Human Resources Executive at Randstad Nederland
User
Top 20
Easy to set up with helpful support and protects against data loss
Pros and Cons
  • "This solution has saved the company from unnecessary data loss that occurs due to cyber attacks."
  • "The reporting dashboard responds slowly, which leads to late report compilation."

What is our primary use case?

This tool provides organizations with full security visualization data. It enables each department to discover the best security practices to protect data from ransomware attacks. 

It detects any security misconfigurations with an automated alert response to the IT team to take quick action. 

It has fully deployed reliable data protection tools to our cloud servers that detect any form of data theft in advance. 

The provision of advanced data analytics helps teams in the organization to deploy awareness to all sectors to ensure each team is fully equipped with data protection knowledge.

How has it helped my organization?

This solution has saved the company from unnecessary data loss that occurs due to cyber attacks. 

It has enforced the best security guidelines to protect against external threats. The cloud computing system has deployed digital security systems that monitor the entire networking system. 

The user interface gives timely security performance with suitable data indicators. The cloud monitoring tool provides timely feedback to on-premise teams on the state of cloud security to enable them to focus on more important tasks.

What is most valuable?

The solution offers full visibility of cloud workloads giving team members peace of mind since they can easily identify inefficiency and act quickly to restore normal workflow processes. 

The detection of environmental safety enables teams to collaborate effectively without any fear of external attacks. 

CloudGuard Posture Management deploys routine checkups of the security situation from the networking system to enhance compliance. Reliable security governance has enabled the company to meet the set international policies on security and boost performance.

What needs improvement?

There is no full support for bot management, and the company can work on that to enhance faster service delivery and enhance reliable security checkups. 

The reporting dashboard responds slowly, which leads to late report compilation. The next release can be equipped with robust dashboards and highly responsive data models. 

The performance was more stable compared to a few challenges we faced, but with new upgrades, it could be even more stable. 

The enhancement of cloud servers' security and management of dataflows has been a great achievement, and I highly recommend this solution.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

CloudGuard Posture Management is highly stable and powerful in securing company workloads.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The entire deployment process took place smoothly, and we were impressed by the vendor team.

How are customer service and support?

The customer service team has been helpful and very supportive when we enquire about anything.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

I have not used a similar cloud networking security platform before.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup process was not complicated since the customer service team had deployed professionals to set up and provide guidelines.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented it through the vendor team, and their level of expertise was very impressive.

What was our ROI?

We have achieved 35% ROI since we deployed it.

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

The setup cost is high, however, the pricing terms vary based on the size of an organization.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We were in rush, and we did not hae enough time to evaluate other products in the market.

What other advice do I have?

This solution is highly powerful in the management of enterprise security, and I totally recommend it to other companies.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
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Database Administrator at Ordina
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Top 5
Saves time, offers great advanced detection, and offers enhanced security insights
Pros and Cons
  • "It offers advanced detection of threats that can harm data from the cloud database."
  • "The entire system is complicated, and the setup process may not cater to the company's demands."

What is our primary use case?

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.

How has it helped my organization?

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.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

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.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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

How are customer service and support?

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

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

I have not yet switched to another software.

How was the initial setup?

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

What about the implementation team?

We implemented the solution through a vendor.

What was our ROI?

We have recorded a high ROI growth rate.

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

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

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

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

What other advice do I have?

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

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

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

Google
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Cloud Solution Architect at Network Thinking Solutions
User
Top 10
A complete solution that's reasonably priced, with good data security
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution offers an excellent price, benefit, and installation relationship."
  • "Currently, worldwide, there are many companies of all sizes that do not understand the value that their data has, but even with all existing clouds, they also do not understand what the shared responsibility model is. They only assume that by having a cloud, the provider must ensure safety, when the truth is that the providers only secure their sites. Everything we do in the cloud and how we configure it is actually our responsibility."

What is our primary use case?

I have been using it in my AWS-Azure multi-cloud schema in order to monitor and protect transactions and data from all escalations - not only what we have at the database level. It helps us protect the data of our big data. 

It has been the complete solution to help cover our lack of security at the infrastructure level. Not only does it cover the servers, but at the workstation level, it is monitoring what users are doing. It identifies actions and can make automatic remediation at a user level. 

How has it helped my organization?

The solution has helped us to detect possible attacks or access that is not allowed. It also has helped us to identify the configurations that do not meet the company standards and allows us to improve security practices. As a result, we were able to make the necessary adjustments to be more armored and work safely. 

It gives us the peace of mind we need to continue exploring areas of our scheme that will help us with our projects in the short, medium, and long term. It will help us to continue innovating and reinventing ourselves with greater and greater security.

What is most valuable?

Data security has been very valuable because data is the soul of a company and if the data is not protected, the company has no possibility of existing. 

In all areas of an organization, Check Point CloudGuard is not only in the cloud, as its name implies. It goes beyond. The areas of importance from the most important to the least important are: infrastructure, technological security, data administration, legal department, etc. Check Point solutions can provide a complete 360 security scheme to the entire cloud infrastructure. It transfers its vision to the entire peripheral network.

