering issues with the new permissions required for AWS integration with Prisma."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is somewhat high compared to other market tools."
"PingSafe's pricing is good because it provides us with a solution."
"It was reasonable pricing for me."
"SentinelOne provided competitive pricing compared to other vendors, and we are satisfied with the deal."
"We found it to be fine for us. Its price was competitive. It was something we were happy with. We are not a Fortune 500 company, so I do not know how pricing scales at the top end, but for our cloud environment, it works very well."
"The licensing is easy to understand and implement, with some flexibility to accommodate dynamic environments."
"I wasn't sure what to expect from the pricing, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a little less than I thought."
"PingSafe falls somewhere in the middle price range, neither particularly cheap nor expensive."
"The tool's pricing is moderate. Its licensing costs are yearly."
"Right now, we have licenses on 500 machines, and they are not cheap."
"It is difficult to contextualize the pricing because we are used to Indian pricing and licensing."
"CloudGuard is fairly priced."
"The pricing is tremendous and super cheap. It is shockingly cheap for what you get out of it. I am happy with that. I hope that doesn't get reported back and they increase the prices. I love the pricing and the licensing makes sense. It is just assets: The more stuff that you have, the more you pay."
"Everything in this field is very expensive."
"From a pricing perspective, they are pretty expensive."
"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."
"Prisma Cloud is more expensive than Check Point CloudGuard."
"Prisma Cloud is quite scalable. In our current licensing model, we're able to heavily extend our cloud workload and onboard a lot of customers. It really helps, and it is on par with other solutions."
"Prisma Cloud is cost-efficient, but the credits are on the higher end."
"One thing we're very pleased about is how the licensing model for Prisma is based on work resources. You buy a certain amount of work resources and then, as they enable new capabilities within Prisma, it just takes those work resource units and applies them to new features. This enables us to test and use the new features without having to go back and ask for and procure a whole new product, which could require going through weeks, and maybe months, of a procurement process."
"We are encountering some resistance in the African market regarding the cost of Prisma Cloud."
"The pricing is competitive; for the most part, the security firms have similar prices."
"The pricing is good. They gave us some good discounts right at the end of the year based on the value that it brings, visibility, and the ability to build in cloud, compliance, and security within one dashboard."
"The price is high. In the future, when there are more competitors at the same level with different clouds, maybe the position will be different."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
5%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
5%
Educational Organization
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?
The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?
SentinelOne is relatively cheap. If ten is the most expensive, I would rate it a seven.
What needs improvement with PingSafe?
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security has limited legacy system support and may not fully support older operating sy...
What is your primary use case for Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks ?
Prisma Cloud helps support DevSecOps methodologies, making those responsibilities easier to manage.
What Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform do you recommend?
We like Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, since it offers us incredible visibility into our entire cloud system. We...
What do you think of Aqua Security vs Prisma Cloud?
Aqua Security is easy to use and very manageable. Its main focus is on Kubernetes and Docker. Security is a very valu...
 

Also Known As

PingSafe
Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management, Dome9, Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection, Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud, Prisma Public Cloud, RedLock Cloud 360, RedLock, Twistlock, Aporeto
 

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Symantec, Citrix, Car and Driver, Virgin, Cloud Technology Partners
Amgen, Genpact, Western Asset, Zipongo, Proofpoint, NerdWallet, Axfood, 21st Century Fox, Veeva Systems, Reinsurance Group of America
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