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Change Tracker Gen7 R2 vs Check Point IPS comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Change Tracker Gen7 R2
Ranking in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)
19th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Check Point IPS
Ranking in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
55
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) category, the mindshare of Change Tracker Gen7 R2 is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Check Point IPS is 5.3%, down from 9.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)
 

Featured Reviews

SL
Reliable, good technical support, and simple installation
Change Tracker Gen7 R2 can be used in the health sector for compliance. It can secure the patient's information The solution could improve by being more secure and have better integration. I have been using Change Tracker Gen7 R2 for a couple of weeks. The solution is stable. My team is using…
Jeroen Devroede - PeerSpot reviewer
A stable tool that provides its users with intrusion protection functionalities
Based on what I hear from my full-time firewall administrators, the upgrade process or the maintenance of the devices for each firmware upgrade requires one to break the cluster and run a specific moment at a time, a single node concept. I hear from my admin that the firmware upgrade process is quite cumbersome. Our company has made Check Point very well aware of the cumbersome firmware upgrade process, including the other customers as well. The aforementioned details can be considered for improvement. The price of the product needs to be improved since it is an expensive solution. All the components of Check Point IPS are expensive, while licenses of the product exceed all its other expenses. If you have a data center without infrastructure, you will suffer from losses on a monthly and yearly basis due to DDoS attacks, which we know about since we have the data for ourselves. It is up to each customer to determine how long he can lose his data center, and then you count if it is possible to lose it for that amount of time, and if you don't, then pay the price for the firewall.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Whitelisting services are the most valuable feature of Change Tracker Gen7 R2."
"I have contacted the support once and the experience was good, I was satisfied."
"Behavior analytics and monitoring capabilities of Check Point IPS are valuable, especially for cybersecurity purposes."
"It protects against specific known exploits but also, with SandBlast integration, it is able to protect against unknown or zero-day attacks at the perimeter level."
"The integration is a valuable feature."
"Check Point Intrusion Prevention System has great profiles, and we can continuously create, modify, activate, deactivate or configure any specific setting to allow the profile to focus on just one thing or for certain attacks."
"The solution is user-friendly and the interface is easy to configure."
"IPS easily allows follow-up flags on recently updated patterns. If, in rare cases, a false positive does occur, it is quickly detected and an exception can be easily created."
"What I like best about Check Point IPS is that it can prevent attacks. I also like that it has a log feature."
"Real-time protection has blocked most threats that could affect system operations."
 

Cons

"The solution could include more integrations."
"The solution could improve by being more secure and have better integration."
"The area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required consist of support availability."
"The pain point that I have with this solution is contacting technical support."
"Sometimes protections are 'aggregated' into a single threat name when you look at the logs. I would prefer to see all protections named individually (for example, right now, 'web enforcement' is a category that contains several signatures)."
"The hardware-based version of Check Point IPS could be more scalable. Right now, it's not scalable."
"I observed on our management that sometimes IPS does not connect to the threat cloud, we have to check and improve it. Otherwise, all of the features are good."
"Signature tuning should be more user-friendly in the tool because, as per my experience, signature tuning is tough in Check Point IPS."
"The dashboard reports can be easier to generate and customize."
"It would be good to update the public documentation of Check Point so that we can generate improvements and best practices based on the documentation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license required for this solution."
"There is a license needed to use the Check Point IPS which is not expensive. However, the Check Point IPS device is expensive."
"My company pays for the yearly licensing of Check Point IPS. It is a very expensive tool."
"The tool's licensing model is good. The licensing costs are yearly. I rate it an eight out of ten."
"Pricing for this solution is negotiable and I'm happy with our pricing."
"The price of this product should be reduced."
"The pricing for Check Point IPS is competitive and brings good value for the money."
"I think that the price of support is around $40,000 USD or $50,000 USD per year."
"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is very cheap and ten means it is very expensive. The product is expensive."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
8%
University
7%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Change Tracker Gen7 R2?
Whitelisting services are the most valuable feature of Change Tracker Gen7 R2.
What needs improvement with Change Tracker Gen7 R2?
The solution could include more integrations.
What is your primary use case for Change Tracker Gen7 R2?
We use Change Tracker Gen7 R2 for secure configuration management and file integrity monitoring.
What do you like most about Check Point IPS?
The most valuable feature of the solution is called tunneling. Tunneling is one of the major security features that hackers cannot penetrate through.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point IPS?
Comparisons with Fortinet show that Check Point IPS is relatively more expensive, but we found it cheaper to retain it rather than switch.
What needs improvement with Check Point IPS?
I believe Check Point IPS can be improved by making it more proactive and predictive and fine-tuning the false positives. When I say more proactive and predictive, I believe they can improve on the...
 

Also Known As

NNT Change Tracker Enterprise
Check Point Intrusion Prevention System
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

US Army, Xerox, Hewlett Packard, LiveTV, Universal Studios, Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, ACAS, Chanel, Live Nation, Union Bank, Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, Bank of China, Cornell University, Jetblue, Royal Albert Hall, Chaparral Energy, RyanAir
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