We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP and Cisco ACI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud and Data Center Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has great scalability."
"The automatic learning and an AI engine help to find more modern vulnerability problems."
"Auto remediation is a very effective feature that helps ensure less manual intervention."
"The system has deployed security tools to enhance effective investigations in the entire company networking system."
"It offers security insights and recommendations to assist organizations in acting and remediating issues swiftly."
"The most valuable features of CloudGuard CNAPP are its compliance engine and auto-remediation features."
"We have more visibility than ever before, appreciating the valuable and proactive insight that we receive from the platform."
"It is able to bring visibility into that cloudy space where the security departments do not really see what is happening on the DevOps side. It brings visibility, security control, and standardization."
"There are many features which are useful, like the automatic completion of the VXLAN."
"Virtualization and integration with VMware is the most valuable feature."
"It has reduced our day-to-day operations by at least half."
"The straightforward migration of all of the applications and loop balancing are the two most valuable features. Also, the measurement of their customer-wide sources is very straightforward. It's another dimension of the networks."
"This solution allows you to do everything quicker and more efficiently."
"The most valuable features of Cisco ACI are micro-segmentation, the VXLAN, and the ACI flattening services."
"All the features provided by Cisco ACI including orchestration to layer seven, service training, load enhancements and firewalls."
"Their technical support is very good. We had a problem and Cisco gave us the best engineer to resolve the issue."
"The platform would be significantly enhanced by incorporating data security management capabilities."
"The setup can be better. With every other Check Point product, the setup is scripted. You just approve versions, and then you are off. The setup for this solution is still very much manual. I would like to see that transition to more of a scripted setup."
"I am not a technical person, but generically, the user interface can be a little more intuitive. Our staff has trained network security and cloud security professionals, and they get it, but when you are trying to get to the customers to be able to pick it up and maintain it, it can be a bit difficult."
"I would like to see tighter integration with other compliance tools, like Chef Compliance, in addition to Inspector."
"I strongly advise that the multi-layered security system of Check Point often undergoes updates and new versions keep coming."
"Compliance checks on cloud resources against various industry standards and compliance framework templates need to be improved."
"Check Point must provide a multi-cloud facility where AWS, Azure, and GCP can seamlessly work together and display posture in an integrated manner."
"The costs are high."
"Compared to VMware, it needs more virtualization technologies."
"Customer support for ACI needs improvement. Many customers prefer HPE because their internal support is different and easier to integrate with existing networks. This lack of awareness of ACI's capabilities makes customers stick to traditional networking."
"Cisco ACI, segmentation-wise, could be more flexible, which is an area for improvement. The solution could be improved in terms of macro or micro-segmentation for many access lists and contracts. The process becomes very messy in the end."
"Biannually, there is a new design delivered by Cisco. Thus, you are always running behind the new design, and it never stops. With Cisco ACI, this has been a nightmare."
"The ability for us to figure out the traffic flows, to enable some of the more segmentation parts of it, is really tough with what is built into ACI."
"The initial setup was a bit complex. ACI was just out at that time, and there wasn't support at that time."
"The product needs to be more visible on the Internet and have the ability to be integrated into more software developments."
"Cisco ACI is a highly complex solution. The initial deployment is just a few clicks, but understanding how an ACI works and interacts with routing, switching, and virtualization takes a lot of knowledge. The interface isn't necessarily hard to use, but the technology is complicated. If you want to understand how it works and how to configure it, you should study hard."
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 7th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 60 reviews while Cisco ACI is ranked 2nd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 96 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.6, while Cisco ACI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP writes "Threat intel integration provides us visibility in case any workload is communicating with suspicious or blacklisted IPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco ACI writes "Stable, easy to extend, scalable, and has a host-based routing feature". Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Qualys VMDR, whereas Cisco ACI is most compared with VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Nuage Networks, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Juniper Contrail Networking. See our Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs. Cisco ACI report.
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