Check Point SandBlast Network vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps comparison

Check Point SandBlast Network vs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

7.1

Check Point SandBlast Network improved security, reduced costs, enhanced incident handling, and allowed users to focus on responsibilities efficiently.

Sentiment score

7.0

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps enhances security and efficiency, offering significant ROI with up to 60% savings and streamlined operations.

Protecting around 2,000 users from cyber threats, including ransomware, has positively impacted the organization's growth by reducing disruptions and business loss.

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Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

We have seen a good return on investment since implementing Check Point SandBlast Network, as we are spending less time on forensics and it is also preventing us from potential breaches, which itself justifies the cost.

Karan Pichlangia

Deputy Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Check Point SandBlast Network has saved our money because we don't need to be concerned about security or invest in any sandboxing.

Mohit Shah

Network Security Engineer at Digitaltrack

The biggest return on investment so far has been visibility, knowing what we have in our environment.

reviewer2596311

Cloud and data protection engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

As a small team, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps allowed us to manage systems with just one or two people.

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Manager, Information Technology Security Compliance at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

We have at least saved the costs we had from the Netskope solution this year.

Frank Van Der Spek

Security and Continuity Manager at Rolinco NV

Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.9

Mixed reviews for Check Point SandBlast Network support highlight slow responses, long resolution times, but commend knowledgeable representatives.

Sentiment score

6.4

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps support is praised for its responsiveness, though some users experience delays and resource access challenges.

In troubleshooting, they are very helpful and knowledgeable.

Mohit Shah

Network Security Engineer at Digitaltrack

The customer support for Check Point SandBlast Network is great, as the security team has extensive knowledge and provides proper solutions.

SiddhanthSomkuwar

Penetration Tester at Digitaltrack

I did get the best from Check Point SandBlast Network's support team; they were very helpful while troubleshooting any kind of issues we faced.

John Rajan

Business Development Manager at Digitaltrack

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Their customer service is pretty good, but it's frustrating to go through three or four channels before reaching the right person.

reviewer2596311

Cloud and data protection engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

The support is excellent, and the speed of response is commendable.

reviewer1710705

Solutions Architect at a university with 51-200 employees

There were instances where the engineers were knowledgeable and helpful, but at other times it felt like a ping pong game, with unnecessary transfers until the right person was found.

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Manager, Information Technology Security Compliance at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.9

Check Point SandBlast Network is scalable, offering cloud and on-premises options, though large organizations may face resource challenges.

Sentiment score

7.4

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps offers scalable, seamless integration, and reliable management for organizations of all sizes and environments.

The scalability of Check Point SandBlast Network meets our organization's needs as we grow.

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Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

The scalability of Check Point SandBlast Network is very nice.

reviewer2751732

Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

It is scalable but requires growing the box itself because it is a resource-intensive solution.

Abnet Tsegaye Belay

Cybersecurity Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

For what I know about the log collector and how much data it can take in, it is super scalable and capable of handling high workloads.

reviewer2596311

Cloud and data protection engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is very scalable, provided you have the right subscription.

reviewer1710705

Solutions Architect at a university with 51-200 employees

In my experience, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is good enough for small to medium businesses.

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Manager, Information Technology Security Compliance at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.0

Check Point SandBlast Network is highly stable with minimal downtimes and excellent performance when properly configured and resourced.

Sentiment score

8.0

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is highly stable, reliable, and maintains performance with minor, swiftly resolved incidents.

When configured correctly with adequate resources, it functions properly.

Abnet Tsegaye Belay

Cybersecurity Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

In my experience, Check Point SandBlast Network is stable and I have not encountered any downtime or reliability issues.

Karan Pichlangia

Deputy Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Check Point SandBlast Network is stable in my experience, providing proper security to our organization.

SiddhanthSomkuwar

Penetration Tester at Digitaltrack

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I would rate it a ten because I have not experienced any stability issues so far with Defender for Cloud Apps.

reviewer2638737

Head of Security Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I would assess the stability and reliability of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps as stable

Usha Talluri

Network Engineer at Apexon

My impression on the stability and reliability of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is that it is very stable.

Frank Van Der Spek

Security and Continuity Manager at Rolinco NV

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Room For Improvement

Check Point SandBlast Network needs improved third-party integration, performance, support, file handling, and more intuitive management features.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps seeks enhanced pricing, integration, user interface, automation, and multi-cloud support, while improving insights and management.

