We performed a comparison between Astound Managed SD-WAN and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Managed Security Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Astound is adequate, sufficient, and gives us room to grow."
"It's just a huge improvement compared to where we came from. I can get in, configure, identify, and reconfigure, and I don't have to troubleshoot anything. It's all very easy and flows really well."
"We find Check Point valuable because they are 100% focused on security. It totally closes the potential vulnerability channel. We can check our mail and our attachments and we can scan everything easily. We get an immediate report about the situation of the attachments. We can discover if the target's security attack was started from phishing, etc. We also enjoy using the additional features that protect our internal customer from targeted attacks."
"The installation process doesn't take very long."
"I like the tool's ability to manage cloud traffic locally without routing it through our data centers."
"The notifications, the visibility, and the deployment are the most valuable. It could be packaged in such a way that it took a lot of time and resources off our hands, so it was more efficient."
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"The tool's most valuable features are inspecting internet traffic and IPS. We can manage the firewall using shared policies from a single management server."
"It offers remarkable flexibility in how we configure and utilize the resources."
"The versatility is the solution's most valuable feature."
"As a new customer opening our first worship center, I would have liked for Astound to provide examples of products other churches use."
"As a church, we don't employ a typical IT person, so it would help if they could set up a more user-friendly layman's type of profile and settings, where everything is simplified into layman's terms. For example, it could say, "Turn internet speed up for guest use," or "Turn it down," or "Turn it off," or "Reset it.""
"We have the product deployed on Azure China. One crucial concern is the version limitation; unfortunately, in Azure China, we are restricted to running version R80. Our architecture has a Load Balancer, VMSS CloudGuard, etc. The duplication in this setup prevents the application from seeing the original client IP. This poses a problem for certain applications that require the original IP for login purposes. Although we managed a workaround with a different architecture involving a WAF, it is not as straightforward as the standard Azure setup."
"Zero touch removes any independence for configuring."
"The cost needs improvement as it is currently quite expensive."
"While Check Point does offer some VWAN offerings, they appear to be more static and less tailored to cloud-native environments compared to Palo Alto's dynamic and flexible approach."
"The documentation could be much better."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could improve by making it easier to configure."
"While today we can manage some scopes, there are still some segments in the OSI layer we cannot manage."
"The initial setup is difficult. It took me three tries to get it right. The setup took two or three hours."
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Astound Managed SD-WAN is ranked 9th in Managed Security Services with 2 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 2nd in Managed Security Services with 119 reviews. Astound Managed SD-WAN is rated 10.0, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Astound Managed SD-WAN writes "Helps us increase network performance, provides speed for streaming audio and video, and gives us room to grow". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". Astound Managed SD-WAN is most compared with Secureworks Taegis ManagedXDR, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. See our Astound Managed SD-WAN vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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