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CloudGuard WAF
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What do you like best about the product?
Check Point CloudGuard WAF is great because it uses smart AI to stop new and advanced threats automatically. It’s fully managed, so you don’t have to worry about updates or tuning—Check Point handles everything. It works perfectly with cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, scaling up as your traffic grows. It protects against all kinds of attacks, including bots, DDoS, and hacked APIs, all in one place. Plus, it’s easy to control with a single dashboard, making security simple and hassle-free
What do you dislike about the product?
Check Point CloudGuard WAF can be pricey, especially for smaller teams. Setting it up isn't always quick—it might take some time to get everything working smoothly. While it's good at blocking threats, tweaking advanced rules isn't as flexible as some other tools. Since Check Point manages updates, you can't always make changes on your own schedule. Occasionally, it might slow down your apps a tiny bit when inspecting traffic deeply. Still powerful, but worth considering these trade-offs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard WAF solves three big headaches for me. First, it acts like a smart shield that automatically blocks hackers trying to break into my websites or APIs - stopping stuff like SQL injections, credential stuffing, and sneaky bot attacks. Second, it saves me tons of time because Check Point handles all the security updates and rule changes behind the scenes. Third, it keeps my cloud apps safe without slowing them down, growing automatically as my traffic increases. The best part? I get strong protection without needing to be a security expert, and I can see everything that's happening through one simple dashboard. It's like having a 24/7 security guard that never sleeps and learns new tricks to catch threats.
Check Point CloudGuard WAF: AI-Powered Protection for Web and API Workloads
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Check Point CloudGuard WAF is its contextual AI-driven threat prevention, which delivers precise, signature-free protection against zero-day attacks and OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities—while seamlessly integrating into CI/CD pipelines for automated, cloud-native security.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about Check Point CloudGuard WAF is its steep learning curve, limited documentation, and high cost—factors that can slow down adoption, complicate integration with custom applications, and restrict accessibility for smaller teams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard WAF solves the critical challenge of protecting web applications and APIs from zero-day threats, OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, and malicious bot traffic by using contextual AI and machine learning—benefiting me by enabling precise, signature-free threat prevention, reducing manual tuning, and ensuring secure, compliant cloud operations across dynamic environments.
Check Point CloudGuard WAF: Essential Shield for Web Applications
What do you like best about the product?
1. Offers robust protection against a wide range of web application attacks, including SQL injection and cross-site scripting
2. Simplifies the setup process with user-friendly interfaces and quick configuration options
3. Provide real-time visibility into web traffic and security incidents, enabling proactive threat detection
2. Simplifies the setup process with user-friendly interfaces and quick configuration options
3. Provide real-time visibility into web traffic and security incidents, enabling proactive threat detection
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Higher cost for a small business organization
2. Users might encounter false positives that can disrupt legitimate traffic
3. The extensive features may lead to a steep learning curve for new users, impacting initial adoption
2. Users might encounter false positives that can disrupt legitimate traffic
3. The extensive features may lead to a steep learning curve for new users, impacting initial adoption
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard WAF addresses several critical problems:
1. Protect against a variety of common threats
2. Helps safeguard sensitive data transmitted over web applications, reducing the risk of data breaches
3. Provides detailed insights into web traffic and security incidents
1. Protect against a variety of common threats
2. Helps safeguard sensitive data transmitted over web applications, reducing the risk of data breaches
3. Provides detailed insights into web traffic and security incidents
An interesting proposition in a sea of competitor
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is easy to understand. When I compare to the competition with overly complex menu and nested option. It’s a bref of fresh air. It’s also cohesive with the rest of checkpoint’s offering
What do you dislike about the product?
With more comprehensive approach I feel that’s it’s missing a few features. Such as a zero trust feature for clients which the competitors offers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Peace of mind for any Saas product I have in the cloud and my azure subscription
Development cycle has streamlined with enhanced collaboration and automation while cost estimation remains challenging
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
It has definitely streamlined our development cycle. The integration with other Microsoft products, especially Visual Studio, is seamless. The automation capabilities have saved us a lot of time and reduced manual errors. We are also using the Boards feature to manage sprints and track progress, which has improved team collaboration significantly.
What needs improvement?
The pricing can be a bit complex to understand initially. It can be challenging to estimate costs, especially when scaling our usage. Also, while the documentation is comprehensive, it can be difficult to navigate at times.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing can be a bit complex to understand initially. It can be challenging to estimate costs, especially when scaling our usage.
What other advice do I have?
Azure DevOps is a comprehensive platform that streamlines our development workflow and enhances team collaboration, though the pricing structure could be simplified.
AI-Powered Protection WAF for Web and API
What do you like best about the product?
