Check Point Application Control Reviews

We use Check Point Application Control to control VPN and bandwidth. 

The tool's most valuable features are VPN access, website defense, and maintenance. 

Check Point Application Control needs to ensure that they release up-to-date security patches regularly. It should release better documentation so end-users can use the product without depending on the support team. 

I have been working with the product for three years. 

Check Point Application Control's stability is good. 

The tool is scalable. My company has 1000 users. 

The tool's support is good. 

You need guidance to do the product's deployment. It cannot be done directly. You need two people to handle the deployment. 

Check Point Application Control is expensive. The tool's licensing costs are yearly. 

I rate the product an eight out of ten. 

The companies have implemented this security tool, due to several factors. The companies develop or buy applications for different functions or needs and this is where Check Point Application Control comes in. 

The tool has allowed us to be able to identify and classify all those applications that are being used within the network, which simplifies the work of managing bandwidth, and also helps us to have better control over security since it allows us to allows you to block or allow access to our network.

It has helped us a lot in being able to have more unified and managed control over the entire infrastructure of the companies since with this we have better control in the applications of how we can limit each access or exit to the Internet. Without this tool, it would be a little more complicated since we would be very limited in defining policies based on characteristics such as IP addresses and port numbers. In addition, it has helped improve productivity in the IT area since we have reduced the time dedicated to each of the applications.

The tool fulfills the function for which it was designed. It has many important features that have greatly helped the company and the IT department. For example, it presents visibility of all traffic on the network, which helps us have better management to take measures necessary to optimize performance and security.

It also presents a strong point which is the use of policies. Compliance helps the company a lot and it is something that the tool does very well.

They need to improve the graphical interface.

They should also improve the latency when entering the GUI. 

The application should not be so closed when it comes to integrations with third-party tools.

They have become a bit expensive to be able to purchase them for smaller companies. 

I have been using this application for one year in this company, however, I had previously used it for two years in a previous company.

The tool to the extent that I have used it these years has been very stable and safe.

The tool is my scalable and adapts to our security infrastructure very well.

Support should improve service times and be faster in providing solutions.

Positive

There was no type of tool that fulfilled this function previously.

The installation of the tool at first is somewhat complicated since it has a fairly high learning curve. After getting to know it and how to configure it, that curve becomes easy.

At first, the installation and configuration were done with the supplier. They provided us with training and we proceeded to make the necessary configurations.

Making an investment is always complicated. Doubts that can arise. However, it is never bad to invest in a security tool. It brings peace of mind to the company and the financial side.

You must evaluate the needs that the company requires, then request quotes according to the needs of different suppliers.

Several options were analyzed, such as Palo Alto Networks App-ID, Fortinet FortiGate Application Control, and SonicWall Application Firewall, among others.

You must have a culture of updating the tool every time you can, always choosing a tool with stability that is scalable since companies change day by day.

It helps us to discover applications that run across the organization network and admin accounts that are generated within the ecosystem. 

Monitoring the performance of applications has been easy since we deployed this platform. 

Check Point Application Control gives the IT team permission to deploy and assign tasks to various apps. 

It gives us the authority to eliminate unnecessary admin accounts and blacklist applications that are not required anymore. It protects apps from malware attacks with powerful security tools.

Setting up new applications and testing the suitability of deployed tools has been efficient since we deployed this platform. 

It blocks ransomware attacks that can affect performance-enhancing secure work environments with zero-day attacks. 

We are able to manage workstations and servers across remote offices with a unified control system. Setting up a default system for allowing applications that are useful and blocking untrusted platforms has saved time and cost. 

This product has enabled my web development team to set reliable control policies for managing applications.

Policy management features have enabled the organization to set up achievable goals and programs that can be implemented successfully. 

The security systems prevent external attacks from affecting workflows and compromising data. 

Customization has enabled us to create policies that can easily meet our requirements with flexible features. 

The overall cost of deployment and maintenance has been efficient and affordable. Application blacklisting helps us to filter our tedious apps that can negatively affect operations. 

The current features have great performance capabilities and have highly boosted production in the organization. I recommend network upgrades in the next release to meet most company demands and daily changes. 

The performance has been stable, and we really appreciate the great results. The security tools and policy enhancement tools perform effectively. The overall productivity of the current features is excellent, and I recommend the use of this product to other companies. 

We have longed for a reliable Application Control platform for a long time, and finally, we have received the best solution.

