Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP Reviews

CloudGuard is a tool for evaluating the health and configuration of an account. We primarily use it for AWS, but we also use it for Azure. I also use it for inventory and historical reporting.

We work with 50 AWS accounts. Four teams across a couple of time zones use CloudGuard. Our security and DevOps teams are the primary users, but the support team occasionally uses it. Management consumes the output and the reports. I think it makes them feel good, so that's nice. 

I haven't dipped into CloudGuard's agentless or shift-left capabilities, but I'm interested. Unfortunately, I'm strapped for resources and time and haven't been able to get more value out of my tooling. I'd like to, but I haven't had a good chance to look at that yet.

I recently transitioned into a management and architecture role. CloudGuard helped me delegate to my engineers the day-to-day tasks of operational care and feeding and health assessments of the environments. I previously spent more time building rules and implementing automatic remediations. Now, I let it fly, and my engineers operate it. 

I helped with the design and build, and I was originally in charge of the run. I've now handed off the run, which enabled me to do more. I think it helped those guys to be effective and do more. I'd say it freed up the equivalent of a quarter to an eighth of an FTE.

CloudGuard allows us to scale. As we bring on customers, more accounts come online, and more platforms are deployed in our environment, I don't have to scale my team linearly with the growth of our product. These rules work over and over on the number of accounts. I think that's a place where it will help us as our customer base grows.

The security operations team saved some time. I'm on the team, so I do a lot with this. It's one of the essential tools. Depending on the incident, Check Point can be extremely helpful in understanding the configuration. I use it ad hoc or tactically in those conditions. At the same time, other operations or security incidents are out of view of Check Point and Dome9, so it doesn't come into play. When the problem is at the account or configuration level, it makes remediation and troubleshooting an investigation easier.

It saves time because I can look across the organization. Instead of checking 50 different accounts atomically and spending 15 minutes investigating each, I can spend 15 minutes exploring all 50 accounts. It allows me to quickly look across the org for similar problems when one comes up. That's a huge time saver. 

The most valuable feature is the ability to create a reference rule set and use that to evaluate an account's health. It provides daily reports on any drift from that rule set and real-time alerts. Some of the automated remediations are also helpful.

I like the GSL Builder, which helped us reduce human error. It helps answer a question quickly in real-time that I might not want to put into a specific rule that I evaluate across all my accounts all the time. In many cases, we've built rules that we consider everywhere for the posture of all our essential accounts. However, I often work on an issue or question, and I just want to see who has this configuration or misconfiguration. GSL Builder lets me quickly locate all the S3 buckets with a faulty configuration. I use it tactically like that sometimes.

I'd be sad if it went away. However, you couldn't throw an inexperienced person at it and expect them to get any value from it without some handholding or spending time to read the documentation and think about it. You must know about the asset you interrogate to write a good rule or to do a good evaluation. That isn't a Check Point problem, but it's a general issue in cloud security. 

CloudGuard offers several pre-packaged rules for various evaluations, such as NIST, 853, etc. I went through them, found 50 rules I think are handy, and put them into a custom rule set. Then, I spent time writing about 30 rules specific to my environment. I use those to evaluate the health of my accounts continuously. 

We check health insurer information because all this data is highly confidential and protected by HIPAA. We use these rules to evaluate our cloud properties constantly. I can't imagine the time that would take to perform this kind of evaluation by hand or using another tool. That's why we have Check Point.

There are many auto-remediations available. We use a few and wrote a couple of our own. It's an excellent risk management tool. We use it because we're so paranoid about the security of our environment. I've used this tool at other companies in different industries, and they've been apprehensive about automatic remediation. It depends on the part of the world you live in. I use it, and it stopped problems, so I've gotten tremendous value from auto-remediation.

The ability to prioritize alerts has been handy. It enables me to focus on critical issues instead of common misconfiguration. The visibility into my workloads is pretty good but not great. I don't use it at a granular level. I'm primarily focused on protecting my overall cloud posture and the health of the account with CloudGuard, but I also look for some common misconfigurations that might be workload-induced.