Simplification of granular tuning for false positive reduction and bypassing benign files would benefit non-expert users.

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Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

The customer support for Check Point SandBlast Network could be improved as they are sometimes late with their responses.

reviewer2751732

Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Sometimes when we enable a feature in our security gateway, the CPU of the device goes high, so that can be improved.

Mohit Shah

Network Security Engineer at Digitaltrack

For data loss prevention, it would be useful to be able to drill down into the kind of data being transferred over CloudApp.

reviewer2638737

Head of Security Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Defender typically connects to Entra ID, but we have local users on the cloud for database access, SSH, or RDS, and there is nothing produced by Defender regarding those local IAM users.

Usha Talluri

Network Engineer at Apexon

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps would benefit if Microsoft allows users to fine-tune false positives, enabling us to dismiss alerts or make adjustments so that such things don't trigger multiple times in the future.

reviewer2257149

Security delivery analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Setup Cost

Users find Check Point SandBlast Network pricing high yet necessary for security, with potential savings when integrated with existing systems.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is seen as cost-effective for enterprises within Microsoft ecosystems, despite standalone pricing concerns.

My experience with pricing and setup cost is that pricing was a bit high.

Karan Pichlangia

Deputy Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Pricing is a bit costly, but considering the features and security offered by Check Point SandBlast Network, it is reasonable.

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Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

The pricing for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is acceptable.

reviewer1710705

Solutions Architect at a university with 51-200 employees

My organization is currently revisiting pricing, but previously, the cost was a bit expensive, yet comparable to other solutions with similar functionalities and features.

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Manager, Information Technology Security Compliance at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

It's not the cheapest, but also not the most expensive, placing it in the mid-level range.

Faran Hasan

IT Architect at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

Valuable Features

Check Point SandBlast Network provides zero-day threat prevention with real-time analysis and AI-powered detection for comprehensive security.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps integrates well, offering threat detection, management ease, shadow IT discovery, and robust security enhancements.

The key features of Check Point SandBlast Network include its ability to detect zero-day attacks, provide sandboxing capabilities, and offer real-time protection with threat extraction.

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Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Check Point SandBlast Network has positively impacted my organization as it's very accurate and gives almost no false positives, providing excellent threat prevention and protecting against server zero-day attacks.

reviewer2751732

Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

It detects zero-day exploits in suspicious and normal files, and includes forensic and reporting features that provide detailed incident analysis, malware behavior reports, and indicators of compromise.

Abnet Tsegaye Belay

Cybersecurity Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It provides excellent suggestions and options for configuration; for example, it can track suspicious files getting uploaded to cloud resources on Azure based on their signatures, generating alerts for those files.

reviewer2257149

Security delivery analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The product recommends things that need to be blocked and allows for dynamic configuration, which cuts down on potential issues that might arise from going through lists and understanding what needs to be blocked.

reviewer2777910

Partner & Chief Executive Officer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

The ability to sanction unsanctioned apps using Secure Score benchmarking, included in Cloud, is also beneficial.

reviewer2638737

Head of Security Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Check Point SandBlast Network

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Microsoft Defender for Clou...

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

14th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) (4th), Microsoft Security Suite (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) category, the mindshare of Check Point SandBlast Network is 3.1%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is 1.8%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Check Point SandBlast Network	3.1%
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps	1.8%
Other	95.1%

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

Featured Reviews

Comprehensive security solution mitigates advanced threats

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Improvements for Check Point SandBlast Network can be seen in dashboard usability; the threat emulation logs and analysis reports could be made more intuitive and visually appealing. Enhancing the system for granular tuning to reduce false positives and allowing benign files to bypass checks more simply for non-expert users would be beneficial. Additionally, faster emulation times could be achieved by increasing file scanning speed through hardware productivity enhancements. A specific instance where file scanning speed posed an issue was when the time taken depended on the file size. Scanning can take less than a minute or up to 2 minutes for larger files. Enhancing the file scanning time would be a significant improvement to the system.

