Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) Reviews

We use the solution to control all the emails that go out from the company. We also use it to protect our network by stopping unauthorized people from accessing it.

The product enables us to check the information that goes out of the company. We get to know if someone sends our sales emails to our competitors. We control the information that goes out of the company. It’s a good product.

The product must provide different features like antivirus.

I am currently using the solution.

The tool always performs very well. All the upgrades happen automatically. We haven't had a problem with it.

We haven’t needed much support.

The solution’s pricing is a little bit high. I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is the lowest price, and ten is the highest price.

I would like to implement all the security solutions from Check Point in our company. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.

We utilize Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management to gain visibility into our cloud environments and their configurations. The cloud services we employ include AWS, Azure, and GCP.

A while back, we deployed Kubernetes, and it was exposed to the internet, resulting in the environment being affected by malware. Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has helped our organization prevent such attacks from occurring in our environment.

The most valuable feature is the single dashboard that enables us to manage the entire cloud environment from one place.

The dashboard customization has room for improvement.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management for four years.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is highly stable. There was only one instance when the solution experienced downtime.

The technical support is good.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is expensive.

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

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is an important component of a cloud environment that enables us to gain visibility across all areas and configure easily. I highly recommend this solution.

My clients were different small businesses, and they were migrating to the cloud. We've been using it as a general cloud security tool. 

The interface in terms of being able to have access for myself and the client so that we can easily observe and watch what is going on, has really improved the organization. 

We have seen time to value with this solution. We will continue to use more Check Point solutions in the future.

The versatility is the solution's most valuable feature. 

There are some usability issues we'd like to see improved. 

We're going to be switching to XDR and would like integration with XDR. 

I've used the solution for only about a year. 

The solution is good. I'd rate the stability a nine out of ten. 

I'd rate the scalability a nine out of ten. 

The support is good. 

Positive

We did not previously use a different solution. 

I'm involved with the integration and was involved in the setup of specific areas.

The initial setup was alright. I wasn't the architect of the whole thing. In my area, the implementation seemed to be pretty straightforward.

We did not use an integrator, reseller, or consultant for the deployment. 

We do not yet have enough of a baseline to calculate ROI. 

The pricing is fair. It's the client who is paying for it, not me directly. However, they seem satisfied. 

We previously evaluated a few other options. 

The usability is moderate. 

The product has helped us free up some time. It's a complicated situation, however. 

I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

We wanted to protect, analyze, and detect issues within the infrastructure that we have taken to the cloud. We were looking for ways that we can analyze and introduce a more complete internal forensic analysis so that if an intrusion did not happen, we could have a visualization in which we could be constantly learning how to detect and ee anomalies and provide analysis for detection in real-time. 

We needed a solution that could handle analysis and offer automated detection with process intelligence. We were interested in threat prevention in real-time to help us detect anomalies, attempts, and atypical actions in any of the activities of the teams or users. The goal was to take advantage of that learning and detection. Machine learning supervises and analyzes in an advanced way everything that is happening in the cloud. It works within any type of cloud and can be integrated more so if we want to migrate or scale tomorrow, we can carry out this detection automatically.

The solution learns day by day. It learns from behavior, attacks, management, detections, captures packets, real-time analysis, et cetera. It's generating knowledge from a variety of sources for an excellent analysis. 

This allows us to move faster and have more efficient responses to incidents. It provides alerts for all these types of activities, achieving more objective management for packet capture and a combination of activities within the cloud environment.

I'd like to see more advanced encryption for local features, which is not present right now. We'd like to have more defined control when implementing intelligent analysis on the cloud. We'd like to extend analysis not just to crowds but to local teams for more granular analysis and advanced searchability.

I've used the solution for about a year and a bit.

Our primary use case for this solution is for basic cloud network security, posture management and threat hunting. The solution is deployed on cloud.

The solution assures protection on cloud and ensures the workload is protected in the same manner when deployed on-premises.

The threat prevention capabilities are very valuable.

The product's support team, the UI, and the user interface can be improved.

We have been using this solution for four years.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable. However, we have not needed to scale yet.

Our experience with technical support can be improved in terms of response time.

The initial setup was straightforward. Some processes were easy click-through processes which needed some configurations and technical expertise to set up. Hence, some technical expertise is required.

The solution is reasonably priced in comparison with other products.

I rate the solution seven out of ten. The solution is reliable and would fulfil what it is marketed to achieve. It provides very good security protection, but the customer support response times could be improved.

We use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for the firewall. The firewall protects our various customers in the optic cloud.

