Check Point Application Control vs McAfee Application Control comparison

"The real-time monitoring and reporting functionalities provide visibility into application usage patterns and potential security incidents, enabling proactive responses to emerging threats."

"The central management system provides a reliable platform for application control and URL filtering."

"One of the greatest capacities and the benefits it gives us is the ability to control applications based on defining access or denial policies in specific applications, groups, or category profiles."

"It blocks ransomware attacks that can affect performance-enhancing secure work environments with zero-day attacks."

"The overall security of the environment has been greatly improved by the Check Point NGFWs. Before implementing the Check Point solutions, we relied on the Cisco ACLs and Zone-Based firewalls configured on the switches and routers, which in fact a simple stateful firewall, and currently appear to be not an efficient solution for protecting from the advanced threats."

"This platform has fully secured our applications with very powerful firewall security upgrades."

"The tool's most valuable features are VPN access, website defense, and maintenance."

"It ensures that the health of each application can handle the set tasks and projects without any challenges."

"This is a basic solution; the policy screen is okay, and it's easy to configure."

"We also like the Change Control. We can control how things get executed. It has signatures for different kinds of protocols."

"The blocking characteristics for filtering content currently are not so customizable."

"Improving the scalability and performance to handle larger networks and increasing traffic volumes would ensure consistent reliability under heavy usage conditions."

"The whitelisting approach should only be on very specific applications. In which only a server should access a certain application and nothing else. If you miss something, you will have to always be investigating why it doesn't have access or why an application is not working."

"There are many aspects we do not like about the solution and there are a lot of alternatives available on the market. Some of the settings are buried deep within the solution making it a challenge to navigate. It would be helpful if it was more intuitive. Additionally, there can be some settings that are in multiple places, this leaves the user not knowing what settings are needed to be modified for the wanted result. I have lost confidence because I do not know if I change a setting or if it is going to have the desired result I intended it to do."

"One of our continued challenges is having a more accurate, real-time view of how our bandwidth is actually being used at any given moment."

"They need to improve the graphical interface."

"At this time, Check Point Application control is the best on the market."

"Something important to mention is the improvement at the support level. It could be more advanced."

"The intrusion detection features should also be improved. It is a very good feature but it should be maximized."

"I would like to see better reporting and alerting features in the future."

"I think application control has become a basic feature and it should be enabled automatically, without having to purchase a separate license for it."

"The blade has its cost but you can take advantage of the license package to pay less for it."

"Check Point Application Control is expensive. The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"It's a bit expensive and it could be cheaper, but it's part of business politics."

"The price of Check Point Application Control is high. The support and ecosystem around the solution are expensive."