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Frank Van Der Spek

Security and Continuity Manager at Rolinco NV

Deployment has been seamless with insightful data categorization and enhanced control

The features of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps that I have found most valuable include the overall portal view, with bubble graphs which give us insight into what goes where in the categorization, nowadays with Generative AI but all kinds of categorization, collaboration, etc. That central view of the portal is very useful for us. The impact of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps on our organization's ability to assess and manage app related risks has been significant because we have more visibility. Therefore, we can add more control, and we have already done so. This was not possible in the old solution, in the old CASB solution with Netskope. We now can see on the spot, and we do that almost weekly, what the end users are utilizing, which cloud providers or cloud apps they're using. The visibility into OAuth apps provided by Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is very good. The visibility into risk and risk management of our organization's Generative AI apps is very nice, as you can choose the category Generative AI and then see exactly what traffic has been going to and from Generative AI in the cloud. This makes us very insightful on what is used within the company. We have some policies on blocking specific Generative AI, and we use within our company one particular AI part, which is CoPilot of Microsoft. In this way, we can see what the end users are using other than CoPilot, and that makes us more in control. The effectiveness of the integration of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps with Defender XDR and defending against SaaS attacks is very intuitive. It works immediately if we create a new policy or in Purview or in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, or when we make an app unsanctioned by blocking it, then it is almost immediately, or at least within a couple of hours, effective on all the endpoints where the EDR is running. This gives us much better control over things than before.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	31
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	13

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	19

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point SandBlast Network?

My experience with pricing and setup cost is that pricing was a bit high, but the setup cost was initially justified.

What needs improvement with Check Point SandBlast Network?

I feel that Check Point SandBlast Network could be improved with slight delays in cleaning the file delivery. Additionally, I think it requires proper tuning to avoid unnecessary notifications.

What is your primary use case for Check Point SandBlast Network?

My main use case for Check Point SandBlast Network is advanced threat protection, especially for scanning emails, attachments, web downloads, and incoming files through a sandbox environment. A qui...

Which is the better security solution - Cisco Umbrella or Microsoft Cloud App Security?

Cisco Umbrella is an integral component of the Cisco SASE architecture. It integrates security in a single, cloud-native solution, unifying multiple features like DNS-layer security, threat intelli...

What do you like most about Microsoft Cloud App Security?

It does a great job of monitoring and maintaining a security baseline. For us, that is a key element. The notifications are pretty good.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Cloud App Security?

At the time of implementation, when the size of our organization was small, it was a more affordable product. Since all our productivity applications were on O365, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps...

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Also Known As

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MS Cloud App Security, Microsoft Cloud App Security

Overview

Check Point’s evasion-resistant technology maximizes zero-day protection without compromising business productivity. For the first time, businesses can reduce the risk of unknown attacks by implementing a prevent-first approach. Learn More about Check Point Sandblast

Check Point Software Technologies

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a comprehensive security solution that provides protection for cloud-based applications and services. It offers real-time threat detection and response, as well as advanced analytics and reporting capabilities. With Defender for Cloud Apps, organizations can ensure the security of their cloud environments and safeguard against cyber threats. Whether you're running SaaS applications, IaaS workloads, or PaaS services, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps can help you secure your cloud environment and protect your business from cyber threats.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Benefits:

Provides comprehensive security for cloud applications
Integrates with other Microsoft security tools
Easy to use and deploy
Provides real-time threat detection and response
Strong protection against phishing attacks and other common threats
Highly customizable to meet specific needs of different organizations

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Use Cases:

Governance, authentication, security, and compliance.
Detects shadow IT and anomalous user behavior
Controls access to applications
Provides auditing and filtering setups
Used for end-user compute devices, file monitoring, user investigation, and activity
Used for data governance, threat detection, and getting visibility over cloud applications
Used to identify information about applications beyond organizational boundaries
Prevent exfiltration and data filtration of corporate data
Used to deal with spam emails and detect shadow IT

Reviews from Real Users

Ram-Krish, Cloud Security & Governance at a financial services firm, says that Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps "Integrates well and helps us in protecting sensitive information, but takes time to scan and apply the policies and cannot detect everything we need".

PeerSpot user, Senior Cloud & Security Consultant at a tech services, writes that Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps "Great for monitoring user activity and protecting data while integrating well with other applications".

Simon Burgess,Infrastructure Engineer at SBITSC, states that Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is "A fluid, intelligent product for great visibility, centralized management, and increased uptime".

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Sample Customers

Edenred, State Transport Leasing Company (STLC), Edel AG, Laurenty, Conseil Départemental du Val de Marne, Koch Media

Customers for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps include Accenture, St. Luke’s University Health Network, Ansell, and Nakilat.

Check Point SandBlast Network vs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps