Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) Reviews

We use it to protect Internet access from our AWS environment.

Before we implemented CloudGuard, we had no filtering on what was accessed on the internet from our AWS environment. 

Now, we can filter which websites users can access and block categories that are a risk. For example, we can block social media and gambling sites. This has helped to decrease the risk of access to malicious content on the internet.

It allows us to filter what the servers on AWS can access on the Internet and allows us to filter in terms of IPS, antivirus, and so on, for the contents that are accessed on the Internet.

The complexity to deploy should be decreased. 

I have been using this solution for about five years. 

It is a stable solution. It has been pretty stable for us. We haven't faced any problems since it rolled out. 

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.

I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We have around 200 end users using this solution in our company. 

The customer service and support from the vendor take a lot of time. 

The first line of support is not very good. They usually start with junior engineers when you open a case, which can be time-consuming.

I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is easy and ten is difficult to setup. 

For the deployment, we work with the vendor. So, the deployment took two weeks.

We need to provision the firewall, deploy the manager, and understand where the firewall needs to connect, which AWS area, and so on.

We just needed more than two people for the deployment. We worked with the security network security architect and called them engineers.

With ten being very expensive, I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten. 

It is expensive.

It's worth it in the sense that it can protect your network, and it's very scalable.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We use it for network protection. We're using its latest version.

We're benefiting from the solution. We're protecting all of our assets with it. It's a very good security solution. We don't face any big challenges or problems.

Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good.

The SD-WAN could be better.

I have been using this solution for more than ten years.

Their support is very good. I'd rate them an eight out of ten.

Positive

We have been using the same solution from the beginning. 

The initial setup is very easy. It took two to four hours.

We have a hybrid cloud deployment. We have Azure and AWS.

We used an integrator. Our experience with them wasn't great. 

We've seen an ROI with this solution.

It's not very expensive. It isn't very cheap either. Its price is okay. It depends on how much money you have. It might be expensive for some companies.

Its licensing is on a yearly basis.

We evaluated solutions from Forcepoint, Cisco, and Fortinet. We went for it because of its security effectiveness and operational efficiency.

It's the best solution to use. You can trust it. We don't have any issues with it. It works fine.

Overall, I'd rate it a ten out of ten.

We use Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management to increase our visibility into our environment and ensure that our policies are being followed.

The solution has helped us analyze the security of our Azure environment. Trend Micro and Check Point analyze the Azure environment with our tenants and clients to check for security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. We need to correct these problems and alert our team and clients of any issues. The solution also compares these actions between two applications.

The most valuable feature is the separate environment. In the testing environment, we can have Client A, Client B, and Client C. We can check this information in one portal. It is possible to separate access to this information for my clients to review.

The license cost is expensive and has room for improvement.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management for three months.

I give the stability a nine out of ten.

I give the scalability a nine out of ten.

The technical support is great.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward.

The license fee is high.

I give Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management a ten out of ten.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is a good solution and I recommend it.

We review CloudGuard results and generate tickets to contact the owners.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management will improve the organization. Currently, it is operating as a stopgap measure to address these issues. This is because there are a lot of them being generated. They are working on automation to automatically create tickets and track when issues are remediated. So, hopefully, when that comes into play, it will be a much more valuable tool.

The ability to drill down to individual hosts on an account and see which ones are affected is valuable. This is because we have a lot of cases where people remediate part of the solution on half of their hosts, but don't realize that they have more hosts that need to be addressed.

The rules are not well-tuned, and many of them generate false positives or nonsensical results. For example, they might flag port 443 as open, even though it is supposed to be open for a public web server. There needs to be a better way to exclude certain hosts that are compliant and are supposed to be open.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management for three months.

The solution has not crashed yet, and there are a lot of findings, so that is a good sign of its stability.

The solution is able to handle a large number of vulnerabilities, so it seems to be able to scale well.

We've only been using the solution for a few months, but we're already starting to see the numbers go down. This is encouraging, but it's important to be aware of any vulnerabilities that may exist so that we can take steps to address them.

I'm glad I don't have to pay the licensing fee. Everything in this field is very expensive. I don't have a say in the matter.

I give Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management a six out of ten. It could be better once fully tuned and properly deployed.

My usage is rather difficult because the client has not spent much time tuning the solution, as they are planning to automate a lot of it. As a result, I am currently the manual.

The solution actually created more work for the staff because it made them aware of all the vulnerabilities. As a result, their priority is now to fix them, which created a lot of work and a lot of tickets.

I wish I had been involved in the deployment because I would have done it differently.

At the RSA conference, we receive a lot of promotional items.

The RSA conference does not impact our organization's cybersecurity purchases.

We started to use Check Point as a firewall. That's what it was for. Now we use it for all the endpoint security, cloud security, and API endpoint security. That's probably our major use case. 

The solution has improved our organization by allowing us to be more flexible and deploy changes much more quickly. Since it gives us an audit trail, it's much easier for us to track or change things.

