One use case was for compliance. The second one was for workload protection, and the third one was for threat hunting in the cloud.

We are able to meet compliance very easily, and we are able to feel a lot more comfortable with the fact that when we have developers deploying things in the cloud, the right guardrails are in place. 

CloudGuard CNAPP's Cloud Security Posture Management capabilities are top-notch. We use it for misconfiguration and compliance reporting. I would rate it an eight out of ten for that. It is quite good.

We use CloudGuard CNAPP's Workload Protection capabilities. The security that it provides is very good. We like it because we are able to do it in both runtime and with Kubernetes Guardrails.

Threat intelligence is another piece that we use, and it is awesome because it lets us do a lot of threat hunting that we were not able to do before, especially in AWS.

The most valuable feature is the ability to work with the APIs to integrate into our own backend systems. 

The threat intelligence is quite unique because we could not find another vendor that had the ability to make all the findings actionable. They have this thing called Event Risk management, and it consolidates things down to make it easy for us to take action on it.

The reporting has a lot of opportunities to continuously improve so that we can continue to show value.

I would love to see more ability to automate and integrate into even more systems for automatic remediation.

We have been using Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP for three and a half years.

It is very rare to have an outage.

It scaled up for us for hundreds of accounts.

They are pretty good, but I wish they had people who are a little bit more knowledgeable at the first level. I would rate them a seven out of ten.

Neutral

We used Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud. We switched because it did not have the feature sets we were looking for. The price was not very flexible, and we did not get the type of support we needed. It was not like the support that we get from Check Point as our partner.

Its deployment is very straightforward.

We definitely got an ROI. I do not have to put as many people as I did before with Prisma Cloud. I need two full-time employees less than Prisma Cloud to work on it.

We looked at Wiz, and we looked at Orca. Prisma was our incumbent, but ultimately, we picked Check Point based on the outcomes we were able to get in our proof of concept, and we felt that the support was much better.

I would rate Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP a nine out of ten. It is a pretty awesome product, but there is always room for improvement. I would have rated everything else we tested a six out of ten.

We use CloudGuard CNAPP to verify the posture management of our cloud gateway.

CloudGuard CNAPP helps us improve security, verify vulnerabilities, and understand overall network behaviors. It helps us to have greater visibility of the posture and the gateways that are in the cloud. It also helps us to see where the gaps are and how the attack levels are.

CloudGuard CNAPP helps us a lot in being able to identify erroneous configurations or configurations that may not be as per the standard that we use internally or as per an international standard.

CloudGuard CNAPP's Cloud Security Posture Management identifies the risks that are most critical to our business. In some cases, we could identify that our posture level dropped, and we were able to identify what we needed. We were able to make adjustments to be able to have an adequate level of protection.

We use CloudGuard CNAPP's CloudGuard Workload Protection capabilities. We have several gateways, and within them, or between our clouds, we are protecting everything, such as servers and containers. In this way, we maintain complete protection, and logically, we have visibility into everything that enters and leaves our premises and our cloud.

The scanning provided by CloudGuard Workload Protection helps us identify problems before they go live.

Visibility is a key feature. It helps me to validate my overall network posture.

In a general sense, it is a tremendous solution. We have got good use out of it. From what I see, it is also well-positioned in the market. I understand that it is among the best solutions.

I have been using CloudGuard CNAPP for about five years. 

Its scalability potential is good.

Their support is excellent.

Positive

We did not use a similar solution previously.

We use Azure Cloud and AWS Cloud. The deployment was very easy. We worked with Check Point for implementation.

We took Check Point's help with implementation.

We did not evaluate any other solution.

I would rate CloudGuard CNAPP a ten out of ten. It is an excellent solution. When we used it for the first time, we verified that this solution was on top of other solutions. This platform has helped us to maintain a posture with a lot of visibility. It helps us a lot.

We have used CNAPP on our OpenShift test cluster but are planning to deploy it in our production clusters. We used CNAPP to enhance the visibility of our cloud-deployed applications. It offers various modules to do so. For example, the Posture Management module shows you exposed secrets and security misconfigurations and also gives you hints and ready-to-use JSON configuration files to fix them. 

