Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) vs Check Point Power-1 [EOL] comparison

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Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) and Check Point Power-1 [EOL] are both solutions in the Firewalls category. Additionally, 96% of Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 13, 2026

Check Point Power-1 EOL and Check Point Cloud Firewall are competing products in the security solutions market. Check Point Cloud Firewall has the upper hand due to its current features and perceived value.

Features: Check Point Power-1 EOL focused on robust on-premises security with hardware-based controls, providing significant historical support and favorable pricing. Check Point Cloud Firewall offers scalability and seamless integration with cloud ecosystems, with advanced protection for cloud-native applications. Cloud Firewall leverages agility and automation significantly over Power-1's legacy features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Deployment of Check Point Cloud Firewall benefits from flexibility and quick integration into cloud environments, along with strong customer service support. Check Point Power-1 EOL required complex hardware installation and upkeep. Cloud Firewall's streamlined setup demonstrates its advantage in deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Check Point Power-1 EOL offered competitive one-time hardware costs. Check Point Cloud Firewall operates on a subscription model, aligning costs with cloud consumption and providing better ROI for dynamic workloads. Cloud Firewall's cost-effectiveness in ongoing cloud operations surpasses Power-1's initial pricing benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

Check Point Cloud Firewall ...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

244

Ranking in other categories

Firewalls (8th), Managed Security Services Providers (MSSP) (1st), Vulnerability Management (5th), Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions (3rd), Cloud and Data Center Security (3rd), Container Security (6th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (5th), WAN Edge (3rd), Unified Threat Management (UTM) (4th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (5th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (5th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (4th), Compliance Management (5th)

Check Point Power-1 [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

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Q&A Highlights

reviewer215406

Sr. ISS at a government with 11-50 employees

Dec 16, 2015

We're trying to choose between Fortinet or Checkpoint UTM firewalls. Can you help?

more advantages with Fortigate : Fortitoken for two factor AUTH . FortiAp accespoints managed thru Fortigate . Forticloud for audit& reporting .IPS&DOS limit thresholds , etc

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Oscar Nunez

Ingeniero en redes y Telecomunicaciones at K-IT

Centralized management has reduced policy time and provides reliable multitenant protection

What I would like, what I think they should improve a little is the management of objects at large scale. When you work with multiple domains, there are thousands of network objects. Detecting duplicates and consistency across domains is a very manual process that should be more automated. Another thing: the SmartConsole interface is very powerful and very good, but the learning curve, compared to other solutions in the market from other manufacturers, could be modernized. I think it does not necessarily have to be done from a client application; it could be done via web, because via web I know that not all the options you have in SmartConsole are available. So it would be good if it could also be done from the web and all the options were available. Another thing that I would really like is more automation with Ansible or Terraform. I know it has improved in recent versions, but I think it is still not mature enough. Compared to other manufacturers that do have a bit more in terms of automation capabilities in integration flows with Ansible or Terraform, Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) could improve. Another thing that could be improved a little would be the TAC response time, because when there are very complex cases, I think there should be more speed initially, more ownership of those urgent cases, and not leave the customer waiting. This has happened to me: when I have cases open with Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) TAC, sometimes they do not respond and I have to keep insisting, and I think that part should improve. I do not know if it depends on who takes the ticket or on the severity of the ticket, but sometimes I have had to insist a lot, and that would be the only problem. Once they attend to me and become involved in the case, the responses they give are very professional and really help directly resolve the problems when there is a bug or troubleshooting to do. As I said, I would like to see a specific improvement in SmartConsole. I think if they improved it—how to say it—gave it a facelift so you could access all the options directly from a browser, that would be great, because sometimes, for one reason or another, you cannot download SmartConsole or, for some reason, the SmartConsole client does not start correctly, and you could do it directly from the browser. I think that would be a good option to improve. Another thing would be that in multidomain environments, I would like a global search function for objects and rules. That is, you could enter and search across all domains at once, because right now you have to go domain by domain, and in environments with many customers, you spend quite a bit of time; you have to exit one domain and enter another. So those would be the improvements I would like to see.

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William Cambronero

Consultant at ITQS

Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN capabilities

Check Point Power-1 (EOL) has reached the end of its useful life, yet at the time, they could to make some changes such as: * Integration in the cloud. It is the new trend, however, Check Point has already contemplated this and already has its own cloud device. * Automation. As the automatic creation and application of policies, this would have been very beneficial. * Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time. They must also make some improvements in their support departments since they do not comply with the SLAs that they provide.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Most of the features are pretty valuable, whether that's a description of the attacks or the attack graph showing the vulnerabilities. If a single tool does all this work, the value is centralizing all these functions on a single tool. These are the cloud-native applications we talk about — containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure — and all those things are the primary focus of the CNAPP solution."

"Any kind of cloud environment anywhere can be protected through this effortlessly."

"We have more visibility than ever before, appreciating the valuable and proactive insight that we receive from the platform."

"The ability to drill down to individual hosts on an account and see which ones are affected is valuable."

"Check Point CloudGuard is quick to deploy and easy for the customer to use."

