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CloudGuard IaaS NGFW with Threat Prevention - Previous Version

Check Point Software Technologies | R77.30-041.168

Linux/Unix, Other R77.30 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Information Technology and Services

CloudGuard

  • March 10, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
interoperability with different cloud providers
What do you dislike about the product?
limited monitoring compatibility with third party
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
securing cloud infrastructure


    Abraham B.

Best Cloud Firewall

  • March 10, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I love the fact, i can just spin up a firewall from an AMI in AWS, makes for a lot easier to deploy firewalls.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at this specific moment in time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deploying firewalls in the cloud and easy integration into different customer infrastructures.


    Oil & Energy

Better than Azure firewall

  • March 10, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
All those features blades and logging options
What do you dislike about the product?
traditional dashboard and in scale set routing need to change manually when the new firewall spins up
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
better firewall options that are not available in azure firewall or nsg


    Financial Services

Good Firewall option to Enforce security on the Cloud

  • March 10, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Very straight forward deployment and a lot of functionalities available.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of detailed documentation on how to use the cloud formation templates and the product subscription required for each CF deployment type available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure cloud environment


    Oleg P.

CloudGuard IaaS by Check Point

  • March 10, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
While using the CloudGuard IaaS you will get almost the same experience as with other Check Point firewall solutions. The components of the infrastructure are integrated with each other quite well. All the common Check Point Next Generation FireWall blades are supported - Firewall, IPS, Antivirus, VPN etc. There is not big difference from the usual onprem Gateway from this perspective.
I find it really useful that CloudGuard supports all the main players on the Public Clouds market - AWS, GCP and Azure - as well as some exotic ones like Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud and IBM Cloud. I would say there is about 95% probability that the platform your are using is supported, and I don't know any other solution for now which may provide the same number. Moreover, it integrates with most of the public cloud management solutions, so you could automate modification of the security policies based on some triggers or changes in your the cloud infrastructure.
I also like that different licensing models are supported. For testing/evaluation/PoC projects you could go with the Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) license without wasting a lot of money in case the solution somehow doesn't suit you. And for production you could use the Bring-your-own-license (BYOL) way, applying the license bought earlier.
What do you dislike about the product?
I see nothing to dislike about CloudGuard IaaS right now, I'm quite happy with the solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use the common set of blades, literally the same as on-premises -
Firewal and IPS to protect from the common attacks, Application Control for application layer stuff, IPSec VPN to provide connectivity between our environments etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't even try to use it if you somehow don't like the other Check Point products - the experience would be the same =)


    Nick K.

Blink of an eye

  • March 10, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
CP's Blink GW creation application makes creating new GWs a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not come across much that I disklike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are currently using CP CG IaaS along with Aviatrix. Our app teams have multiple VPCs that need to be peered and in order to inspect traffic both north/south and east/west using CG makes it very easy and reliable.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ease of creating new GWs is an incredible feature


    sathurthi .

Best security for cloud platform

  • March 10, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Checkpoint cloudguard provides best security to the cloud platform which is adaptive security for all major vendor at the moment and it prevents attacks in cloud
What do you dislike about the product?
there is too much option which is very difficult to handle and need guide to handle this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing our cloud infrastructure completely without hassle


    Information Technology and Services

Check Point power for your cloud

  • March 10, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Unify management with on-prem Check Point gateway
What do you dislike about the product?
Contraints of public cloud in terms of clustering and redundancy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security policy enforcement and trafic visibility
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Existing Check Point customer will benefit a unified management of their on-prem and cloud security.
You can also deploy Cloudguard apart form any existing Check Point management architecture.


    Najib Y.

Cloudguard Infinity

  • March 10, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The unified threat detection offer the ability to centralize analysis from all systemaround the world; making the systme verys precise
What do you dislike about the product?
Interconnectivity with other SDWAN still uncertain
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Dashboardinf of threats around the checkpoint products in our park


    Pharmaceuticals

Ease of management and deployment

  • March 10, 2020
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What do you like best about the product?
This is a good solution to support branch sites that are far distance so there is no need to worry about hardware failures of having to do upgrades to the platform anymore.
The integration with the SD-WAN device at the new site was relatively straight forward and the management interface is simple and easy to apply rules.
HTTPS inspection deployment was also easy to setup and much more manageable than using the Smartconsole.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still some features that are in Smartconsole and the Gaia platform that need to be added but hopefully these will be there soon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This helped us deploy similar protection that we have on our main sites to a site in Japan. The ongoing maintenance of having to support a hardware platform in this region would have been unmanageable. It was good that we could support dual ISP connections bridging from our SD-WAN to Checkpoint CloudGuard which gave us backup resiliency but also making use of both circuits for extra bandwidth.
Any upgrades in the future will just be a case of purchasing more licenses as the site grows.
The platform is very manageable especially for someone with some knowledge of Checkpoint R80.