The feature that I find most valuable is the blocking feature. When we have to block something, the screens we have in front of us are really good. They are very user-friendly, and the processes are quick. That's something we've really liked from the beginning. 

Especially with cloud security, there's too much clutter on the screen and too many things going on.

In a future release, we'd like to have the ability to see if there is abnormal data being transferred. We'd like to see more features coming through that allow us to act more proactively and act against vulnerabilities effectively.

I've used the solution for a long time. I've been with my company for more than ten years, and over that time, I've been using it. We've been using Check Point from on-premises deployments to the cloud.

We have not witnessed any crashing.

The solution works well for us, both on-premises and on the cloud. 

The support has always been the best.

Positive

We've used the solution for ten years. I'm not sure what we used before. 

I was not a part of the initial setup.

We have seen an ROI in terms of flexibility and ease of use. 

The solution is very easy to use. We've used it for a long time. Our team is very familiar with it. Different people, even with different responsibilities, can share. It has helped us free up staff time. 

I'd rate the solution a ten out of ten. 

I manage the delivery team of a tech services company. We implement and manage security systems for our clients. CloudGuard is a solution we deploy for larger enterprise clients.

CloudGuard's intelligent tools help us automate many manual security tasks, guaranteeing our customers' environments will be secure. It saves a lot of time because jobs that might require five or six people can be handled with one or two. 

Check Point solutions are not easy to use if you don't have experience. We have some Check Point specialists, so it's not difficult for us. The user experience might suffer if we don't have the time to follow up with our clients and ensure they are using the right options. Clients also want more local support in Portuguese and Spanish during their normal business hours. That's something I hear from my customers and my team, too. 

I have used CloudGuard for two years.

CloudGuard is stable. 

CloudGuard is scalable.

Check Point's support isn't the best, but it's good. 

We also use solutions by FireMon, AlgoSec, and Akamai. We're constantly comparing products and looking for ways to get more features with less money. Akamai has more solutions, whereas Check Point is more specialized. 

Our clients are large and complex, so it is complicated to deploy CloudGuard in their environments.

We had a reseller and use IBM as an integrator. Our experience was positive. 

CloudGuard is reasonable. 

I rate Check Point CloudGuard Network Security an eight out of ten. 

We can correlate the information and get analytics that helps us be more proactive in terms of minimizing risk on the cloud.

We can integrate the solution very well with various cloud networks, including AWS, Azure, and Google, which is what we are on. 

We are provided with the right information in order to get analytics that will help us be more proactive and minimize exposure to threats. 

The solution is scalable. 

It is easy to set up. 

The solution needs to improve remediation. We need to reduce risk by remediating gaps in security.

You do need to pay extra in order to get better support.

I started working with the solution five years ago.

The solution is scalable. However, the issue is when you buy the license, you buy the quantity of data to do the intelligence, not to keep the data stored on the cloud. We pay to correlate one terabyte of information for only one month.

We don't open a lot of tickets for support. You do need to pay extra for support. If you pay more, you get faster answers. You get a lot more attention if you pay.

Neutral

The initial setup is very straightforward. I don't have to do any tuning or configuration for it to work. You just need to enable it. 

The pricing is moderate. It's not too expensive or overly cheap. It is comparable to other solutions. 

We're a Check Point partner. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

The threat-hunting system provides forensics through machine learning visualization with real-time insights into processes from a multi-cloud environment. 

It has powerful tools that detect any threats in the network infrastructure in advance before it penetrates into our systems. 

It has repulsed many attacks that have been launched by malware attackers that could destroy data. 

The CloudGuard Intelligence provides alerts that prepare the IT team to set up effective measures after detecting threats. 

The product performance has enabled each team to work without fear of any threats.

It provides the most useful tools for protecting our financial account records from hackers. 

The application has boosted security from all the company sources. We have not lost confidential data to external cyber attackers since we deployed this platform. 

Faster responses to malware threats have saved the organization from engaging in insecure transaction losses. 

The product has safeguarded the entire financial system from external interference. 

We used to experience the challenges of data protection before we deployed this application. There are improvements in data management and security with a positive impact on work processes.

The advanced data analytics on the security of the applications has provided effective insights that helped in safeguarding confidential information. 

The intrusion alerts and notifications have saved us a lot of time and resources in enhancing reliable security. 

The comprehensive security from cloud and on-premises has saved data centers from attacks and provides a reliable environment for boosting production. 

Cloud threat intelligence provides useful insights that help in planning effectively during the process of implementing projects and tasks.

The security investigation features that are present have been performing excellently since we deployed this application. There are few licensing and network coverage cases, however, the customer service team is always ready to solve any problem. 

Timely updates and upgrades to meet modern technological changes could help improve performance and limit the chances of downtime. 

The performance has been stable for a long time since we deployed it. The few hitches which we have experienced can be solved without affecting the workflow performance. 

The Check Point team has done a great job, and I recommend their products to other companies.

I've used the solution for ten months.

