We use Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) for most of the things in the cloud. We protect our things, especially Microsoft emails. We also have things that are actually put in the clouds like our institution's backups which are in the cloud.
Check Point Cloud Firewall All-In-One (FKA CloudGuard Network Security)
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Cloud security has protected our emails and backups and now simplifies hybrid protection
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We integrated Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) with the on-premises solutions, the normal ones, the URL filtering, such products, and the normal Check Point to other Check Point blades.
Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) streamlines our security.
Some of the risks that we used to worry about are now taken care of, and we no longer have to worry about those risks.
In the process of migrating from cloud to on-premises and from on-premises to cloud, there are threats because we are still online and there are so many threats. With Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security), we are guaranteed protection from end to end, from user to cloud and cloud to user.
What is most valuable?
First and foremost, I like the security of Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security). The security is good, and the cloud security is very good, especially when nowadays you don't know what's happening in the cloud. The cloud has become a bit complex, and there are so many people offering cloud services.
When you use Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security), they guarantee you protection. That's why now you don't need to lose your sleep because your data is in somebody's cloud solution.
Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) is very useful.
What needs improvement?
The pricing is a bit very high.
Especially when it comes to pricing, Palo Alto is cheaper. We have to compare pricing between the two solutions.
For how long have I used the solution?
When they started with the cloud firewall, it has been about two to three years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The ability to expand showed good progress. I can give it a 10.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is wonderful and perfect.
How was the initial setup?
The setup is not very complex. It is a bit moderate.
What about the implementation team?
We did the implementation in conjunction with Check Point technicians.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) is a good product. The only issue is that the costing is too high.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We are in the process of doing a proof of concept of Palo Alto.
What other advice do I have?
I have worked with Check Point as a product for the last 15 to 16 years, not on cloud.
We buy through partners.
We are the end-user and not a partner.
I would rate this review an 8 overall.
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?
Check Point CloudGuard provides resilient cloud security with easy administration
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud environments require even more resilient network security protection than on-prem datacenters. Check Point CloudGuard offers prevention from advanced threats and easiness in administration
What do you dislike about the product?
Additional cost is incurred when running third party firewall in the cloud, but Check Point CloudGuard offers reliable protection from the Internet based threats
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard adds additional layer of protection to existing cloud security features, provides constant updates and wonderful single pane administrative interface
Centralized, Layered Defense with Strong Visibility and Logging
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Check Point security is its centralized policy management and how it brings firewall, IPS, anti-bot, anti-virus, and sandboxing together into a single, layered defense model. It also stands out for strong logging, identity awareness, and solid visibility, which is helpful for audits as well as incident response.
What do you dislike about the product?
Security is widely respected for its high catch rates and robust "single pane of glass" management, it is often a "love it or hate it" platform. So broadly no issue to be report as of now
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It performs well across multiple categories. It offers a stronger security posture, helps reduce risk, enables a faster response to threats, and supports smooth operations overall. I also find the interface user-friendly.
Effective Threat Prevention and Unified Cloud Security Management
What do you like best about the product?
It provides deep visibility and control, helping teams quickly detect, respond, and remediate threats across distributed environments.it stands out for combining scalability, automation, and high detection accuracy.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI sometimes feel outdated or slow at times, with occasional lag while loading dashboards or navigating settings.Logs can be detailed but not always easy to analyze, making issue resolution time-consuming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security gaps during vulnerability remediation
Fixing vulnerabilities takes time, leaving systems exposed.
Solution & Benefit: CloudGuard can apply real-time protection and “virtual patching” while fixes are in progress, minimizing exposure windows.
Fixing vulnerabilities takes time, leaving systems exposed.
Solution & Benefit: CloudGuard can apply real-time protection and “virtual patching” while fixes are in progress, minimizing exposure windows.
Industry-Leading Threat Prevention with Seamless Unified Management
What do you like best about the product?
I like its industry-leading threat prevention best, blocking 100% of malware and exploits with zero false positives per recent CyberRatings tests. The unified management console also stands out, offering consistent policies and visibility across multi-cloud and on-premises setups for seamless operations
What do you dislike about the product?
The main drawbacks of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security are its steep learning curve and complex initial setup, often requiring deep familiarity with Check Point ecosystems or cloud architectures. Users also criticize the high pricing, dated user interface with occasional lags, and limited support for some features like IPv6, serverless, or certain VPN modes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Main Problems Solved
Multi-Cloud Complexity: Provides single-pane visibility and consistent policies for AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid setups, easing migrations without policy rework.
Threat Prevention Gaps: Delivers real-time blocking of exploits/malware (100% efficacy in tests), plus IaC integration for DevSecOps.
Misconfigurations & Drift: Continuous posture analysis, auto-remediation, and context-aware alerts fix vulnerabilities from code to runtime.
Multi-Cloud Complexity: Provides single-pane visibility and consistent policies for AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid setups, easing migrations without policy rework.
Threat Prevention Gaps: Delivers real-time blocking of exploits/malware (100% efficacy in tests), plus IaC integration for DevSecOps.
Misconfigurations & Drift: Continuous posture analysis, auto-remediation, and context-aware alerts fix vulnerabilities from code to runtime.
Strong Hybrid Cloud Security, but Setup Is Complex and Pricey
What do you like best about the product?
It’s well known for offering consistent security rules across intricate hybrid and modern cloud options. It has defence mechanism against threats, malware & ransomeware
What do you dislike about the product?