I've used the solution for two years.

This tool is highly stable.

I am impressed by the product's great performance.

The customer support staff responds effectively.

Positive

I have not worked with any other similar solution before.

The setup was straightforward.

Implementation took place through the vendor.

ROI has grown from 40% to 65% from the previous year.

The cost and licensing terms have been reliable.

I settled on this product due to its stable performance after evaluating several products.

I highly recommend the use of this product to other organizations for reliable application control services.

Check Point Application Control enables my team to customize websites to fit our daily needs. It provides security measures that can be set in place to safeguard our content and internal information. 

It provides reliable tools for setting up HTTPS security policies that prevent security risks related to SSL protocol. The product provides real-time insights into the data traffic from the applications and their performance. 

The security protocols have enabled my team to set restrictions for accessing confidential information.

There is efficient protection of data and workflows from external interferences. This platform provides basic tools for protecting applications from cyber attacks and building strong websites. 

The SmartView tracker enables my members to monitor data traffic across the applications. It has provided a great opportunity for us to set up basic rules for interacting with applications. 

This product provides reliable data controls that monitor the performance and operational capability of all the applications within the company's networking infrastructure.

The central management system provides a reliable platform for application control and URL filtering. 

The security gateways have set comprehensive security tools for protecting data from malware attacks. 

The application library can run many apps and websites at the same time without functional complications. 

The application control system blocks internet sites and cyber attacks that can affect daily operations. 

SmartEvent Analysis provides capabilities for understanding application performance with charts and reporting analytics.

The most set features have enhanced the effective management of workflows. 

Malware threats can advance attacks when there are no timely measures to curb online phishing attacks. 

The solution needs an efficient monitoring platform that provides individual employee data, and performance will boost productivity in the organization. 

Most features perform well since there are few complaints. The security tools should be empowered more to fit daily demands and prevent our systems from advanced threats. 

I recommend the use of this platform to other organizations for reliable application performance.

I've used the solution for two years. 

The application security controls and monitoring tools are powerful.

I am impressed by its great performance.

The customer support staff has been reliable and committed to great service delivery.

Positive

I have not worked with a similar solution.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The implementation was done by the vendor team, and their level of expertise is excellent.

The recorded ROI has improved from 40% to 65% currently.

The setup cost and licensing terms are efficient.

I evaluated other application control products, however, Check Point Application Control was the best.

This is great system for monitoring application performance and I recommend to others.

We needed to allow, control, block, and access specific applications based on the policies that the institution has as a baseline. Given this need, we have tried, analyzed, and tested various solutions that could comply with said internal directive. We have sought solutions that allow us greater visibility and control over applications on the network, improving the protection of applications and the security of the organization in general. We've validated the software's great potential at detecting malicious events on unauthorized applications or resources. 

Check Point Application Control has offered us the possibility of achieving several important organizational pillars that were required to cover. We had application identification, application control, and protection based on known or unknown threats. 

These capabilities have allowed us to discover known or unknown threats by detecting them under the identity of users. We managed to include a malware intrusion detection index based on the identity of the users in order to protect them. 

One of the greatest capacities and the benefits it gives us is the ability to control applications based on defining access or denial policies in specific applications, groups, or category profiles. Compared to other products, it has offered us a unique combination by allowing the integration of third-party services or brand-owned services, which gives us a chance to insure, protect ourselves, and generate scalable, comprehensive protection. 

One of the improvements that we need is in the manual services. The guides used today are a bit complex, and we need efficient and simple access to them so that any administrative or technical person can solve, analyze, and configure each of the rules and identities seamlessly. We need clear directions to help us configure effectively. It's important to be able to have this documentation available to make the many available features easy to configure and allow us to promote defense tactics in depth against all available threats. 

I've used the solution for two years.

The primary use case for application control in our organization is to provide the ability to restrict users from using unapproved applications and applications that fall under categories that are deemed malicious. 

Application control is enabled on all of our HA firewall clusters globally. Leveraging identity awareness, we can restrict remote access applications from the rest of the organization, allowing it for specific teams that require it, i.e., IT Helpdesk and Technical Support teams.

Application Control has improved our organization by enabling other network administrators and me to restrict non-corporate applications for specific departments. 

