Sr Security Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
MSP
Top 20
2024-03-15T12:39:00Z
Mar 15, 2024
Additionally, the centralized reporting and management, accessible through a single pane of glass, offer consistency and efficiency across multi-cloud environments.
Learn what your peers think about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: November 2024.
Director of IT Operations at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
2024-03-14T16:37:00Z
Mar 14, 2024
The visibility is most valuable. It allows us to see all of our devices from one place, and it gives us the ability to manage push updates and things like that from one place.
Director comercial at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-03-07T23:21:00Z
Mar 7, 2024
CloudGuard Network Security provides unified security management across hybrid clouds as well as on-prem. It's very important because when I have unified security, I have better control of the situation.
If there's an attack or something like that, we can react faster. It's easier for everyone in the organization to work with the Infinity platform.
IT Advisor at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-03-07T22:23:00Z
Mar 7, 2024
All the features that we subscribe to from CloudGuard NGTP are valuable. All the threat prevention and access control features give us the network security that we expect.
The most valuable feature for us is the simplicity of creating this environment. Even though our current cloud usage is limited, the process of setting up machines in the product and establishing an HR system was straightforward.
Network and Security Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-03-03T12:12:00Z
Mar 3, 2024
The product offers an easy and nice way to manage the gateways, similar to on-prem hardware. It has packet filtering features. Our security operations are faster and less prone to errors. We selected CloudGuard Network Security due to its visibility.
The tool's most valuable features for us are threat prevention, HTTPS inspection, and the Anti-Bot blade. Threat prevention helps to protect our assets from threats. HTTPS inspection ensures secure communication, and the Anti-Bot blade is particularly helpful in detecting C2 servers, enhancing our ability to identify malicious activities and protect our network.
The solution's most valuable feature is scalability. We can increase the number of CPUs, memory, and firewall throughput easily. Using CloudGuard Network Security for managing cloud firewall rules is considered easier than using the normal security groups provided by Azure or AWS.
The most valuable feature for us is the ability to run the gateways as virtual machines in our virtual data center. The tool protects the virtual data centers.
Customers appreciate the CME plugin for automatically understanding assets within the cloud. This information appears in the manager, allowing users to tag the assets and adjust policies and rules accordingly.
EVP, chief product and revenue officer at BBT.live
Real User
Top 20
2024-02-26T15:44:00Z
Feb 26, 2024
We primarily secure our network using CloudGuard Network Security's next-generation firewall features, including anti-spam, IPS, and URL filtering. Our chosen package for the go-to-market strategy is NGTP. For customers seeking more features, we provide options to upgrade to the tool's advanced packages.
Sysadmin at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-02-26T15:40:00Z
Feb 26, 2024
The tool's most valuable features are inspecting internet traffic and IPS. We can manage the firewall using shared policies from a single management server.
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-02-26T15:34:02Z
Feb 26, 2024
The tool's deployment is rapid. Its dashboard is also useful. It's easy to deploy both on-premises and in Azure. In an office with VMware running, deployment is a simple process. Similarly, in Azure, deployment is easy and scalable. Adding more CPUs is a straightforward task – just shut it down, modify the security, and restart. This ease of use translates into cost and resource savings, and faster deployment times.
The solution is easier to manage than an on-premise firewall. It is easy to manage. The use of dynamic objects for these gateways made it easy to create the right rules and the right policies. Integration with Azure is also easy where we have to just add the subnets. In an on-premise setup, we have to add everything from scratch. We can automate a lot of actions.
Network security at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-02-26T15:21:00Z
Feb 26, 2024
The tool's most valuable feature is its scalability. You will only have to pay less for scaling up. Its notable benefit is deployment complexity. Regional deployment is simpler compared to on-premise setup.
Cloud Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-02-26T15:13:24Z
Feb 26, 2024
The tool's most valuable features are the REST APIs that help to automate the deployment and maintenance process. It helps us to reduce time to 15-25 minutes compared to the manual process which used to take around two to three hours.
Communication Department Manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-02-26T15:09:00Z
Feb 26, 2024
The CloudGuard Network Security's most valuable feature is implementing IPS for accessing our data center and server environment in Azure. It helps us to prevent attacks. By protecting our environment with Check Point, which we were already familiar with, it provided a solution that extended into the cloud environment.
Network and Security Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-02-26T15:03:00Z
Feb 26, 2024
It matches what we have on-prem. We kept the same management and the same functionality that we were having on-prem. It has simplified things for us because there is no new dashboard to touch.
Platform Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-02-26T14:45:00Z
Feb 26, 2024
The Identity Awareness blade and dynamic tagging in Azure are valuable because they make access management automatic. Instead of manually setting up access for each new resource, it happens automatically based on the same access policy. This dynamic setup is scalable.
