Check Point WAF (formerly CloudGuard WAF) Reviews

We were looking for a solution that met the following criteria: 

• A web application security solution that uses real-time attack prevention techniques and vulnerability scanning to protect applications and data running in public or private cloud environments. 
• Monitoring and logging of application traffic to detect anomalies and suspicious attacks.
• Integration with automation and orchestration tools for cloud application security management and scalability. 
• Detection and prevention of SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other types of injection attacks. 

The product benefits my business by giving enhanced protection for useful cloud applications. 

Using enhanced visibility and analytics, the product provides visibility into security. By using a cloud application security solution, our company can save costs by reducing the need for additional security hardware and software and improving operational efficiency. 

With this product, we are achieving regulatory compliance. CloudGuard Application Security can help businesses meet security regulatory requirements, which makes for an outstanding organization. 

This cloud web application security solution can be quickly and easily deployed in public or private cloud environments, allowing a company to protect web applications and reduce downtime quickly. 

This solution provides us with enhanced visibility, giving us the ability to provide web application security analysis in the cloud.

A feature we'd like to see in the future is something that could protect against other attack vectors, with a focus on application protection. We need to protect against other attack vectors like network or device email attacks in order to provide the greatest protection possible. It is very understandable that there are many characteristics of an attack, including if it is from the inside or outside the organization. However, it would be important to validate threats and have all manner of solutions on hand to help protect the company.  

I've used the solution for one year.

This solution safeguards applications that are hosted in the organization's cloud servers. 

It monitors the performance of applications from the deployment stage to the implementation of assigned tasks. 

Check Point CloudGuard Application Security blocks any cyber attacks channeled to destroy confidential data. 

Configuration of this platform with other tools took place efficiently without any challenge. The set security features alert the IT team when there are external threats that can affect workflows. the organization's networking infrastructure is ever secure since we deployed this product.

The solution has comprehensive security cover for the cloud applications, which has been a great achievement in the organization since we deployed this platform. 

It provides advanced analytics that gives each team time to prepare for any threat that might occur in the future. 

Enhanced data intelligence helps us to plan and turn provides analytics into actionable insights. 

Safeguarding applications has enabled members to focus on more productive activities without fear of being attacked. The set of security tools enables each app to perform its role without external interference.

Sensitive data exposure has enabled us to plan and make reliable decisions based on the work environment. 

The product has confirmed to each department that the injection of new data into the systems is highly secured to enhance transparency. 

Security misconfigurations enable the IT team to rearrange application codes and take full control. 

Insecure deserialization provides a comprehensive report of applications that enables the IT team to identify malicious coding and execute it in advance before it affects workflows.

The coding configurations can be simplified to save time for IT teams and developers. 

Insufficient logging among applications breaches security, and this may lead to undetected malware attacks contributing to data compromise. 

The set security tools target known vulnerabilities, and when there is an outbreak of new viruses, it may not be noticed, easily exposing data to cyber attackers. 

Broken access control enables members to gain unauthorized access to saved files allowing them to edit accounts to enable other users to gain access. The software has great capability of preventing data with the set organization policies.

I've used the solution for nine months.

This platform is stable, and the performance is excellent.

I am impressed by the scalability.

There is great support and cooperation from the customer service team.

Positive

I have not worked with a similar solution.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The vendor team was responsible for the full deployment.

There is increased ROI from improved application security.

The cost and setup are good, depending on the company size.

I have no experience with other security products on the market.

This platform is good for safeguarding cloud applications.

We have had the need to ensure the development of each of our applications based on the fact that the applications must be safe, fast, and efficient. We want to prevent an injection of a vulnerability attack by broken authentication, exposure of confidential data, or external entities that can inject us with xml services via broken access control. All these characteristics cause insecurity. We have looked for solutions that can guide us and establish a safe and concise baseline.

It has given us greater security at an organizational level. It has allowed us to use components with known vulnerabilities, which have been prevented based on their multiple databases that have correlated incidents, helping the development of applications to be fast, efficient, and safe, which is what we were looking for. Thus giving us the possibility to register, monitor, and identify technological insufficiencies or absent capacities in the development of the application.

Its most outstanding feature is the registry and the possibility of monitoring everything. When it comes to simplifying or establishing an error, an infraction, or a detection due to a breach of unauthorized access, it gives us an overview of each one of the capabilities and a segmented control over the development. It offers good functionality of the application that is currently running. It's giving us the ability to test based on vulnerable interfaces, and anomalous requests and responses. All these types of characteristics give us a reference point as to whether they are secure or insecure. We get logging monitoring and general visibility of the application.

The application allows us to have control over its activities, the management, and the interconnection of monitoring which takes advantage of computing power, is exceptional. That said, I would like to be able to integrate the theme of Artificial Intelligence to help review issues and to monitor and view the security issue while also suggesting and interpreting and additionally configuring solutions - basically, acting as an interpreter.

