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Check Point Application Control pros and cons

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Check Point Application Control is stable and enhances legacy system security with automatic updates protecting against advanced threats. It offers real-time monitoring for visibility and granular control for defining access policies. Bandwidth management prioritizes business-critical traffic. However, setup can be challenging, pricing is expensive, and licensing requires consideration. Monitoring bandwidth usage can be difficult, and frequent configuration challenges impact efficiency, with complicated integration and performance monitoring systems adding to setup complexity.

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PROS

Check Point Application Control enhances security by improving legacy systems and blocking ransomware attacks, ensuring a secure work environment.
The tool offers granular control, allowing management of applications, bandwidth, and high-risk access, positively impacting productivity.
Real-time monitoring and actionable reports provide insights into application usage and security incidents, enabling proactive threat responses.
Application Control facilitates easy implementation of changes and quick troubleshooting of application-related traffic, saving management time.
Combining with Identity Awareness and URL Filtering, it allows creation of detailed security policies, enhancing overall network protection.

CONS

Configuration and deployment are difficult, and the initial setup poses challenges.
Many business applications stop working, with limited resolutions after escalation.
Pricing is high due to the need to purchase individual blades for desired integrations.
Application whitelisting requires specific adjustments, leading to frequent investigations.
Performance monitoring systems are complex and hard to interpret.
 

Check Point Application Control Pros review quotes

reviewer1098015 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 4, 2020
Check Point enables us to save internet bandwidth. The administration offers good guidance. We don't want the employees to access social networking on work computers because it will distract them from their jobs, so we can block that. It also helps us to implement changes very quickly and to get people to be more focused on the job.
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LuisNeves - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 9, 2023
The most valuable feature of Check Point Application Control is VPN access and the ability to lock out sites we do not want users to have access. The reporting monitoring software in Check Point Application Control is fantastic. For example, log filtering is beneficial.
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YeAung - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 4, 2025
Using Check Point Application Control has definitely improved productivity and saved time for my team.
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Tarun Bhatia - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 21, 2025
Check Point Application Control has positively impacted our organization because productivity has increased through putting bandwidth limits and restrictions to non-legit or less productive applications.
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reviewer1838814 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 28, 2022
Being able to choose specific applications in our policy rule base in order to better manage access and bandwidth utilization has had a significantly positive impact on our environment and saved a lot of management time.
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OP
Jan 31, 2022
The overall security of the environment has been greatly improved by the Check Point NGFWs. Before implementing the Check Point solutions, we relied on the Cisco ACLs and Zone-Based firewalls configured on the switches and routers, which in fact a simple stateful firewall, and currently appear to be not an efficient solution for protecting from the advanced threats.
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Ajenthan Aiyathurai - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 19, 2024
The real-time monitoring and reporting functionalities provide visibility into application usage patterns and potential security incidents, enabling proactive responses to emerging threats.
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reviewer1572915 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 8, 2021
The most important feature, in my opinion, regarding Check Point Application Control is the granularity and the great variety of applications and sub-applications recognized.
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Adrian Cambronero - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 21, 2023
It also helps us implement changes very quickly and make people more focused on work.
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PD
Sep 25, 2021
The product offers easy-to-install policies and makes it simple to troubleshoot application-related traffic.
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Check Point Application Control Cons review quotes

reviewer1098015 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 4, 2020
The whitelisting approach should only be on very specific applications. In which only a server should access a certain application and nothing else. If you miss something, you will have to always be investigating why it doesn't have access or why an application is not working.
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LuisNeves - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 9, 2023
There are many aspects we do not like about the solution and there are a lot of alternatives available on the market. Some of the settings are buried deep within the solution making it a challenge to navigate. It would be helpful if it was more intuitive. Additionally, there can be some settings that are in multiple places, this leaves the user not knowing what settings are needed to be modified for the wanted result. I have lost confidence because I do not know if I change a setting or if it is going to have the desired result I intended it to do.
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YeAung - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 4, 2025
Check Point Application Control can be improved with faster updates for emerging applications.
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Tarun Bhatia - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 21, 2025
There is some performance lag on the device itself when we turn on Check Point Application Control features.
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reviewer1838814 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 28, 2022
One of our continued challenges is having a more accurate, real-time view of how our bandwidth is actually being used at any given moment.
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OP
Jan 31, 2022
I think that the pricing for the Check Point products should be reconsidered - we found it to be quite expensive to purchase and to maintain (the licenses and the support services need to be prolonged regularly), or create some additional bundles of the software blades with significant discounts in addition to the current Next Generation Threat Prevention & SandBlast (NGTX) and Next Generation Threat Prevention (NGTP) offers.
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Ajenthan Aiyathurai - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 19, 2024
Improving the scalability and performance to handle larger networks and increasing traffic volumes would ensure consistent reliability under heavy usage conditions.
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reviewer1572915 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 8, 2021
I would like to have a periodic update of the applications, perhaps based on a predefined calendar.
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Adrian Cambronero - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 21, 2023
At the moment I don't see the need to add new features. That said, you always have to be one step ahead.
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PD
Sep 25, 2021
SD-WAN functionality can be added.
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