We performed a comparison between Check Point Application Control and McAfee Application Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Check Point Software Technologies, McAfee and others in Application Control."The most important characteristic is granularity, which allows our teams to have different security profiles depending on the department to be protected."
"Its implementation is simple."
"It also helps us implement changes very quickly and make people more focused on work."
"It blocks ransomware attacks that can affect performance-enhancing secure work environments with zero-day attacks."
"We can control bandwidth and high-risk application access from our network using application control."
"The ability to be able to do dynamic rate limiting on specific applications has been a valuable feature."
"It ensures that the health of each application can handle the set tasks and projects without any challenges."
"The most outstanding feature is the Check Point APK wiki."
"We also like the Change Control. We can control how things get executed. It has signatures for different kinds of protocols."
"This is a basic solution; the policy screen is okay, and it's easy to configure."
"The blocking characteristics for filtering content currently are not so customizable."
"Something important to mention is the improvement at the support level. It could be more advanced."
"Check Point licenses are somewhat expensive."
"Configuration and deployment are a little bit difficult."
"The set performance monitoring systems are complex to interpret and scale down their operations."
"The initial setup was a bit difficult."
"At the moment I don't see the need to add new features. That said, you always have to be one step ahead."
"I would like to have a periodic update of the applications, perhaps based on a predefined calendar."
"I would like to see better reporting and alerting features in the future."
"The intrusion detection features should also be improved. It is a very good feature but it should be maximized."
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Check Point Application Control is ranked 2nd in Application Control with 34 reviews while McAfee Application Control is ranked 3rd in Application Control. Check Point Application Control is rated 8.8, while McAfee Application Control is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Check Point Application Control writes "Reliable, reduces management requirements, and lessens manual interventions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of McAfee Application Control writes "Has signatures for different kinds of protocols but the licensing model is confusing ". Check Point Application Control is most compared with VMware Carbon Black App Control, Ivanti Application Control and WatchGuard Application Control, whereas McAfee Application Control is most compared with VMware Carbon Black App Control.
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