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Senior Security Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
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Enables us to manage all instances and accounts, whether Azure or AWS, through a single portal
Pros and Cons
  • "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."
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

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.

How has it helped my organization?

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.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

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.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Dome9 for two-plus years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's quite stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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.

How are customer service and support?

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.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did not have a previous solution.

How was the initial setup?

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.

What about the implementation team?

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

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

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.

What other advice do I have?

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.


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Top 5Leaderboard
Solution helps to ensure that we comply with our security measures
Pros and Cons
  • "On Dome9, you can have reports on compliance, users created, and EAM access to the cloud infrastructure. For example, if some machine is exposed to the Internet, importing and exporting to the Internet when it shouldn't, we get immediate alerts if someone does this type of configuration by mistake. Dome9 is very important because AWS doesn't protect us for this. It is the client's responsibility to make sure that we don't export things to the Internet. This solution helps us ensure that we comply with our security measures."
  • "The main issue that we found with Dome9 is that we have a default rule set with better recommendations that we want to use. So, you do a clone of that rule set, then you do some tweaks and customizations, but there is a problem. When they activate the default rule set with the recommendations and new security measures, it doesn't apply the new security measures to your clones profile. Therefore, you need to clone the profile again. We are already writing a report to Check Point."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case has been for auditing the cloud infrastructure in terms of security, because our company has been audited a lot of times. For the cloud, this is a tool that we use to audit the cloud environment. For example, all of the S3 buckets are encrypted to know if we don't have servers exposed to the Internet where they shouldn't be. This solution runs some compliance reports. That is why we use it.

We use it the most to check if things are complaint, because the compliancy checking is accurate.

How has it helped my organization?

On Dome9, you can have reports on compliance, users created, and EAM access to the cloud infrastructure. For example, if some machine is exposed to the Internet, importing and exporting to the Internet when it shouldn't, we get immediate alerts if someone does this type of configuration by mistake. Dome9 is very important because AWS doesn't protect us for this. It is the client's responsibility to make sure that we don't export things to the Internet. This solution helps us ensure that we comply with our security measures. 

We use the compliance rule set to run some reports on our infrastructure. According to the report, we know if we are secure or compliant with our security recommendations. We wanted a default security compliance toolset. So, we cloned it, then we did some customization of some security measures that we wanted. 

We run the compliance rule set report, then the InfoSec team receives that report. They go through it and see if we are compliant and need to do some security measures on some of it resources. It helps us towards visibility and security.

We use the solution to enable customizable governance using simple, readable language. We are not just stuck with the default rules set. If we think the security measures they recommend are not needed, then we can add some others instead, change them, or customize them.

What is most valuable?

We have full visibility of our cloud infrastructure in terms of compliance and security. For example, if someone has a machine that doesn't comply with the company policy, then we get an alert.

Security visibility is very good. Usually, when it's the security report, they match the reality and are correct, then they raise some alerts. Almost 100 percent of the time, we will need to do some tweaking to fix issues.

It is a very good tool for both cloud compliance and governance. We use it for both. We can monitor our entire cloud infrastructure. It provides reports on our security, then if we have to fix something in regards to the security, we can do it in a centralized tool. If you go to AWS and check each tool and server if it is compliant, then it's a mess, but this tool works. It is very simple for governance and reducing the risk.

The solution helps us to minimize attack surface and manage dynamic access. With Dome9, we are sure our machines are not exposed to the Internet. We have reports about users who access of our AWS accounts with the EAM function, which reduces our attack surface.

This solution provide a unified security solution across all major public clouds. We have all our infrastructure integrated on Dome9, so it provides us security on our entire cloud infrastructure, both AWS and Azure, which we are currently integrating. 

What needs improvement?

The main issue that we found with Dome9 is that we have a default rule set with better recommendations that we want to use. So, you do a clone of that rule set, then you do some tweaks and customizations, but there is a problem. When they activate the default rule set with the recommendations and new security measures, it doesn't apply the new security measures to your clones profile. Therefore, you need to clone the profile again. We are already writing a report to Check Point. I think they have solution to this issue.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using it for approximately a year and a half.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is very scalable since we only need to buy licenses for more protective items. However, the overall license is very protective.

Dome9 integrates security best practices and compliance regulations into the CI/CD, across cloud providers. We are also currently integrating our ancillary environment on the domain. At the moment, we have more than 500 servers and domes protected by Dome9. Therefore, it's a tool that can accomplish security for almost all call environments.