Making basic rules is easy, but it's complex if you want to do something a little more nuanced. I've been unable to make some rules that I wanted. I couldn't evaluate some values or parameters of the components I look for. I haven't always been able to assess them.

It feels like some attributes of resources can't be interrogated through the GSL the way I would like. For example, I wanted to figure out all the systems launched with a particular image that had been running for 31 days or more. Until I talked to the Dome9 people and the support team, I didn't understand how to frame that query in GSL. The support team told me how to do it, but I couldn't figure it out alone. The documentation is a little unclear about how to do some of those configurations. More tutorials and examples on the blogs and support pages would be helpful. 

I had another problem when we tried to encrypt all of our storage volumes. There is a feature called batch jobs or Elastic MapReduce jobs. CloudGuard sometimes can't detect the encryption status of the underlying disks of those systems that process my workloads. It pops up with a bunch of alerts that say, "Non-encrypted volumes have been found in your account." 

Those jobs are dynamic, so they spin up, run for an hour or two, and all the systems are destroyed. By the time I checked it, all the systems were gone. CloudGuard threw a bunch of alerts in the middle of the night when all these things happened, and I went back to evaluate the configuration. I know they were all encrypted because I can see how it was deployed. It didn't have a great insight into my actual workload, but it generally tells me when people launch unencrypted things. It isn't perfect, but it's okay.

I have used CloudGuard for three years.

CloudGuard has been solidly stable. I'd say nearly perfect.

CloudGuard's scalability is decent. They're switching to a new onboarding methodology that I'm not in love with, but I think we'll find a way to make it work and continue to scale. It has been good.

I rate Check Point's support an eight out of ten. I've contacted them with a few questions or issues and always had good support experiences with them. I'm not a huge customer paying millions of dollars a year. I work for a small startup on the bleeding edge of technology, and I feel like Check Point and Dome9 meet me where I am. 

It wasn't trying to shove a network firewall, like a data center security tool, down my throat. Palo Alto and Check Point are old-school network security appliance vendors that are out of their depth in cloud security, so they bought tools like bought Twistlock and Dome9. Check Point's acquisition and management of Dome9 have been excellent. I can still talk to people at Dome9 and get support for this tooling, but it has been difficult for me to do that with their competitors. 

Positive

I've used Palo Alto Prisma Cloud, but I've also used Palo Alto's Cloud Security Posture Management tooling. I prefer Check Point, which is why we have it.

I still have both solutions, but I use Palo Alto for something else. I use Twistlock, a Prisma Cloud module, for runtime protection of containerized workloads. I also use Dome9 for CSPM. I did not like using Prisma Cloud for CSPM because I did not care for the rule language or configuration. 

Also, I feel like Check Point, and Dome9 listen to their users. If I'm dying for a new feature to improve the solution, they would hear me out and consider it. I guarantee you that Palo Alto doesn't care.

Deploying CloudGuard is straightforward. I deployed it and configured the auto-remediation alone, but I also worked with another architect to discuss the design and workshop some ideas, so we could say a team of two deployed it.
After deployment, maintenance has been very low.

We've seen a return. It still makes sense to write a check. I can't imagine going back to doing it the way I did before. It's essential for my compliance program to have this tool in place. If I could save the $100,000 or more I pay annually and use cloud-native tools, the additional time I would spend tuning and doing everything I'm doing with CloudGuard wouldn't be worth it, at least not in the first year. 

CloudGuard is fairly priced.

I rate Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management an eight out of ten. I advise new users to start with a defined list of goals or problems and implement the solution in a way that initially prioritizes their most significant issues or primary goals. Don't try to boil the ocean. In other words, don't enable all the features and do everything at once. They will be overloaded unless they know what they're doing. Go feature by feature, function by function, and area by area. Determine where your critical risks are and implement the solution based on that knowledge.

I think there are some benefits to using a third-party tool. For example, these tools might simplify and enrich features or offer focus. You're adding another view or pane of glass to your security world, but once you start to look across clouds, it becomes interesting. I have to write all my own rules for Azure and AWS. At the same time, I can get the same report delivered to my inbox that I can then feed to my executives, showing them the health of these cloud properties. 

It looks cohesive and coherent instead of using separate native tools for AWS, GCP, Alibaba, and Azure and trying to compile all those reports and metrics. At least I can distill my posture into a commonsense readable score and transmit that to the executives. I can tell them, "Our posture's at 98% compliance." They can comprehend that and compare the scores from week to week. It helps me from a reporting angle.

This software protects cloud data from security malpractices and enhances policy compliance. 

It provides full data visualization of saved workloads and workflows that runs across the organization. 

Posture Management provides data analytics from network security, enabling departments to monitor work processes effectively. 

It has deployed automatic security models across the cloud computing infrastructure to enhance best data protection practices. 

The database management team has fully benefited since we secured this product due to increased efficiency.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has created the best data management environment that can easily monitor workloads from the entire company networking system. 

It offers advanced detection of threats that can harm data from the cloud database. 

It has saved the cost and time used before to monitor the security status of our infrastructure manually. 

The modern platform has upgraded technological models that enhance faster data transfer from one server to the other. 

It has allowed the IT team to scale and develop suitable security policies that track our daily activities.

The data governance features have comprehensive security features that block malware attacks. 

The security automation functionalities accelerate performance and close all insecurity loopholes that can expose company data to unauthorized users. 

The integrated customized security setups have complied with the set security rule sets. 

The intelligence security insights enable teams to set reliable awareness that can caution them when there are negative data threats. 

The dashboards provide summarized data representations that can be analyzed for improved performance.

The entire system is complicated, and the setup process may not cater to the company's demands. 

Tiny misconfigurations may not be detected in advance and can easily affect performance from some cloud servers. 

When the platform is overloaded with a lot of tasks at the same time, it can delay results and lead to poor security responses. 

The cost is high for small businesses that have no stable revenue-generation assets. 

Security and compliance posture reports created from the audited results have confirmed that we are doing well and the organization has stable security tools.

I've used the solution for one year.

The product has maintained a stable performance from the time of deployment.

I am happy with scaling since there is comprehensive security compliance in the organization.

We usually have a close and productive relationship with the support team.

Positive

I have not yet switched to another software.

The setup was complicated, however, the vendor support team provided effective guidelines.

We implemented the solution through a vendor.

We have recorded a high ROI growth rate.

The setup cost is good, and the pricing depends on the size of the company.

We negotiated with other service providers. The best bid came from Check Point.

We have achieved the set objectives with Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management.

We are at a point where we must have security at the level of the cloud that we were managing, and we reached a point where this need led us to use the alliance we had with Check Point. It was one of their solutions that came to give us analysis value. 

It offers threat security forensics through machine learning visualization and analyzes real-time and cloud anomalies. With it, we provide that security line for our two public clouds in which we have resources and applications.

This solution provides threat prevention and detection of anomalies automatically and investigates the activity of each one of them. It offers actionable intelligence with intuitive visualization and queries of alerts and notifications that are customizable based on the activities found.

All these benefits and features that Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence offers have helped us to achieve a security posture in our cloud environments, being safer and more efficient, enhancing a state-of-the-art level of security at the end of the day or year. 

One of its excellent or outstanding characteristics is having a contextualized visualization of the entire public cloud infrastructure and its security analysis, which helps us see and detect any intrusion in real-time. 

It is also possible to take advantage of its cloud bot technology and advanced encryption, thus the analysis of entry and exit of our cloud environment and identifying any unwanted agent or any incorrect configuration. According to those events, we can respond and take action against those activities.

