Check Point Infinity vs IRONSCALES comparison

Read 13 IRONSCALES reviews

803 Views
479 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

Check Point Infinity

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Check Point Infinity and IRONSCALES based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Check Point Infinity vs. IRONSCALES Report (Updated: September 2024).

Check Point Infinity vs. IRONSCALES

September 2024

Download the complete report

Helped 813,266 peers since 2012

Categories and Ranking

Check Point Infinity

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

13th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IRONSCALES

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

19th

Average Rating

9.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Email Security (17th), Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2024, in the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) category, the mindshare of Check Point Infinity is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IRONSCALES is 3.4%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

Featured Reviews

Ashish Upadhyay

Founder at BlockMosiac

Mar 26, 2024

Provide unified threat prevention and response across our entire decentralized finance system

While Check Point Infinity offers a robust security operations platform, it could benefit from improvements in several areas. Firstly, the platform's pricing structure can be complex, which might be prohibitive for smaller businesses, limiting its accessibility. Simplifying the pricing model or offering more flexible pricing options could make Check Point Infinity more appealing to a wider range of organizations. Secondly, alert fatigue is a common issue with platforms that have strong detection capabilities. Implementing more filtering and prioritization mechanisms can help address this issue, ensuring that security teams can focus on the most critical threats. These are the areas where I believe there's room for improvement. In future releases, I would like to add more integration features. The ability to integrate seamlessly with more third-party applications would make it more customizable for our needs and simplify the integration process. This would improve our overall threat detection capabilities.

Read full review

Orion Trist

Systems Administrator at Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library

Jun 29, 2022

Saved us a big deal by catching malicious links and attachments sent directly to our staff and has also been helpful for educating our staff

It has helped immensely because it has gotten rid of malicious links and malicious attachments that have been targeted at our different staff members. It has definitely protected us on more than one occasion. Their integrated approach of combining email security and employee awareness training is excellent because the training is a reminder for staff to continually be on their feet and look out for the ever-changing landscape. It also lets us know who has been trained, who hasn't been trained, and what they're like. It integrates a risk ratio for all our employees. Its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities are very important because I don't want to have to manage 24/7. Having the AI to do a lot of the work for me is invaluable. Its automated detection and response capabilities are excellent. It does a wonderful job. They provide all the stats on what it has done. It gives you information about how much time is saved and all that kind of good information. Its automated detection and response capabilities have massively decreased the time we spend manually reviewing email events. Since May, it has taken care of 170 hours. So, it has saved 88 hours per analyst. It is very good in terms of the customization of the automated detection and response capabilities. It is granular, and you can adjust it however you want. If it is too high, you can turn it down. If it is too low, you can turn it up.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Our network security posture has improved significantly due to several factors. We've seen a 25% reduction in security incidents due to Infinity's advanced threat prevention capabilities. Additionally, the platform's automation features led to a 20% increase in operational efficiency, allowing our security teams to focus on more strategic tasks."

"Our company used Check Point Infinity to connect various locations worldwide through VPN, specifically using IPsec, rather than for cybersecurity. We implemented it in on-premises networks to collect data in data centers from different locations."

"The most valuable feature of Check Point Infinity is the ease of use and navigation."

"The product, a cloud-based unified security solution, facilitates the automation of security threat detection and vulnerability management across various endpoints, including mobile and IoT devices. A notable feature is the centralized administration, allowing monitoring of existing solutions from web and mobile devices in a unified interface."

"Infinity has come to give us total protection."

"Check Point Infinity's threat prevention capabilities benefitted our organization."

"New Check Point technologies can be found via this portal."

"The product's excellent scalability features have allowed our organization to seamlessly adapt to the growing demand. The consensus mechanism and smart contract capabilities have optimized our workflow, resulting in an overall reduction in the complexity of our organization."

More Check Point Infinity pros

"The stability is good."

"For me, the mobile app is most valuable. All other features are also very useful, but the mobile app makes it really easy for me to manage on the go. I don't have to be at my desk. I could be at the shops, or it could be in the evening when I am out, and I can get a notification on my phone that there is an incident that has been raised. I can sort it out very quickly without having to be at my work PC."

"It is a totally stable solution."

"The solution captures a bit more of the unknown, quantifies it, and applies intelligence to it to pick out and stop a lot of phishing emails that come through."

"The report function through Gmail is probably the most valuable feature. The next most valuable features are simulation and training."

"I would say the most valuable feature is what they call Themis. It's like a virtual analyst that uses the decisions that system admins make to generate a score for whether an email is legitimate, spam, or phishing. It gets better based on the decisions that we make over time. The automation piece is great as well. The integrated approach of email security combined with employee awareness training is excellent."

"There is buzz around phishing awareness training. When I make a campaign, all of a sudden people in our organization are talking, thinking, and wondering about it. Therefore, it keeps people on their toes. That is perfect because it does exactly what we want it to do."