Dome9 is used by the technical team. It is utilized in production and nonproduction. It is also integrated with Azure along with Office 365.

Dome9 has 100 percent adoption rate, as all our environment will be integrated with it. 

There are two types of users:

  • My team who implements the domain.
  • The infrastructure team who looks at the report. There are three guys on the infrastructure team.

How are customer service and technical support?

I would rate the technical support an eight out of 10. We received a lot of support when implementing the solution directly with the product owners of Check Point, which is not their regular support. They were very useful and helpful, which was very good. We haven't had many complaints.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

The solution helps save our security team time. Before we had Dome9, our security team had to go through each problem and check it. Nowadays, we just need to analyze one report and use one tool. We don't have to go through all the accounts with all their data. Dome9 is saving them approximately 10 hours a week.

We implemented Dome9 as soon as we started having some production services on our current environment and started our cloud journey three years ago. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup process was very quick: Create the user on AWS, then you can log in and have all your information. On the domain side, it was very quick to log in with the account created on the AWS.

The deployment was one or two days. We had three remote session, where two of those sessions were about how it works. 

Our approach was to have our accounts on Dome9. After adding accounts, we ran some reports and compliance rule sets based on the security measure recommendations from Dome9 for our AWS product. We also went through the recommendations and made some changes on some of them. That is how we deployed the solution.

Our implementation strategy was to first only add the key accounts in the first stage, seeing how it worked. Then, after some weeks of working with it, we added the rest of the accounts to production.

What about the implementation team?

We did the initial setup directly with Check Point. They were very good and helpful because we were one of the first customers after they bought the domain company. They were very interested in helping us. We didn't have any complaints.

What was our ROI?

Dome9 helps developers save time. If you enable the remediate mode, then it will help you save time as it eliminates manual work. The reports also save time because you don't have to go into the tool and search for information. The reports save about five hours a week.

This solution has enabled us to reduce the number of employees involved in managing our cloud environment, especially the personnel who have had to analyze reports and implement security measures to mitigate risks. Before we had the tool, we had more people working on this task. Now, we only need one or two people to look through the report to review the risks.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Right now, we have licenses on 500 machines, and they are not cheap.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

They didn't find many other competitors for this type of domain and security tool.

The cloud providers give you the tools for their solutions to be secure, but they aren't easy to implement nor are they clear how to use because each tool that we have has its own security measures. This solution provides clarity for what you need to do to be secure in one centralized tool.

What other advice do I have?

Try it in read-only mode. 

We do not use remediation at the moment. We do the remediation manually, since we are still using Dome9 in read-only mode. I don't know if we will use the remediation in the future because we prefer to do it ourselves. We don't know what will be the impact of doing it automatically from the tool. 

If you use the remediate mode, which we currently don't use, it will leave you with automation to help out with your call environment for compliance. However, if we wanted to use it, we do have the tool.

Biggest lesson learnt: Securing the cloud is more difficult than we originally thought.

I would rate this solution as an eight out of 10.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Sr Manager IT Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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The IAM role gives us complete control over the cloud environment
Pros and Cons
  • "It helps us to analyze vulnerabilities way before they get installed in production and the web. It gives us more security in the production environment."
  • "Automatic remediation requires read/write access. When providing read/write access to third-party applications, this can add risk. It should have some options of triggering API calls to the cloud platform, which in turn, can make the required changes."

What is our primary use case?

  1. Visibility for cloud workloads, including server, serverless and Kubernetes.
  2. Security configuration review along with automatic remediation.
  3. Posture management and compliance for a complete cloud environment.
  4. Centralize visibility for a complete cloud environment of the workload hosted on multiple cloud platforms (AWS and Azure).
  5. Baseline for security policy as per the workload based on services, such as S3, EC2, etc.
  6. Visibility of an API call within the environment.
  7. IAM management providing access to the cloud network in a controlled manner.
  8. Alerts and notifications for any security breach/changes in the cloud environment.
  9. Flow visibility of traffic to and from the cloud environment.
  10. Real-time alerting for any security incidents.

They provide support for Azure, Amazon, GCP, and Alibaba. However, we just have AWS and Azure.

How has it helped my organization?

