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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs Vanta comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

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

Categories and Ranking

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP
Ranking in Compliance Management
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (11th), Cloud and Data Center Security (9th), Container Security (10th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (6th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (5th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (7th)
Vanta
Ranking in Compliance Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Compliance Consulting (1st), Data Governance (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Compliance Management category, the mindshare of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is 4.1%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vanta is 8.1%, down from 14.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Compliance Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Vanta8.1%
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP4.1%
Other87.8%
Compliance 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.
reviewer2585640 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Compliance workflows have become organized and automation supports ongoing healthcare audits
There are always tons of rooms for improvement for Vanta. I kind of exaggerated a little bit about the policy control. I don't really love the way they handle the revision management of that feature. If I'm on V1 of the policy document and I make some changes to it, then I get rid of V1 and then I re-upload V2. It's not that it keeps a running history of each of the different revisions. A little bit of an issue with that, but workable. I don't really have any negative complaint right now that would be worthwhile expressing. It's just that there's a lot of features. The UI is not super intuitive, but now that I've worked with it for a couple of years, I know how to navigate and get around. Initially, it was a little bit of a struggle understanding how these things would all work.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The visibility in our cloud environment is the most valuable feature."
"The system has deployed security tools to enhance effective investigations in the entire company networking system."
"This solution helps to keep everything visible, and it also alerts us if something is wrong, such as if someone opened extra ports or services that they are not supposed to. This is a valuable tool for monitoring and maintaining our cloud environment."
"The dashboard is intuitive. You know if you're compliant or not, and then it gives you a remediation plan."
"The product enables us to check the information that goes out of the company."
"It offers a range of features tailored to address the unique security challenges."
"We like the ability to investigate, analyze, and generate reports."
"This solution provides threat prevention and detection of anomalies automatically and investigates the activity of each one of them."
"The product has provided automated security controls for our cloud provider. It helps to automate security checks. Vanta offers a list of things that can be done to achieve ISO 27001 compliance."
"The most valuable feature of Vanta is its prebuilt control frameworks."
"After implementing those changes with Vanta, we tracked specific outcomes and metrics and improved compliance scores, which we can see in Vanta."
"They integrate into New Relic as a performance monitoring tool."
"It helps us track the compliance of the components listed in our partner's directory. We can also check if the password manager, XML, and three log policies have been properly implemented on the desktop."
"Vanta has positively impacted my organization by streamlining the whole HITRUST R2 assessment process."
"Vanta provides a necessary repository that any compliance expert will look at and recognize right away."
"The most valuable feature of Vanta would be the time savings from the automation and the continuous compliance monitoring once set up."
 

Cons

"The dashboard customization has room for improvement."
"The price of this solution should be reduced so that it is more affordable to scale."
"I strongly advise that the multi-layered security system of Check Point often undergoes updates and new versions keep coming."
"You do need to pay extra in order to get better support."
"Timely updates and upgrades to meet modern technological changes could help improve performance and limit the chances of downtime."
"Compliance checks on cloud resources against various industry standards and compliance framework templates need to be improved."
"Currently, I would like this solution extended to cellular devices or tablets."
"We're looking for a solution that can incorporate legacy infrastructure for some of our business needs."
"Some of the tool's automated tests do not work the way it should."
"The main area for improvement in Vanta is the user interface's refresh rate."
"They have an AI generator for the system description for SOC 2, however, the outline is a little sketchy."
"Currently, Vanta's user access review module is still in development, and we've been giving them continuous feedback to help them improve that."
"There is a delay with customer support and they are unsure of the answers we need."
"Permissions for platform users have been an issue. We've had to give admin access to Vanta for another team member to view all items."
"Failed tests for device CVEs seem to be cumulative, meaning I have to clear all CVEs before the test will pass, which makes it difficult to resolve the test before the next round of CVEs are published."
"There are connection problems about 50% of the time because of the automated evidence collection."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have the enterprise-level license and we renew it annually because it is worth the cost."
"The pricing is extremely competitive."
"Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is expensive."
"CloudGuard is fairly priced."
"The price is on the higher end."
"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."
"The license fee is high."
"​They support either annual licensing or hourly. At the time of our last negotiation, it was either one or the other, you could not mix or match. I would have liked to mix/match. ​"
"Vanta is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
9%
University
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business55
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise57
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise1
 

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 Vanta?
The most valuable feature of Vanta is its prebuilt control frameworks.
What needs improvement with Vanta?
Failed tests for device CVEs seem to be cumulative, meaning I have to clear all CVEs before the test will pass, which makes it difficult to resolve the test before the next round of CVEs are publis...
What is your primary use case for Vanta?
My use case involves SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance.
 

Also Known As

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

 

Sample Customers

Symantec, Citrix, Car and Driver, Virgin, Cloud Technology Partners
Care Directives, Shortcut , Nayya, Heizenrader, Treasury Prime
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