We compared Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Cisco Secure Workload based on our users' reviews in six categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is commended for its easy and direct initial setup, valuable features including VPN and IPS blades, and solid security and value. On the other hand, Cisco Secure Workload has a moderate initial setup, user-friendly interface, and robust technical assistance. In general, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security may have an edge in terms of ease of setup and valuable features, while Cisco Secure Workload may excel in user-friendliness and technical support.
"The tool's most valuable feature is its scalability. You will only have to pay less for scaling up. Its notable benefit is deployment complexity. Regional deployment is simpler compared to on-premise setup."
"The tool's most valuable features are firewalls and IPS."
"We find Check Point valuable because they are 100% focused on security. It totally closes the potential vulnerability channel. We can check our mail and our attachments and we can scan everything easily. We get an immediate report about the situation of the attachments. We can discover if the target's security attack was started from phishing, etc. We also enjoy using the additional features that protect our internal customer from targeted attacks."
"Its centralized control, ease of use, and flexibility are the most valuable for our data center security."
"The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can start off with a simple firewall and expand it to UTM."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"The program is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is micro-segmentation, which is the most important with respect to visibility."
"It's stable."
"The product provides multiple-device integration."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is security."
"Scalability is its most valuable feature."
"A complete and powerful micro-segmentation solution."
"Instead of proving that all the access control lists are in place and all the EPGs are correct, we can just point the auditor to a dashboard and point out that there aren't any escaped conversations. It saves an enormous, enormous amount of time."
"By using Tetration insight, we are able to get the latency on our level accounts and we can determine whatever the issue is with the application latency itself."
"New features have been introduced recently, but they have not yet been integrated into CloudGuard Vsec."
"It can be difficult to install properly without prior training"
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security should give productive reports as per business requirements. It needs to improve support since the time-limit extended beyond a day. It should include more seamless API integrations."
"While Check Point does offer some VWAN offerings, they appear to be more static and less tailored to cloud-native environments compared to Palo Alto's dynamic and flexible approach."
"CheckPoint CloudGuard could be better at solving cases."
"The solution needs to support more hypervisors."
"It is somewhat problematic in the area of the cloud."
"The API integration is complex, which is an area that should be improved."
"It has an uninviting interface."
"I'd like to see better documentation for advanced features. The documentation is fairly basic. I would also like to see better integration with other applications."
"There is some overlap between Cisco Tetration and AppDynamics and I need to have a single pane of glass, rather than have to jump between different tools."
"The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring."
"The interface is really helpful for technical people, but it is not user-friendly."
"It is highly scalable, but there is a limitation that it is only available on Cisco devices."
"The integration could be better, especially with different types of solutions."
"The emailed notifications are either hard to find or they are not available. Search capabilities can be improved."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 119 reviews while Cisco Secure Workload is ranked 9th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 13 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Cisco Secure Workload is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Workload writes "A solution that provides good technical support but its high cost makes it challenging for users to adopt it". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Fortinet FortiGate and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Cisco Secure Workload is most compared with Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco ACI. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Cisco Secure Workload report.
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