Its integration and use of features, such as advanced threat prevention, have helped us a lot with malware prevention and also with avoiding exposure to false positives.
The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team.
Firewall Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
User
2021-09-30T06:28:00Z
Sep 30, 2021
It's possible to sync the Check Point Management with the cloud portal, therefore allowing automated rules to be set in place whenever creating a new VM.
DBA Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2021-03-08T07:36:00Z
Mar 8, 2021
Check Point has pretty simple solutions, like the virtual appliance which you just download and it is imported into VMware and you just start using it.
Advisory Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2020-12-06T06:40:00Z
Dec 6, 2020
The comprehensiveness of the CloudGuard’s threat prevention security is great, especially once they integrate Dome9 in the whole thing. That really ties the whole thing together, so you can tie your entire cloud environment together into one central location, which is nice. Previously, we had three or four different tools that we were trying to leverage to do the same stuff that we are able to do with CloudGuard.
The scalability is very good; again, very user-friendly. I wouldn't even say "user-friendly" because, as long as you deploy it properly, you can kill an EC2 and it will spin up another one right away, within about a minute and a half. And it will be ready for production right away.
The most valuable feature is that we can use the same manager server that we use on our own Check Point firewalls. We integrated CloudGuard on that manager and we can use the same kind of protections that we use on the on-prem firewalls, like the IPS and antivirus policy. We can have the same kind of protection on the Cloud environment that we have on-premise.
The main benefit of the Check Point Virtual Systems solution is its ability to split up the hardware appliances that we have into several logical, virtual devices with separate traffic handling policies, as well as the switching and routing.
IT Security Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-09-15T11:13:00Z
Sep 15, 2020
The features of the solution which I have found most valuable are its flexibility and agility. It's a fully scalable solution, from our perspective. We can define scaling groups and, based on the load, it will create new instances. It's truly a product which is oriented toward the cloud mindset, cloud agility, and this is a great feature.
Cyber Security Manager at H2O Power Limited Partnership
Real User
2020-09-07T05:57:00Z
Sep 7, 2020
The visibility, the one-pane-of-glass which allows me to see all of my edge protection through one window and one log, is great. Monitoring everything through that one pane of glass is extremely valuable.
I find it really useful that CloudGuard supports all the main players on the Public Clouds market including AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as some exotic ones like Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud.
Senior System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2020-07-28T16:32:00Z
Jul 28, 2020
We have found the overall functionality of the product to be exactly similar to the physical product. The one good advantage is that it is cloud-based and can be deployed either as a part of a scale set or one can shut down the virtual machine and adjust the physical parameters of the virtual machine easily and bring it right back up.
CISO and Senior Director Technical Operations at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2020-06-10T08:05:00Z
Jun 10, 2020
What's most valuable to me is that it's a contiguous solution that aligns well with the components that we've relied on and trusted from a traditional hardware, firewall, and unified threat management system. My engineers and analysts don't have to learn another platform. We have already entrusted our security controls to Check Point for perimeter and physical security, and now we can do so at the virtual layer as well, which is key to us.
Network Security Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
2019-09-11T10:12:00Z
Sep 11, 2019
As per the solution's blade design, there are many options. For example, you have to buy a UTM blade and an advanced malware blade, etc. If the blade license is there, we can configure from the firewall GUI.
We find Check Point valuable because they are 100% focused on security. It totally closes the potential vulnerability channel. We can check our mail and our attachments and we can scan everything easily. We get an immediate report about the situation of the attachments. We can discover if the target's security attack was started from phishing, etc. We also enjoy using the additional features that protect our internal customer from targeted attacks.
Network and Security Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-08-04T07:38:00Z
Aug 4, 2019
It's a high-performance device. The network performance is also really good. We check how much time it takes for the servers. Our network performance has increased since using this solution.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is designed to secure cloud assets, offering robust firewall capabilities and protection for both internal and external traffic across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments.
Enterprises rely on Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for comprehensive network protection, threat prevention, and compliance enforcement. Supporting virtual machines and hybrid environments, it delivers advanced security measures including intrusion prevention and...
The tool's most valuable feature is its management console.
The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable.
The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us.
The most valuable feature I have found in CloudGuard Network Security is the flexibility to rebuild the firewall as needed.
Additionally, the centralized reporting and management, accessible through a single pane of glass, offer consistency and efficiency across multi-cloud environments.
We find all the features valuable, particularly the firewall, application control, URL filtering, and HTTPS detection.
The SSL spectrum proved to be the most valuable for our incoming connections.
It makes securing our cloud workload super easy, and we are able to push any sort of policy changes we need pretty quickly
The visibility is most valuable. It allows us to see all of our devices from one place, and it gives us the ability to manage push updates and things like that from one place.
It offers remarkable flexibility in how we configure and utilize the resources.
