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CloudGuard Network Security All-In-One
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Fair price, good support, and effective for security and operational efficiency
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We're benefiting from the solution. We're protecting all of our assets with it. It's a very good security solution. We don't face any big challenges or problems.
What is most valuable?
Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good.
What needs improvement?
The SD-WAN could be better.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for more than ten years.
How are customer service and support?
Their support is very good. I'd rate them an eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have been using the same solution from the beginning.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is very easy. It took two to four hours.
We have a hybrid cloud deployment. We have Azure and AWS.
What about the implementation team?
We used an integrator. Our experience with them wasn't great.
What was our ROI?
We've seen an ROI with this solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's not very expensive. It isn't very cheap either. Its price is okay. It depends on how much money you have. It might be expensive for some companies.
Its licensing is on a yearly basis.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated solutions from Forcepoint, Cisco, and Fortinet. We went for it because of its security effectiveness and operational efficiency.
What other advice do I have?
It's the best solution to use. You can trust it. We don't have any issues with it. It works fine.
Overall, I'd rate it a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Versatile with a good interface and fair pricing
What is our primary use case?
My clients were different small businesses, and they were migrating to the cloud. We've been using it as a general cloud security tool.
How has it helped my organization?
The interface in terms of being able to have access for myself and the client so that we can easily observe and watch what is going on, has really improved the organization.
We have seen time to value with this solution. We will continue to use more Check Point solutions in the future.
What is most valuable?
The versatility is the solution's most valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
There are some usability issues we'd like to see improved.
We're going to be switching to XDR and would like integration with XDR.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for only about a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is good. I'd rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I'd rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
The support is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not previously use a different solution.
How was the initial setup?
I'm involved with the integration and was involved in the setup of specific areas.
The initial setup was alright. I wasn't the architect of the whole thing. In my area, the implementation seemed to be pretty straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
We did not use an integrator, reseller, or consultant for the deployment.
What was our ROI?
We do not yet have enough of a baseline to calculate ROI.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is fair. It's the client who is paying for it, not me directly. However, they seem satisfied.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We previously evaluated a few other options.
What other advice do I have?
The usability is moderate.
The product has helped us free up some time. It's a complicated situation, however. 
I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Provided good visibility, saved a lot of time and resources, and didn't have any downtime
What is our primary use case?
We were providing infrastructure security. Our corporate headquarters at the time was overseas, so we had GDPR compliance regulations. It was helping us to keep in line with our compliance.
How has it helped my organization?
It saved us resources. We were a lean IT department, so I was able to reassign some staff to other projects because it didn't require so much hands-on manpower.
What is most valuable?
The notifications, the visibility, and the deployment are the most valuable. It could be packaged in such a way that it took a lot of time and resources off our hands, so it was more efficient. I don't know how to quantify the time saved. It would have saved us at least two to three hours a day just because the traditional IT department has a lot of other tasks and duties. It didn't require a lot for us to become experts on the product. It was seamless. It didn't require too much learning. It was easy to use.
What needs improvement?
With the incorporation of a lot of AI and machine learning, they can build some sort of a matrix for low-level threats or low-level things that require attention. There can be automation of those tasks so that we don't have to take more time and effort. There should be machine learning to eliminate level-one types of tasks.
For how long have I used the solution?
I used this solution for six years. I'm a Cybersecurity Instructor. I used it in my previous role. I'm not using it in my current role.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I thought it was extremely stable. I didn't see any downtime. Any of the maintenance windows were either on weekends or in time frames that didn't affect our organization. It was very good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It would be able to scale up even bigger and beyond what our local site needed. There were about a hundred and fifty employees. It was a manufacturing organization in San Antonio, Texas, but we were just one of twenty sites all throughout the US and Europe.
How are customer service and support?
They were helpful in total. I'd rate them an eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I believe we had a WatchGuard firewall with other services coupled around it. It didn't necessarily do all of the protection that we needed, but that's what we had at the time.
How was the initial setup?
I was involved in its deployment. It wasn't too challenging. It was easy to medium. Configuration with the compliance side was what took time and effort and was challenging, but it didn't have anything to do with the way the software is built. It was about getting our settings and configurations to be in alignment with the compliance.
What about the implementation team?
I believe headquarters had Check Point support.
What was our ROI?
The return on the investment was probably more beneficial to the headquarters or the mother corporation because we were just one of the remote sites that had the checkpoint infrastructure sent to us to build up our site. The bigger benefit was for the headquarters because they could manage all these individual sites from one platform. The consolidation and the standardization would have made their lives easier, but I didn't sit in a seat, so I don't know what that looked like.