What needs improvement?

Today, globally, there are many companies of all sizes that do not understand the value of their data, but even with all the existing clouds, they also do not understand what the shared responsibility model is. They only assume that by having a cloud, the provider must ensure security, when the truth is that providers only protect their sites. Everything we do in the cloud and how we configure it is actually our responsibility, in this sense we can evaluate many solutions that help us protect our clouds, however, and after trying 5 different solutions, the checkpoint solution is by far The most complete

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for 3 months.

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

If we were using a similar but not as extensive solution. We were using Darktrace.

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

The solution offers an excellent price, benefit, and installation relationship. Thus far, Check Point has offered us this very successful relationship.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We were evaluating several options before choosing Check Point. What we identified would be important aspects of the new provider were: simplicity in the installation and 360 vision of all our infrastructure. When we were evaluating, we looked at Palo Alto, Check Point, and Cloud Security.

What other advice do I have?

If you are looking for a complete solution for your cloud or clouds, with Check Point you can have everything from one place.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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User
Top 5Leaderboard
Multicloud posture and review, modern, and backed by all checkpoint security.
Pros and Cons
  • "The administration portal panel is very intuitive."
  • "The guidelines to implement or to link with the clouds are not complete."

What is our primary use case?

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


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

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

How has it helped my organization?

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

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

What is most valuable?

The most striking features are:

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

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

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

What needs improvement?

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

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

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

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

For how long have I used the solution?

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

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

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

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

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

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

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

What other advice do I have?

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

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Security Admin at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Very easy to use with good security and others
Pros and Cons
  • "We really liked its ease of implementation against our Microsoft Azure environment."
  • "The support must be more effective."

What is our primary use case?

We required a centralized, modern, and easy-to-use tool. After validating the technology of the available security applications, we found the correct tool in Check Point CloudGuard.

It helped us with the security posture to follow best practices. The recommendations and the automated implementations are through a multi-cloud portal that was easily linked with the cloud that we manage. All those previous virtues plus an effective dashboard full of graphs have helped us with decision making. It's been very helpful for the company's security requirements.

We have been able to comply with the recommendations and improvements in our cloud infrastructure using this product.

How has it helped my organization?

Thanks to the best practices recommended in the CloudGuard Posture Management, we were able to provide an incredible layer of security to our Microsoft Azure environment. We required a great layer of security to be able to certify ourselves with security regulations.

Also, all its reports are very useful to be able to carry out good work of improvements and avoid vulnerability within the multi-cloud perimeter.

Another requirement was not to have different security environments. The CloudGuard Posture Management correctly met the business needs.

What is most valuable?

We really liked its ease of implementation against our Microsoft Azure environment.

In addition, its centralized portal, which showcases multiple security solutions in one place, is very helpful.

Another feature that we really liked is the score function for improvements and good practices. You can take a security posture that complies with regulations or company policies.

What needs improvement?

Areas that can be improved are few. However, some can be mentioned, such as the costs for this solution going down a bit. Not all clients, despite the great power of the tool, can afford it.

The support must be more effective. Sometimes they take several days to resolve an issue. However, it must be mentioned, they always resolve it correctly.

Finally, I think that the solution meets all expectations but can also improve the performance of the administrator portal a little so that it does not sometimes stop.

For how long have I used the solution?

This is a very good cloud tool and has been used in the last quarter with surprising results.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have witnessed very good performance with the solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution offers excellent performance.

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

We have not found a more centralized, powerful, or complete solution than Check Point Cloud Guard Posture Management, neither before nor now.

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

It is essential to validate the costs and have a good representative for Check Point that can provide security in the tools. They need to be able to understand your needs as clients.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We continuously evaluate various options and manufacturers, however, on its own merits, the Check Point solution became our first choice.

What other advice do I have?

It's an excellent tool that is a bit expensive yet worth it.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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Chief Technical Officer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Intuitive dashboard but it needs to be more customizable
Pros and Cons
  • "The dashboard is intuitive. You know if you're compliant or not, and then it gives you a remediation plan."
  • "CloudGuard could be more customizable. It has built-in standards for things like GDPR compliance. But depending on your business lane, you might want to build your own controls based on your own standards."

What is our primary use case?

We use CloudGuard for compliance and auditing. About 20 people in our company use it, including our cloud administrators use it and security personnel. And now even our managers, our scrum masters are using it.

How has it helped my organization?

CloudGuard makes the management of our security controls in AWS more transparent. 

What is most valuable?

The dashboard is intuitive. You know if you're compliant or not, and then it gives you a remediation plan.

What needs improvement?

CloudGuard could be more customizable. It has built-in standards for things like GDPR compliance. But depending on your business lane, you might want to build your own controls based on your own standards. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using CloudGuard Posture Management for at least six months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

CloudGuard is pretty stable. It's rock-solid.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

In terms of scalability, CloudGuard requires a little bit of work. Sometimes it does take longer for the checks to come through, but it depends on how busy you are in the cloud. 

How are customer service and support?

Check Point tech support in North America is pretty good.