CloudGuard Network Security provides unified security management across hybrid clouds as well as on-prem. It's very important because when I have unified security, I have better control of the situation.
If there's an attack or something like that, we can react faster. It's easier for everyone in the organization to work with the Infinity platform.
The easy management of the policies is great for us because we are a small team and having easy management is great and useful for us.
All the features that we subscribe to from CloudGuard NGTP are valuable. All the threat prevention and access control features give us the network security that we expect.
It was very easy to install the solution, and the architecture meant we didn't have to worry about exceeding the solution's capacity.
We are using gateways, and I appreciate the high-availability gateways they have. They stand out more than the competitors.
The central management feature is a big plus, allowing us to manage both local and cloud gateways from one platform.
The most valuable feature for us is the simplicity of creating this environment. Even though our current cloud usage is limited, the process of setting up machines in the product and establishing an HR system was straightforward.
The product offers an easy and nice way to manage the gateways, similar to on-prem hardware. It has packet filtering features. Our security operations are faster and less prone to errors. We selected CloudGuard Network Security due to its visibility.
The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades.
The tool's most valuable features for us are threat prevention, HTTPS inspection, and the Anti-Bot blade. Threat prevention helps to protect our assets from threats. HTTPS inspection ensures secure communication, and the Anti-Bot blade is particularly helpful in detecting C2 servers, enhancing our ability to identify malicious activities and protect our network.
The solution's most valuable feature is scalability. We can increase the number of CPUs, memory, and firewall throughput easily. Using CloudGuard Network Security for managing cloud firewall rules is considered easier than using the normal security groups provided by Azure or AWS.
The most valuable feature for us is the ability to run the gateways as virtual machines in our virtual data center. The tool protects the virtual data centers.
Its centralized control, ease of use, and flexibility are the most valuable for our data center security.
The most valuable feature for us is the scale set, which allows us to scale horizontally, vertically and dynamically depending on the traffic load.
I like the tool's ability to manage cloud traffic locally without routing it through our data centers.
The tool's most valuable features are threat prevention and protection mechanisms.
Customers appreciate the CME plugin for automatically understanding assets within the cloud. This information appears in the manager, allowing users to tag the assets and adjust policies and rules accordingly.
We primarily secure our network using CloudGuard Network Security's next-generation firewall features, including anti-spam, IPS, and URL filtering. Our chosen package for the go-to-market strategy is NGTP. For customers seeking more features, we provide options to upgrade to the tool's advanced packages.
The tool's most valuable features are inspecting internet traffic and IPS. We can manage the firewall using shared policies from a single management server.
The tool's most valuable features are firewalls and IPS.
The tool's deployment is rapid. Its dashboard is also useful. It's easy to deploy both on-premises and in Azure. In an office with VMware running, deployment is a simple process. Similarly, in Azure, deployment is easy and scalable. Adding more CPUs is a straightforward task – just shut it down, modify the security, and restart. This ease of use translates into cost and resource savings, and faster deployment times.
The solution is easier to manage than an on-premise firewall. It is easy to manage. The use of dynamic objects for these gateways made it easy to create the right rules and the right policies. Integration with Azure is also easy where we have to just add the subnets. In an on-premise setup, we have to add everything from scratch. We can automate a lot of actions.
The tool's most valuable features are IPS and blades. These features are valuable for security.
The tool's most valuable feature is its scalability. You will only have to pay less for scaling up. Its notable benefit is deployment complexity. Regional deployment is simpler compared to on-premise setup.
The tool's most valuable features are the REST APIs that help to automate the deployment and maintenance process. It helps us to reduce time to 15-25 minutes compared to the manual process which used to take around two to three hours.
The CloudGuard Network Security's most valuable feature is implementing IPS for accessing our data center and server environment in Azure. It helps us to prevent attacks. By protecting our environment with Check Point, which we were already familiar with, it provided a solution that extended into the cloud environment.
It matches what we have on-prem. We kept the same management and the same functionality that we were having on-prem. It has simplified things for us because there is no new dashboard to touch.
We have unified management. It is one of the advantages of this product.
The Identity Awareness blade and dynamic tagging in Azure are valuable because they make access management automatic. Instead of manually setting up access for each new resource, it happens automatically based on the same access policy. This dynamic setup is scalable.
The capability to auto-scale in or out, depending on the resource demand is great.
Identity awareness, URL filtering, IDS, DLP, Content Filtering, VPN, and Application Control are all excellent.
The feature most valuable to me is the NDTX blade that Check Point provides, and I like how the solution is not vulnerable.
Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good.
The versatility is the solution's most valuable feature.
CloudGuard's intelligent tools help us automate many manual security tasks, guaranteeing our customers' environments will be secure.