Expensive prices and difficult initial setup and need high level tech knowledge to setup and it’s take long time into investigate, troubleshoot and finding root cause on issues found into setup
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing fragmented verticals, dynamic and modern cloud environments providing utility, preventive & detective functionalities, that eliminate security gaps and build shield to avoid attacks and helping zero-day attacks achievements
Clean UI, Seamless Multi-Cloud Security, and Strong AI-Driven Threat Prevention
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is how it brings together strong security with a well-rounded user experience across multiple areas. Its UI/UX is clean and intuitive, making it easier to manage complex policies without a steep learning curve, while its integrations with major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP ensure seamless deployment in multi-cloud environments. Performance is reliable and scalable, adapting to changing workloads without creating bottlenecks. From a pricing and ROI perspective, it delivers solid value by consolidating multiple security functions into a single platform, reducing overall operational costs. The support and onboarding experience is also strong, with helpful documentation and guidance that make implementation smoother. Finally, its AI-driven intelligence and threat prevention capabilities stand out, leveraging advanced analytics and real-time threat intelligence to proactively identify and stop sophisticated attacks.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is that, while powerful, it can feel complex in certain areas. The UI/UX, although functional, can sometimes be overwhelming for new users due to the number of features and configuration options. Integrations are strong overall, but initial setup in multi-cloud environments can be time-consuming and may require specialized knowledge. In terms of performance, there can be occasional latency or overhead depending on how it’s configured, especially in high-throughput environments. From a pricing and ROI perspective, it can be on the expensive side compared to some competitors, particularly for smaller organizations. Support and onboarding are generally good, but response times and the depth of assistance can vary depending on the support tier. Lastly, while its AI and intelligence capabilities are robust, they can sometimes generate false positives, requiring additional tuning to avoid unnecessary alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, we struggled with managing security consistently across multiple cloud environments, which led to fragmented policies, limited visibility, and increased risk of misconfigurations. It was difficult to keep up with evolving threats while also ensuring performance and compliance, and a lot of time was spent manually monitoring and adjusting security rules.
After implementing CloudGuard, we were able to centralize security management across all our cloud platforms, automate policy enforcement, and gain much deeper visibility into network traffic and potential threats. We struggled with inconsistent security and slow response times, but now we can detect and respond to threats in real time, which has significantly improved our overall security posture and reduced risk exposure.
As a result, we’ve seen clear benefits: security management time has been reduced by around 30–40%, incident response times have improved by up to 50%, and the consolidation of tools has helped lower overall operational costs. Additionally, automated scaling and smarter threat prevention have reduced downtime and minimized the impact of potential attacks, allowing the team to focus more on strategic work rather than constant firefighting.
After implementing CloudGuard, we were able to centralize security management across all our cloud platforms, automate policy enforcement, and gain much deeper visibility into network traffic and potential threats. We struggled with inconsistent security and slow response times, but now we can detect and respond to threats in real time, which has significantly improved our overall security posture and reduced risk exposure.
As a result, we’ve seen clear benefits: security management time has been reduced by around 30–40%, incident response times have improved by up to 50%, and the consolidation of tools has helped lower overall operational costs. Additionally, automated scaling and smarter threat prevention have reduced downtime and minimized the impact of potential attacks, allowing the team to focus more on strategic work rather than constant firefighting.
Feature CloudGuard: Strong Protection with UI Learning
What do you like best about the product?
There are a lot of features that help protect the infrastructure, but most of them focus on prevention-first security, multi-cloud automation, and centralised management, among other things.
What do you dislike about the product?
Check Point CloudGuard doesn’t fall short from a security perspective, but I would suggest making it more user-friendly. In particular, simpler and more streamlined user reporting would help new admins adapt to the technology more efficiently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Adds a full NGFW stack (IPS, sandboxing, AV, DLP, and URL filtering) with single-pane management across cloud and on-prem environments. It also provides stronger runtime blocking through checkpoints and a proven engine.
AI-Powered Runtime Threat Detection That Blocks Advanced Attacks
What do you like best about the product?
It detects advanced threats in runtime and blocks them. It is AI based and also contains IDS in it whicg triggers alert when any malious user tries to intrude.
What do you dislike about the product?
I Feel its deployment is bit complex. It takes time for a beginner to understand its features and functions.
I somewhat feel it is bit time consuming when it comes to troubleshoot any issue.
I somewhat feel it is bit time consuming when it comes to troubleshoot any issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As I said it detects advanced runtime threats in early stage. It is helping us to stay secure ensuring us to stay compliant.
Main thing it is helped us alot in securing our organization's security posture.
Main thing it is helped us alot in securing our organization's security posture.
Strong Zero-Day Protection and Better Traffic Visibility, with Cloud Scaling Automation
What do you like best about the product?
Checkpoint CloudGuard Network Security is a good product. It has helped us to protect against Zero Day attack. we were in search for a cloud scaling and automation tool which was fulfilled by Checkpoint CloudGuard network Security. Earlier we were not able to inspect the traffic about where our actual traffic was going but due this application the requirement was fulfilled. Also, the customer support responded quickly for the query we raised
What do you dislike about the product?
The architecture is complex because during implementation we found out that the complex architecture was becoming a hurdle for us. OEM should introduce more documents so that the architecture should be easily understandable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Checkpoint Cloudguard Network Security allows us to view where our traffic is and where the traffic is going.
I would strongly recommend my vendors to use this product as this has solved many issues of mine.
I would strongly recommend my vendors to use this product as this has solved many issues of mine.
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