This solution has been stable with reliable operations.

I am impressed by its reliable performance, and I recommend it to other business enterprises.

Customer service and support always provide effective guidelines when contacted.

Positive

The other security products that I have worked with had responded poorly which is why we moved to Check Point.

The setup procedure was straightforward.

The implementation was done by the vendor.

There is increased ROI from the product's stable performance.

This platform offers modern security for threats that will arise in any organization.

I evaluated several products. I settled on Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence based on their reliable services.

This is a great and powerful platform for securing organizations from cyber attacks.

It helped us a lot in improving the regulations and security of our cloud environments.

We still manage an on-premise environment, however, many companies at the beginning believe that the cloud is invulnerable or that the manufacturer must ensure everything, which is not correct. With this implementation, it is possible to improve all current cloud security.

In the company I work for, it was implemented to be able to have governance in addition to good practices in our Microsoft Azure environment. It's a somewhat expensive tool, however, it is worth it to be able to solve all those improvements and avoid so many modern vulnerabilities, which have their point in cloud attacks.

As in our company we have environments that are hybrid in some cases and others totally cloud. We find in Check Point a reliable tool to improve security, implement regulations, and generate governance in cloud environments. In our case, we have a Microsoft Azure public cloud with enough resources which we need to protect. We achieved it together with  Check Point.

It was possible to provide greater security to identities with admin access to the cloud - a critical part of IT management.

The most striking features are:

1- Identity protection generated through Check Point posture management, which is helping to prevent user theft or unauthorized access.

2- The governance that can be provided with this tool is very good since we have been able to implement good practices to avoid vulnerabilities.

3- The administration portal panel is very intuitive. It also generates scores based on regulations and good practices to go little by little with the recommendations, significantly improving security.

Some general improvement characteristics can be made, including the following:

1- Cost improvement. Some tools are quite expensive, and some non-equal manufacturers offer more comfortable capabilities at the cost level.

2- The guidelines to implement or to link with the clouds are not complete. Following them sometimes the task of implementing under the best practices of the manufacturer is not achieved.

3- Many Check Point guides are only available to partners and not to the general public. They can make a better impression by having them public and thereby helping the client.

It's an excellent tool and is available in the Infinity Check Point Portal. Its main function is to centralize governance in the same administration portal and has been tested for more than a year to validate our cloud security.

Previously we used only Microsoft with Defender for Cloud. However, we wanted to have our security centralized. Check Point through the infinity portal achieves that feature.

It's very important to have a reliable and good partner. The proactivity helps us to see the existing needs and check with Check Point what characteristics are required.

We chose Check Point as it provides integrated and centralized security, improving the effectiveness of security reviews.

Even though the cost is somewhat expensive. I recommend this solution for users who use the public cloud.

We wanted to have a centralized and modern security environment, and it was possible to obtain it through Check Point Infinity.

It was possible to implement Check Point CloudGuard to take advantage of cloud intelligence to analyze modern threats. The global learning that Check Point obtains from all its devices for the improvement and confidence of security.

We currently use Microsoft Azure, which has several security features, all with costs, to perform governance, control, vulnerability improvements and regulatory compliance. However, we manage Check Point.

Forensics as your monitoring portal is exceptional.

The features included in Check Point CloudGuard help us a lot with the security of our Microsoft Azure cloud, which we successfully integrate with Check Point CloudGuard.

We have validated the score generated to improve security performance, thereby making improvements to avoid vulnerabilities.

The threat attack is reviewed and covered in an automated manner through cloud intelligence. Its alerts have kept us notified so that we can make the necessary adjustments. It offers incredible performance.

The most important characteristics are the following:

1- The detection of vulnerabilities in real-time. Its monitoring and alerts are triggered by a failure or non-compliance with policies. It helps us to be able to act effectively and quickly.

2- The use of Check Point ThreatCloud allows sharing of information between other Check Point devices to improve trust and form of protection against new threats.

3- Finally, its security application portals are very intuitive. It has helped us with the simple handling of Check Point CloudGuard.

Some possibilities of improvements for Check Point include:

1- Improving or creating best practices that can be generated publicly so that customers can have a package of policies, for example, that the manufacturer provides in addition to easy access to this material.

2- Improvement at the support level for management, handling and solution of cases in a better, faster, and more effective way. Sometimes the cases take a long time to be able to schedule a session and solve together with the client and support.

3- The costs are high. They could provide better costs for the client to make a simpler decision and not be affected by this issue.

One of its characteristics is cloud intelligence. It was adapted to our centralization and public cloud requirements.

Our company already uses several centralized products in the Check Point Infinity platform. For more than six months, we have used CloudGuard.

We used Azure Defender for the cloud. It is good, however, I liked more the form and the trust of Check Point.

It is always important to have access to a partner to help you with costs, and requirements and to help you choose the best option within Check Point.

We previously validated some solutions. However, the features of Check Point CloudGuard were better suited to our requirements.

It is an expensive solution. However, I recommend it.