Check Point Web Gateway Reviews

Protection of the company websites has been the most important goal that we have been chasing. Check Point Web Gateway blocks malicious attacks on our websites that can lead to data losses. The multilayered security architecture detects any form of malware attacks in advance with immediate solutions. Working with safe websites has enhanced the full production potential for our working systems. This platform provides reliable data analytics that has enabled each team to plan and set achievable goals.

There have been reduced attacks from cyber criminals since we deployed this product. The security models enhance safe collaboration among teams and embrace teamwork. It has enabled the IT teams to set up a unified control system for tracking website performance. Implementation of set projects and tasks has been efficient with available resources. The deployed security services protect all the organization's employees based on the set company policies. Employees can focus on productive goals without fear of ransomware attacks.

URL filtering has shielded employees from engaging with unsafe browsing sites that can spread viruses. It provides red alerts when there is an attempt from an unauthorized user who may be accessing confidential information. 

The product blocks unsafe content from the internet that can affect internal data. 

Application control gives IT teams an opportunity to set suitable policies that can be used by all teams when coding. 

Data Loss Prevention helps us to categorize and share data that is not harmful or can leak confidential data to the wrong personnel.

The set features have been guarding our websites against external attacks effectively. 

The learning curve is complex for new users. That said, with time, everything runs effectively. The cost of deployment and maintenance is high for SMEs. We have achieved most set goals as planned without failure. 

Antivirus features block trojans and harmful content from affecting workflows, and that has saved us a lot of money. 

Updates come late, sometimes exposing the organization to attacks that can affect operations. 

This product has good features that have been of great improvement overall.

I've used the solution for 11 months.

Operations have been running effectively.

The performance has always been stable.

I am pleased with the customer support services.

Positive

I have no experience with similar tools.

The setup was straightforward.

Implementation took place through the vendor.

There is increased ROI from stable performance.

The cost and setup depend on the size of the company.

This is the best tool that I have come across so far.

For website security, this is the best solution.

We were searching for a solution that would allow the company to have protection against various problems, such as application identity and its characteristics, and to understand and prevent malware. The solution allows users to block various types of incidents that could attack any organization and see any insecurities. It prevents exploitation attacks in a safe way. Regardless of the type, it helps us to prevent malicious traffic and the interruption or loss of information via access. 

The Check Point solution has given us many benefits and among those is being able to prevent data loss through browsers. The evolution of technological attacks or hacks has become very innovative and sophisticated, which can make any organization vulnerable. However, we have come to feel safe implementing this type of solution as it has given us the protection that each one of us was looking for.

The Check Point Security Web Gateway service has the most beneficial features available for anyone. Among many of the things that we can highlight is the content filtering application control. Checking for antiviruses is enabled through the inspection solution. It offers good security, and we use it when we want to implement the best security in an organization due to the fact that it gives us broader visibility.

The solution is quite complete and is very prominent. It is designed to be implemented for web services. We understand that if we want to see greater connections, greater services, and a greater capacity established for primary equipment, this solution needs to evolve to make an application installed directly on equipment. If they could do this and provide the same connectivity, security, and efficiency that it has today for edge equipment, that would be ideal. If we could bring this service to mobile applications and applications directly installed on the device, we could expand and create a neural security network for all the devices we have.

I've used the solution for one year.

Our primary use for Check Point Web Gateway is network security.

Being a media company the use of Internet is part of company's business, therefore it is very important to be able to protect both company assets and users. Check Point gateways provided an important role on that security measures.

One of the most valuable features of Check Point Web Gateway is the IPS capability. However, what matters most for users security is content and web filtering.

Check Point Web Gateway could improve the graphical user interface to make it more appealing. However it works.

We have been using Check Point Web Gateway for approximately 10 years.

Check Point Web Gateway is a reliable and stable solution.

Personally I do not have experience with the support of Check Point Web Gateway, but the team is happy with it. If there is no solution on their website the phone support usually works fine.

Positive

The initial setup of Check Point Web Gateway was straightforward.

We used the support for the deployment of Check Point Web Gateway.

We have a team of two people for the maintenance of the solution.

My advice to others is for them to make sure they have the right model of Check Point Web Gateway they need for their business. The most inexpensive version might not have have the performance needed.

I rate the price of Check Point Web Gateway an eight out of ten.