Combined with Check Points URL filtering, this blade provides more granular restriction as if the firewall engine does not detect the application, administrators have the ability to use regular expressions to block URLs that are critical for the application to function. For example, the Windows Quick Assist tool needed URL filtering as it was not being detected and categorized as "Remote Assistance"

The ability to be able to do dynamic rate limiting on specific applications has been a valuable feature. 

This has allowed us to prevent our graphics team from saturating our link to the internet by rate-limiting their uploads to third-party cloud providers (i.e., Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.). 

The fact that application control also can stop browser-based extensions/widgets has also been very valuable as it has provided insight to employees installing VPN extensions on their browsers. 

This blade is very valuable to any organization, and it is great that it is included in the base firewall licensing bundle. 

It is very easy to set up and configure. The one feature that could be improved would be the ability to see implicit rules that are defaulted on the policy. For example, if the cleanup rule is removed, there is still another toggle in the settings that (in the event the traffic does not match any of the rules) you can either choose to block the traffic or allow it. By default, this setting is configured to drop, which caused issues the first time we configured the policy as this was not shown.

I've used the solution for five years.

The solution is stable and hasn't increased the load drastically.

Scalability is excellent and is easy to add new sites.

Technical support is hit or miss. L1 and L2 never seem to be able to solve my issues. We always need to go to L3 support.

Positive

We did not previously use a different solution.

The solution should be configured by default with an allow rule that can be changed to drop once implemented to avoid massive disruptions to users.

We handled the solution in-house.

The ROI we see is in the added security to block specific applications or categories.

The setup is easy. However if first implemented, it's a good idea to add a "clean up" rule at the bottom rather than denying. This will allow the traffic and you can further tweak rules without impacting users.

We did not evaluate other options. 

The product is great.

We needed a solution that would allow us to protect the applications that we were constantly developing. Those applications needed to be classified by categories, including integrity, risk level, and productivity issues, as well as identity per user. We needed all these characteristics to safeguard a library, repository, or platform that could allow us to manage it in a secure, fast, and scalable way. We tried more than one solution that would allow us the required granularity in the teams and management so that we could implement it according to the regulations that we had internally.

At the time of implementation, we had a great feeling of satisfaction with the solution as it allowed us to have granularity across types of applications - by the network, identity, social networks, the function of the application, et cetera. We were able to do more than what we really needed, and this gave us that feeling that we now had the internal compliance that we did not have before. The libraries are much larger and grouped by application in categories to protect us from attacks or threats.

The most outstanding feature is the Check Point APK wiki, which is a product that is incorporated into the solution that allows us to naturally and dynamically apply internal applications to the application database. It is continuously updated, which allows us to have constant detection capabilities and more than 8000 different applications at different sites. It allows us to be more dynamic and have greater control. Additionally, it has blocking via content filtering or HTTPS inspection, which we can combine with identity. That gives us a more centralized correlation and management for more granular policies and more expeditious control over each activity from the users.

The blocking characteristics for filtering content currently are not so customizable. I would like to be able to modify them a bit. I hope that customization will be incorporated in the future. Right now, we must educate the users who are constantly violating or in fear of violating an issue. We would like to be able to incorporate filtering with notifications in a learning portal so users can be educated and will no longer have a lack of experience. A portal will help make better, more educated, and knowledgeable users. 

I've used the solution for two years.

Our use case for Check Point Application Control is to be able to filter and control all the categories of applications that we want to allow in our organization so that users have the necessary access and permissions and have security in using an application. 

We only allow members of the organization access secure applications, another benefit is that bandwidth can be limited by restricting applications and unnecessary downloads of applications that are not for business use by controlling the access of gateway apps

Check Point Application Control has provided us as an organization with the ability to prevent users from entering web pages that are not allowed or that can lead to many vulnerabilities that could result in the loss of sensitive information.

With this friendly, simple, and easy-to-use tool, we have been able to control all these inappropriate accesses. Most users cannot enter sites or applications that are not for work and with this, we have been able to monitor all these pages.

It also helps us implement changes very quickly and make people more focused on work.

All Check Point Application Control features are very granular and important. The most important depends on the need of the company this feature is used.

It also has flexibility where you can restrict certain areas of each page. For example, you can enter but not download or use a chat like in social networks. I can see them, however, not chat. This is a good thing as you can be flexible with your employees to have everything without access and allows us to be flexible with certain categories. I think that with this we can achieve a better tool

The tool has a number of features necessary for good business security. However, it is always good to add several features and maintain an open and adequate performance for the machines where said software is installed since it will be able to present high performance. However, so far, Check Point Application Control satisfactorily meets the needs of a company in security. At the moment I don't see the need to add new features. That said, you always have to be one step ahead.
They should focus on improving the guides since they are not very friendly or concrete to make a configuration in the interface.