CheckPoint Cloud Guard is an intuitive feature packed firewall providing our clients with the best web protection in this dynamic technological sector.
I like that is Ai powered, has feature rich management Web UI which is easy to navigate.
I like that is Ai powered, has feature rich management Web UI which is easy to navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial setup is a bit complex but once done all is good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Looking at protection against web app attacks.
CloudGuard WAF Delivers Peace of Mind and Similipfied
What do you like best about the product?
1 ) Accurate threat detection with minimal false positives
2) Prevention First approach
3) Reduces operation overhead
4) Good detection technology
5) Minimal false positive
6) Onboarding is easier
7) Best feature is its comprehensive API security and automated API discovery
2) Prevention First approach
3) Reduces operation overhead
4) Good detection technology
5) Minimal false positive
6) Onboarding is easier
7) Best feature is its comprehensive API security and automated API discovery
What do you dislike about the product?
1) Initial onboarding is tedious
2) Documentations needs further improvement
3) Drastic improvements needs in support
4) Need further improvement in antibot
2) Documentations needs further improvement
3) Drastic improvements needs in support
4) Need further improvement in antibot
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Zero-day threats, API risks, operational complexity—with AI-driven automation, precise threat prevention, and seamless cloud integration. This resulted in stronger security postures, lower operational costs, and scalable protection.
Protecting your brand with Check Point CloudGuard
What do you like best about the product?
The automation of rules and the visibility of logs by category
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup was a bit complicated having an AWS behind it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automatic reputation protection on a CMS developed in WordPress
Cloudguard WAF protects our critical web applications and APIs
What do you like best about the product?
It does not require too much manual configuration and it is straight forward to set it up and get your critical assets protected against sophisticated attacks using AI and machine learning to automatically understand the behavior of our applications and APIs.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that you cannot have two assets with the same URL even though the application is reached using different IP addresses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before we had no visibility into the application layer attacks targeting our web applications and APIs. We relied completely on our Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) to protect our assets. Ever since we deployed Cloudguard WAF, we immediately understood that we were missing many attacks that were targeting the applications. Today, with Cloudguard WAF, we block an average of 3500 attacks on daily basis. In addition to that, with tha API protection, we are now able to identify all the endpoints associated with the applications and better protect our APIs.
We get a consolidated view, good security, and excellent scalability
What is our primary use case?
I have a team that manages CloudGuard for me. We have different research centers using various cloud accounts and are trying to consolidate everything into a single landing zone to protect those areas. From a use-case perspective, I have different laboratories or research centers utilizing it for various purposes. We are mostly focused on AI, and some of those requirements cater to the AI segment as well.
How has it helped my organization?
From a protection perspective, Check Point is a well-renowned name. We are also using other products from Check Point, such as Harmony, Infinity, and XDR. We have a consolidated view of the overall security posture, which I find quite interesting.
CloudGuard WAF protects our applications against threats without relying on signatures. This is crucial for us to maintain application security and stop the threats coming into our environment, keeping our production part secure.
Check Point CloudGuard WAF works well for preemptively blocking Zero Day attacks and detecting hidden anomalies. It is the best. That is why I am paying for it.
Check Point CloudGuard WAF helps us with overall application and cloud API security. The consolidated view of the security posture that Check Point provides is very useful from an upper management perspective.
CloudGuard WAF has helped reduce our false positive rate by 30%.
What is most valuable?
From a security perspective, it is quite good. I am not very familiar with the detailed features of it because I have a team that manages it.
What needs improvement?
I am pretty happy with the current version. I have not yet used it to its full potential, but there could be improvements as I explore it further. I am content with what I have in terms of features and support, but if I start expanding the usage, I might need more help from them. I already have the best consultants from Check Point.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for around seven or eight months now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not observed any stability issues yet. It has been pretty reliable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is excellent and is one of its best features.
How are customer service and support?
Customer service is one of the best in the market right now.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not use a similar solution previously.
How was the initial setup?
We have a hybrid deployment model with AWS as the cloud provider.
Its deployment was smooth. We did not have any issues.
What about the implementation team?
We used Check Point for the implementation.
What was our ROI?
It has been only six or seven months now. I am hoping that by the time I complete one year, I will see the return on investment.
It has reduced the total cost of ownership for our web application firewall to a certain extent, but I do not have the numbers.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The sales team or account managers from Check Point are top-notch. As I am using other products as well, my pricing was competitive compared to others.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I considered other solutions. I decided on Check Point because of its comprehensive suite of applications and the integration with my tools, providing a consolidated view of my security posture.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Check Point CloudGuard WAF a nine out of ten. I believe there is always room for improvement, but there are use cases I have not yet explored.
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