Powerful Multi-Cloud Protection, but Setup and UI Take Time to Master
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is its comprehensive protection combined with cloud flexibility. It provides multi-layered security that defends against both traditional and advanced cyber threats, including malware, ransomware, and targeted attacks. I also appreciate how it integrates seamlessly with major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, allowing consistent security policies across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Additionally, the centralized management and automated threat prevention features make it easier to monitor and respond to threats efficiently, saving time while maintaining a high level of security.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing I dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is that its initial setup and configuration can be complex, especially for organizations new to cloud security. The platform offers a lot of advanced features, which is great, but it can sometimes feel overwhelming to configure policies correctly without deep expertise. Additionally, while the centralized management is powerful, the user interface could be more intuitive for quick navigation and reporting. Finally, the licensing model can be a bit costly for smaller teams, which might limit adoption despite its strong security capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security solves several critical security challenges for organizations operating in cloud environments. It protects against malware, ransomware, phishing, and advanced persistent threats, while providing centralized visibility and control over cloud workloads. It also enforces consistent security policies across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, reducing misconfigurations and human errors. For me, this is highly beneficial because it ensures that my cloud infrastructure is secure without constant manual monitoring, saves time on threat detection and response, and provides confidence that sensitive data and applications are protected against evolving cyber threats.
Strong Multi-Cloud Security with Advanced Threat Prevention
What do you like best about the product?
Its seamless integration with major cloud platforms, strong threat prevention, and centralized management that simplifies securing multi-cloud environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its complex initial setup, steep learning curve, and relatively high cost compared to some competing cloud security solutions.Occasional performance issues and limited built-in reporting features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security protects cloud workloads and networks with advanced threat prevention, micro-segmentation, and automation, reducing breaches, simplifying compliance, and improving operational efficiency.
Effective Threat Prevention, Complex Setup
What do you like best about the product?
I like the quite detailed traffic and threat logs, which made troubleshooting much easier for me. Also, it solved the problem of serving as quite efficient threat prevention.
What do you dislike about the product?
Licensing clarity could use quite a lot more work, honestly. SmartConsole feels quite heavy and slow than what one would expect, so I think if you could make it somehow lighter and more cloud optimized. Initial setup was overly complex. I would definitely not recommend it to anyone new to the industry or using products like these. I am positive the complexities would deter them from using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've used Check Point CloudGuard Network Security primarily as a firewall in cloud environments, mainly to control traffic on AWS and Azure. It efficiently solves the problem of threat prevention.
Centralized Multi-Cloud Security, But There’s Room to Improve
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is how it delivers consistent, enterprise-grade security controls across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, while still staying highly scalable and automated. I also value its deep integration with cloud-native services, along with centralized management that makes it easier to maintain visibility, enforce policies, and respond to incidents in a more streamlined way.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike is that the initial setup and configuration can feel complex, especially for teams that are new to Check Point or to cloud security architectures. On top of that, the cost and licensing model can be difficult to optimize for smaller environments or for rapidly changing cloud workloads, which adds another layer of challenge when trying to keep things efficient.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security addresses the challenge of securing dynamic cloud environments by delivering unified visibility, advanced threat prevention, and consistent security policies across multiple cloud platforms. For me, this translates into simpler day-to-day security management, a lower risk of misconfigurations, and more time to focus on detection and response instead of maintaining complex security architectures.
Straightforward Security Tool, Needs Better Support
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is straight to the point when securing our customers' network security. The initial setup was pretty straightforward, making it easier to deploy at work.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support is kind of bad. Sometimes the workers don't know their own product properly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us secure customer's network security.
Strong Cloud Protection with Some Setup Challenges
What do you like best about the product?
The finest thing for Check Point Cloud Guard Newtwork Security, In my opinion is how well it protects my cloud traffic. I appropriate how simple it is to maintain security policy in one location and it is dependable and work nicely with cloud vendors. Also threat protection seems modern and reliable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Set and configuration can occasionally be a little challenging particularly in more complicated environments. Update and policy changes may take some time to implement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can safe guard cloud workloads and traffic from outside attacks and configuration errors with the aid of Cloud Guard Network Security. It maintains consistency in our rules and facilities the management of security across various cloud platforms.
Centralized cloud security has improved segmentation and visibility but still needs faster policy updates
What is our primary use case?
I normally use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to protect cloud workloads and control traffic between cloud resources. It is mostly for enforcing segmentation and managing security policies across different cloud environments.
A recent example of how I use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to enforce segmentation or manage policies was when we deployed a new application tier in the cloud. I used CloudGuard to segment it from the rest of the environment and apply stricter threat prevention rules.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is deployed in the public cloud setup in my case.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security does provide unified security management across hybrid clouds as well as on-premises. Having policies and visibility centralized in one place makes operations much smoother. Instead of managing separate rule sets for cloud and on-premises, I can apply consistent policies across both and see all traffic flows in a single dashboard. That cuts down on configuration risk and makes troubleshooting faster.
I do utilize Check Point CloudGuard Network Security alongside other Check Point products. In my case, I use it alongside Quantum and Harmony Endpoint.
What is most valuable?
The best features in Check Point CloudGuard Network Security are the centralized cloud-native policy management, strong threat prevention for cloud traffic, and automatic discovery of cloud assets.
