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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs Kubernetes comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 13, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.3
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP improves security and compliance, reduces manual tasks, boosting efficiency and ROI with automation.
Sentiment score
8.6
Organizations experience various ROI benefits from Kubernetes like stability, efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced infrastructure use via containerization.
The compliance has improved as our overall compliance score against CIS benchmark has improved from around 72 to 92% within the first three months of adoption.
Assistant Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
This helped my team cut manual review time by roughly twenty to twenty-five percent, allowing me to reallocate effort to proactive cloud security improvements.
Networking and System Consultant at Orbcom,Lda.
Monitoring cloud security automatically ensures a return on investment.
Cloud Engineer at Cloudar
What earlier required manual coordination and took thirty to forty minutes per release is now usually completed within ten to fifteen minutes.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We receive revenue and returns from its deployment due to improved services and applications.
Scholar Trainee/Project Engineer at Wipro Limited
I have seen a return on investment, and the metrics in return for the investment are very fast.
Site Reliability Engineer at Tiendanube
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.6
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP offers excellent, knowledgeable support but could improve initial response times at the basic support level.
Sentiment score
6.7
Kubernetes users balance self-management and community resources with vendor and third-party support for efficient issue resolution.
When I need help or have open questions, or if I require the capability to deploy a quick test environment, there are always people I can contact at Check Point to get my information or the environment as fast as I need it.
Cloud Security Architect at controlware
I have a dedicated support engineer and a presales engineer dedicated to me.
Cloud Engineer at Cloudar
Customer support for Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP has been responsive and knowledgeable.
Assistant Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
In addition to official support, Kubernetes community ecosystem is very strong.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The application is stable, and I seldom require support.
Scholar Trainee/Project Engineer at Wipro Limited
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP scales well across clouds, with reliable performance and strong security compliance, despite licensing concerns.
Sentiment score
8.1
Kubernetes enables seamless scalability and efficient resource management across diverse environments, supporting businesses of all sizes and workloads.
Visibility scales without performance issues as my environment expands.
Networking and System Consultant at Orbcom,Lda.
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP scales efficiently in the multi-cloud environment.
Assistant Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
I never had any performance-related issues.
Cloud Security Architect at controlware
Overall, Kubernetes gives a lot of flexibility to handle growth and spikes without re-architecting the system.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Kubernetes is highly scalable, earning a rating of eight out of ten.
Scholar Trainee/Project Engineer at Wipro Limited
By using horizontal pod autoscalers, Kubernetes automatically adjusts the number of pods based on CPU, memory usage, or other metrics.
AWS DevOps Engineer at Hexaware Technologies Limited
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is reliable and efficient, handling large-scale workloads with minimal downtime despite occasional minor latency issues.
Sentiment score
7.4
Kubernetes is stable and reliable, with proper maintenance and best practices essential for seamless operation in managed environments.
If there are errors, it is sometimes challenging to elaborate or troubleshoot since it is not transparent enough to understand what to search for.
Cloud Security Architect at controlware
It is rapidly evolving, and sometimes mistakes occur, necessitating testing.
Cloud Engineer at Cloudar
As long as best practices are followed, such as proper resource limits, health checks, and monitoring, Kubernetes provides a stable foundation for production workloads.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Our organization performs robust testing before sending changes to production, ensuring the stability of Kubernetes in live environments.
AWS DevOps Engineer at Hexaware Technologies Limited
Kubernetes offers high stability, allowing for easy scaling of ports and containers.
Scholar Trainee/Project Engineer at Wipro Limited
 

Room For Improvement

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP needs better integrations, user interfaces, support, automation, and documentation to enhance functionality and user satisfaction.
Kubernetes users seek an intuitive dashboard, improved integration, enhanced security, better documentation, and simplified deployment and management.
I need more integration from the code-to-cloud principle.
Cloud Security Architect at controlware
It would be nice to have periodic updates on what people should do, maybe with some analysis or something.
Information Security Officer at Cargus
I require consistency in the user interface to ensure everything is streamlined into the same look and feel.
Cloud Engineer at Cloudar
Kubernetes is a very mature and reliable platform, and the benefits clearly outweigh the limitations for most production use cases.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Improved documentation would help in gaining scalable knowledge and making it more understandable.
Scholar Trainee/Project Engineer at Wipro Limited
After the upgrade, some pods were not up as expected, leading to downtime.
AWS DevOps Engineer at Hexaware Technologies Limited
 

Setup Cost

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP offers flexible licensing with varied costs, seen as high but valuable for security management.
Kubernetes is cost-effective at scale but pricier for smaller setups, with costs affected by cloud resources and managed services.
In terms of ROI, we can see time savings for audit preparation of at least 30-40%.
Assistant Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
It is not cheap, of course, yet it is a necessity.
Cloud Security Architect at controlware
From a licensing and cost perspective, it is really competitive.
Cloud Engineer at Cloudar
Kubernetes itself is open source and free, so there is no licensing cost for the software.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Since we use Kubernetes on-premises, the costs are related to our expertise and the personnel we hire.
Head of Data Science center of excellence at Ameriabank CJSC
the setup costs are high.
Site Reliability Engineer at Tiendanube
 

