Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP
Ranking in Container Management
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (6th), Cloud and Data Center Security (8th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (5th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (4th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (4th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (4th), Compliance Management (3rd)
Red Hat OpenShift Container...
Ranking in Container Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

RD
Apr 9, 2024
Fair price, great dashboards, and fantastic for identifying misconfigurations
The setup can be better. With every other Check Point SaaS product, the setup is scripted. You just approve deployment scripts, 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. That has been an issue when I set up a client because every client has different skill sets. The general reporting also needs improvement. It is very cumbersome to pull the reports for big environments. I had a client environment with 50 tenants, and I had to manually run a CIS report for each tenant and download it. There were 50 different reports. I wish there was a way to get the reports for all 50 tenants in one report and not 50 different reports.
DM
Jan 16, 2023
Provides a tool to demo other aspects of development, deployment, and monitoring on the same platform
The main goal of adopting OpenShift is to overcome the current challenges of integrating with App Connect. One of the objectives is to make our containers more scalable. The other goals involve the benefits we can get from packaging and more. I don't have a lot of use cases right now, but when we start using it in production, OpenShift will make things like machine workflows easier. It will enable us to control or orchestrate containers better and provide a tool to demo other aspects of development, deployment, and monitoring on the same platform. We expect OpenShift to help us with regulatory compliance. Entities like banks require approval of decisions through these kinds of ledgers. Sometimes, it's virtually impossible to do this. OpenShift makes meeting these standards easier. We still do not see the benefits in terms of development time and quality of the final product because we're still in the evaluation phase, but we'll soon have a better understanding of what we can achieve with the tool. At the same time, we've seen examples of other players that already use OpenShift and recognize the benefits they get from using it.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution has intelligence that integrates with a range of threat intelligence feeds, including Check Point's ThreatCloud, to provide real-time intelligence on emerging threats."
"The most valuable features are the ability to create pipeline rules, the enhanced NetOps security, and the deep visibility across our entire infrastructure."
"The comprehensive security for IaaS and PaaS cloud assets provides efficient security awareness to all the teams."
"The system has deployed security tools to enhance effective investigations in the entire company networking system."
"The dashboard is intuitive. You know if you're compliant or not, and then it gives you a remediation plan."
"It provides complete visibility of workload hosted on different cloud platforms including AWS and Azure, along with multiple tenants."
"The product allows us to enhance the security of the implementations we have."
"Its monitoring and alerts are triggered by a failure or non-compliance with policies. It helps us to be able to act effectively and quickly."
"The solution's security throughout the stack and the software supply chain is very reliable. When it was on-prem, it was by default secured by our company firewalls and security tools, and now it's in the cloud, which has its security and systems in place. This provides stability to our infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature for me in the OpenShift Container Platform is the option to manage different containers and environments and also being able to switch among them."
"It is very lightweight and can be deployed very fast, especially when it comes to containers."
"Openshift is a very developer-friendly product."
"The usability and the developer experience. The platform has a centralized consultant that is easy to use for our development, operations and security teams."
"I think it's a pretty scalable tool...The solution's technical support has been pretty good."
"The stack in the software supply chain is one of the main reasons that we use OpenShift. When I came to this company, we bought hardware from IBM named Bluemix, and they used ICP, which stands for IBM Cloud Private."
"OpenShift is a user-friendly container platform with a solid GUI that helps you follow what is going on and gives you an overview of all your clusters. It's more user-friendly than the Kubernetes itself. The interface helps you learn the platform and provides access to some features or specific comments."
 

Cons

"Check Point tools need to improve the latency in the portal since they take a long time to load."
"I would like to see some AI on the back-end, just to assist with doing analysis and making recommendations."
"The costs are really high if you want the entire capabilities of the platform."
"CloudGuard could be more customizable. It has built-in standards for things like GDPR compliance. But depending on your business lane, you might want to build your own controls based on your own standards."
"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."
"We have concerns regarding the pricing and would appreciate seeing some improvements."
"I strongly advise that the multi-layered security system of Check Point often undergoes updates and new versions keep coming."
"The dashboard customization has room for improvement."
"OpenShift Container Platform is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"The solution does not work on a route-wise NFS."
"OpenShift Container Platform could improve by having better integration."
"It has an option to install OpenShift without connecting it to the Internet. We tried this, but it was very hard. We couldn't manage to use that option. We wanted to use it offline for installations, updates, upgrades, etc., but we didn't find the offline installation and updates easy. This could be better."
"We've encountered challenges when transitioning applications between these environments."
"OpenShift has a pretty steep learning curve. It's not an easy tool to use. It's not only OpenShift but Kubernetes itself. The good thing is that Red Hat provides specific targeted training. There are five or six pieces of training where you can get certifications. The licenses for OpenShift are pretty expensive, so they could be cheaper because the competition isn't sleeping, and Red Hat must take that into account."
"It can take 10 to 15 minutes to deploy a microservice. The CI/CD process takes a long time, and if it's because of OCP, that is something that can be changed."
"The solution needs to introduce open ID connect integration for role-based access control."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing and costs are straightforward, as they have a baseline of 100 workloads within one license and no additional charges."
"From a pricing perspective, they are pretty expensive."
"In the beginning, the price of Dome9 was cheap, whereas now it is not."
"The pricing is extremely competitive."
"The license for CloudGuard Posture Management is about $80 a year, and it's based on your cloud footprint, not the number of users. So you could have a million users, and it doesn't matter."
"It is difficult to contextualize the pricing because we are used to Indian pricing and licensing."
"Right now, we have licenses on 500 machines, and they are not cheap."
"The price is on the higher end."
"The pricing and licensing are handled on an upper management level, and I'm not involved in that, but I understand the solution to be somewhat pricey."
"OpenShift with Red Hat support is pretty costly. We have done a comparison between AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Services) which provides fully managed services from AWS. It's built on open-source-based Kubernetes clusters and it is much cheaper compared to Red Hat, but it is a little expensive compared to ECS provided by AWS."
"We currently have an annual license renewal."
"We have to pay for the license."
"The pricing is expensive for licensing."
"We paid for Cloud Pak for integration. It all depends on how many VMs or how many CPUs you are using. They do the licensing based on that."
"Its licensing is completely incomprehensible. We have special people within our company. They discuss with Red Hat subscription managers. It is too complex, and I do not understand it. We are from the government, and we are trying to be as cheap as possible. Sometimes, I am just amazed at the amount of money that we have to pay. It is crazy."
"It largely depends on how much money they earn from the application being deployed; you don't normally deploy an app just for the purpose of having it. You must constantly look into your revenue and how much you spend every container, minute, or hour of how much it is working."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Security Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management, Dome9, Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection, Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence
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Sample Customers

Symantec, Citrix, Car and Driver, Virgin, Cloud Technology Partners
Edenor, BMW, Ford, Argentine Ministry of Health
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