"The biggest benefit is that we get fewer phishing and spam emails, so using IRONSCALES has made our environment much safer."

More IRONSCALES pros

Cons

"The portal is provisioned in AWS. They should improve the cloud to make it faster."

"While Check Point Infinity is a robust and innovative solution, some areas could benefit from improvement. One area is the user-friendly integration of privacy-focused features."

"We have had some performance issues. Because of this, we had to redirect traffic to be analyzed by other appliances."

"The management console has given us some trouble, and the documentation is a little bit rigid in its solution paths."

"Check Point Infinity's web application is sometimes a little slow."

"We need improvement around the Smart-1 cloud solution."

"The endpoint solutions offered by Check Point are not prominent enough in the market due to Check Point's poor marketing efforts."

"Technical support is pretty delayed."

More Check Point Infinity cons

"The simulation and training piece could be improved by having more granularity in terms of scheduling how campaigns are run and allowing people to directly take the training rather than having to go through an official campaign. That's not available yet."

"In addition to integrated training, they should also have personalized training that you don't have to do as part of a phishing campaign or a simulation."

"The tool supports 15 to 16 languages, but the content it uses in the training in Spanish has certain limitations."

"There's room for improvement in the campaign management. IRONSCALES has many built-in templates that I use, but you can also build templates from scratch. However, the interface for creating custom templates needs to be updated."

"I would like it if IRONSCALES had some sort of reminder mechanism, meaning IRONSCALES knows if a user completed the training or not. As long as it hasn't been completed, it keeps reminding every so often, alerts the manager, etc. Right now, it is all in the hands of the employee, and not all of them continue the process, which is a shame."

"Its UI could be improved. My pet peeve with a lot of these cloud-based systems is that a lot of times, the interface for the management is a little clunky. If you live and breathe IRONSCALES all day long, you'll obviously know where everything is just from muscle memory, but the system is not designed for people to be in it all day long. You're only supposed to occasionally look at it. When things get moved around, it is not necessarily that intuitive. I'm an IT guy, and I can pretty much take the worst UI and figure it out, but the menus and the options in the interface could be a little cleaner graphically. If you have a quick problem that you want to resolve, it takes a little bit of digging in the admin console, whereas it should take a few clicks up front."

"Even though they have been continuously improving it, it is not 100% there. We have had a few incidents where legitimate emails were getting blocked, and we had to manually remove those emails from quarantine. It is 90% effective or accurate because, on rare occasions, some emails from customers were not getting delivered. In one or two instances, their emails got blocked by IRONSCALES, and we had to manually remove the emails from quarantine. I would like them to improve their algorithm to avoid flagging genuine emails as malicious. I would also like to be able to whitelist certain email addresses. I'd love to be able to whitelist a particular customer."

"I would love to see the indication of compromise and how the solution utilizes open source resources. It would be good to see that included in the paid versions. It would be a small addition but add a lot of value for clients."

More IRONSCALES cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is moderately priced."

"The product has good pricing considering the features and a global approach."

"Since it has not upgraded its price, Check Point Infinity's pricing is flexible compared to other Check Point solutions."

"Choosing the correct set of licenses is essential because, without the additional software blade licenses, the Check Point gateways are just a stateful firewall."

"When it comes to price, the paramount consideration is the strength of the security. If the security measures provided by the product, such as Check Point Infinity, are robust and meet our requirements, price becomes a secondary concern."

"Check Point should provide an enterprise-wide license where the organization should be provided free hand of using any license or services for an agreed period of time (EULA)."

"The solution's price is quite high, and the licensing model requires extra licenses for various features like SD-WAN."

"While the initial payment might be perceived as relatively higher, the absence of hidden supplementing charges contributes to a straightforward and clear pricing model. The pricing is cheap and moderate."

More Check Point Infinity pricing and cost advice

"The tool is not very cheap, but it is affordable."

"They are pretty much the same as all the other competitors in the market."

"There is an installation cost. Since we have this as a managed service, we pay for licensing and the managed service itself. Other than that, there are no additional costs."

"IRONSCALES is an expensive solution."

"We pay $3000 plus a little more a year for the number of employees we have, and we're not even that big. The solution is at the higher end in terms of cost. It's not the most expensive product, but I would say it's worth the price if you have a high volume of email traffic. In our case, the solution has inspected over 162,000 emails between three and four months. It saved us a lot of time and money. It's a worthwhile investment because a bad actor only has to succeed once; we must defend against everything in our business. IRONSCALES offers a sense of security and confidence from being well protected."

"As compared to everything else we looked at, it was good. It was the best value for the dollars."

"Considering the value it provides, it is definitely worth the cost. We don't have to do manual analysis and remediation of phishing emails, which saves us a lot of hours. Its licensing is based on the number of users being supported and the number of email addresses being protected. I'm not aware of any additional costs."

