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Check Point SandBlast Network vs Palo Alto Networks WildFire vs RiskIQ Illuminate comparison

 

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GaneshKhutwad - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides advanced threat prevention and utilizes geographic-based policies to mitigate attacks
Check Point offers three types of support: Gold, Platinum, and Diamond. The level of support you receive should be based on the criticality of the issue, not solely on your client's support tier. While there are established support levels, I have experienced instances where the support provided was not categorized as Gold, Platinum, or Diamond but rather a standard support level. In such cases, the response times were slower, and getting support personnel on the call was more difficult.
AjayKumar17 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enhanced cybersecurity with advanced sandboxing and effective in controlling DNS issues
Improvements are needed in the UI part. The dashboard should provide better visibility, especially in showing how many files are sent to Wildfire and their findings. This information should be integrated with the Dashboard so that system admins can see what is happening. Furthermore, technical support needs a lot of improvement, particularly in terms of responsiveness and adhering to service level agreements.
SimonClark - PeerSpot reviewer
Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well
A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful. This could be useful for insurance companies offering cyber insurance to enterprise customers, providing the insurer with a valuable way to unobtrusively, quickly, and frequently assess their customers and apply appropriate premiums for the level of risk. This would also be useful for enterprises. They could, for example, assess companies prior to a merger or acquisition. What would also be useful for any enterprise would be if their supply chain has some kind of direct digital access to parts of their network.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It provides a high rate of catching the zero-day advanced threats."
"The technology is impressive in general."
"SandBlast updates the threat signatures frequently."
"It seems like it works all the time. We have never had an issue. We have never had something go undetected, anything major. All in all, it works pretty well."
"The most efficient and protective characteristics of Check Point's SandBlast solution are that we can see a lot of this protection at the network and mail levels."
"Check Point SandBlast is best in terms of the extraction function. Customers can get a clean firewall with extraction after I've cleaned and scanned it from Check Point. It's easy for users, too."
"The main feature of the solution is that it protects against malicious threats from the outside."
"Check Point SandBlast Network Solution provides signature-based as well as zero-day threat protection. Also sandboxing can be performed on an on-premise device, cloud as well as the combination of both. Threat emulation is done on multiple OS & verdict is provided."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"The platform is scalable as it integrates with other threat prevention modules."
"The analysis is very fast."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"I value the massive usage of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"The technical support is good."
"The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
 

Cons

"Today, we have it as part of a solution or a package. However, we'd like there to be a way where we can have the solution's features available to us in a cheaper way in the future."
"Using it in the beginning was difficult because I had never used anything similar. In terms of navigating the UI, it was all not too bad, but there is definitely a learning curve."
"Many Important controls are only available in CLI & very very complicated. All tecli command features should available on GUI so that it will become easy for normal users to monitor & control queue."
"SandBlast takes longer than FortiSandbox to complete a scan."
"I think Check Point provides standard time which ideally most other vendors take to identify behaviors of a file by sending them into a sandbox environment for inspection."
"There should be some improvement in the solution's stability and scalability."
"Most of the time stability is okay, but sometimes, we're not able to contact the cloud. It won't last for long. The product could be faster."
"I imagine there will be improvements in later versions. There are hotfixes that come out all the time."
"The system uptime data is unavailable"
"​They provide a medium level of technical support."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"Improvements are needed in the UI part."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"The deployment model could be better."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Choosing the correct set of licenses is essential because, without the additional software blade licenses, the Check Point gateways are just a stateful firewall."
"We would like to try the Threat Extraction blade, but you need to buy a license. Check Point is expensive. I would like to buy things, but I would need the funding."
"The cost is not significantly high and it can be negotiated during any purchase of NGFW."
"The pricing is quite effective, not excessively high. On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the highest price, I rate the pricing a nine."
"We have seen ROI."
"I think the overall cost for introducing Check Point with SandBlast was reasonable and competitive in the market."
"The product's cost is high."
"The cost of Check Point SandBlast Network is annually, and there is only a standard license."
"The pricing and licensing option should be categorized for various countries such as for Bangladesh."
"This solution is very pricey and it depends on the package that you implement."
"The physical appliance is around €3,000 or €4,000, and then, you have the licensing for a year for around €3,000."
"It's not particularly cheap, but it is absolutely worth it."
"It's pretty expensive but with respect to value for money, it's okay."
"It IS a bit expensive, but I think you get what you pay for. Value is there."
"It depends on the features. Additional features cost additional money as well."
"The price is fair and comparable to other solutions."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
13%
Healthcare Company
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
 

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