We have seen time to value with this solution. It provided us with great benefits across the entire organization. We could see its value within about a month. That was probably enough time to let all of the initial shakeout and other things take place. We created a baseline after those thirty days, and we could see where we no longer needed to spend time. We could also see things where we had to take some action but were not apparent to us.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
They're a little high in price. The price could be lower.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I wasn't that high in the chain to be able to make that decision. Corporate pushed it down to our site, and that's what we had to go with.
What other advice do I have?
Attending an RSA Conference provides the ability to connect with others in the industry. It allows me to have a line of communication where I can reach out to them in person rather than just a digital introduction.
In terms of the impact of attending an RSA Conference on the cybersecurity purchases made throughout the year afterward, I don't necessarily think about our purchases, but considering I'm a Cybersecurity Instructor, the people that attend our classes are going to be able to benefit because I can provide them more solutions and answers to the questions that they have.
I enjoyed it as a product. It works well. Overall, I'd rate it an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
The advanced technology helps us automate many manual tasks
What is our primary use case?
I manage the delivery team of a tech services company. We implement and manage security systems for our clients. CloudGuard is a solution we deploy for larger enterprise clients.
How has it helped my organization?
CloudGuard's intelligent tools help us automate many manual security tasks, guaranteeing our customers' environments will be secure. It saves a lot of time because jobs that might require five or six people can be handled with one or two.
What needs improvement?
Check Point solutions are not easy to use if you don't have experience. We have some Check Point specialists, so it's not difficult for us. The user experience might suffer if we don't have the time to follow up with our clients and ensure they are using the right options. Clients also want more local support in Portuguese and Spanish during their normal business hours. That's something I hear from my customers and my team, too.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used CloudGuard for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
CloudGuard is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
CloudGuard is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
Check Point's support isn't the best, but it's good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We also use solutions by FireMon, AlgoSec, and Akamai. We're constantly comparing products and looking for ways to get more features with less money. Akamai has more solutions, whereas Check Point is more specialized.
How was the initial setup?
Our clients are large and complex, so it is complicated to deploy CloudGuard in their environments.
What about the implementation team?
We had a reseller and use IBM as an integrator. Our experience was positive.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
 CloudGuard is reasonable. 
 
What other advice do I have?
I rate Check Point CloudGuard Network Security an eight out of ten.
Amazing experience with cloudguard with amazing security
Reliable protection across our cloud infrastructure
What is our primary use case?
This feature is integrated into the security solution of Check Point, and its CloudGuard flagship product is very valuable to our company. It has helped us to make posture, recommendations, and security improvements to the network of our Azure public cloud. We have been able to improve our current implementations and future deployments of networks in our infrastructure in the best way, making assessments that provide us with improvements that include building a more secure environment.
How has it helped my organization?
This tool managed to help us improve our security from deployment to reconfiguration of networks - both in our Azure public cloud and on-premise networks, thanks to its improvement reports.
Its integration and use of features, such as advanced threat prevention, have helped us a lot with malware prevention and also with avoiding exposure to false positives.
The best practices that this product has at the network level are incredible. We have improved a lot so far, and now we have a more secure and complete infrastructure.
What is most valuable?
CloudGuard Network Security provides advanced threat prevention capabilities that can detect and block known and unknown threats, including malware, viruses, and zero-day attacks. This helps a lot for companies that have their infrastructure both on-premise and in Azure.
CloudGuard Network Security includes application control features that allow administrators to control which applications can access the network and how they can be used.
The automation of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is incredible. It helps us to deploy implementations with good practices in the network; this is a great value add to the tool.
What needs improvement?
It would be very good if the company could expand the current public documentation in order to improve the implementation of the solution, and initial configurations, among other items. It would help us be able to implement it in the fastest and safest way possible.
The costs are high. They could revalue them by lowering them a bit and making them more attractive to many customers, and likely they would be able to sell more.
It would also be good to validate the Check Point Infinity Portal. Sometimes it sticks a bit or responds a little slowly.
For how long have I used the solution?
The solution was used during the last year. It is a feature integrated with the Check Point CloudGuard tool.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
yes
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
yes
How are customer service and support?
Good
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
It's a very comprehensive solution. However, we have not found any other solution that generates the same level of security as Check Point.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The costs seem high. However, the product is also incredible. It provides great value.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We value tools such as Defender for cloud, among others, however, this solution is the most complete, and we trust Check Point.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend doing a little research before purchasing the product.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Network protection, assessments, and best practices for cloud networks.
What is our primary use case?
We have infrastructure in both Microsoft Azure and on-premise. We wanted to centralize an environment of governance, control, and best practices, at the level of Microsoft Azure. We were able to implement Defender for the cloud at some point. However, we already had security products from Check Point. The idea was to centralize all our tools in the same environment to make it easier to support administration.