"It provides a huge benefit in many ways, offering a boost in confidence for secure cloud deployment and migration."

"We have developed a modern digital infrastructure that can access and give reliable reports based on real-time results."

"We were able to seamlessly extend our on-premise protection to Cloud and didn't require any effort."

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"In my opinion it is right product at enterprise level network to protect the user and server from external and internal threats and attacks"

"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."

Cons

"The biggest thing is the documentation aspect of Dome9 is a little lacking. They were purchased by Check Point about a year and a half to two years ago. When they integrated into Check Point's support system, a lot of the documentation that they had previously got mangled in the transition, e.g., linking to stuff on the Dome9 website that no longer exists. There are still a lot of spaces with incomplete links and stuff that is not as fully explained as it could be."

"Almost all features are good, however, they still require improvements to the code security portion on which integration with the major source code repository is required."

"Making basic rules is easy, but it's complex if you want to do something a little more nuanced. I've been unable to make some rules that I wanted. I couldn't evaluate some values or parameters of the components I look for. I haven't always been able to assess them."

"The dashboard customization has room for improvement."

"Zero touch removes any independence for configuring."

"It is pretty great in all aspects, but the integration could be easier, especially with Scale Set and related features."

"The cost is a little high, it doesn't suit every budget."

"The only thing that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security lacks is that for VPN, you need to buy a different model."

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"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."

"I have to pay Check Point for every new service I integrate in the firewall and it also has license related issue which needs to renew every years."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license fee is high."

"The pricing is extremely competitive."

"The tool's pricing is not cheap."

"My experience has been extremely positive. It was not a concern because I had an account team that fought for pricing for our company. They were not pushing me to professional services for certain help. I was instantly getting a CloudGuard architect to help us out."

"The product is too expensive."

"CloudGuard Network Security is not too cheap."

"Pricing of CloudGuard is pretty fair when you have a single account. It's comparable with other cloud providers. But for our use case, it got really pricey when we had to deploy multiple CloudGuards on multiple accounts in different regions, because you can't have CloudGuard protecting multiple regions. That's the big thing."

"We have the enterprise-level license and we renew it annually because it is worth the cost."

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Answers from the Community

reviewer215406

Sr. ISS at a government with 11-50 employees

Dec 16, 2015

We're trying to choose between Fortinet or Checkpoint UTM firewalls. Can you help?

more advantages with Fortigate : Fortitoken for two factor AUTH . FortiAp accespoints managed thru Fortigate . Forticloud for audit& reporting .IPS&DOS limit thresholds , etc

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it_user195018

CEO with 51-200 employees

Apr 27, 2015

I recommend to choose Fortigate Firewall.

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it_user201144

Gerente de Servicios y Proyectos

Apr 27, 2015

You should evaluate watchguard UTM Includes websesnse as url filtering, same categories

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

16%

Construction Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	132
Midsize Enterprise	53
Large Enterprise	144

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

Since we use a unified standard for using policies and modules in Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security), we can clearly plan which modules we need to activate on a parti...

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What needs improvement with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

The main limitations of Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) are not in Check Point itself but in the cloud platforms on which it is deployed. Because not all clouds ha...

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What is your primary use case for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

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Also Known As

CloudGuard IaaS, Check Point vSEC, CloudGuard IaaS, Check Point Virtual Systems, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP

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Overview

Check Point Cloud Firewall, previously known as CloudGuard Network Security, provides advanced threat prevention, centralized management, and VPN capabilities, enabling robust cloud security across various platforms including Azure and AWS.

Check Point Cloud Firewall delivers seamless cloud integration with advanced automated threat prevention and centralized management to enhance security posture. It offers auto-scaling for dynamic environments and a comprehensive policy enforcement framework in hybrid settings. The unified interface streamlines administration across cloud infrastructures, ensuring consistent protection and reducing risk.

What important features does it offer?

Advanced Threat Prevention: Safeguards against sophisticated threats.
Centralized Management: Simplifies control for cloud infrastructures.
Auto-scaling: Adapts to changing workloads seamlessly.
VPN Capabilities: Enables secure connections across environments.
Integration with Azure and AWS: Ensures compatibility with leading cloud services.
Visibility Tools: Enhanced monitoring and management for security enforcement.

What benefits can users expect?

Enhanced Security: Comprehensive threat management reduces risk.
Operational Efficiency: Automation capabilities streamline processes.
Cost Management: Efficient resource usage with auto-scaling reduces expenses.
Integration Flexibility: Adapts easily into existing cloud platforms.
Simplified Administration: Unified management reduces complexity.

In manufacturing and conglomerate sectors, Check Point Cloud Firewall is utilized for protecting cloud environments and implementing network segmentation. It supports secure cloud migration on AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring compliance, perimeter defense, and traffic inspection, facilitating sophisticated threat prevention strategies.

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Check Point Power-1 is the first security appliance to provide simple and flexible field performance upgradability. It has world class performance up to 25 Gbps in convenient 2-U form factor and flexible multi-function security appliance provides expandability and investment protection.

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Sample Customers

Physicians Choice Laboratory Services, Helvetica Insurance

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