  1. Provides complete visibility of the workload hosted on different cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) along with multiple tenants. 
  2. Helps in enhancing security for cloud environments by providing reports, both in terms of security and compliance. 
  3. Provides complete visibility of traffic flowing to/from the cloud platform.
  4. Provides best practice policy that helps to strengthen the security of the workload.
  5. Assets inventory and API calls can happen from the cloud.
  6. Provides control in terms of accessing the cloud workload. As a policy is created, this will block direct access to the cloud environment in case the same is not define or approved in Dome9.

Security visibility with Dome9 is excellent. Normally, without this type of solution, especially if you have some workloads hosted on Azure, they give you minimal tools to be able to analyze the loss. There are different consoles that need to be checked for analyzing any incident. In the case of Dome9, it gives you the loss provided in a report on a centralized console. It gives you complete visibility, including the IP to IP Flow, which is happening from the workloads to the Internet or the Internet to the workloads. Even in case of getting a threat intelligence from Check Point, which we have the integration, if some workflows are communicating any suspicious IPs, then the reports are available on the flow logs. On top of that, it also provides a report where you will be able to find out from which location or country you are getting the traffic to your workloads. Therefore, if you want to block certain geo-locations from communicating with your network, then you can also do that using Dome9.

The workload, which was taking a day's time, now can be turned out within hours. We are able to analyze the logs in real-time. Previously, if we enabled some services, then the email needed to be sent to the security team who would do the scanning, might submit the reports, and post some action to be taken by the developers. Using this solution, we are getting the reports in real-time. The remediation can also be applied automatically. The developer can take the necessary action immediately. It provides us what action needs to be taken.

Unless we did some scanning, we used to not know that there were security flaws within particular services. However, by using Dome9, as it has complete visibility, we are getting those details much faster.

The firewall normally has been managed by security team. Admins can bypass through firewall to create any policy. They can go outside and downloading/uploading anything from their workloads. This solution provides that control as well.

What is most valuable?

  1. The IAM role gives us complete control over the cloud environment. In case someone tries to bypass and create a user or policy locally, which is not allowed or defined in Dome9, changes will be rolled back and a notification will be sent to the concerned team.
  2. It's always ON and available on a mobile device using the app.
  3. There is complete visibility of the traffic flow with threat intelligence provided from Check Point. It even provides communication detail on any suspicious IPs.
  4. Provides detailed information if some workload tries to directly access and bypass any firewall policy.
  5. Provides a granular level of reports along with issues based on compliance standards, which are defined depending upon organizational requirements.
  6. Task delegation as a particular incident can be assigned to a particular individual. The same can also be done manually or automatically.
  7. Customizes queries for detecting any incident.

The solution is pretty straightforward to use, as it is only a SaaS model. You just need to enable the accounts for which Dome9 needs to do validation, and that's it.

Compliance checking capabilities: When you enroll your account, we have multiple accounts. Once you enter that on Dome9, it does a complete scan of your account based on these flow logs. It checks: "What are the security flaws?" So, the compliance depends on the company and what they are using as a benchmark. Normally, for India, we use the CIS as a benchmark, then whatever flow logs are available, those are provided in the reports. Then, we check those compliance reports against the CIS benchmark, and accordingly, take actions. We can then know what are the deviation on the cloud platform and on the account, with respect to the CIS.

There are some use cases where you will not have reports readily available or not get the dashboard for particular outputs. You can create a query on the console for those, e.g., if a particular EXE file started on a workload, we can find out if that is running anywhere in the cloud. While it does not provide details on the process level, it will provide us with which sensor is communicating to which IP addresses as well as if there are any deviations from that pattern.

It has remediation capabilities, and there are two options available:

  1. You can do automatic remediation, where you need to define the policy for which unit that you are doing remediation. 
  2. It can be assigned to a particular team or group of people for its particular vulnerabilities of security flaws. That ticket can then be raised to service quotas be remediated manually.

What needs improvement?

  1. Policy validation should be available before it is deployed in a production environment using a cloud template.
  2. Automatic remediation requires read/write access. When providing read/write access to third-party applications, this can add risk. It should have some options of triggering API calls to the cloud platform, which in turn, can make the required changes.
  3. A number of security rules need to be added in order to identify more issues. 
  4. The reporting should have more options. The reports should be more granular.
  5. It should support all container platforms for visibility of a complete infrastructure single console, such as, PCF.