"I don't know about its pricing because I don't run the budget or pay the bills, but if it was extortionate, we probably would be looking to scrap it, and because we are not, I assume its price is okay."

More IRONSCALES pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

813,266 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Security Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Check Point Infinity?

It provides threat detection, predictive analysis, advanced analytics, and advanced threat protection.

What needs improvement with Check Point Infinity?

Some aspects of the reporting in Check Point may take time to learn and become comfortable with. Training is necessary for certain areas, as some features might not be as intuitive. It's important ...

What is your primary use case for Check Point Infinity?

We leveraged Check Point Infinity primarily for gateway security, cloud security, endpoint security, and infrastructure as a service.

What do you like most about IRONSCALES?

The solution captures a bit more of the unknown, quantifies it, and applies intelligence to it to pick out and stop a lot of phishing emails that come through.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IRONSCALES?

The product is available as a middle-priced tool. I think it is not the cheapest solution. There are other solutions apart from IRONSCALES that are more expensive, while some are a little bit more ...

What needs improvement with IRONSCALES?

I think maybe on the side of the awareness training, the tool can improve a little more information and have some other languages since even though English is good, Spanish is not so good. The tool...

Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs Check Point Infinity

Comparisons

Compared 38% of the time

Proofpoint Email Protection vs Check Point Infinity

Compared 28% of the time

CyberArk Privileged Access Manager vs Check Point Infinity

Compared 18% of the time

More Check Point Infinity Competitors

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 vs IRONSCALES

Compared 21% of the time

Avanan vs IRONSCALES

Compared 16% of the time

Perception Point Advanced Email Security vs IRONSCALES

Compared 13% of the time

Cisco Secure Email vs IRONSCALES

Compared 8% of the time

Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection vs IRONSCALES

Compared 2% of the time

More IRONSCALES Competitors

Product Reports

Download Check Point Infinity product report

Check Point Infinity

October 2024

Download IRONSCALES product report

October 2024

Also Known As

R80, Infinity

No data available

Learn More

Check Point Software Technologies

Overview

Check Point Infinity is the only fully consolidated cyber security architecture that provides unprecedented protection against Gen V mega-cyber attacks as well as future cyber threats across all networks, endpoint, cloud and mobile. The architecture is designed to resolve the complexities of growing connectivity and inefficient security. Learn more about Check Point Infinity

IRONSCALES secures against business email compromises, phishing, and email-based attacks. Protects Microsoft 365 users by enhancing spam filters, automating threat mitigation, and providing phishing awareness training.

Deploy IRONSCALES to inspect, report, and quarantine threats with a sandbox feature, and run simulations to train staff worldwide, adding an extra security layer. Communicates via API to ensure ongoing email security. Offers threat-sharing capability, AI, easy setup, scalability, stability, and effective email security. Automated detection and response, mobile app notifications, integration with Microsoft 365, phishing training modules, and a user-friendly interface, including an Outlook extension to report suspicious emails. Reduces manual analysis time, saving considerable effort.

What are the most important features of IRONSCALES?

Threat-sharing capability: Allows users to share threat intelligence easily.
Excellent AI: Utilizes advanced AI for accurate threat detection.
Easy setup: Simplifies deployment with minimal effort.
Scalability: Easily scales to meet users' requirements.
Stability: Provides strong and reliable performance.
Effective email security: Offers a robust defense against email threats.
Automated detection and response: Quickly identifies and mitigates threats.
Mobile app notifications: Keeps users informed through mobile alerts.
Microsoft 365 integration: Seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365.
Phishing training modules: Educates users on phishing threats.
User-friendly interface: Simplifies user interaction.
Outlook extension: Facilitates reporting of suspicious emails.

What benefits and ROI should users look for in the reviews?

Reduces manual analysis time: Saves effort by automating threat response.
Cost-effectiveness: Though pricing is high, it offers robust features that potentially justify the expense.
Improved email security: Enhances overall email protection.
Enhanced threat detection: Utilizes AI for accurate threat identification.
Comprehensive training: Provides extensive phishing awareness training.
Increased operational efficiency: Simplifies security management tasks.

In specific industries, IRONSCALES can be implemented to address varied email security needs. For instance, financial services may benefit from robust threat mitigation and phishing training to protect sensitive data. Healthcare organizations could utilize features like AI-driven detection and sandboxing to comply with stringent regulations. Technology firms might value the easy setup and scalability to keep up with rapid growth and evolving threats. Retailers can leverage mobile app notifications and automated response to ensure continuous protection against email-based attacks. Education sectors may find phishing awareness training modules particularly useful to educate staff and students about potential threats.

Sample Customers

Edel AG

Allegheny Millwork, Ayrshire College, Nium, Orris, Paramount School District, Pres Les, PRT Staffing, Recovery Unplugged, Telit, WebHelp