There are some other solutions in the market with a bit better performance.

Roaming users use the secure web gateway. We also use the tool for application filtering and web filtering.

The product covers all the security needs of roaming users.

The support team’s response is not fast. The product must improve its scalability and stability.

I have been working with the solution for three years.

I rate the stability a nine out of ten.

I rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We have more than 50 customers.

Technical support is good. The support team’s response time is moderate.

The solution is cloud-based. It is very easy to deploy the tool in the customer’s environment.

The solution can be deployed within half an hour or one hour. We have an in-house team for deployment.

Our customers pay a licensing fee annually or once in three or five years, per their requirements.

I am using the latest version of the product. We sell the product. It is very easy to provide the price list and the features. I take care of the solution design and solution presentation to the customer. There are multiple OEMs for web gateways in the market. A set of customers use only Check Point. The ROI depends on the customer. Overall, I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

We have the Check Point Firewall as a perimeter gateway and we are using it across seven geolocations. Each location has a cluster. We use it to block high-risk and malicious websites and applications. It enforces compliance policies and regulations at each of the sites.

With this Web gateway, we are secure and it protects our applications or URL with multi-layer architecture security. We are using web security, URL filtering, and antivirus, and we will enable the HTTPS inspection shorty.

Check Point Web Gateway has improved our inbound and outbound traffic for applications or websites and related queries with features such as URL Filtering. It can control access to websites based on URLs to prevent employees from accessing malicious or inappropriate content and also we enforce bandwidth on streaming services.

These are very good features for us.

We can also now easily identify which users are accessing which URLs, and we can control access based upon them.

Application control allows the administrator to create granular policies based on users to allow, block, or limit access.

With Check Point Web Gateway, we have found the following features the most valuable:

1. URL Filtering
2. Application Control
3. Antivirus

URL filtering allows us to control websites based on URL contents and whether any inappropriate content or any malicious content is there.

It allows us to enforce bandwidth restrictions on a specific destination or URL, where some streaming service content is available.

URL filtering management is based on the URL, users, and groups, where access can be either granted or denied.

Most of the time, we are struggling when it comes to getting support. Due to this, we have now have taken TAM support and have also taken third-party support for this product. Generally, the support experience is not what we expect from Check Point.  

We have been using this solution for more than one year.

Overall, Check Point is a very good solution, although the price and other licensing costs are something that you have to check.

In summary, Check Point Web Security is a very good solution for us. We have been using it for a long time and we use all of the aspects. For security concerns, Check Point Web Security is the best solution with features such as URL filtering, application control, and antivirus.

We needed to be able to filter traffic, to avoid consumption of resources, and to avoid loss of unnecessary bandwidth so we can use the resources correctly.

We needed to control sites since some consumptions do not represent and should not be allowed within the network by the company. Creating policies to be able to segment, allow, and block depending on the profiles created has been helpful.

We also needed to validate the access behavior through monitoring to determine what additional rules we could provide to improve security.

Check Point Web Gateway helped eliminate traffic and access to individual sites and granularly generate restricted access policies to maximize user efficiency without distractions outside of corporate work.

The protection against sites and accesses that have major threats. We are able to protect the equipment, information, and databases that are within the infrastructure, avoiding having any vulnerability accessible.

We like how the integrated product works with our Check Point gateways.

It's easy to deploy this tool. This has helped us to be able to implement it correctly. Additionally, this product generates trust with all Check Point technologies.

Its administration dashboards make it easy to use. It's a simple environment but offers great power in order to secure the perimeter.

The registration of logs and monitoring helps us to make accurate decisions to improve perimeter security.

There are also access control rules by categories previously established by the manufacturer. This is a very good feature.

An improvement that can be made at the manufacturer level is to be able to modernize the manuals and documentation more. There currently is no documentation for the most modern versions, or it is more difficult to find.

Also, they should improve the costs in order to have greater competition against other solutions. I am not saying that it is an overvalued tool. On the contrary, it is incredibly effective and safe, however, it could have price improvements to increase competition at the cost level compared to other manufacturers.

This is a great integrated solution in our Check Point Gateway environment. We have been using them for a long time, approximately three years.

Previously we had used open-source tools for these purposes. However, they did not have the power of Check Point.

The only way to access the cost information of Check Point tools is through a partner. My recommendation is to look for a fairly specialized one so that they can provide all the help with implementation and cost estimates.