For how long have I used the solution?

Three months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Until now, we have not faced any issues in term of downtime or outages. It seems to be quite stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is not an issue. There are a number of workload licenses that need to be procured, then it is straightforward.

There are between eight to 10 security admins and auditors who have access to Dome9.

Our complete cloud workload is managed through Dome9.

How are customer service and technical support?

The support is excellent. They regularly review our cloud infrastructure and provide suggestions to help us have a better security posture.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Initially, we were using tools provided by the service provider, such as, ScoutSuite, AWS Config Rules, AWS Trusted Advisor, or Amazon GuardDuty for monitoring, and similar tools for Azure as well. Then, we needed to go through a different console to identify any incidents.

Initially, we used submit a report, but there was no remediation nor information provided how to remediate workload issues. In our current scenarios, we are able to get the complete visibility. The complete visibility of the solution has been a key to the increase in our productivity.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward. The only thing that was required from our side was a cloud template, which was provided by Dome9. We need to executed that template in our cloud environment for AWS and Azure. It automatically creates a read-only ID on the AWS platform for Dome9 to connect with. There is some configuration which needs to be done on Dome9 as well as AWS, but the deployment takes around 15 to 30 minutes.

What about the implementation team?

Check Point's team was available, but we implemented it in-house with our support team.

We don't require staff for deployment and maintenance of this solution.

What was our ROI?

As it is a security product, the ROI will not have that much importance because it is enhancing your security and/or providing more security to your infrastructure. If there are any security incidents, then Dome9 is able to protect us.

Initially, once the solution was deployed into production, then the scanning used to happen and we used to see the environment's visibility. In the current situation, as everyone is moving to the DevOps environment and using the CI/CD pipelines, it helps us to analyze vulnerabilities way before they get installed in production and the web. It gives us more security in the production environment.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The licensing and costs are straightforward, as they have a baseline of 100 workloads (number of instances) within one license with no additional nor hidden charges. If you want to have 200 workloads under Dome9, then you need to take out two licenses for that. Also, it does not have any impact on cloud billing, as data is shared using the API call. This is well within the limit of free API calls provided by the cloud provider.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro Cloud One Conformity.

Normally, the policies are accessible only on the browsers, e.g., if you compile them from Prisma Cloud, they're available as a part of a browser. However, for management users, especially for CIOs and CTOs, it becomes difficult for them to type URLs, then login. In the case of Dome9, they provide an app. With that app, you can directly login with single sign-on. It is much easier to access using the app compared to the browser option.

Most things are the same for all three providers. The major difference between Dome9 and Prisma is the IAM roles. The maturity of IAM roles available in Dome9 are much better than the other two solutions. Currently, our focus is mostly on what is happening and who is making the changes in the environment. Another thing is the visibility that Dome9 provides through its intel is better than the other two solutions.

The other two solutions have system capabilities better than Check Point.

I would recommend Prisma as well as Dome9 because they both have the visibility. In our case, the IAM was a critical piece of our requirements.

What other advice do I have?

The cloud and on-prem environments are completely two different networks.

They should offer the cloud in India. Soon, there will be GDPR and India will have its own data protection laws. This might create some issues in the case of the data residing outside India. Because we are collecting metadata from the internal networks for the cloud environment, this is the reason that I suggest that they should have some plans to have the cloud in India. However, neither Prisma nor Trend Micro have cloud in India.

I would rate this solution as an eight out of 10.

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Excellent efficiency and accuracy with very good cost-effectiveness
Pros and Cons
  • "The valuable features of Checkpoint CloudGuard CNAPP include its automation capabilities."
  • "Improvements can be made to the user interface."

What is our primary use case?

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is primarily designed to protect cloud-native applications and their underlying infrastructure from cyber threats. The primary use cases of this solution are comprehensive cloud security, workload protection, cloud security posture management, DevSecOps integration, threat detection and response, compliance and risk management.

How has it helped my organization?

Checkpoint CloudGuard Cnapp has improved efficiency, accuracy, cost-effectiveness, data-driven decision making and customer satisfaction.

What is most valuable?

The valuable features of Checkpoint CloudGuard CNAPP are automation capabilities, integration with existing systems, real-time analytics and reporting, customization and flexibility, security and compliance, scalability and growth support and a user-friendly interface.

What needs improvement?

