We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, Morphisec and others in CWPP (Cloud Workload Protection Platforms)."Its easy implementation against Microsoft Azure was quite satisfactory."
"Good interface and visibility."
"It offers advanced detection of threats that can harm data from the cloud database."
"The solution offers an excellent price, benefit, and installation relationship."
"The administration portal panel is very intuitive."
"The two most valuable features for us are the central firewall administrator and the real-time cloud compliance monitoring."
"Auto remediation is a very effective feature that helps ensure less manual intervention."
"The control logs offer detailed reports of what happens within the infrastructure."
"I like the alert policies because they are quite robust. It has some built-in templates that we can easily pick up. One of them is the alert for mass downloads, when a particular user is running a massive download on your SharePoint site."
"I like the web GUI/the management interface. I also like the security of Microsoft. As compared to other manufacturers, it's less complex and easy to understand and work with."
"The solution does not affect a user's workflow."
"The feature that helps us in detecting the sensitive information being shared has been very useful. In addition, the feature that allows MCAS to apply policies with SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive is being used predominantly."
"Threat detection is its key feature, and that's why we use this tool. It gives an alert if a PC is attacked or there is any kind of anomaly, such as there is a spike in sending emails or we see an unauthorized website being accessed. So, it keeps us on our toes. We get to know that there is something wrong, and we can isolate the user and find any issues with it. So, threat detection is very robust in this tool."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its monitoring."
"There are a lot of features with benefits, including discovery, investigation, and putting controls around things. You can't say that you like the investigation part but not the discovery. Everything is correlated; that's how the tool works."
"We have become more aware of what services our users are using, how often they are using them, and what data is being sent out of the organization and to which services. So, it is really a lot about visibility and helping us make decisions based on that. It drives some of our policy decisions for adding extra security controls."
"The security of Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management could improve. There are always new security issues coming out."
"It should have some options to activate API calls to the platform in the cloud, another improvement would be that when the rules are colonized and they want to be published."
"The false positives can be annoying at times."
"We're looking for a solution that can incorporate legacy infrastructure for some of our business needs."
"Reporting should have more options."
"Currently, I would like this solution extended to cellular devices or tablets."
"I would like to see improvements in the vulnerability assessments in terms of how the solution discovers vulnerabilities or compromised workloads. Also, customizable reports would be nice."
"Check Point's support, customer service, SLAs, and schedules can be improved a little."
"Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps' initial setup was quite technical but we were prepared. The time of the implementation depends on the job and how many users are being set up."
"Currently, reporting is not very straightforward and it needs to be enhanced. Specific reports are not included and you need to run a query, drill down, and then export it and share it. I would love to have reports with more fine-tuning or granularity, and more predefined reports."
"The integration with macOS operating systems needs to be better."
"It takes some time to scan and apply the policies when there is some sensitive information. After it applies the policies, it works, but there is a delay. This is something for which we are working with Microsoft."
"Sometimes the support is actually lacking."
"I believe it's only set to be integrated with Microsoft Defender for identity and identity protection. I would like to see it available for use with something like Office 365 Defender. I don't think it's integrated with that yet."
"There are some features, such as user navigation content filtering, that are disabled by default, and it probably makes sense to enable them by default."
"There are challenges with detection and there are challenges with false-positive rates."
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Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is ranked 5th in CWPP (Cloud Workload Protection Platforms) with 20 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is ranked 2nd in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 19 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management writes "A non-technical person can start creating custom rules using GSL Builder in about a week, but the vendor is slow to fix bugs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps writes "Integrates well and helps us in protecting sensitive information, but takes time to scan and apply the policies and cannot detect everything we need". Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Amazon GuardDuty, Qualys VM and Prisma SaaS by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope CASB, Qualys VM and Prisma SaaS by Palo Alto Networks.
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