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Check Point CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service (WAFaaS) is an AI-based WAF and API discovery and security solution, delivering the highest protection against known and zero-day threats using advanced AI & IPS. The CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service provides multiple layers of protection: rate limiting, AI engines, IPS signatures, zero-day file security, bot protection, and comprehensive API discovery and schema validation. CloudGuard WAFaaS delivers a non-agent WAF, deployable within minutes, and adds advanced DDoS mitigation. Traffic is seamlessly routed through Check Point servers, which automatically issue SSL certificates.
Overview
Check Point CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service (WAFaaS) is an automated solution that delivers superior benefits of a top-tier Web Application Firewall and API Protection, requiring minimal manual intervention. The AI engine continuously learns the behavior of your application, tracking changes throughout its lifecycle. This ensures a minimal false positive rate and reduces tedious rule tuning after each application change. CloudGuard WAFaaS delivers a non-agent WAF that can be deployed in less than 15 minutes. Traffic is effortlessly routed through Check Point servers, which automatically issue SSL certificates. Upon redirection, any HTTP requests are intercepted for inspection and forwarded to the application only after validating their security. CloudGuard WAFaaS is available in premium and advanced packages. Advanced package does not include API Discovery and Zero-day file security.
The Premium package provides:
- AI-based engines for prevention of Zero-day Attacks and OWASP Top 10 known attacks.
- AI-based contextual analysis engine to ensure precise detection rate with minimal false positives.
- Snort 3.0 signature enforcement engine.
- Advanced DDoS mitigation to ensure your applications stay accessible to legitimate users by mitigating attacks that overwhelm your network, servers, or applications.
- Rate limiting based on identifiers such as IP address and XFF - limited to 5 rules.
- Intrusion Prevention (IPS), over 2,800 Web CVEs, based on award-winning NSS-Certified IPS.
- Include 6 months of full logs retention - based on the fair usage policy.
- Real-time API discovery, sensitive data, and public exposure governance.
- Auto-generated swagger schema for validation and schema enforcement. Unlimited rate limiting.
- Rate limiting functionality adds identifiers such as keys within JWT, cookies, or headers.
- Zero-day file security.
You are entitled to free usage of 7 days or 1M HTTP requests whatever comes first, after that you will be billed.
Highlights
- Zero-day prevention: CloudGuard WAFaaS has demonstrated prevention of zero-day exploits across a wide spectrum of security events, including log4shell, text4shell, and MOVEit, all in real-time.
- Deployed within minutes: CloudGuard WAFaaS delivers a non-agent Web application Firewall, deployable within minutes. Only a one-time DNS configuration is necessary for CloudGuard to start routing traffic securely to applications in the cloud.
- Prevent DDoS and automated bot attacks: CloudGuard WAFaaS provides real-time detection and automatic mitigation protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and bot-driven assaults.
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Dimension | Cost/unit |
|---|---|
First 10M HTTP requests | $1,800.00 |
10M-60M HTTP requests (price per 1M) | $44.00 |
60M-160M HTTP requests (price per 1M) | $24.00 |
160M HTTP requests and above (price per 1M) | $16.00 |
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Giridhar G.
Advanced AI Security with Flexible Deployment Options
Reviewed on Nov 17, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Since this includes AI support, advanced features, and management automations, it helps protect against unknown attacks. It also offers flexible deployment options suitable for different cloud and hybrid environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform presents a steep learning curve, which can impede initial adoption and make it difficult for new users to effectively manage complex rules and logs. Additionally, the documentation is insufficient, which further complicates the onboarding process. I have also noticed that the log retention is limited, which negatively affects visibility and control.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This solution safeguards web applications against threats such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and botnet attacks, helping to prevent data breaches while offering improved visibility into traffic. It also defends against common web application attacks, automated and bot-driven threats, vulnerabilities in applications and APIs, as well as issues related to data breaches and insufficient visibility.
Information Technology and Services
Reliable Cloud WAF with Strong Automation
Reviewed on Nov 13, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Check Point CloudGuard WAF is how reliably it blocks common web attacks without needing constant manual tuning. The dashboard is clean, and the threat visibility makes it easy to understand what is happening in real time. Its automated protections and strong integration with cloud environments help maintain security with less operational effort.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup can feel a bit complex, especially for teams that are not already familiar with Check Point’s ecosystem. Some of the advanced configuration options could be more intuitive, and certain logs take time to get used to. Aside from that, the product performs well but could improve in terms of onboarding and documentation clarity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard WAF helps us protect our applications from common web attacks like SQL injection, bot traffic, and malicious API calls. It reduces manual monitoring by automatically blocking suspicious behavior. This has improved our overall security posture and saved time for our team by minimizing false positives and providing clearer visibility into threats.
Computer & Network Security
AI-powered WAF that reduces manual tuning BUT comes at a premium
Reviewed on Nov 07, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I evaluated Check Point CloudGuard WAF as part of a proposal to protect a cloud-hosted web and API stack. The deployment process was remarkably fast — it took only a few minutes to get up and running — and the integration with our existing CI/CD pipeline was smooth and straightforward. It provided comprehensive visibility into API traffic and strong protection against common web threats without requiring extensive manual tuning.
What do you dislike about the product?
The solution is slightly more expensive compared to some of its competitors, such as Cloudflare WAF and Imperva WAF. However, the additional cost is partly justified by its advanced AI-driven threat detection, API discovery capabilities, and the overall reliability of Check Point’s cloud-native infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For us, the biggest benefit has been the ease of deployment and ongoing management — it integrates seamlessly with CI/CD workflows, scales automatically with cloud workloads, and provides clear visibility into traffic patterns and attack trends. Overall, it has simplified application security operations and improved confidence in protecting our cloud environment.
Heiner M.
Great cloud protection that’s easy to set up and really effective
Reviewed on Nov 05, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how easy it is to deploy and how effectively it protects applications without adding latency. It integrates smoothly with cloud environments and provides great visibility into threats..
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the configuration can feel a bit complex at first, and the interface could be more intuitive for fine-tuning policies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps protect our cloud applications from common web attacks like SQL injection and XSS, ensuring compliance and reducing security risks. It also saves time by automating threat detection and response
Tulika R.
Exceptional Threat Protection and Seamless Cloud Integration
Reviewed on Nov 01, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Users consistently praise its ability to identify and block sophisticated threats targeting web applications and APIs using machine learning and behavioral analysis. CloudGuard WAF secures APIs with deep inspection and policy enforcement, which is crucial for modern cloud-native applications. CloudGuard WAF is built for cloud/DevOps environments: quick deployment, infrastructure as code, SaaS-style or managed mode.Easy to implement
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislike as of now. we liked the solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Stronger Application Security Reduces the risk of data breaches and service disruptions by proactively blocking threats.Simplified Management Centralized dashboard and automated policy updates make it easy to monitor and respond to threats.Because it supports cloud native and SaaS modes, you can deploy quickly and scale as your web infrastructure grows or shifts. That supports agile/DevOps workflows.Since the WAF is more intelligent (fewer false blocks) and supports modern web architectures (APIs, microservices), legitimate users have fewer disruptions and the business can deliver services reliably.