Improvements can be made to the user interface, performance and reliability, security and compliance, and customer support.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for the past year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is good.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is nice.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No, I did not previously use a different solution. 

What about the implementation team?

The solution was set up via our in-house team.

What was our ROI?

The ROI is okay.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing and licensing can be improved.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No, I did not evaluate another solution. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Subgerente De Operaciones at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
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Top 20
Provides a lot of visibility and helps to maintain a good posture
Pros and Cons
  • "Visibility is a key feature. It helps me to validate my overall network posture."

    What is our primary use case?

    We use CloudGuard CNAPP to verify the posture management of our cloud gateway.

    How has it helped my organization?

    CloudGuard CNAPP helps us improve security, verify vulnerabilities, and understand overall network behaviors. It helps us to have greater visibility of the posture and the gateways that are in the cloud. It also helps us to see where the gaps are and how the attack levels are.

    CloudGuard CNAPP helps us a lot in being able to identify erroneous configurations or configurations that may not be as per the standard that we use internally or as per an international standard.

    CloudGuard CNAPP's Cloud Security Posture Management identifies the risks that are most critical to our business. In some cases, we could identify that our posture level dropped, and we were able to identify what we needed. We were able to make adjustments to be able to have an adequate level of protection.

    We use CloudGuard CNAPP's CloudGuard Workload Protection capabilities. We have several gateways, and within them, or between our clouds, we are protecting everything, such as servers and containers. In this way, we maintain complete protection, and logically, we have visibility into everything that enters and leaves our premises and our cloud.

    The scanning provided by CloudGuard Workload Protection helps us identify problems before they go live.

    What is most valuable?

    Visibility is a key feature. It helps me to validate my overall network posture.

    What needs improvement?

    In a general sense, it is a tremendous solution. We have got good use out of it. From what I see, it is also well-positioned in the market. I understand that it is among the best solutions.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have been using CloudGuard CNAPP for about five years. 

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    Its scalability potential is good.

    How are customer service and support?

    Their support is excellent.

    How would you rate customer service and support?

    Positive

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    We did not use a similar solution previously.

    How was the initial setup?

    We use Azure Cloud and AWS Cloud. The deployment was very easy. We worked with Check Point for implementation.

    What about the implementation team?

    We took Check Point's help with implementation.

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    We did not evaluate any other solution.

    What other advice do I have?

    I would rate CloudGuard CNAPP a ten out of ten. It is an excellent solution. When we used it for the first time, we verified that this solution was on top of other solutions. This platform has helped us to maintain a posture with a lot of visibility. It helps us a lot.

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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    Emanuel Kjellin - PeerSpot reviewer
    Cloud Analyst at Cloud2Go
    Real User
    Top 20
    Has great support and helped us analyze the security of our Azure environment
    Pros and Cons
    • "The most valuable feature is the separate environment."
    • "The license cost is expensive and has room for improvement."

    What is our primary use case?

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

    How has it helped my organization?

    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.

    What is most valuable?

    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.

    What needs improvement?

    The license cost is expensive and has room for improvement.

    For how long have I used the solution?

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

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    I give the stability a nine out of ten.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    I give the scalability a nine out of ten.

    How are customer service and support?

    The technical support is great.

    How would you rate customer service and support?

    Positive

    How was the initial setup?

    The initial setup is straightforward.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    The license fee is high.

    What other advice do I have?

    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.

    Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

    Public Cloud

    If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

    Microsoft Azure
    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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    PeerSpot user
    Security IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
    Real User
    Top 20
    CloudGuard Intelligence - Infinity Portal
    Pros and Cons
    • "The ability to integrate it with Microsoft Azure Sentinel allows us to validate the logs in an even more complex and meaningful way."

      What is our primary use case?

      We required a tool for our Microsoft Azure environment to validate and find threats under machine learning, forensic validations, and extremely important reports for the company to determine possible vulnerabilities and change the infrastructure to improve the security posture of our public cloud environment.

      We also needed an environment that could show us monitoring and dashboards of value to improve our security easily.

      One of the most important details to monitor is the network in our infrastructure, based on those requirements, we look for a tool, in this case, Check Point.

      How has it helped my organization?

      The Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence tool helped us perfectly with the search for a cloud security posture for our environments and security in the Microsoft Azure cloud, a centralized environment, and has great features within the tool, such as forensic analysis. In case of any vulnerability, we had to determine what happened.

