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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP and Vanta are both leaders in the cybersecurity and compliance automation sectors. While Vanta is preferred for its comprehensive compliance features, CloudGuard CNAPP is favored for its advanced security capabilities.

Features: Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP offers security automation, threat prevention, and protection for cloud-native applications. Vanta provides robust compliance tracking, streamlined reporting, and important integrations, focusing on regulatory standards.

Room for Improvement: Some find CloudGuard's initial setup complex, requiring significant resources. Vanta could enhance its customization options and expand integration capabilities. Both products could benefit from improved user interface experiences.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Vanta is praised for its seamless deployment and responsive customer service, appealing to fast-paced companies. CloudGuard CNAPP, though secure, demands a more intricate deployment process, which may require additional support.

Pricing and ROI: Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP tends to have higher initial costs because of its security infrastructure, potentially leading to a high ROI for security-focused companies. Vanta provides a cost-effective approach with a solid ROI for those prioritizing compliance and risk management.

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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs. Vanta

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Categories and Ranking

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP

Ranking in Compliance Management

6th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

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

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
Product	Market Share (%)
Vanta	8.1%
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP	4.1%
Other	87.8%

Compliance Management

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reviewer2751468

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.

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reviewer2585640

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.

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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

"The most valuable feature is posture management, which gives you complete visibility of all your assets in the cloud and allows you to do governance and compliance."

"The most valuable feature is the single dashboard that enables us to manage the entire cloud environment from one place."

"I value the comfort and the ability to receive proper insights almost hands-off."

"I love the work involved in maintaining and scaling security services and configurations across multiple public clouds using this solution, versus using native native cloud security controls. It is so much better. The different cloud platforms all have their own way that they handle a lot of the stuff that Dome9 handles. Even within their platform, they are in a lot of disparate places, e.g., in AWS, there are five different tools. You have to jump between them to get the same information that you can just pull in automatically on Dome9, which is just one platform. We are using multiple platforms, so that makes it even more complicated and time consuming if you had to just rely on them to get all of your information. Whereas, it's all just summarized and put together on the Dome9 end."

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

"The posture management and remediation features are the most valuable. We use GSL Builder to build custom rules in alignment with our organization's policies. CloudGuard has canned rules using multiple standard frameworks, but we also have additional rules."

"Helps identify and correct misconfigurations in cloud environments, ensuring that infrastructure and applications are secure and optimized."

"The rulesets and the findings are valuable. The actual core functionality of it and the efficacy of events are great."

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"The most valuable feature of Vanta would be the time savings from the automation and the continuous compliance monitoring once set up."

"They integrate into New Relic as a performance monitoring tool."

"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."

"Vanta's integrations and automated tests have streamlined our SOC 2 compliance and provided a single entry point for addressing risks and failed tests."

"Vanta provides a necessary repository that any compliance expert will look at and recognize right away."

"The most valuable feature of Vanta is its prebuilt control frameworks."

"Vanta has positively impacted my organization by streamlining the whole HITRUST R2 assessment process."

"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."

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Cons

"Streamlining the user interface would greatly improve the user experience."

"Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP can improve with more intuitive onboarding and policy templates for new users who are not accustomed to it, better customizable dashboards for different team roles, and deeper automated remediation suggestions to speed up fixes."

"I would like to see tighter integration with other compliance tools, like Chef Compliance, in addition to Inspector."

"It should capture more information in metadata including communication detail. Also, Internal IP addresses should not be tracked as this might be having some compliance issues."

"CloudGuard CNAPP could be enhanced by increasing the number of components that run natively on Azure."

"The Check Point solution is somewhat expensive."

"Automatic remediation requires read/write access. When providing read/write access to third-party applications, this can add risk. It should have some options of triggering API calls to the cloud platform, which in turn, can make the required changes."

"Integration could be improved."

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"Scalability could be improved."

"Some of the tool's automated tests do not work the way it should."

"There are connection problems about 50% of the time because of the automated evidence collection."

"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."

"I would tell others looking into using Vanta to use it for HITRUST E1 and I1 assessments, as the R2 assessments are still a work in progress."

"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."

"The main area for improvement in Vanta is the user interface's refresh rate."

"Currently, Vanta's user access review module is still in development, and we've been giving them continuous feedback to help them improve that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution’s pricing is a little bit high."

"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."

"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. "

"The pricing is tremendous and super cheap. It is shockingly cheap for what you get out of it. I am happy with that. I hope that doesn't get reported back and they increase the prices. I love the pricing and the licensing makes sense. It is just assets: The more stuff that you have, the more you pay."

"It is difficult to contextualize the pricing because we are used to Indian pricing and licensing."

"Its price is very fair."

"The license fee is high."

"Right now, we have licenses on 500 machines, and they are not cheap."

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"Vanta is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

University

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	55
Midsize Enterprise	17
Large Enterprise	57

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	1

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.

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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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Overview

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP offers comprehensive cloud security with features like dynamic access control, asset protection, and compliance checks, tailored for organizations seeking enhanced governance across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms.

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP provides robust capabilities, including centralized firewall management, IAM scanning, and real-time visibility. Its strengths lie in predictive visualization, threat intelligence, and auto-remediation, making it a valuable tool for risk mitigation and compliance management. The platform's integration and responsiveness enhance cloud security, ensuring alignment with industry standards and effective threat protection.

What are the key features of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP?

Dynamic Access Control: Enables granular security permissions for cloud resources.
Asset Protection: Safeguards cloud assets from unauthorized access and threats.
Compliance Checks: Ensures alignment with industry regulations like PCI DSS and SOC 2.
Centralized Firewall Management: Simplifies firewall rule configuration across cloud environments.
IAM Scanning: Audits and secures identity and access management configurations.
Real-Time Visibility: Provides insights into cloud environments for proactive threat detection.

What benefits and ROI should you expect from Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP?

Threat Intelligence: Identifies and mitigates potential risks before exploitation.
Auto-Remediation: Automates responses to security incidents, reducing manual intervention.
Intuitive Interface: Simplifies management and enhances operational efficiency.
Posture Management: Maintains strong security posture through continuous assessment.

Organizations in finance, healthcare, and retail frequently implement Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP for compliance and security across cloud environments. It assists with workload protection, threat detection, and regulatory obligation fulfillment, proving effective for securing applications and monitoring API interactions.

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Vanta helps companies scale security practices and automate compliance for the industry’s most sought after standards - SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA.

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