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We performed a comparison between Check Point DDoS Protector and Prolexic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Check Point detects and automatically mitigates attacks, which helps our organization protect our infrastructure.""This comprehensive tool validates and exploits complex vulnerabilities that other vendors fail to find and resolve to increase security.""This product uses auto-learning and behavioral analysis to establish baselines for legitimate traffic, and automatically detects and blocks traffic behavior that does not conform.""It uses several layers of security.""One of its most outstanding functions is the zero-day DDOS.""The is a really low level of the false-positive alerts (when the clean traffic is marked as DDoS) due to some advanced techniques used by Check Point under the hood.""Currently, we have fewer incidents with viruses. We improved our IQ operations and security using this solution. Our company's better after using Check Point.""As our business continues to grow, we can grow this product simultaneously."

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"The solution does not have hardware or maintenance requirements and is very easy to scale."

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Cons
"The mitigation part could be improved.""The public documentation is a detail that must be improved in order to have greater implementations with the best practices in this case of the Check Point manufacturer.""For a long time, there was no software version of R80.10 available for the Check Point DDoS Protector software appliances, and we had to stay on the quite outdated R77.30 version.""I would like applications for Android and IOS where we can follow the events, and, if necessary, make changes.""Monitoring and reporting are the things that can be introduced in the future.""It is an expensive tool for some companies.""Check Point should develop a DDoS solution because they don't have one and we need to use another solution, in our case, Imperva. This is a problem because we need to have two firewalls. We would like to only have one solution because it would improve the management, we would have fewer incidents, and we wouldn't need to talk to more than one person for support.""Check Point DDoS Protector does not provide the ability to upload data for the blacklist/whitelist in bulk, which is one of the big points that need to be improved to facilitate configurations."

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"The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's an expensive solution. It's one of the most expensive solutions in the world. It's cheaper than Palo Alto and Cisco but these are expensive solutions. Fortinet is cheaper."
  • "The appliance comes with a loaded hardware license, and additional options such as SSL can be purchased and enabled."
  • "I don't deal with the pricing, but it seems that you need to get basic support in order to upgrade the DDoS database for new attacks and so on."
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  • "The pricing is a pay-as-you-go model that is charged by the hour."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It can be deployed as a hardware appliance, virtual appliance, or as a cloud service.
    Top Answer:I don't deal with the pricing, but it seems that you need to get basic support in order to upgrade the DDoS database for new attacks and so on.
    Top Answer:Some features are more advanced, however, using them is hard for us. The documentation is not as precise and does not have enough examples to understand how it works. Advanced knowledge is required to… more »
    Top Answer:Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GRE tunnels. We have decreased site load times on Mobile 3G from 8 to 1,6 seconds by… more »
    Top Answer:The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises. Pricing should be more transparent and visible on the website. Currently, we need to request pricing through an email… more »
    Top Answer:Our company uses the solution to provide customized infrastructure and cloud services to our customers. We currently have five to ten customers using the solution. Our model is to continue to move… more »
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    Also Known As
    Akamai Prolexic Routed
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    Overview

    Modern DDoS attacks use new techniques to exploit areas that traditional security solutions are not equipped to protect. These attacks can cause serious network downtime to businesses who rely on networks and Web services to operate. DDoS Protector Security Appliances and Cloud DDoS Protection Services block destructive DDoS attacks before they cause damage
    Learn more about Ddos Protector.


    Akamai Prolexic is a cloud-based DDoS protection solution that defends your data center and hybrid infrastructure to ensure availability and uptime. It provides comprehensive port and protocol protection against the broadest range of DDoS attacks, including high-bandwidth sustained attacks and complex multi-vector attacks. Prolexic is available as an always-on or on-demand service, contains a Network Cloud Firewall, and offers flexible integration models based on your desired security posture across hybrid origins. Prolexic is backed by a proven platform with more than 20 Tbps of dedicated DDoS defense capacity and our 24/7/365 global SOCC for a fully managed solution.

    Prolexic stops DDoS attacks closer to the source to maximize performance for users and to maintain network resiliency through cloud distribution. Instead of originating advertisements for your prefixes from your cloud/data centers, you’ll make either a border gateway protocol route advertisement change or DNS redirection (A record or CNAME record) to originate from one of many Akamai scrubbing centers globally. Your intended traffic is then routed to the user via Anycast through the closest scrubbing center. Prolexic will inspect the traffic to determine if it is good or bad, and apply proactive and/or custom mitigation controls designed to stop attacks instantly if needed. This ensures fast and accurate DDoS protection. Clean traffic is then returned to the customer origin via GRE tunnels, Layer 2 VLAN connections, and/or VIP-to-origin back-end mapping with little perceived latency. Prolexic also features a Network Cloud Firewall that allows IT teams to auto generate or manually manage access control lists.

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    Top Industries
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    Security Firm42%
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Cloud Provider17%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Security Firm20%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Educational Organization27%
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Insurance Company6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business72%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise22%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise31%
    Large Enterprise61%
    Buyer's Guide
    Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection
    April 2024
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    Check Point DDoS Protector is ranked 12th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 11 reviews while Prolexic is ranked 14th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 4 reviews. Check Point DDoS Protector is rated 8.0, while Prolexic is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point DDoS Protector writes "Good support and effective against SSL attacks, but the dashboard is complicated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prolexic writes "Scaling is very easy but more options are needed for enterprise environments". Check Point DDoS Protector is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare and Fortinet FortiDDoS, whereas Prolexic is most compared with Akamai App and API Protector, Cloudflare DDoS, Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS and Lumen DDoS Mitigation.

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