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

We really liked this other solution offered by a smaller company, and then a larger company bought it. I forgot the company's name, but the roadmap just went to pieces when it was bought out. All the tech people left the company then the chief technical officer resigned. It was terrible.

How was the initial setup?

Setting up CloudGuard is pretty straightforward. The initial setup only took a few minutes. It's essentially turnkey. However, the total deployment took about half a day. For maintenance, we have two cloud administrators. That's two in case one goes on vacation, resigns, or gets sick. So you need backup.

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

The license for CloudGuard Posture Management is about $80 a year, and it's based on your cloud footprint, not the number of users. So you could have a million users, and it doesn't matter. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate CloudGuard Posture Management seven out of 10. I would rate it higher, but I think the price point is pretty high for what it does. However, I know it's a burgeoning market. So I think the price point and some of the other features that I already mentioned, like customization, are pretty lacking. Still, if you want some cover for an internal or external audit, this is a tool for you. 

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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Security Engineer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
User
Top 20
Good reporting and alerts but needs more comprehensive investigations into security events
Pros and Cons
  • "Alerts of cloud activity happening across all accounts is helpful."
  • "Reporting should have more options."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use this solution for:

  1. Posture management and compliance for the complete cloud environment (AWS).
  2. Centralized visibility of our cloud assets across multiple accounts in our cloud environment.
  3. Monitoring and alerting of cloud activity (API calls) happening across all the accounts.
  4. Reviewing security configuration (network configuration of security groups).
  5. Scanning serverless functions for existing vulnerabilities.
  6. The baseline for security policy as per workload based on services such as S3, EC2, et cetera.

How has it helped my organization?

This solution helped us improve by:

  1. Improving the overall security posture of our cloud environment.
  2. Maintaining Asset inventory for Cloud.
  3. Continuously reporting and alerting for reactive approach.
  4. Providing a best practice policy helping in strengthening security of workloads. 
  5. The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this product is that organizations are very uninformed about their cloud presence, what assets they have, and what shape it's in which this solution is capable of and provides better visibility.

What is most valuable?

  1. The queries for detecting any type of incident are great.
  2. The solution provides a granular level of reports - along with issues based on compliance.
  3. Alerts of cloud activity happening across all accounts is helpful.
  4. Customization of rulesets as per our cloud security policy is useful and strengthens the security.
  5. Reporting against compliance is an important feature that helps you comply with policies and standards within our organization.
  6. Assets Management is excellent as it provides complete visibility of our workload in our EC2 instance. 

What needs improvement?

The following things can be improved:

  1. Reporting should have more options.
  2. Investigation of security events should be more comprehensive be it for cloud activity or traffic activity.
  3. The false positives can be annoying at times.
  4. 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 as we prefer to do it ourselves.
  5. The price of this solution should be reduced so that it is more affordable to scale.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for last year.

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

This was the first time we used any CSPM solution.

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

The price of this solution should be reduced so that it is more affordable to scale - specifically for features like Intelligence Pro.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated Prisma Cloud, however, we found many of the features that we won't be using we would still be paying for unnecessarily.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
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Soporte técnico superior at Acobo
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Identifies issues, offers good analysis, and has automation capabilities
Pros and Cons
  • "It has an analytics service that does research for us."
  • "The solution could be improved with a greater analysis of its Microsoft Security score."

What is our primary use case?

We were in the review analysis, seeking a fast, efficient infrastructure with solid bases of data analysis and investigation. We wanted something that managed to establish and analyze systems in production so that it would not impact their use. We also wanted a visualization of our current state, with a solution that could give an example of the route that must be taken to achieve excellence in security. This tool has allowed us to achieve stronger security, allows for better analysis, and provides structure and guidance for better guides and international policies under a legal framework. 

How has it helped my organization?

It has given us a way to clearly and objectively identify items or issues before making any changes to the network. It offers assurance, after investigation, of a clear understanding of what each analysis is trying to define. We can now clearly and specifically achieve what we need to do from a security standpoint to help us make an action plan and achieve goals. Once we have the information, it is important to define and analyze the data collected, organize information in a format that makes sense to us administrators, and look for patterns or trends that may be useful for our investigation.

What is most valuable?

It has an analytics service that does research for us. This can provide valuable information to ultimately improve our infrastructure. Via research and analysis, we are able to identify problem areas. We can find trends and take action to fix problems while improving performance. 

Its fairly advanced automation allows us to simplify and speed up security management in the cloud. This includes being able to identify, correct, and validate all kinds of vulnerabilities that reduce the manual workload for each of our company's administrators, thus being more efficient. With this new efficiency, we are able to reach effective resolutions at all times. 

What needs improvement?

The tool has several specific characteristics at the Microsoft 365 or Exchange level. 

The solution could be improved with a greater analysis of its Microsoft Security score. They should be improving the visualization of data and greater coverage in Sharepoint or Teams. Its posture analysis is currently low. There could be improvement or capacity to be more efficient if we managed to achieve greater integration with Microsoft Security score, improvements in data visualization,, and greater coverage of Microsoft 365 resources.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for one year. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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