Check Point CloudGuard is quick to deploy and easy for the customer to use. The user interface is user-friendly and easy to use.

The solution is not that flexible when deploying on-prem.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for six months.

We have had many performance issues with Check Point CloudGuard on the cloud. The issue is with the OS version at this point.

Because we are in the demo phase of using Check Point CloudGuard, we only have a small amount of users, all in our IT department.

Personally, I have not had to reach out to customer service and support, however, I understand that our clients have many clinical issues.

Positive

The initial deployment is easy. The length of time to deploy depends on the number of customers, or the number of websites the customer has. It can take anywhere from one day to a few days to deploy Check Point CloudGuard.

We use an in-house technical team to deploy the solution.

Check Point CloudGuard is proving to be a good solution for both the profit of the company and for deployment for the customer.

Check Point CloudGuard is a suitable solution for many customers that are using the cloud.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of 10.

The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is the training.

The security of Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management could improve. There are always new security issues coming out.

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

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is a reliable solution.

The scalability of Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is good.

The support from Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is very good.

The initial setup of Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management difficulty depends on how you want to set it up. There are always some problems when you have to connect it to your cloud systems. However, this will only add time to the process.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is always known as a good solution but an expensive one. When you're using Cisco, Check Point, or Palo Alto, you know that you will pay more, but you know that it will work.

I rate Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management an eight out of ten.

We are integrators and implemented this product for a customer to monitor traffic and secure a network on cloud. This is a threat prevention solution and I'm the enterprise security lead. Our company is based in the Philippines and we are customers of Check Point. 

Deploying this solution has made it easier for our security analysts to monitor the network on cloud. Based on compliance, we can easily give evidence to different auditors or regulators on how to protect our cloud infrastructure. 

Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed. We can easily identify malicious activity and check for any vulnerabilities. The solution has great functionality and we can see the movement of data. If there's any malicious activity, we can easily stitch or make a story out of that data. I think when it comes to functionality, it's a good monitoring tool. 

The cost is a little high, it doesn't suit every budget. I'd like to see the ability to integrate with other security solutions which is not currently possible. If you need to integrate, you have to buy a Check Point product as well so you're paying for features. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable and I think they might increase their scope on different virtual, private clouds or private subnets. Monitoring involves anywhere from three to five people. 

When it comes to Check Point support, we just file a ticket on the portal. They respond based on the severity of the problem. They've been very responsive on inquiries and issues that we encountered although we haven't had any major issues.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. It's like running our VM on cloud, just speeding it up. When it comes to implementation strategy, we need to list all the assets or the traffic VLANs or network segmentation we want to monitor. From there, we assess how many nodes CloudGuard Network Security needs to monitor all those VLANs. It then takes two to three weeks to implement, given the likelihood of some challenges along the way. Deployment is carried out using a mix of Check Point engineers and in-house IT people. 

In terms of security solutions and return on investment, it's really about the total assets you're protecting.

If you're managing a large cloud infrastructure this is an expensive solution. Check Point has different bundles when it comes to CloudGuard and it's a modular system.

Before purchasing it's important to assess the size of your cloud infrastructure. You need to have a concrete plan for which virtual or private network or clouds you have to scope and to do that before deciding which solution you want and what functionality you need. 

I rate this solution eight out of 10 since there has been some improvement with regard to integrations.

We resell the CloudGuard Workload Protection product. If a customer comes to us looking for a CSM tool, for example, we evaluate their needs and suggest a good option, like this solution.

The way they offer container security is a big highlight that I have noticed. The solution is also agentless, so the scanning, runtime, really everything is offered directly by CloudGuard.

The technical support could be better, but I do not know of any other needed improvements.

My company has been involved with this solution for almost one year.

This is a stable product. 

The solution is scalable.

I would rate technical support as an eight out of ten. It has some room for improvement. 

Positive

The initial setup is really easy. On a scale of one to five, I would rate it as a five.

If your company's environment is more developer-focused, meaning it has more containers and is running on Kubernetes, I would certainly recommend choosing Checkpoint.

The most valuable feature is posture management, which gives you complete visibility of all your assets in the cloud and allows you to do governance and compliance.

CloudGuard could be improved by including integration with vendors other than AWS, especially Azure, especially in permissions. In the next release, I would like them to include some kind of online scanning on code in the development phase.

I've been working with this solution for two years.

CloudGuard is easy to implement.

For those looking into implementing CloudGuard, I would suggest contacting SharePoint professional services to get the job done easily. I would give CloudGuard a score of ten out of ten.