Great centralized monitoring, alerts, and helpful integration
What is our primary use case?
Currently, the company I work for has implemented several cloud solutions such as Azure and AWS, in which they are migrating from AWS to Azure to have everything unified in a single environment.
At the moment, we have different applications in both clouds, which have their own system of security in the environments. Recently, in the country there were several ransomware attacks on government companies they were the target due to this we decided to expand security a little more and it was where we made use of Check Point tools that will help us comply with a more centralized security that is more robust on all our end devices.
How has it helped my organization?
We have made the decision to centralize our security infrastructure via that CloudGuard for Cloud Intelligence tool. It has contributed a lot to security since many companies were having security problems. We decided we could be one of the few that was not violated with this tool as it gave us a lot of security and helped us avoid vulnerabilities. We were able to counteract attacks with the recommendations that the tool gave us since each point of vulnerability that we found told us how to increase security. That is how our organization was able to survive even an attack.
What is most valuable?
The CloudGuard for Cloud Intelligence tool has several significant features that provide security to our company. These are helping us to prevent misfortune. Some of these features are centralized monitoring, alerts that indicate some type of vulnerability, recommendations on how to reduce these vulnerabilities, and configuration and monitoring of policies, all based on real-time monitoring with excellent efficiency. They are very effective.
One of the most effective functionalities is integration with the cloud since a match can also be done between the two.
What needs improvement?
Check Point tools need to improve the latency in the portal since they take a long time to load.
They also need to improve the support a little or hire more staff since the response time is slow or the solutions take a long time to implement.
Check Point should give added value to all those customers who purchase their product by providing training so that they can certify in the tool. That way, the customer stops depending so much on support and can solve incidents themselves.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for approximately Three year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is very good. Even when updates are made, it has not presented any type of failure.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool has excellent scalability.
How are customer service and support?
The support must improve the level of service and must train their staff a bit more.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Currently, we only had other Check Point tools.
How was the initial setup?
Making the investment is a bit high, however, it is very effective to make the acquisition of the tool.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation was done with the help of the vendor and an engineer.
What was our ROI?
Here it will be reflected in the long term since it is not something tangible but by making the investment in security we can have a company always working
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The cost is a bit high, however, the investment is worth it.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated Palo Alto and Cisco however, they forced us through Check Point at the company.
What other advice do I have?
The solution is very effective. It fulfills perfectly for what it was made to do.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Microsoft Azure
Agentless, fast, and precise
What is our primary use case?
As an organization, we have implemented Azure Microsoft and AWS for some applications. Most of the workloads are managed in the cloud. Therefore we needed a tool that could protect us against some type of cyber threat that would generate losses in the apps that are being used. We apply CloudGuard Workload that comes to us to cover all those security breaches that we could see presenting. In the beginning, we used the free trial to do some tests, and it worked for what we needed it for, and then we acquired it with all the functionalities
How has it helped my organization?
CloudGuard Workload Protection came to help us a lot in the organization in the application development part since it is one of the areas where there is more workflow and vital generation of the company since applications are generated and modified daily. With this tool, IT came to us to help provide a series of security layers to all these flows by providing us with different types of security options such as alerts and improvements. One of the characteristics that we liked very much is that it can be coupled with different public clouds.
What is most valuable?
One of the CloudGuard Workload Protection features that we liked a lot is the security it handles in containers.
Another interesting thing is that it works without an agent involved.
It also offers great complete visibility of all devices, and assets in the cloud, which allows us to control all those assets, thus generating complete analysis of the infrastructure in real-time. In this way, we've been able to attack the points where there is some vulnerability in our infrastructure and being able to be at the forefront of security.
What needs improvement?
It cost us a little to find some information about CloudGuard Workload Protection. It cost us to find information about the tool and recommendations.
The configuration administration documentation is not very available on the web, or it is not completely updated. They should also improve the support so that we can create a case and they can respond faster. They take time to respond or coordinate a meeting since they maintain a schedule that does not fit Latin America very well. It is sometimes difficult to coordinate support hours.
They do not provide a concrete and rapid solution which causes security implementations to be delayed.
For how long have I used the solution?
The solution was implemented a¿twoo ago.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
So far, the stability of the product has remained excellent. We have not presented any failures.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It has great scalability. It's very fast and precise.
How are customer service and support?
The support offered by Check Point in general is very regular.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
No other solution has been implemented.
How was the initial setup?
Like all setup-type software, it is very easy to install.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation was done in conjunction with a support team from the company and the supplier.
What was our ROI?
The implementation of a security tool is always an excellent investment. One thing outweighs the other.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The installation of the product is very reliable, and fast, and it is a very competitive cost in the market.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Check Point was the first solution we used. It was recommended by third parties.
What other advice do I have?
It is a very complete tool for workflows. It provides excellent security.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Robust, complete, and offers good visibility
What is our primary use case?
We pull all of our cloud platforms into Microsoft Azure. We needed a tool that would provide us with provides policy compliance to be able to monitor our environment. In the case something is in violation of one of those rules, it will let us know and we can correct it.
It is also very flexible to configure users, and authentication methods and thus be able to control the activities of each of the system administrators and users, another one of the functionalities it presents is that it allows us to monitor the records of our environment in the Azure Cloud and be able to take the necessary measures if there is a problem..
How has it helped my organization?
One of the reasons we were able to implement this solution is that it gives us complete visibility into the workload that we have hosted on our Microsoft Azure platform. This tool came to help improve our security environment in the cloud and provide more detail through reports such as compliance and security, as it shows us complete visibility of the traffic that is flowing to our Azure platform.
Another reason we implemented it and it caught our attention was the access control to our Azure cloud. Every time a policy is created for each purpose, it immediately blocks the access for which it was designed. Dome9 provides excellent visibility.
What is most valuable?
Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management presents great values, such as the IAM role control, since if it does not meet the established parameters, these controls will not allow the creation of users, and policies that are not allowed.
It presents great visibility of the traffic flow of our cloud, providing information on what data and users are circulating and in the event of a threat, it immediately identifies them by providing detailed and granular information from our entire environment.
It also has and provides the ability to provide recommendations of the errors that exist and thus be able to correct them as soon as possible
What needs improvement?
The service is very complete for the functionality that it was created for, however, they can make a couple of improvements such as the validation of policies that must be available before they are implemented in the production environment. It should have some options to activate API calls to the platform in the cloud, another improvement would be that when the rules are colonized and they want to be published. They do not update as they should and the new rules are not applied. They can also try to reduce the false positives generated by the tool.
For how long have I used the solution?
This solution has been used for approximately five years in the company.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
One of the reasons why we chose to do the implementation with Check Point was its stability. Its performance is very good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
My impression was that the scalability was very good. It is a super scalable product.
How are customer service and support?
On some occasions, we have had problems as they do not send the meetings on time or it takes a long time to resolve a case. However, on other occasions, they resolve very quickly.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Check Point was always our first option as many security teams are from Check Point.
How was the initial setup?
The configuration was very simple. The application is a very user-friendly tool - apart from training and courses for implementation.
What about the implementation team?
A Check Point engineer who had a lot of experience helped us with the implementation.
What was our ROI?
When making an investment with these tools you are taking care of an important patrimony that will double your profits.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Check Point always manages good prices and costs in the tools they sell.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We do not evaluate other options. We wanted to continue implementing the same brand since the other products have helped us a lot in the security of our company.
What other advice do I have?
Users can fully rely on Check Point products as they are robustly designed for security.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Microsoft Azure
