CloudGuard IaaS Security Management
Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. | R80.40-294.086Linux/Unix, Other R80.30 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Reviews from AWS Marketplace
0 AWS reviews
-
5 star0
-
4 star0
-
3 star0
-
2 star0
-
1 star0
External reviews
External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.
CloudGuard IaaS - effective security for Public/Private cloud environments
What do you like best?
CloudGuard IaaS gets similar experience as with NGFW, Check Point firewall solutions.
Excellent protection features offered on CheckPoint NGFW blades are supported - Firewall, IPS, Antivirus, VPN, etc.
Easy to install and scale in Cloud enviorment.
Excellent protection features offered on CheckPoint NGFW blades are supported - Firewall, IPS, Antivirus, VPN, etc.
Easy to install and scale in Cloud enviorment.
What do you dislike?
Documentation can be improved and simplified.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Protection against online threats and attacks.
Advance threat protection for Private/Public Cloud deployments.
Hybrid cloud scanning and connectivity.
Advance threat protection for Private/Public Cloud deployments.
Hybrid cloud scanning and connectivity.
- Leave a Comment |
- Mark review as helpful
Best NGFW cloud product
What do you like best?
Integration with the your current Checkpoint ecosystem
Integration with the Cloud API
Same features than physical checkpoints
Integration with the Cloud API
Same features than physical checkpoints
What do you dislike?
HA failover time is not as fast as expected
Cost, cost cost.
Cost, cost cost.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Deploy NGFW in any public and private cloud in the same way than you could do in the physical world.
In public cloud, use the PAYG license.
In public cloud, use the PAYG license.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check the relation between cost and features.
Do a PoC before to go live, and check other Vendors (Cisco, Palo Alto...)
Do a PoC before to go live, and check other Vendors (Cisco, Palo Alto...)
CloudGaurd IaaS is very best solution for reliable protection and access control
What do you like best?
CloudGuard IaaS is very easy to deploy and as much easy also to to scale as per load. We can easily setup the cloud firewall.
What do you dislike?
No there is no such point to dislike such value edit solution
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
This is very good and reliable solution for cloud security which we hosted , also this is very good on cost prospective as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is very easy to install for a product that does so much, i highly recommended this for all.
Check Point Cloudguard Iaas is a life saver for companies requiring reliable protection and access
What do you like best?
The quick deployment and scalability and fully functional firewall available in the cloud. We were able to scale as required based on load and performance. With Covid-19 our users including our Customer Center agents are completely remote and use Check Point Cloudguard to even take calls so our customers are not affected in any way
What do you dislike?
The documentation could be done better but this was in the initial stages when we deployed it but it has come a long way since
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We needed reliable protection for our assets in the cloud as well as remote connectivity to our hosted application in other data centers while giving our users remote access to all of the above assets. We were doing this on premise with 3 clusters of firewalls where as with Cloudguard IaaS we are doing all of this and more with 1 cluster. this is a huge cost saving for us
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a very easy install for a product that does so much. I would highly recommend it
Protection against most threats in cloud
What do you like best?
The ability to integrate with any cloud includes public and private ones.
What do you dislike?
The deployment is tough and needs expert skills
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
The everyday threats and attacks has been sorted out
Nice NGFW for any cloud
What do you like best?
The ability to integrate with any cloud includes public and private ones.
Subscription model - pay only for what you are using.
API integration with the cloud that helps to create the dynamic rules on FW.
Subscription model - pay only for what you are using.
API integration with the cloud that helps to create the dynamic rules on FW.
What do you dislike?
The price is high.
Deploying and configuring is hard if you've never used Check Point
Deploying and configuring is hard if you've never used Check Point
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We restrict communication between cloud servers and use it as usual NGFW on public resources.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check Point is one of the security visioners, so you can trust its features. But be prepared to face all the subtleties of configuration and administration.
I have seen in many companies and looks great solutions.
What do you like best?
Flexibility and security provided by CP..
What do you dislike?
Could be more accessible for clear in certain points. Training for example.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Check Point CloudGuard offers dynamic security for private cloud in virtual data centers to prevent the lateral spread.
Firewall for Public Clouds
What do you like best?
Since I had experince with Check Point NGFW before, it was easy for me to adapt CloudGuard IaaS. Basicly, this solution has the same architecture and components as NGFW, so when you deploy it to the cloud, it feels like managing just yet another datacenter of you company. It also has a reach set of supporte cloud provides, but for now we use it only on Google Cloud Platform.
What do you dislike?
As with other solution of this kind, you still have to manage basic cloud firewall and routes for VPC outside of CloudGuard IaaS - there's no 100% integration if you concern.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Main usage - protection of our cloud assests deployed on Google Cloud Platform - firewall and Intrusion Prevention Blades. Also we rely on GeoIP module to restrict undesired countries from accessing our services (as for now you can't achieve it with GCP firewall).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You should fully understand the way CloudGuard would be integrated into you cloud from the networking perspective, and it differs from platform to platform. E.g. for Google Cloud the instances of Cloud Guard must have interfaces in several VPCs as a requirement. Think about the subnetting and routing for your project, make a PoC with your networking staff.
Checkpoint Cloudguard is one of the best solution to protect Cloud Environment!!
What do you like best?
Easy installation to protect AWS environment.
What do you dislike?
No comments. the product accomplish with our requirements!
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Protect Amazon VPCs easily, with a Cloudguard HA infrastructure as a main benefit!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We tested other kind of solution but only Checkpoint accomplish to create easily an HA infrastructure to protect our VPCs into Amazon. Other products could not install an HA infrastructure to protect VPCs.
CloudGuard IaaS by Check Point
What do you like best?
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.
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?
I see nothing to dislike about CloudGuard IaaS right now, I'm quite happy with the solution.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
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.
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 =)
showing 1 - 10