The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security in my day-to-day work is the centralized cloud-native policy management. I can control all the clouds, which is very beneficial.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has helped us reduce misconfigurations and improve how quickly we can secure new cloud workloads. We have also had fewer issues with unexpected traffic because the visibility tools make it easier to spot problems.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has helped me reduce my organizational risk. The clear visibility into cloud traffic and the automatic adaptation to cloud changes reduced the chance of misconfigurations, which were one of our biggest risks. The number of policy-related issues we had to fix dropped noticeably once we started using it.
It has increased my confidence in secure cloud deployments and migrations quite a bit. Knowing that policy adjusts automatically when new resources come online makes migration less stressful. The consistent visibility across environments also helps because I can verify traffic flows.
What needs improvement?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could be improved with faster policy propagation across large multi-cloud environments and more intuitive dashboards for complex rule sets.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for about one year and a half.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security scales well as our cloud footprint grows. It handled adding more workloads and environments without major issues.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is very good and very helpful, but I think it could be better on higher complexity issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used a mix of native cloud controls and some older firewall setups before Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. We switched because they did not give us the same level of unified visibility or consistent policies across environments.
How was the initial setup?
Securing a new workload with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security now could take a few hours before because I had to map out network paths and build policies manually. Now, it usually takes under an hour. The automatic asset discovery and clear visibility shave off a good chunk of the setup time.
What about the implementation team?
I purchased Check Point CloudGuard Network Security through the AWS Marketplace.
What was our ROI?
I cannot give a percentage for money, but we have seen a return mainly through time savings and fewer configuration-related issues with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I have evaluated solutions that compete with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. We evaluated solutions from Palo Alto Networks, Prisma Cloud, and also Azure. However, AWS with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security was much easier to implement, and that is why we prefer it.
We did evaluate other options before choosing Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. The main alternatives we evaluated were Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud and some of the native security tools from Azure. They work for certain use cases, but Check Point CloudGuard Network Security gave us a stronger unified policy management.
What other advice do I have?
The core security features of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security work really well, but a few usability areas hold it back: the policy propagation speed and parts of the interface. I would give Check Point CloudGuard Network Security a rating of seven out of ten.
I would advise others looking into using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to first plan ahead. I recommend starting with a small pilot across one or two tiers, defining policy and segmentation baselines upfront.
Powerful Cloud Security with Centralized Management, Minor Room for Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I like Check Point CloudGuard because it provides strong, advanced threat protection that goes beyond native cloud firewalls. It also gives a single, centralized console to manage security across multiple clouds. Policies are dynamic and update automatically using tags and identities, which reduces manual work. Overall, it makes cloud security simpler, consistent, and more powerful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that Check Point CloudGuard can be complex to deploy and manage, especially for beginners. It also requires higher skill levels compared to native cloud firewalls. Licensing and costs can be confusing and sometimes expensive for small teams. Updates and troubleshooting often depend heavily on Check Point TAC, which can slow things down.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudGuard helps solve the challenge of securing workloads across multiple clouds with one consistent policy. It protects against advanced threats that native cloud firewalls can’t block. It also automates security using tags and identities, reducing manual work. Overall, it improves visibility, strengthens protection, and saves a lot of operational time.
Powerful Security with Complex Setup
What do you like best about the product?
I find Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to be exceptionally valuable for managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments efficiently. It offers robust automation and support features that assist in scaling operations smoothly. The platform helps ensure consistency across different environments, which significantly reduces errors and speeds up troubleshooting, making my workflow much more seamless and reliable. These features are crucial as they provide a streamlined process and ensure that the security measures are consistently applied, which greatly benefits my operations.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find Check Point CloudGuard Network Security not truly cloud-native, behaving more like a virtualized appliance rather than a fully integrated cloud-native service. Additionally, while the SmartConsole is powerful, it feels heavy and reminiscent of a pre-premises legacy console, which isn’t ideal considering most operations are moving to the cloud. Also, the initial setup wasn't straightforward; we had to navigate it ourselves, relying on available resources without much direct guidance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to automate and secure my network, benefiting from its scalability and support in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It reduces troubleshooting time by ensuring consistency across different environments.
Provides us with unified security management across all environments but had a complex setup
How has it helped my organization?
Scaling the solution is very easy.
What is most valuable?
The best features are:
- database inspection
- threat prevention
- enhanced security.
The solution provides me with unified security management across all environments. It has a single interface that can help us get integrated with the normalized management server. It also gives us security and integrity.
It does what it’s supposed to do. I would say that it created a reduction of 25% in organizational risk.
What needs improvement?
We haven’t seen any kind of problems so far.
We generally used everything on-premise, but now it's all in the cloud through CloudGuard. The transition was a bit challenging. Maybe they could improve their services by including more tutorials and labs on migration.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for one year. We have just recently implemented the solution, and so fa,r everything is good.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We haven't experienced a lack of stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable, and it can handle the traffic whatever the requirement might be. It is capable of meeting the necessary demands effectively.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support and customer service are very good, they’re very nice.
How would you rate customer service and support?
How was the initial setup?
The deployment was not easy. We did not use any help from outside. The deployment was made in-house and if we ever had a question, we contacted the Check Point team.
What was our ROI?
From a technical perspective, the return on investment is in its helpfulness and how it’s shaping our future.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate it a seven out of ten. We had some issues we encountered at the beginning. It is a work in progress.