We've used the solution for about six or seven months. That was when established applications at the cloud level.

This security management system allows teams to evaluate the performance of applications and identify vulnerabilities that could affect performance. 

It has deployed reliable security measures that can easily detect any potential data leaks and cyber-attacks. Before we develop any application Check Point CloudGuard Application Security provides the best data protection tools that be configured easily with the new application. We have been able to scale down workflows and monitor appropriately the entire production ecosystem.

We have prevented many potential threats that could be a major setback to our set goals. 

After integrating AppSec with other applications, team members can easily work without fear of confidential information exposure. It has really empowered employees with modern online security measures that can affect business progress. 

Learning new security coding techniques has been a great opportunity for my team and the entire organization. We have quashed many authentication and code injection attempts by ransomware attacks to secure our networking infrastructure.

Sensitive data exposure models have helped in guarding the privacy of company and customer information from landing in unauthorized hands. 

Confidential details like bank statements and the financial status of employees is very sensitive and can easily be exposed to cyber-attacks. AppSec has created a secure environment that allows members to create and manage their personal email accounts and related personal data. 

Application security configuration gives the IT team and authorized personnel to have full access and control of workflows without fear.

The creation of security profiles for each application takes a lot of time. The new release can have a unified security control system that can access the security situation of all applications from one single source. 

The system blocks some authorized data entries that are not threats. AppSec could easily deploy a system with set commands that can be used to block unsafe operations and authorize areas of interest based on the user's needs. I have loved the way this software works, and I am impressed by the increased security across the applications.

I've used the solution for eight months.

It is stable throughout.

This software is good and the performance is excellent.

The customer support staff is dedicated to delivering the best services ever.

Positive

We decided to test the performance of this product for the first time, and it impressed the departments.

The setup process was straightforward, and the vendor guided us effectively.

Deployment took place through the vendor team.

ROI has increased from 40% to 65% in eight months.

The price is good for all businesses.

I did not consider other options.

We could not have prevented many external attacks without AppSec. I am happy due to its great performance.

Check Point CloudGuard Application Security enabled us to develop strength and process efficiency coupled with a secure environment in the IT system. We've installed software all over 3rd party dashboards and internet systems. This application security platform helped us put a strong security system in place with an advanced bot prevention system, ensuring end-to-end security across a complete chain of processes. Our cost of the security system was greatly reduced, and it helped us to achieve cost efficiency within six months.

Check Point CloudGuard Application Security helps to bring the cost down and increase process and cost efficiency. It provides improved productivity in system outcome and output. It is one of the master security solutions in the market for enhancing system security through an intrusion prevention system that restricts entry of malware and any kind of threat attempts on system confidential data and ensures flawless security inside out. The performance efficiency of users and their department increased multifold due to the introduction of the software.

The Intrusion Prevention System is an awesome feature with high-end security properties to ensure a sustainable security system across IT assets and software.

It offers high performance and improved productivity for users.

Our organization marks lowered expenses and improved revenue as part of the technical outcome.

The chatbot system is highly advanced with automated security enhancements and enables real-time system security. It helps the users continuously learn about any potential threats on the system and warns them with pop-ups and notifications.

There are end-to-end web applications protecting and securing IT assets from the inside out. 

The technical team needs to exercise the pilot testing across all kinds of IT hardware and software to ensure the pilot QA testing shows the highest rate of positives while ensuring system protection. The trial version should be extended further so that QA test engineers can actually test the utilities in a real sense and can provide the maximum amount of feedback for enhancements.  

There needs to be an improvement in features and utilities now and then as per business demand. It needs to be customized to match market trends and demand. 

I've used the solution for one year.

The solution is stable.

The solution is quite scalable.

We were using our own in-house system security solution to prevent any ransomware and malware.

It offers easy onboarding and is not complex at all. The solution has quite structured onboarding for deployment.

We implemented it through a vendor team.

The ROI is great.

The solution is low-cost and offers an easy renewal process as well as smooth onboarding for vendor partners.

We evaluated a lot many options available in the market, including Trend and McAfee, among others.

It is a must-try security solution for all kinds of businesses. There are awesome features at extremely low cost.

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

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

It's very integrated for emerging infrastructures such as the cloud, and supports us via a new legal framework. It protects us from new methods of attacks. Without this legal framework, in which Check Point supports us, it would become more difficult to protect ourselves, 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.

Among its features, I like the ability to investigate, analyze and generate reports.

Its most notable feature is its capability to extend those analytics to teams in any available cloud. You can maintain a legal framework structure at all times.

The value in the analytics is that this data can guide us towards institutional security. We can support each other to be better and more efficient daily.

I would like this solution to be extended to cellular devices or tablets. In a way, this will be able to support ourselves in order to be more efficient.

I've used the solution for one year.

We had the need to protect the computers in the cloud that we were migrating, giving them greater security and having control over the events and tasks that they execute. 

This need led us to have and search for a solution that would support us directly with containers and the security of our access APIs. 

Above all, we needed something that would give us added value when implementing, and that was where we came to use Check Point AppSec. 

Its main value and what we liked the most is its powerful AI.

With so many tasks that we have at the administration level, as administrators, we find this solution as one of the best recommendations due to its powerful AI. It supports us to be scalable and learn in management with the data it is learning. 

Zero-day management and preemptive stop management provide detection in hours, not weeks. These help us to be much more proactive and efficient in our security management and in much of what we have in the cloud and the infrastructure that we have been migrating to the various cloud.

Among its most outstanding features is the powerful AI in container security. Above all, it is one of the most powerful and easy-to-manage solutions. It manages to protect itself, and it manages to include its new rules based on what manages to learn. This helps us protect web applications and APIs by eliminating false positives and stops automated attacks against our organization. It eliminates the need to adjust rules manually and create exceptions each time an update is performed.

We would like to have a solution of this type for the administration of applications from mobile devices. It would help us to be more portable with management from tablets, iPads, or some cell phones, becoming easier to administer. 

We'd lie to see it take on the characteristics of quantum applications and have these solutions all in one, protecting us and giving us even more value than what it is giving us today. 

I've used the solution for one year.

We did not previously use a different solution.

We did not evaluate other options.

CloudGuard for Application Security came to provide a layer and organization of security to our company. The management of the devices became easier and faster to manage. In addition, the tool had very good reviews since it is the one in the market with the best detection rate of threats.

The solution is scalable, reliable, and does not present many false positives. 

In addition, CloudGuard for Application Security helped us with its AI. With the ability to assess vulnerabilities, it helps us with the best practices to implement in the company.

CloudGuard for Application Security one of its most valuable features is that it can be integrated into an API more easily and effortlessly. 

It is also a very scalable and stable solution. That is one of the points that a company looks for when implementing something like this in an organization. 

With this tool, we have been able to release the overload that was being caused in the IT department and be able to focus on other security functions and thus be able to apply all good practices and be able to manage security 100% of the time. 

CloudGuard for Application Security, like the other Check Point applications, has been presenting major latency problems when entering their administrative portal. That should be one of the priorities to take into account. 

They must also improve the support provided to the client and improve the documentation library. 

The tool fulfills the functionality very well. Hopefully, the next improvements will surprise us with something new since at present it fulfills the security expectations very well.

it was implemented approximately one year ago.

The stability it presents is excellent. It goes up to 100%.

The scalability that it presents is very good.

The support must be improved. It presents a lot of deficiency.

Positive

No previous solution was implemented.

The configuration is very simple and the product is easy to implement.

We had an engineer that helped us with the implementation. Overall, it was fast and good.

The investment that is made is an investment that will be reflected in the security. It's worth it. 

The cost is competitive in the market.

We wanted to continue with the same horizon as we have several Check Point solutions in our environment.

The solution works very well. They just need to improve the support and documentation.

The primary use case of this solution is to detect vulnerabilities, prevent breaches, accelerate development, and improve code quality.

It helped us to reduce vulnerabilities, improve code quality, enhance security posture, and offer us good cost savings.

The solution's most valuable aspects include its accurate vulnerability detection, deep code analysis, remediation guidance, false positive guidance and customizable rules.

The solution should improve vulnerability in-depth, false-positive reduction, integration with other tools, performance optimization, and the user interface.

I've used the solution for two years. 

The stability is good.

The scalability is good.

Technical support is good but can be improved.

Positive

No, I did not use another solution. 

The initial setup is straightforward.

We implemented the solution with an in-house team.

The ROI is nice.

Pricing and licensing modules need to be improved.

No, I did not evaluate other options. 

In our company, we deployed a firewall in the office. The office has around 200 to 300 people. We're using it to control the Internet access.

Its login facility is quite clear for us. Compared to what we used before, it's helping us to be more efficient in managing our traffic.

This product is an Internet firewall, so the most valuable aspect is the way we use it to control access to the Internet and for managing applications. Via the firewall, we can see the employee's use cases to access the Internet. We're using it to protect network access in our company.

The ease of use could be better. There is a bit of a learning curve. I'd rate the ease of use six out of ten. There is room to improve.

I've been using the solution for about one year.

The stability is pretty good. 

The solution is quite scalable. I can pick up different types of scales depending on my requirements. 

We don't use the support too often. We just check the features and ensure everything is meeting our requirements or check with the specifications. 

Positive

We used a Layer 7 solution previously. I had experience with Check Point before and decided to try it in our company.

I've also used FortiGate in the past. To some degree, they do similar things. It's just a personal preference.

I was not involved in the initial setup. 

A reseller handled the initial setup for us. 

I have seen an ROI. It's worthwhile investing in the product. We've seen a return in improving our efficiency with network management.

I don't really put a value on pricing. We wanted to go for Check Point, found a reseller, and got the solution. 

The solution helped free up staff to work on other projects. We've saved about 10% in overall time. 

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