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) gives you visibility and management automation of identities, roles, entitlements, and privileges in your cloud environments. This helps you find and fix identity- and role-related security holes by constructing a complex privileges graph, which shows you granted permissions and enforced ones, suggesting you enforce the stricter and more secure enforced ones over the ones you granted.

The various CNAPP modules have granted more visibility of our cloud applications to our system engineers and developers. Doing so helps our transition to the cloud by making the management and administrative tasks of our cloud and system engineers easier, as well as suggesting and helping to prioritize patching and updating.

The most valuable features include the Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) module, Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), and Cloud Workload Protection (CWP).

The costs are really high if you want the entire capabilities of the platform. However, it is really motivated by the great value of the product. Moreover, you can buy individual licenses for the different modules if you don't need some of them.

I've used the solution for one year.

We mainly use it as a CSPM solution.

It gives us clarity.

The most valuable feature is the ability to see our customers' environments if they use more than one cloud provider, such as AWS, Google, and Azure.

Also, CloudGuard CDR's intrusion detection and threat hunting capabilities are good enough. They help us detect anomalous behavior and respond to threats before they become an issue.

There are regulatory requirements. I would like to be able to pick the regulation I would like to scheck compliance with and it would tell you where you stand on that regulation and what you are missing to reach compliance. And it shouldn't matter which cloud we're dealing with; we would have these possibilities.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP for about two years.

Scalability really isn't an issue with everything in the cloud. That's the essence of a cloud product: the scalability you get compared to on-prem.

Their technical support is perfect. When we contact them, they answer immediately. Their support knows the platform very well.

We did not use a different solution before.

It's very simple to set up because it's all in the cloud.

We have seen a return on investment. It can reduce the human resources we need. Also, there is ROI from everything connected to the fact that it's in the cloud: I don't need someone for management or to pay for on-prem resources, such as CPU.

If I compare the price of CloudGuard, Palo Alto is more expensive and others are less expensive. CloudGuard CNAPP is in the middle.

We looked at other solutions, but with CloudGuard everything is located in the cloud. It's very convenient for us to manage our assets in the cloud.

If they could reduce the price and provide more capabilities, it would be better.

CloudGuard is a posture management and workload protection platform. We're also using it for data and risk management.

Our environment includes a hybrid cloud and three public cloud providers: GCP, AWS, and Azure. CloudGuard enables us to manage all the cloud providers from one dashboard. It enables a team approach, so we're more flexible and operationally efficient. The solution provides a holistic view from a single dashboard, making posture management and threat prevention more effective. Detection is not a significant challenge. When I block a particular incident, CloudGuard will implement some kind of prevention activity so that those types of activities are prevented automatically in the future. Prevention is more beneficial for us.  

When managing our service partner, CloudGuard enables easier enrollment and allows us to consolidate all those rules and privileges. It will give them complete visibility of the identities that I am using for all the services, whether it's privileged user access or a normal user. It's based on user suggestions. CloudGuard helps me handle my user identities.  

Another benefit is posture management. We are governed by four regulatory entities in India. We need to stay in 100 percent compliance by avoiding any misconfigurations on our platforms, and this tool helps us.  It also helps with virtual protection of our code by adding another layer of security and an extra step. It can detect abnormalities in the image and register, enabling us to identify and fix compromised packages before any major release. 

As a regulated entity, we receive a monthly external audit from the agency, and we always pass them using CloudGuard because we have a  single dashboard for multiple services for user activity reviews and policies that we have set for the user levels. It's easy to demonstrate our compliance posture using this portal and any incidents with compromised credentials or NetFlow security. 

CloudGuard allows us to do more work with fewer people. A team of six people can manage our entire enrollment. CloudGuard covers a huge footprint. It saves a lot of resources, but I cannot measure that in time saved. Onboarding and learning the product took six months, and it took us another year to address all of the solution's findings. The third year should be focused on monitoring. I can't quantify how much time is consumed in days or weeks, but if I had to rate it on a scale of one to 10, I would say nine. 

A reduction in human error is part of posture management. When we first onboarded to the posture management platform, we had to customize and build some rules for enrollment. We fixed the issues we found, and we don't need to run the posture management tool again. Instead, we run the GSL builder and cross-check the findings. Before addressing the finding, we must create a default rule set in the GSL  Builder. We copy what's in the builder and execute it on a particular enrollment, and we'll say it is good to go. We can save time building custom rulesets with GSL builder, but it's hard to say how much. 