It is always important to evaluate the tools, both in documentation and function, and if it is possible to generate proof of concept. In our case, Check Point is successfully coupled to our environments, that's why it was used.

Protecting us from advance threats, malware, phishing, and ransomware gave us the initiative to contact our checkpoint vendor and show interest in a tool that could satisfy this need. 

Then we were allowed to try this type of tool and see the results.      

Our main motivation for using this type of tool was to improve the level of security and effectiveness by preventing or protecting the company from threats on sites and applications that could compromise the company's information and equipment.

The Check Point Web Gateway tool has helped us improve the security of the equipment and access that we previously had. Generally, a lot of malware was installed on the equipment, which without the user realizing it affected both the performance and the exposure of the information that they had access. After the implementation of Check Point, these threats disappeared little by little, improving through granular policies in which through user profiles we were attacking to solve them. It's been an excellent tool for us.

The features of Check Point Web Gateway that we liked the most are the following:

1- Monitoring. The monitoring provided by Check Point security technologies is very good, easy to understand, and helps in an excellent way to verify the behavior of the tool.

2- Granular Policies. Through granular policies, we were able to create different profiles that depended on the type of user. In some cases, it is more restrictive for normal users than for managerial users, that is, always mainly providing security. However, different restrictions helped us a lot. We could establish them without generating annoyance for the client depending on their role in the company.

3- Easy implementation. 

The aspects that we have evaluated over time to give an opinion on an improvement that the Check Point security manufacturer can generate are the following:

1- Improvement of technical support. It is important that Check Point can generate greater growth at the support level. Errors are not always easily solved.

2- Updated Documentation. Some documents needed to implement with the best practices are difficult to understand, take longer than expected to apply, and sometimes even require support.

3- The costs. Some Check Point features are somewhat expensive.

A very good idea to use a web gateway since it generates greater security in the access of our collaborators to the use of the internet and applications,

The use has been successful for at least two years. Initially, the implementation was carried out partially to see the adaptation of the service, which was widely adopted by users understanding the threats that currently exist.

Previously, we had validated options and used open-source tools. However, they were most difficult to manage and use.

I always recommend that, before implementing, a customer discusses the business needs with the vendor in order to choose the ideal product.

Also, implement small tests to test the operation before going to production.

We needed to be able to quickly implement a tool that would meet the security needs. We already used Check Point products. It has gone very well for us, which is why we opted for the use of this application without hesitation.

I recommend the use of this tool. However, take your time and validate if it suits your needs completely.

It helps in establishing a site-to-site VPN with our on-premise firewall. We also use it to protect our cloud environment and layering protection for our cloud data centre.

This product has improved our organization by serving as a connection point with our partners. In addition, it provides top-notch security and gives us the confidence that we have a secure connection when dealing with our partners.

The encryption detection feature and the revision systems are valuable. Additionally, it has an excellent threat prevention mechanism.

The product could be improved in terms of its complexity. The product requires prior knowledge and information and would be difficult for an engineer with minimal experience to understand.

We have used this solution on premises for approximately seven years and on the cloud for a year.

Due to its complexity, I rate its stability a six out of ten. We regularly have to update our hardware with the latest hotfixes to avoid bugs in the system. Additionally, the system has to be updated often to ensure there are no bugs.

The solution is highly scalable. We intend to continually increase our usage of this solution due to its interoperability.

We have not had the best experience with customer service and support, mainly because of the support tier structure. In our experience, our issues are not frequently solved until they are escalated to senior-level engineers, which leads to wasted time as we are often unable to access the experienced engineers until a case has escalated.

Neutral

The initial setup varies depending on whether it is on-premises or on cloud. For cloud, I rate the initial setup a six out of ten. For on-premises, I rate it an eight out of ten. Sometimes, the setup is complex and lasts as long as nine hours.

We implemented it through a third party. Three people who were network security engineers and firewall engineers participated in the deployment.

I don't know the specific licensing prices, but it is based on the deployment size and is relatively more expensive than other products. Once licensing and support costs are paid, there are no additional costs.

We evaluated Azure Firewall.

I rate this solution a seven out of ten. The solution is highly interoperable and is of good quality, but it could be improved in terms of its complexity, as it is not user-friendly. Additionally, the support levels could be improved.