I would like an interface more adapted to cell phones or tablets. In its web version, it is quite efficient, however, I would like this improvement and the possibility of action to be able to enjoy and manage even the identity and administration under applications optimized in said function - whether they are iOS or Android. 

Another feature that I would like is being able to carry out more frequent assessments on the solution with direct Check Point teams. 

We've used the solution for one year.

We did not previously use a different solution.

We did not evaluate other options. 

CloudGuard is a SaaS security solution that handles compliance and security for cloud.

There are two major functions, and the first is to operate as a central firewall monitoring and management system in the cloud. We have more than 100 firewalls in the cloud, and CloudGuard allows us to manage them.

The second function is its role as a compliance suite that helps you in keeping your cloud platforms compliant with PCI or ISO 27001.

For the most part, this is what I used it for. In the beginning, CloudGuard did not have many features. There were only these two.

Using CloudGuard, I was able to manage a multi-cloud platform based on AWS, Azure, and Google for a multinational company in Europe with only three engineers.

CloudGuard enables customizable governance using simple, readable language. The biggest advantage is that when there are things to be changed because of compliance problems, the engineers receive a plain-language text that instructs them on what to do. This also means that you don't have to have as many cloud specialists available.

The two most valuable features for us are the central firewall administrator and the real-time cloud compliance monitoring. The vendor has been building on these features, but they are the two that are most important for us.

With respect to how the compliance frameworks affect our security and compliance operations, it is important to consider that first of all, in the cloud, anybody can change a firewall. We wanted to have a central firewall administrator, with our more than 100 firewalls, so that we could make sure that our platform would stay secure. CloudGuard alerts if somebody replaces something and puts it back, which is the biggest feature that we wanted.

Then, as an added feature, they have a real-time audit platform where you constantly have audits of your clouds to see that engineers don't forget to put all of the compliance in place.

CloudGuard's accuracy when it comes to compliance checking is very good, and it is done in real-time. I would rate it a nine out of ten. It is not perfect because sometimes you have false positives, although I don't think that you can get rid of them entirely. Overall, for compliance and diverse compliance methodologies, I would rate it a nine.

On the topic of accuracy, I would rate remediation a nine out of ten as well. It is easy to do because it is written in plain language, and also because there is a manual on how to remediate.

The false positives can be annoying at times.

We have been using CloudGuardfor five years.

My experience with CloudGuard began about five and a half years ago when I was working with a company that was building a multi-cloud platform. I was one of the first customers for CloudGuard, before the Check Point acquisition, and I was using it to manage my multi-cloud platform.

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. It has always worked and I've never had a bad thing happen with it. In the beginning, when they introduced new features during beta testing, there were issues. However, it was always stable.

CloudGuard is a SaaS solution, so it scales with your cloud. When you get hundreds of firewalls, perhaps 200 or 300 of one, then the complexity becomes the same in CloudGuard as the thing that you want to solve in the cloud, so I don't think that they can extend to that.

I have a deployment that is European-wide, multi-cloud, with approximately 480 virtual machines. There were a lot of other components as well, so it was a really huge use case.

The technical support from CloudGuard is really good. In fact, for me at the time, it was really good because I had direct access to the American team, so I just had to call if there was an issue. I also had monthly meetings with them to discuss things to improve and see if their service was okay for us.

Positive

Initially, we used another solution but that was not for firewall security. Rather, it was for compliance.

The initial setup is really easy. Just submit the cloud key. It takes between an hour and two hours to deploy. When I installed it, the process did not take longer than an hour.

My implementation strategy fits into the way I design secure private clouds or multi-clouds, based on public cloud providers. It's almost a necessity. You can do it in other ways by using the local ACLs, etc, but then it becomes cumbersome. CloudGuard takes a lot of the work out of it and gives you a single point to manage all of your security firewalls.

I deployed CloudGuard myself. In my previous role, I was the head of cloud development and I directed two out of the three engineers in the team.

In the beginning, the price of CloudGuard was cheap, whereas now it is not.

I haven't gotten the latest pricing, but my advice is that you need to balance it out with your cloud business cases. It all depends on how many machines, servers, and the size of the cloud that you have. It's probably not useful if you have only a few machines and some network security groups to manage them. In this case, it's not something that you need.

I did evaluate another tool initially. I cannot recall the name but it had ".io" after it. Ultimately, we decided not to use it because it only had the compliance component and it was more expensive.

The native cloud security controls provided by the cloud vendors, when it comes to features like transparency and customization, are very weak. That's why you need CloudGuard. On their own, I would rate the native cloud security controls a four out of ten. They are complex, and the biggest issue is that it's difficult to secure if you want to centralize your security operation.

When maintaining and scaling security services and configurations across multiple public clouds using CloudGuard, versus using native cloud security controls, I find that it is much better. It's the same interface in CloudGuard, regardless of the cloud. Of course, your firewall administrator still needs to have knowledge of what he's doing. That doesn't change. The important point is that the interface is much better and it doesn't change between cloud environments.

I would rate the accuracy of the security visibility slightly lower than nine out of ten because it's still complex to do, even with CloudGuard. The biggest feature of CloudGuard is that it rolls back the changes when somebody has changed it in the cloud without authorization, yet the complexity of managing a lot of firewalls is still there. I would rate the accuracy of security visibility a seven and a half or eight out of ten.

I would rate the solution's comprehensiveness for cloud compliance and governance an eight out of ten. The false positives are a little bit annoying at times.

CloudGuard helps to minimize the attack surface and manage dynamic access, although I didn't use the dynamic access in my setup. For my use case, it was primarily minimizing the internal attack surface because I didn't use it for external connections. I had a different role there. When you only have three engineers, you need to trust them. The reason that we used CloudGuard was to be able to do it with a few engineers.

CloudGuard provides a unified security solution across AWS, Azure, and Google, but not for anything else. To that end, I don't think that any other cloud provider would be a market contender at this point, and Google will probably even disappear after a while.

My advice for anybody who is considering CloudGuard is to try it. If you're looking to manage a large security defense platform, in-depth, with a lot of firewalls, try it and you'll be surprised.

One of the things that I learned from using CloudGuard was that it offered support for compliance. I was originally just looking for a way to manage all of these firewalls, and that came as a pleasant surprise. It helped us a lot with our ISO 27000 and PCI certification.

Overall, in terms of functionality, CloudGuard is fairly well made.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

CloudGuard constantly monitors cloud systems for misconfigurations and vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit. Many processes associated with cloud security management, such as asset detection, risk assessment, and remediation, are automated by CloudGuard. This allows security teams to concentrate on more strategic efforts. CloudGuard is intended to assist organizations in securing their cloud environments by continuously monitoring and analyzing cloud setups for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance violations.

Many of the duties associated with maintaining cloud security are automated by CloudGuard, including asset detection, risk assessment, and remediation. 

In addition to improving compliance, this frees up security personnel to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and enables organizations to adhere to industry standards and laws like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. 

It offers security advice and insights to assist organizations in acting quickly to address concerns. It also has automated remediation capabilities to address found problems and automatically enact security policies.

The asset detection, risk assessment, and remediation processes are only a few of the duties that CloudGuard automates while managing cloud security. This improves compliance, enables organizations to adhere to industry standards and laws like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, and frees up security personnel to concentrate on more strategic objectives. 

It offers security insights and recommendations to assist organizations in acting and remediating issues swiftly. It also has automated remediation capabilities to address found issues and automatically enforce security policies.

Compliance checks on cloud resources against various industry standards and compliance framework templates need to be improved, to ensure that organizations meet regulatory requirements with clear visibility action controls. This can make it difficult to create and manage custom security policies. 

Cloud security posture management is a proprietary solution, which means that there is no open-source community to support it. This can make it difficult to get help with troubleshooting and other issues.

We have been adopting the solution for more than a year.

CloudGuard is known for being highly scalable and reliable. It handles big cloud workloads with ease and may be implemented in complex cloud infrastructures.

In terms of cloud solutions, the scalability was a fairly simple and entirely software-driven approach.

The customer support is good and offers regularly updated new features and security patches. This ensures that CloudGuard is always protected against the most advanced threats.

Positive

We adopted our cloud journey last year, and while developing the cloud, we took all security precautions. CSPM was a priority solution, and we have apt.

We implemented CSPM in 30 days. Since the solution was simple to implement and the transition was painless, we added many of our cloud environments.

We implemented the solution through a partner.

CloudGuard's return on investment (ROI) varies based on the organization and its cloud environment.

CSPM is an invaluable resource for any organization that makes use of cloud computing. It can assist organizations in improving their cloud security posture, reducing the risk of cyberattacks, and adhering to industry norms and regulations.

We evolved various CSPM tools such as PAN, TRELIX, and Fortinet, however, our management opted to install CloudGuard as a strategic step.

CloudGuard provides a comprehensive set of security solutions for cloud environments.

In recent years, in search of a new strategy, we have tried to strengthen our security and infrastructure posture, being one of the fundamental pillars of a large organization. 

As a result of this situation, we have begun to adapt using solutions that support us at the cloud and on-premise. Posture Management is the solution that supports us in this search for a healthy, strong infrastructure and, above all, is aligned with the legal and regulatory frameworks at an international level.

This tool is very integrated for emerging infrastructures such as the cloud. It comes to support us with this new legal framework. Ideas, opinions, and regulations serve as a baseline to protect us from new methods or attacks. Without this legal framework, it would become more difficult, as many organizations are new to the use of the cloud. This solution gives us support from the experts who have been first in this model of infrastructure and services. We can ensure that by following and adapting our needs based on these guidelines we will be a great organization with a strong vision and a great security framework established to protect us. 

We like the ability to investigate, analyze, and generate reports.

Its most notable feature is to extend the analytics it performs to teams in any available cloud. 

We can collect analysis and be able to transform in such a way that the data provided allows us to find great value in institutional security. We can support each other to be better and more efficient daily. 

Currently, I would like this solution extended to cellular devices or tablets. This will be able to allow us to be more efficient.

I've used the solution for one year.

We use Dome9 for security groups on the AWS/Azure side. We use it for inventory purposes, to gather all of the accounts into one single view. We do some governance and compliance in it as well.

The solution enables customizable governance using simple readable language. It all depends on how you customize it. If you customize it properly, you'll definitely have full visibility of the environment.

Similarly, if it's customized well it helps minimize attack surface. For example, you can lock the security groups to be managed only through Dome9, so any change made directly on AWS would be reverted by Dome9. That helps minimize the risk.

In addition, it integrates security best practices and compliance regulations into the CI/CD, across cloud providers. You can set up the automation so that if any group is created outside of Dome9, it is reverted. You can also run scheduling functionality to identify anything that is not compliant.

It also helps developers save time and increase their productivity. If they save time they have more time to do other things, whether within Dome9 or elsewhere. The features that are offered by Dome9 definitely make developers more productive. I would estimate it saves 10 to 15 percent of their time. And it absolutely saves time and increases productivity for security teams, by about 20 percent.

Another benefit is that Dome9 provides a unified security solution across all major public clouds. You manage all the instances and all the different accounts, whether Azure or AWS, through a single portal. Otherwise, with AWS, for example, you would have to log in to each account individually, and if you wanted to run reports, you would have to do it at the account level. If you have ten accounts, you'd have to go through ten accounts. Whereas, with Dome9, you can see all of the accounts in one place, run one query, and obtain everything. And you can play around with the report in Excel and filter it for what account you want to look at.

