Check Point IPS Reviews

We wanted a more robust solution for controlling access to our cloud environments (AWS and Azure). In addition, we wanted our control to be cloud-based. 

Our thought was to find a solution to aid us in being proactive as well as reactive. We have multiple environments in multiple clouds with some areas having delegated administration. The solution we needed was one to reduce the need for administrative headcount to continuously review any misconfiguration. Beyond that we were looking to find a solution for SASE.

The product has allowed us to proactively mitigate any network access misconfiguration resulting from delegation. 

We didn't have to hire an additional network administration resource to focus on detecting any misconfigurations. Dome 9 has assisted through the pre-canned compliance templates. 

We are able to define our own rules for detection. 

In addition to the Harmony Connect Endpoint bundled VPN, the Harmony Connect SASE is continuing to reduce reliance on traditional VPN to the point we will likely discontinue the use of the bundled VPN.

My main use case for Check Point IPS is that we basically use it to monitor network traffic.

We use Check Point IPS to protect our network, internal network traffic, and we are also using it to improve our compliance.

Check Point IPS helps us to meet the requirements of compliance on a daily basis.

I don't have anything else to add about my main use case for Check Point IPS.

The best features that Check Point IPS offers are real-time protection for our traffic, and it's also most times accurate.

Regarding how real-time protection has helped our team, it helps with analyzing our network traffic and blocks threats in real time, which is a plus, and we have also seen it being highly accurate, which means most times its detections are with less false positives.

We've seen the false positives reduce to about, I believe, over 80% since using Check Point IPS.

Check Point IPS has positively impacted our organization overall by making audits easier, but it has also reduced the number of risks and attacks to our organization.

It made audits easier by helping us pass an audit check, and it also helped to reduce attacks; we've seen actually, ever since we got it, we've not yet gotten any attack, but we've been able to identify possible attacks to our organization.

The main use case for Check Point IPS is to protect against malicious attacks and traffic entering the network. Check Point IPS provides protection from cyber threats and malware that should not be executed in the client network, ensuring the network remains secure. It matches threats to signatures in its database and takes action to block known and unknown threats. Additionally, Check Point IPS enables deep packet inspection, allowing for easy decryption of traffic and identification of potential threats.

The granular policy control in Check Point IPS allows administrators to define customized IPS policies based on severity or protocols, providing flexibility and minimizing false positives. The integration with Check Point ThreatCloud ensures the IPS engine is updated with the latest attack signatures. Behavioral heuristic analysis helps block zero-day attacks using AI-powered engines. Integration with SmartEvent provides centralized monitoring, logging, and reporting for IPS events, allowing security teams to analyze attack patterns. Check Point IPS also offers high-power processing hardware to handle the load of traffic inspection, ensuring that features like antivirus, firewall security, and IPS can be utilized efficiently without overburdening hardware resources.

The main use case for Check Point IPS is to protect against malicious attacks and cyber threats, whether they are known or unknown. It stops malicious traffic from entering the network or being executed, keeping the network safe. Check Point IPS provides protection against malware that should not execute in my client network, ensuring the network remains secure. With its intrusion prevention system, it matches signatures based on the database Check Point IPS has and acts accordingly to block both known and unknown threats. This way, the solution stays ahead of cyber threats.

Check Point IPS offers granular policy control, allowing administrators to customize IPS policies based on severity, protocols, or the source and destination. This provides flexibility and minimizes false positives. The integration with Check Point Threat Cloud ensures the IPS engine is updated with the latest attack signatures. Additionally, the solution employs behavioral heuristic analysis to block zero-day attacks using AI-powered engines. Another feature is the integration with SmartEvent for centralized monitoring, logging, and reporting, enabling security teams to analyze attack patterns. High-powered processing hardware optimizes resource use, allowing all features including inspection, antivirus, and firewall security to be utilized efficiently.

Our primary use case is to protect the on-prem infrastructure. The IPS blade is integrated into our Check Point environment. The product is the core of our security infrastructure that we use to filter and block attempts for connection into resources.

Due to the pandemic, the company needed to improve its compliance with traffic risk management since all employees went full WFH.

This has turned into more efficient operational control of internal traffic, where numerous threats have been identified while working in the office as most malware is somehow admitted by someone with access to the company network, either unintentionally or not. This drove revenue growth as fewer resources had to be spent by the IT department to fight cyber threats.

We've seen how this firewall has operated on real-time threats to infrastructure by detecting, neutralizing, eliminating, and then patching against malware.

We can test these patches post-deployment in less than one day. We generate reports that include the activity for the time we desire and gauge the performance of the software.

The IPS module offers protection against malicious inbound Internet traffic to our DMZ network and inspects and blocks outbound Internet traffic to sites that could be a danger to our internal users.

We are a government company providing services to our revenue department. We started out doing services for the tax administration and customs department, and later expanded beyond that. We use Check Point IPS primarily in these roles.

Check Point IPS is very useful in providing access control at the network level and preventing access from suspicious sources. Our organization benefits from Identity Awareness, firewall functionality combined with IPS, and in some cases, URL filtering. The granularity of controls has improved over time, providing better security posture even though I am not the one handling the hands-on configuration.

We primarily use Check Point IPS for cybersecurity, specifically when there is a need for internal and external connections. We use it to monitor performance and take necessary actions when events occur. We also use it for firewall solutions.

Check Point IPS has helped us maintain cybersecurity through effective monitoring and behavior analytics.

In my company, we use Check Point IPS for its intrusion protection functionalities. The product is the core of our security infrastructure that we use to filter and block attempts for connection into resources, which usually you want to happen only for specific administrative roles.

The most valuable features of the solution are that the product's stability has been very good. The product's uptime has been massive, and there has not been any downtime, making it a very good product. Our company has had a six-year uptime record with Check Point IPS. The firewall has not caused a single second of outage while functioning to protect access to our data center.