      As for the reports, we could help determine what happened, valuable details which allowed us to generate greater security according to the values shown.

      What is most valuable?

      The most important features that we like in Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence are the centralization of the security environment within the Check Point Infinity Portal, which already has other security tools that we have and that can also be managed from this site.

      Forensic analysis is one of the features we liked a lot since it is easy to understand and helps us improve security.

      The ability to integrate it with Microsoft Azure Sentinel allows us to validate the logs in an even more complex and meaningful way.

      What needs improvement?

      Something that needs to be improved little by little in tools like Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence is the lowering of costs as some customers can't buy such a solution. They could also sell it based on various versions for different customers and various business needs.

      It is also important to improve performance issues at the Infinity Portal level, which is sometimes slow, yet not always.

      We would like there to be more public documentation to generate implementations with best practices.

      For how long have I used the solution?

      We started using the application no more than a year ago. It's excellent for the analysis of the public cloud infrastructure.

      What do I think about the stability of the solution?

      This is a really stable solution.

      What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

      The solution is incredibly scalable and managed by Check Point Infinity Portal infrastructure.

      Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

      We had never used or known a tool like Check Point CloudGuard.

      What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

      The best option is to have a partner who helps them with support in addition to helping with cost issues since pricing is not public.

      Which other solutions did I evaluate?

      We always value various issues such as centralized environments, costs, and support, among other details to make the best decision. Even so, with this validation, the best option for our company is Check Point.

      Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

      Hybrid Cloud

      If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

      Microsoft Azure
      Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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      PeerSpot user
      Security IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
      Real User
      Top 20
      Excellent dashboards - automations
      Pros and Cons
      • "The tool is also very intuitive; its dashboards are very complete and provide a lot of valuable information for decision-making to improve security."
      • "The Check Point Infinity admin portal sometimes freezes."

      What is our primary use case?

      Our developers work in our Microsoft Azure public cloud environment, where they build applications and app service sites. These developments did not always avoid vulnerabilities, so we required a tool to guarantee that these environments complied with robust security measures to avoid attacks including identity theft, and denial of services, among others. We needed to protect from damage to the operation or hijacking of our data which would prevent the internal operation of the company. Thanks to this tool, we could cover ourselves and our environment safely.

      How has it helped my organization?

      The importance of having a security tool for our developers' workloads; most of the time, our apps services use identities to log in against databases, generating a possible loss of data and credentials. 

      Thanks to Check Ppoint CloudGuard Workload Protection, we were able to provide assessments to verify security problems, best practices, and changes that were listed from the solution portal to be able to correct them both automatically and manually, achieving safe environments.

      What is most valuable?

      Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection is a very important tool for the company and developers. The characteristic that caught our attention the most was that it is a native solution and was created for cloud application protection that was automated.

      This solution not only provides recommendations or best practices for applications that are already finished or productive. However, we can protect from the beginning of development to testing and production, having recommendations and improvements throughout the process.

      The tool is also very intuitive; its dashboards are very complete and provide a lot of valuable information for decision-making to improve security.

      What needs improvement?

      Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection is a very powerful, comprehensive, centralized tool but also a very expensive solution. It is worth it, however, it is not available to everyone.

      The Check Point Infinity admin portal sometimes freezes.

      There is little documentation for the implementation and start-up of some configurations. They could improve the public documentation to be able to generate the help that the client requires to be able to generate the correct and effective provisioning.

      For how long have I used the solution?

      This is an excellent security tool for the workload of the company's internal developers; we have used this technology in the last year with very encouraging results.

      What do I think about the stability of the solution?

      I really like the solution.

      What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

      This product offers excellent availability; its scaling is managed by the manufacturer.

      Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

      A centralized tool with the potential of Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection is not found in other manufacturers. We have not had such a solid and secure solution.

      What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

      The recommendation is always to have a provider or a partner that can generate and answer all questions about the solutions and provide costs and analysis to see if the solutions are what the company needs.

      Which other solutions did I evaluate?

      Before implementing this solution, we validated solutions from other manufacturers such as Fortinet and Cisco. However, the benefits provided by Check Point exceeded the validations, and we chose CloudGuard.

      What other advice do I have?

      It is an excellent security tool for dev departments and the entire company.

      Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

      Hybrid Cloud
      Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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