The audit feature is the most valuable for compliance reasons. It gives you a full view of the whole environment, no matter how many accounts you have in AWS or Azure. You have it all under one umbrella.

We use solution’s security rule sets and compliance frameworks and, again, for compliance purposes, we do have the full view. We see all of our vulnerable, open ports and open IPs. Its comprehensiveness for cloud compliance and governance is good. If it was not a good product that defines all aspects of cloud security, we would not be using it.

Also, Dome9’s accuracy when it comes to compliance checking is a nine out of 10. I would not give it a ten because sometimes the report is returning something and when we look at it on the AWS side, it's not exactly the way it showed on the report, because of the layout of the report. The accuracy of the security visibility is a nine out of 10. I give it a high score because we have full security visibility over the incidents and the groups, everything that is related to AWS. It's not a ten because sometimes you have to look in different places to get the full visibility, as it's not all gathered in the same place.

The accuracy of its remediation is a 7.5 out of 10. Before, I would have given it a ten but now, to handle remediation for fully qualified domain names, it's not working as it did in the past. We're finding some difficulties there.

Also, as soon as Check Point took over the solution, the feature that identifies and creates security groups based on fully qualified domain names, instead of IP addresses, was degraded.

I have been using Dome9 for two-plus years. 

It's quite stable.

It scales well.

In terms of increasing usage, it all depends on the size of the company. If we grow, the number of the users will grow as well.

The support for Dome9 is not thrilling. It was degraded when Check Point took over. Support needs a push. When Check Point bought the solution, they did not fully understand it. So when we called support, we would get sent in different directions before someone knew what we were talking about. I would rate the support at five out of 10.

We did not have a previous solution.

The initial setup of the solution was straightforward for me as a professional working in the cloud environment. For someone else who is a beginner or not familiar with cloud products, he or she might find it a bit difficult. It all depends on the level of knowledge that each person has.

The deployment took a week or two, and that was not full-time.

We have about ten users of the solution, including security engineers, analysts, cloud engineers, enterprise engineers, and architects.

We had a sales engineer from Dome9 and he gave us a push. The support they provided back then was good.

When looking at the native cloud security controls provided by our cloud vendors, when it comes to features like transparency and customization, I would give full credit to Dome9. If the  cloud vendors did offer what Dome9 is offering, we would not be using Dome9. We use Dome9 because of the features it offers.

As for maintaining and scaling security services and configurations across multiple public clouds, it depends. If I have one account, it will take me the same amount of time to do it, whether in Dome9 or directly on the cloud vendor's portal. But if I have, say, five AWS accounts and I want to implement a change, I would have to do it five times to those five different accounts. In Dome9, I can do it one time for all five accounts.

We did look at other vendors' solutions, in addition to Dome9. Back then, the FQDN was compatible and that was one of the main features that pushed us to select Dome9.

Scale it right the very first time and you will be happy. You need to have cloud knowledge to do so. If you don't, outsource that task to a vendor, to a contractor, or to Dome9. By getting it right the very first time, you are starting on a good basis. If you don't do it right, you're not going to take full advantage of the features being offered by Dome9.

We want network security through machine learning. The product offers threat detection and intelligence for the endpoints. It also provides real-time information on application security. 

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP's initial configuration is very easy. It is plug-and-play. It also gives regular updates. 

The tool should incorporate more use cases like improving security scores. It should also improve documentation.  

I have been using the product for a year. 

The product is stable. 

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is scalable. My company has more than 1000 users. 

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP's support is very good. 

Positive

The tool's deployment is very easy and takes two weeks to complete. We need engineers to install the product. You need to ensure the overall device landscape before the product's installation. Its maintenance is easy. 

I can get 50-60 percent ROI with the tool's use. 

The tool's pricing is moderate. Its licensing costs are yearly. 

The solution helps to improve security scores, which is important for auditing and compliance. I rate it a nine out of ten.