We performed a comparison between Check Point IPS and Cisco NGIPS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Check Point offers DDoS and endpoint protection called EDR or XDR, so it provides a holistic security architecture for any organization."
"The reports are well written so that you can understand what type of attack has occurred, the originating IP address, and other details."
"IPS signatures can be set quite granularly depending on your environment. You can filter on performance impact, severity, and confidence which makes sizing and adapting easier."
"I can generate reports for management automatically based on the threats of the last day/week/whatever is needed."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its detection panel. Managing and updating policies within Check Point IPS is easy and without issues. It provides a secure network."
"The solution's IPS functionality and firewall functionality are the solution's most valuable features."
"What I like best about Check Point IPS is that it can prevent attacks. I also like that it has a log feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it protects us against hundreds of different attack vectors, like ransomware. The protection is always being triggered. People try to access websites that are categorized as malware, so when the users do a DNS request for the IP of those malware websites, the IPS Blade replaces the real IP of the website that is malware with a bogus IP. The user gets an IP that doesn't exist and when he tries to access, it won't work."
"It is more or less stable. Sometimes I have some issues normally when we need to upgrade it to newer versions. I think it does the job."
"The solution gives us a lot of visibility into our security."
"Good IPS and VirtualBox features."
"IPS is a valuable function, because they update the signatures all the time and it's very granular."
"You can do zero-day prevention and detection. It's quite useful."
"The security intelligence in the product is the best feature and give us all the information that we need in our network."
"I have found the filter and the antivirus to be most valuable."
"Cisco NGIPS is a stable tool...The technical support provided by Cisco NGIPS is okay."
"The service that we want to see in the future is a capacity to segment the IPS services by equipment."
"Sometimes Check Point documentation is not always updated, which is why when some implementations change, it generates confusion about details."
"The pain point that I have with this solution is contacting technical support."
"The hardware-based version of Check Point IPS could be more scalable. Right now, it's not scalable."
"Occasionally there are glitches and errors like false positives, which would be a nice area of this solution to improve upon."
"Despite being a blade, this is expensive."
"In my opinion, the Check Point software engineers should works on the performance of the blade - when it is activated with the big number of the protections in place, the monitoring shows us the significant increase in the CPU utilization for the gateway appliances - up to 30 percents, even so we are cherry-picking only the profiles that we really needed."
"Sometimes protections are 'aggregated' into a single threat name when you look at the logs. I would prefer to see all protections named individually (for example, right now, 'web enforcement' is a category that contains several signatures)."
"The stability needs improvement so is rated a four out of ten."
"Should include additional security features."
"The onboarding process could be made a little bit better."
"The stability of the user console and some features could be easier to access."
"I would like to see the sanctions lifted so we could use the full solution and have the speed increased."
"It is no longer scalable because it has gone end of life."
"Our customers are still facing many bugs on the system. It has matured noticeably, but we are still facing multiple stability issues on Firepower. There are more than 80 or 90 bugs for each release node. It's a considerable number of bugs."
"The file trajectory, the trace in contamination files, could be improved."
Check Point IPS is ranked 3rd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 46 reviews while Cisco NGIPS is ranked 5th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 63 reviews. Check Point IPS is rated 8.6, while Cisco NGIPS is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point IPS writes "Great for detection and access with the capabilities of defining specific rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco NGIPS writes "Very effective for malware and signature-based anomalies but stability needs improvement". Check Point IPS is most compared with Darktrace, Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Fortinet FortiGate IPS, whereas Cisco NGIPS is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Cisco Sourcefire SNORT and Trellix Intrusion Prevention System. See our Check Point IPS vs. Cisco NGIPS report.
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