With Check Point CloudGuard we have been able to successfully implement a layer of protection for our cloud and our on-premise environments.
How has it helped my organization?
With Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, we have been able to provide advanced security and security in the Azure network in addition to all the security additions associated with Check Point which are very important. Each one provides a role or complements the security of the company.
The panel or score can help evaluate the reality of our cloud and hybrid infrastructure. It has an excellent capability. The Check Point blueprint has taken us to the next level of protection.
It really is a pretty complete solution.
What is most valuable?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is complemented with all the features and becomes a security giant. The most important features, at least for us, are:
1 - It allows for the implementation of centralized security through Check Point Infinity in addition to being able to manage the security of hybrid and cloud environments.
2 - The trust and security provided by advanced threat protection is a point of distinction. We have not seen any false positives. Its anti-malware prevention is very good, and protection against ransomware is one of the features we require for our infrastructure.
3 - Additionally, it can be integrated with most public clouds, making it attractive.
What needs improvement?
There are a few features or improvements that can be mentioned. One of them may be that the Infinity Portal is sometimes slow. A performance improvement could improve the administrator's perspective.
At the cost level, the solution is somewhat expensive. They could have an improvement to be a more feasible solution for everyone.
The support must improve. It is the biggest issue that Check Point currently has. Sometimes it is better to investigate oneself than to wait for a solution from the support department.
For how long have I used the solution?
We implemented this tool a few months ago to be able to validate the security associated with our cloud environment. In this case, we implemented against Microsoft Azure.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Yes
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Yes
How are customer service and support?
Great.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we used Microsoft Defender for a cloud solution. It's a very good tool, however, Microsoft is new in this field.
What about the implementation team?
It was carried out internally and was a positive experience.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is definitely important to test the tool before defining it in a production environment. It is also good to know the costs with a professional.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Previously we checked to see if we could stay with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. However, we opted for a centralized environment with more security muscle of its own.
What other advice do I have?
It is one of the best solutions on the market. I challenge you to try it so you can say the same.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Easy to manage and implement with simple configuration capabilities
What is our primary use case?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security helps resolve potential regulatory and compliance issues when moving to the cloud. The high-visibility rule base's granular approach helps us with potential security leaks and highlights items to focus on for immediate action.
The functionality that we're using it for is the cloud firewall piece.
For this reason, it was necessary to implement this tool in our organization and the results have been very positive, providing the necessary security throughout the infrastructure.
How has it helped my organization?
One of the main characteristics that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has given us is granularity and visibility. The data that enters our Azure environment integrates in a great way in the cloud and in on-premises. This is important for the alerts and the response to incidents that arise in our platform in the cloud, for the moment, we are very satisfied to have acquired this solution and to have implemented it in the cloud and with other systems on-premise that have given us a lot of security and peace of mind.
What is most valuable?
One of the features that I liked the most and that I feel is very useful is auto-scaling. Our Azure cloud environment is constantly growing and this allows us to expand as well.
Another very accurate feature is CloudGuard's malware prevention and exploit resistance rate and they have given us a lot of security since the database is very large.
It is easy to manage CloudGuard from on-premises and offers the same protection as we can provide to the rest of our environments, which is a great advantage for us.
What needs improvement?
One of the areas that should be improved is the updates of the products. It is somewhat problematic in the area of the cloud. In the case of migration from on-premise to the cloud, it is difficult to replace the licenses. It should be something very transparent and thus save us the time to go to support but in general, the tool is shared very well in security and protection of privacy and if they are lucky they can add more features that help us our security would be great they should always be one step ahead of cyberattacks.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have implemented it two year ago.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security maintains very good stability, and, best of all, maintains excellent compatibility with Azure.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is great. You can make a network scale up or down. This allows you to have good control of bandwidth in the organization or to be able to distribute it in the different departments of the company.
How are customer service and support?
Currently, since the implementation, not much support has been used, therefore, I rate it as excellent.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
The Check Point brand has always been used in our organization.
How was the initial setup?
The configuration was very simple since the tool and the wizard are very interactive and user-friendly. It was not very difficult to do the installation and configuration.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation started with a vendor and the IT team. The engineer that worked with us presented great knowledge of the product.
What was our ROI?
By using a tool of this type, the cost of personnel decreases since the tool performs quite well with the functions that it was designed for.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price and the licenses have been good. They maintain a competitive price with the other companies.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Other options were not evaluated as we like to keep the same brand across solutions.
What other advice do I have?
When doing a cloud deployment, remember you are doing this in the cloud so treat it like a cloud device, as good configuration brings good results.