Valuable Features

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP offers visibility, compliance, and threat intelligence, enhancing security management and governance across multi-cloud environments.
Kubernetes offers scalable, automated container orchestration with features like auto-repair, high availability, and seamless cloud integration.
One of the main reasons we use the solution is that it is great at identifying risks that are critical to our business.
Information Security Officer at Cargus
The CDR helps detect anomalous behavior and respond to threats before they become an issue.
Cloud Engineer at Cloudar
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP offers a unified, modular platform that combines CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, code security, and cloud detection and response.
Assistant Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Kubernetes also offers rollback control and auto-scaling capabilities, which are crucial for maintaining an application's availability even if nodes or pods go down.
AWS DevOps Engineer at Hexaware Technologies Limited
The feature that stands out most for me is self-healing. If a pod crashes or a node fails, Kubernetes automatically recreates the pod and maintains the desired state.
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
For us, having fast storage classes is very important.
Head of Data Science center of excellence at Ameriabank CJSC
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (13th), Cloud and Data Center Security (9th), Container Security (11th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (6th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (6th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (7th), Compliance Management (6th)
Kubernetes
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
80
Ranking in other categories
Container Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP and Kubernetes aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is designed for Vulnerability Management and holds a mindshare of 1.2%, down 1.3% compared to last year.
Kubernetes, on the other hand, focuses on Container Management, holds 7.3% mindshare, up 4.8% since last year.
Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP1.2%
Wiz6.4%
Tenable Nessus4.9%
Other87.5%
Vulnerability Management
Container Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Kubernetes7.3%
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform17.5%
Amazon EKS13.0%
Other62.2%
Container Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2751468 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Boosts security and compliance in multi-cloud environments while real-time threat detection enhances risk management
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP flagged a misconfiguration in our AWS S3 bucket that had overly permissive access settings. That configuration could have exposed our sensitive data to the public internet. The platform not only identified the issue but also provided remediation that our team was able to apply immediately. This prevented a potential data exposure. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP offers a unified, modular platform that combines CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, code security, and cloud detection and response. The agentless workload posture, real-time threat detection and response, multi-cloud coverage and visibility, compliance automation, and one-click remediations stand out as its best features. I find myself relying on the risk management engine and prioritization the most day-to-day. In any cloud environment, you are flooded with findings, misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps. Without prioritization, it is overwhelming for our team to take care of the posture. CloudGuard's risk scoring helps us cut through incidents. This makes remediation faster and focused instead of wasting time checking every alert. We get to fix the issues that pose real business risks. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP has positively impacted our organization at a significant level. We get greater visibility and control across all our cloud environments. Some biggest benefits we have seen are faster detection and remediation of misconfigurations, improved compliance posture, reduced risk exposure, operational efficiency, and cost savings. Overall, it has made our cloud environment more secure, compliant, and easier to manage while freeing up our teams to focus on projects instead of chasing alerts.
RV
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Automated deployments and self-healing have transformed how I run reliable chat services
For improvements, I would definitely suggest some enhancements to Kubernetes. While Kubernetes is very powerful, there are still a few areas where it could be improved. Our challenge is the learning curve and operational complexity. For new team members, concepts such as networking, RBAC, Ingress, and troubleshooting distributed systems can take time to understand. Better built-in onboarding tools or simplified abstractions would help. Another pain point is debugging and observability. While kubectl provides good basic visibility, deep debugging across multiple services, pods, and nodes often requires external tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or centralized logging. Stronger native observability features would be very helpful. Networking and Ingress configuration can also be complex, especially when dealing with certificates, routing rules, and cloud-specific integrations. A more standardized experience across environments could reduce operational overhead. From a cost perspective, managing and optimizing resource usage at scale still requires careful monitoring and tuning. Better built-in cost visibility would be very helpful. For the needed improvements, I think that covers most of my main concerns. The biggest areas for improvement are still around simplifying operations, better native observability, and easier cost visibility. If I had to add one more point, it would be around standardization and developer experience. Sometimes different clusters, cloud providers, or tooling setups behave slightly differently, which increases maintenance efforts. More consistent defaults and opinionated best practices could help teams adopt Kubernetes faster and with fewer surprises. Overall, despite these challenges, Kubernetes is a very mature and reliable platform, and the benefits clearly outweigh the limitations for most production use cases. An additional area that could be improved is upgrade and version management. While managed services help coordinate Kubernetes version upgrades, API deprecations and compatibility with add-ons can still be time-consuming and risky for production environments. Better tooling and clearer migration automation would make upgrades safer and easier. Another improvement could be around documentation, consistency, and discoverability. Kubernetes documentation is very comprehensive, but for beginners, it can sometimes be overwhelming to navigate and identify best practice paths.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business55
Midsize Enterprise18
Large Enterprise56
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise47
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudGuard Workload Protection?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been reasonable for the value it delivers. The initial setup cost was fair. Understanding the right modules and tiers took a bit of plannin...
What do you like most about CloudGuard for Cloud Intelligence?
The new scanning function is a valuable feature that wasn't available until recently.
What needs improvement with CloudGuard for Cloud Intelligence?
One area that Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP could use improvement is the navigation when switching between modules. A more streamlined interface and a quicker drill-down into findings would make the...
What do you like most about Kubernetes?
There are many good features. I feel that the scale-out features, like replica sets, are very good. The number of running containers can be autoscaled.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kubernetes?
My experience with pricing and setup costs shows that Kubernetes itself is open source and free, so there is no licensing cost for the software. The main cost comes from the infrastructure and mana...
What needs improvement with Kubernetes?
For improvements, I would definitely suggest some enhancements to Kubernetes. While Kubernetes is very powerful, there are still a few areas where it could be improved. Our challenge is the learnin...
 

Also Known As

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management, Dome9, Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection, Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence
K8
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Symantec, Citrix, Car and Driver, Virgin, Cloud Technology Partners
China unicom, NetEase Cloud, Nav, AppDirect
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