We like the GSL Builder feature. When you're running a security operations center, you spend a lot of time monitoring endpoint activity to ensure there is no malicious traffic or anonymous access in the environment. The GSL Builder is helpful for deep investigations of a particular reason for an incident. You can use it to get more information.

We have more than 30 AWS accounts and use more than 16 versions with some different tenants. I don't want to turn on each enrollment and app one at a time in the application. With GSL Builder, I can select multiple accounts from one place and execute the commands. I can see the results of which entities passed and failed.

It's easy to write custom rules and policies. I have limited coding knowledge, but I can make policies from inside the UI. It will show what services are available in the cloud provider, and I can go through and check the ones I need. It requires no scripting knowledge. If you have experience in the industry, you can immediately learn GSL Builder and adapt it. 

Auto-remediation is a module you can enable at the enrollment level. It detects and fixes human errors or misconfigurations.  For example, we can't create a bucket that is exposed to the internet for compliance reasons. CloudGuard can prevent that bucket from being created, ensuring compliance. 

With effective risk management, we can identify every asset and assign a score to each network violation or process. We will flag the most critical assets and bring them to private subnets. There's also a graph, which is useful if we need to explain things to developers and administrators.

The user interface could be improved. Sometimes, the visibility is not immediately available for the environment. We have the native servers that come with the solutions, but we cannot see them in the Check Point log. Another issue is with the integrated file monitoring. It would make sense to have stuff like file integrity monitoring and malware scanning available within this module because we don't want to integrate another product. 

For example, let's say it's showing a process violation. It should be able to do some additional malware scanning in that particular bucket to get some additional information. I don't want to integrate with another third-party tool or go to the native server to check something. It would be helpful to have integrated monitoring and malware scanning for the file types. 

There are a few flaws with the security management portal where I have limited visibility into the workload protection features. There is no error visibility where I can see the communication and workflow between services. Some of the dashboards need to be fine-tuned if they are not customized. For example, I cannot customize anything on the effective risk management dashboard. Some of the information is not correct for my tenant. With respect to passwords and user management, there are no policies I can measure at the user level. If the user was created more than six months ago, you don't need to worry about that password or do anything like two-factor authentication associated with that user. They can still log in after six months or one year. 

It's also a challenge to use CloudGuard's agentless workload posture with AWS. An Azure storage is summed up with a CNAPP encryption by default. We tried onboarding this data, but the problem is the attachment is not done. After a few days, we identified that it was impossible to do the encryption detection. But CloudGuard's default rules say that this has to be encrypted. 

The AWS module says that we cannot access this volume with this encryption, so we cannot use an agentless workload posture with AWS because of this. It is a best practice to ensure that all the volumes are being encrypted. Without the encryption, how can I do this? It is a big challenge for CloudGuard.

I have used CloudGuard for 14 months.

We only see downtime when there is a global outage. It typically only lasts a few minutes. Also, we sometimes see latency issues when accessing this portal. We double-checked that with the team also, and they asked us to check on our network side. We are in the office network, so we could not refer to that. 

Some of CloudGuard's modules are slower. For example, if I go and click on the posture, it loads immediately within 30 or 50 seconds, but workload protection might take more than a minute. There are some differences in the latency between the services within the cloud version.

We don't have any issues with CloudGuard's performance or scalability. 

I rate Check Point support 10 out of 10. Their customer service is fantastic. We have premium support, so I don't know what their standard support is like. When we open a ticket, they immediately call us back regardless of the severity. 

Positive

We have Prisma Cloud, which is not fully implemented, so we need to use Check Point simultaneously. Prisma Cloud excels in terms of UA, visibility, and user-level policies and management. CloudGuard is more cost-efficient but not as user-friendly as Palo Alto. At the same time, having the GSL Builder makes it more efficient to make CNAPP rules without much background knowledge.

Generally, the deployment is pretty easy. We have a template, so it's automatic. However, we run into problems when we're supporting multiple CSPs. AWS supports CloudGuard 100 percent, whereas for Azure, it's 75 or 80 percent. Some Azure services, like user identity, are not supported, which is a challenge. It should be available in Q1. 

Deploying the threat intelligence for AWS was fine, but we had problems with Azure. I'm part of the security group, which is onboarded into the AWS. The next time I create a new security group, it automatically discovers the asset and will put it in the log. For Azure, a new network security group must be added manually. If I'm doing that manually, I want to completely remove the onboarded threat intelligence, which means I want to completely remove what we added from the portal. That is one problem we face doing the onboarding of Azure.

I don't know the initial proposed amount, but the procurement team looked at the market and compared Prisma and CloudGuard, then settled on one solution.

I rate Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP nine out of 10. Any advice I could give to potential users would be completely based on their use cases. You must look at various criteria, like your environment and enrollment level, but my general advice for implementing a CNAPP solution is to get a cloud dev. 

If you are using AWS with multiple CNAPPs and you don't have a control tower or any other landings in the budget, you want to do policies at each enrollment level. But we're using this out that what we do is, like, we build guardrails where we can apply it at the enterprise level itself. 

For example, we'd want to allow any data to be researched outside the area. I'll create one policy and apply it at the organizational level. I set a policy so that any user in my enrollment could not create an SD bucket or any volumes outside using their agent. If you have multiple CSPs, AWS accounts, or Azure subscriptions, this is one solution where you can cover your entire organization's accounts.

We use it as a CSPM (cloud security posture management) solution. In particular, the main use case it to identify misconfigurations in our cloud environments. 

We have different cloud providers, and it monitors all of them: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure. For each workload or subscription, Check Point Cloud Guard checks whether the configuration is in line with the sector standards and guidelines or not. 

It also checks for each subscription to see if it is compliant with a given policy. It has multiple policies for Europe, the USA, and even Australia.

With Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP, we are able to monitor the security of all of our cloud environments. Moving to a more and more cloud-centric environment is vital for us to ensure security. 

In addition, we have to comply with some standards that require us to guarantee compliance and overall data security and safety in the cloud environments that host our exposed applications, databases, servers, and virtual machines. 

With Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP, we are able to identify which remediation actions need to be taken in order for us to be compliant with the standards and to secure our environments better.

The feature that I value the most about Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is the possibility of checking compliance with different standards. This compliance check can be performed for each subscription or service that we have on all the different cloud providers that we use. The result of the compliance check is having a list of issues, misconfiguration, or vulnerabilities that need to be fixed and addressed. The list is detailed with severity, description of the issue, risk, and how to mitigate it. It also points out the exact bit that needs to be addressed, so there is no guessing game, and when we address the issue to the technical team, they already know what needs to be done

The service is already top-notch; both on the commercial side and on the technical side. I had the luck to be put in contact with a very talented and skilled technical after-sales team that guided us step by step through the configurations. Also, the commercial team was very comprehensive with our situation and allowed us to create a package that best fit our needs.

One feature of the product that I would like to enhance is the possibility to connect to vulnerability management platforms so that the issues that emerge from the scans can then be ingested directly into the vulnerability management process. It would be very nice to provide, on top of API connections, built-in plugins for the major ticketing systems.

I've used the solution for three years.

No, we have not used any solution before.

The setup cost is really low compared to the license cost. However, it's a good investment if you want to secure the cloud ecosystem.

We evaluated other options, among which Prisma Cloud and Orca Security.

We use Check Point CloudGuard for full visibility across our workloads in the cloud and on-premises.

The GSL builder's graphical interface makes writing custom rules and policies easy, but some knowledge and training are still required. The training required takes around two weeks to complete.

The GSL builder helps reduce human errors by almost 80 percent because it provides compliance rules and performs intelligence queries on our behalf.

The GSL builder saves us time creating custom rules. Initially, defining the rules takes time, but once that is downloaded, it becomes an automated process. We save around ten hours per week.

Our organization requires the use of Check Point's auto-remediation feature. This feature automatically analyzes and remediates threats, enabling us to perform forensic analysis on detected events. By implementing this feature, we benefit from several detection capabilities, including anti-ransomware and behavioral analysis, which ensure comprehensive threat detection and analysis. Additionally, the auto-remediation feature automatically quarantines and remediates malicious files, preventing data breaches. As a result, we can leverage the forensic report to enhance our endpoint security posture and effectively protect our internet connectivity.

The auto-remediation feature stands out for its ability to prioritize alerts. It focuses on high-risk issues first and then remediates them accordingly.

The unified security management console, a component of the monitoring tool, offers a comprehensive overview of our platform's security posture. This holistic view enables us to promptly identify emerging environmental threats and conduct thorough investigations, ensuring swift and effective responses.

The evaluation of the application depends on its criticality. For example, in an airport scenario, an AODV application is used for critical operations. This means that the AODV application is of high importance and requires a more thorough investigation or a faster response in case of issues.

Check Point CloudGuard has significantly improved my cloud threat handling. It has been a great asset in increasing my security posture score due to its automated remediation capabilities. Additionally, its threat intelligence provides valuable insights, making it a comprehensive security solution. Furthermore, CloudGuard offers comprehensive lifecycle security for all my applications, including new deployments. It also addresses complex security needs within my cloud environment, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations and governance requirements.

CloudGuard provides good performance for automating our organization's security across assets, workloads, and multiple clouds.

The agentless workload posture plays a crucial role in determining our organization's security posture. This includes security and posture management, threat prevention, and high-availability posture management. All these aspects are highly important, and they also help automate my DevOps multi-cloud security threat level.

Network security helps us reduce the amount of compliance and audit activities we need to perform. It provides advanced threat protection, allowing us to inspect all traffic entering and leaving our private subnets within our entire virtual network. This comprehensive approach ensures robust network security and ongoing time savings.

CloudGuard can help free up around six hours of our staff time because it can be integrated with different applications and systems. 

CloudGuard's unified platform can free up an average of six hours per day, a feat impossible for any human worker. However, the system's automated configurations can function around the clock, achieving this level of efficiency.

The most valuable features are the ability to create pipeline rules, the enhanced NetOps security, and the deep visibility across our entire infrastructure. 

Check Point CloudGuard also helps us adhere to the compliance and regulatory requirements, I can ensure best practices are implemented, prioritize risk management, and prevent critical attacks.

Automation and advanced threat prevention have room for improvement. I would like the rules configuration which are manually reviewed to be automated according to the defined rules.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard for two years.

Check Point CloudGuard is stable.

Check Point CloudGuard is scalable.

The technical support is good.

Positive

The initial deployment required knowledgeable people. We had already planned the required configuration type, the necessary posture management approach, and the rules that needed to be defined. We had discussed these requirements with the CloudGuard team member and implemented them together. Four people were involved in the deployment.

A person from CloudGuard helped with the implementation.

We have the enterprise-level license and we renew it annually because it is worth the cost.

I would rate Check Point CloudGuard an eight out of ten.

Check Point offers a bundled solution that includes cloud threat hunting, cloud migration security, DevSecOps, and cloud security compliance. This comprehensive package is a superior choice as it provides a unified approach to cloud security.

We have Check Point CloudGuard deployed in one location with 400 users.

A team of four admins performs maintenance on CloudGuard every quarter.

CloudGuard boasts advanced threat prevention for network security, seamlessly securing public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. It also provides unified security management and simplifies complaint handling.

We want network security through machine learning. The product offers threat detection and intelligence for the endpoints. It also provides real-time information on application security. 

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP's initial configuration is very easy. It is plug-and-play. It also gives regular updates. 

The tool should incorporate more use cases like improving security scores. It should also improve documentation.  

I have been using the product for a year. 

The product is stable. 

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is scalable. My company has more than 1000 users. 

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP's support is very good. 

Positive

The tool's deployment is very easy and takes two weeks to complete. We need engineers to install the product. You need to ensure the overall device landscape before the product's installation. Its maintenance is easy. 

I can get 50-60 percent ROI with the tool's use. 

The tool's pricing is moderate. Its licensing costs are yearly. 

The solution helps to improve security scores, which is important for auditing and compliance. I rate it a nine out of ten. 

We use Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management to maintain our organization's security posture.

With a bit of upscaling, it is possible to write custom rules and policies using the GSL Builder. We used the GSL Builder to build the rules for our playground environment and internet-facing environments.

It takes a couple of weeks for a nontechnical person to learn how to use GSL Builder.

The Unified Security Management console is helpful because it provides a single pane of glass. 

From a control plane perspective, the solution offers excellent visibility into our framework, enabling the identification of non-compliance.

CloudGuard provides good value for money in terms of automating our security across multiple clouds.

The agentless workload posture analysis, which primarily focuses on our cloud platform, provided valuable insights into our organization's overall security posture.

CloudGuard helped to eliminate some manual processes for a few teams, freeing up some of their time.

Our organization's security operations were able to save time by using CloudGuard's unified platform.

The most valuable feature is the ability to apply common tools across all accounts.

The integration process could be enhanced by enabling integration at the organizational level rather than requiring the manual setup of individual accounts. The current workflow of creating and linking each role is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Streamlining account onboarding by allowing CloudGuard to identify and integrate at the organizational level would significantly simplify the process.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management for one year.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is stable.

CloudGuard Posture Management is scalable, as it is a SaaS product.

Before implementing Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management, we relied on the native CSPM of AWS Config.

For beginners in the field, AWS might be a good starting point due to its simplicity. However, for more experienced users who require more advanced features, CloudGuard offers a more mature and comprehensive solution.

I would give Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management a rating of seven out of ten. Consolidating additional capabilities into CloudGuard, along with Fusion, would create a comprehensive package offering for customers. This, along with maintaining compatibility with the evolving AWS service, would help to avoid complicating any integration issues.

While developing our tools, there is always a need for ongoing review and updates. However, compared to AWS, the maintenance required for CloudGuard is minimal.

We are a multi-cloud service provider that leverages all major cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and OfficeLab, for our internal consumption and for our customers. Managing and monitoring the compliance of the platform across hundreds of accounts can be challenging, especially without a solution like Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management, which continuously scans and alerts us against policy violations. If the policy is violated, we are alerted, the issue is identified, and we are assisted in resolving it.

It is easy to write custom rules and policies using the GSL Builder. We do not need to learn any programming language or structured query language to write back queries. GSL Builder enables us to click and drag to build our own rules. For example, if we want to fetch all the servers that are accessed publicly, we can simply put down the servers where access is public. GSL Builder creates an easy-to-use interface so that administrators no longer need to know a specific language to make this happen. Therefore, once the query is ready, we can quickly test it to check its effectiveness, modify it quickly, and then start using it.

Non-technical people can learn to use the GSL Builder in less than ten hours.

We have reduced human error using GSL Builder by 20 percent. For example, if I have to write a query, I could make a typo or omit spaces, which could cause the query to be structured incorrectly. With GSL Builder, the only thing humans need to do is drag and drop logic from existing utilities. This means that I can simply click and select when to perform an action, and the system will generate the query for me. This reduces the amount of human input required and, consequently, the likelihood of human error.

The GSL Builder has saved us a significant amount of time. What used to take several hours now only takes a few minutes to complete.

Automatic remediation is very helpful. When an alert is raised, it allows us to trigger bots that can automatically fix the issue. For example, if I'm granting server access to the public, I can create a remediation rule to monitor this. If the rule is violated, the bot will automatically disable public access. This has been very efficient for us.

We have created custom policy checks for our organization, leveraging industry standards such as CIS and SIPAA. We also perform custom assessments against the policy based on our regulatory requirements. Overall, this helps us to mitigate risks and ensure compliance integrity. It also helps us to build cloud solutions correctly and detect and respond to unauthorized authentication changes and security compromises.

Unified Security Management provides a single pane of glass view, eliminating the need to toggle between different consoles and service providers to get a complete picture of our security landscape. The solution provides all the answers we need on a single dashboard. Simply connect to the portal to get all the information we need. For example, if we need to understand the details of a specific cloud, such as its name, configuration, and additional attributes, we don't need to log in to the cloud or another service provider. We can simply look up the server within the Unified Security Management dashboard.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has helped our organization achieve almost 100 percent compliance from zero visibility. I'm proud to say that we upgraded hundreds of thousands of tools and assets against the policy set, and we are now close to 99.6 percent compliant. CloudGuard Posture Management has been very effective for us. In an ever-changing landscape, we ensure that we meet our compliance requirements. Once we have achieved compliance, we can change our policies to make them more stable, and then we strive to meet those standards again.