This tool has been used for 2 years.

The solution is very stable. No problem has been presented.

The solution provides important scalability features

Since the product has worked well, we have had little interaction with Check Point's customer service.

Positive

Previously, we did not use another tool.

The implementation, like all Check Point products, is very interactive and easy to install and configure.

It was done with a vendor and it was very good in its work until now.

Our ROI is that our entire platform meets the necessary security requirements. Nothing happens in the company's infrastructure and this helps us avoid more expenses if not for having implemented a tool like this.

The price is in line with the competition. They maintain an accessible and competitive price.

Options were not evaluated since our infrastructure always used Check Point.

They continue to innovate. Check Point is an excellent tool in many areas.

The company-based applications have benefited from this software in the enhancement of security and performance acceleration. 

Check Point Application Control monitors all tools' performance and operations in all enterprise activities. 

The reported performance metrics help us allocate resources and unlock hidden business potentials. Over the past year, this product has boosted the end output of all applications and promoted efficient teamwork. Each tool can easily link and integrate with others with set task objectives.

Check Point Application Control has highly improved business operations with modern data control systems. 

It ensures that the health of each application can handle the set tasks and projects without any challenges. 

We have increased workflow performance and improved the service delivery to our clients. 

Data transfer with preferable security measures has enhanced better collaboration among teams. The connection of applications has enabled members to understand the data flow and set goals with real-time reports.

The set security measures integrated with applications help us to identify and set policies that can support our programs. 

It mitigates the security risks that can affect business tools and their implications on the overall production capacity. 

The workflow tracking capacity provides data on all employees working with certain tools and their contributions. 

Check Point Application Control can monitor the operations of many applications at the same time without low-performance experiences. There is increased revenue from the reduced cost of consolidating required security tools.

The set security features have increased the production efficiency of all applications. The new IT team monitoring this system requires proper training in order to execute the targeted goals effectively without failure. 

The set performance monitoring systems are complex to interpret and scale down their operations. 

The customer service team works tirelessly to ensure our teams are satisfied. Cloud network security has kept our assets secure since we deployed with a smooth continuation of other enterprise activities.

I've used the solution for one year and four months.

This product is stable and with high-performance capabilities.

I like the persistence of improving security across the organization from this application.

I have no words for the support team; I really congratulate them on the excellent job!

Positive

I have previously worked with AppDynamics - although the security models did not meet our targets.

It is easy to setup and learn how the product works.

The vendor team did the implementation.

The set targeted ROI has been achieved.

The setup procedure is good and the cost is suitable for most enterprises.

I evaluated operations and performance of AppDynamics.

Check Point Application Control is the best solution for security and performance controls.

With the growing technological advances that the organization is having and the data that the company needs to protect is no longer just at the perimeter area. We also need to protect the applications that are being developed, and we need to develop, grow, and deliver tailored services for different companies. We have looked for a line of security that could contemplate establishing and securing each of the lines of fire that could possibly be attacked at the moment that we made available a new application and a new service for each user or customer. They have come to have great importance in our company.

Check Point Application Control has allowed us to integrate more capabilities by limiting the use of applications. Categories can classify things so we can segment each of the features to control granularity and integrate next-generation firewall security. This allows us to consolidate security controls by reducing the costs that the company will have to invest in when it comes to having Next Generation security. This is one of the best reasons why we have invested in solutions of this type because they give us the ability to have less expense with greater security, having first-world innovation and security.

Among the features that we have used, we like being able to identify the identity of the user who is doing transactions. Thanks to that, we have greater control, and management, and have the possibility of establishing limits and controlling each of the actions that the user will establish in the application. Based on the control and capabilities of the solution, we can say today that the added value and capabilities of its features make it the ideal security solution for any company.

Seeing the capabilities and features that we are using today, we can say that we could expect an additional feature that could allow us to integrate this management and even security with APIs. Establishing passwords, communicating, and all the traffic of command data services could be established through this type of connection, and we could take advantage of secure and stable connections. This gives us the possibility to establish, place and secure the data in a safer way.

The company has been around for about a year. For a few months, we have been implementing the solution to protect and control the issue of applications in the Next Generation firewalls.