Its integration and use of features, such as advanced threat prevention, have helped us a lot with malware prevention and also with avoiding exposure to false positives.
The 24/7 online customer support services enhance effective operations and provide quick services in case of a system failure.
The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team.
The stability of the tool is excellent and robust while providing peace of mind.
The product has allowed us to develop applications from the cloud - even with large environments and well-segmented security lines.
Workflows across the company ecosystem have can flow smoothly without experiencing any challenges.
The solution is reliable.
The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the increased mail protection including spam.
It really is a pretty complete solution.
The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the ease of use. It was not difficult to learn.
It improves the availability of engineers to carry out projects.
One of the main characteristics that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has given us is granularity and visibility.
This solution has good scalability and stability.
The solution could improve to have a DLP feature.
It's possible to sync the Check Point Management with the cloud portal, therefore allowing automated rules to be set in place whenever creating a new VM.
The most valuable features are the VPN Blade, IPS Blade, the URL filtering, and the Applications Control Blade.
The most valuable feature is the centralized dashboard, which is used for managing all of the Check Point Security Gateways.
SSL/TLS traffic inspection features are used for advanced threat prevention against secure SSL traffic.
Check Point CloudGuard technical support is good.
We have complete visibility of attacks originating from email including spear-phishing, spoofing, etc.
Auto Scaling is one of the features that make me want to choose CloudGuard over actual HW.
The most valuable feature is threat prevention.
The installation process doesn't take very long.
Check Point has pretty simple solutions, like the virtual appliance which you just download and it is imported into VMware and you just start using it.
The initial setup is pretty easy.
The solution has been quite stable.
I like the firewall and the virtual machine. I also like that it's compatible with Amazon Web Services and Azure.
The Capsule solution and application filters are the most valuable.
It is pretty straightforward to implement, and it also has good stability and scalability. Their technical support is also really good.
The comprehensiveness of the CloudGuard’s threat prevention security is great, especially once they integrate Dome9 in the whole thing. That really ties the whole thing together, so you can tie your entire cloud environment together into one central location, which is nice. Previously, we had three or four different tools that we were trying to leverage to do the same stuff that we are able to do with CloudGuard.
The scalability is very good; again, very user-friendly. I wouldn't even say "user-friendly" because, as long as you deploy it properly, you can kill an EC2 and it will spin up another one right away, within about a minute and a half. And it will be ready for production right away.
The most valuable feature is that we can use the same manager server that we use on our own Check Point firewalls. We integrated CloudGuard on that manager and we can use the same kind of protections that we use on the on-prem firewalls, like the IPS and antivirus policy. We can have the same kind of protection on the Cloud environment that we have on-premise.
The main benefit of the Check Point Virtual Systems solution is its ability to split up the hardware appliances that we have into several logical, virtual devices with separate traffic handling policies, as well as the switching and routing.
The features of the solution which I have found most valuable are its flexibility and agility. It's a fully scalable solution, from our perspective. We can define scaling groups and, based on the load, it will create new instances. It's truly a product which is oriented toward the cloud mindset, cloud agility, and this is a great feature.
The visibility, the one-pane-of-glass which allows me to see all of my edge protection through one window and one log, is great. Monitoring everything through that one pane of glass is extremely valuable.
I find it really useful that CloudGuard supports all the main players on the Public Clouds market including AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as some exotic ones like Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud.
We have found the overall functionality of the product to be exactly similar to the physical product. The one good advantage is that it is cloud-based and can be deployed either as a part of a scale set or one can shut down the virtual machine and adjust the physical parameters of the virtual machine easily and bring it right back up.
Auto-scaling and zero touch are valuable features.
What's most valuable to me is that it's a contiguous solution that aligns well with the components that we've relied on and trusted from a traditional hardware, firewall, and unified threat management system. My engineers and analysts don't have to learn another platform. We have already entrusted our security controls to Check Point for perimeter and physical security, and now we can do so at the virtual layer as well, which is key to us.
The most valuable feature for us is the cluster support.
As per the solution's blade design, there are many options. For example, you have to buy a UTM blade and an advanced malware blade, etc. If the blade license is there, we can configure from the firewall GUI.
A unique architecture makes this product stand out from other solutions.
The IPS, application and URL filtering, as well as Identity Awareness, are all very valuable features.
We find Check Point valuable because they are 100% focused on security. It totally closes the potential vulnerability channel. We can check our mail and our attachments and we can scan everything easily. We get an immediate report about the situation of the attachments. We can discover if the target's security attack was started from phishing, etc. We also enjoy using the additional features that protect our internal customer from targeted attacks.
The program is very stable.
The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can start off with a simple firewall and expand it to UTM.
It's a high-performance device. The network performance is also really good. We check how much time it takes for the servers. Our network performance has increased since using this solution.