We have strong in-house capabilities and a team of developers who have a deep understanding of CloudGuard Posture Management. Using the solution's APIs, we can automate our security. We have been able to segregate workloads, accounts, and assets by department, business, cloud provider, and responsible stakeholders. We can then secure these assets according to our internal business requirements. All of this has been achieved and made possible by the CloudGuard Posture Management platform.

The best thing about agentless workload posture is that it doesn't impact our production workloads. Other solutions install agents on our system and continuously scan them, which can sometimes cause performance problems. CloudGuard Posture Management, on the other hand, takes a snapshot of our current workloads and scans it offline, which is a more efficient process.

The solution has helped us reduce our compliance and audit activities. I used to spend a week capturing all the data required for an audit and now I can do it in a couple of hours. With a click of a button, we can run reports to show auditors our compliance for anything in the last run mode. We can also download, share, and view all the details, including how many views are assessed against an account, the outcomes, and the current posture. All of this information is clearly presented in black and white, so we don't have to manage any data ourselves. If we want to report against certain clients, such as those covered by HIPAA, we can get a comprehensive report that we can easily share with our auditors.

CloudGuard Posture Management has reduced a lot of effort. Before implementing the solution, I had to write a separate script for each platform. Once I had the data, I needed to spend time understanding the output of the scripts and identifying the compliance aspects of compliant assets. I also had to segregate the data for all clouds and then work on it. Finally, I had to repeat the same exercise to see if things had remained secure. This was a very tedious process, but CloudGuard Posture Management has saved us a lot of time.

CloudGuard Posture Management has saved our SecOps team time. It is connected to our alerting systems and is accessible to all of our security teams. This includes the security team, the operations team, and the backend team. All of these teams have access to the solution and can see the changes that they are implementing and whether or not they are segregating properly. They are also constantly monitoring the alerts that are raised to take corrective action.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management provides a complete overview of all our cloud security solutions. It offers a single-pane-of-glass view of our entire cloud inventory across all cloud service providers.

Another advantage is that CloudGuard Posture Management supports a wide range of automation capabilities and has access to APIs that we can leverage. For example, I can take proactive actions based on an alert without having to interact with the platform directly.

The ability to help organizations modify their own policies is essential. For example, consider the CIS benchmark 1.5 for AWS. In the past, I would have added the CIS rulesets to my custom policy, along with my own rules for Internet requirements. This created a custom policy that was tailored to my specific needs. However, the CIS benchmark is constantly changing, and it can be difficult to keep my custom policy up-to-date. As a result, I now have to recreate my entire policy whenever the CIS benchmark is updated. This is a time-consuming and manual process. Adding a feature that allows me to easily identify the changes that have been made to the CIS benchmark and update my own policy accordingly would be a valuable addition to Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management. This would save me a significant amount of time and effort.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management for seven years.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is stable.

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is scalable.

Check Point's support needs improvement. Given our extensive knowledge gained over the years, my team has found that we get better support from Check Point's higher-level team than from their basic support team. We only reach out to Check Point support for serious issues, such as product bugs or encounters. We find that basic support is not adequate and that we only get proper support when our issues are escalated.

Neutral

The initial deployment was straightforward. Two admins from our organization along with some solution architects and one consultant from Check Point helped us with the proof of concept, and we were able to acquire the solution after the POC.

We have seen close to a 40 percent return on investment with Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management.

The pricing is extremely competitive.

I would rate Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management ten out of ten.

If an organization is in the market for a cloud security solution, then it needs a solution like CloudGuard Posture Management. Otherwise, if they are sticking to a specific platform or to a specific service provider like AWS, their tool sets and their solution will be focused on one platform. If they go to Azure, GCP, or any of the other cloud providers, they will be limited. Therefore, I believe that a solution should have flexibility and the ability to function across multiple clouds. Additionally, it should be a solution that grows and evolves. In the time that I have seen Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management, it has grown leaps and bounds and has always stayed ahead of its time. For example, even if an organization has a unique need, CloudGuard Posture Management likely has an academic solution built with the platform. I have not seen this kind of responsiveness from other products.

Our company is spread across four different cloud platforms, which are located in regions around the globe. All departments use these platforms, which include 550 employees.

I highly recommend Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management. It has been very helpful to our organization, and we have gained many benefits from it. We have had a positive experience with Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management.