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Defending the Cloud: An In-Depth Review of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security
What do you like best about the product?
1. Offers advanced threat prevention capabilities, safeguarding the cloud environments from a variety of threats
2. Designed to scale with the cloud workloads, ensuring that security measures grow alongside your business needs
3. Provides detailed insights and visibility into cloud security posture
2. Designed to scale with the cloud workloads, ensuring that security measures grow alongside your business needs
3. Provides detailed insights and visibility into cloud security posture
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Initial setup and configuration can be complex
2. Higher cost
3. Limited customization
2. Higher cost
3. Limited customization
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security addresses several key problems:
1. Protect against threats specific to cloud environments
2. Provides comprehensive visibility into cloud resources and security posture
3. Adapts to dynamic cloud workloads, ensuring consistent security as applications scale or change
1. Protect against threats specific to cloud environments
2. Provides comprehensive visibility into cloud resources and security posture
3. Adapts to dynamic cloud workloads, ensuring consistent security as applications scale or change
Cloudguard IAAS best solution to secure your cloud envirorment
What do you like best about the product?
I have been working with cloudguard IAAS solutions on AWS and Azure clouds for 3 years. I can say that it is a very good solution, dploy are easy to do because of the templates, both for architecture with GWLB and external and internal LB that Checkpoint offers. The solution is scalable and reliable, once the deployment is done you don't have to think about anything else. Upgrades are easy to perform as you simply deploy new CG instances and delete old ones.
At the feature level, cloudguards guarantee as for on-prem solutions the maximum for security up to level 7.
At the feature level, cloudguards guarantee as for on-prem solutions the maximum for security up to level 7.
What do you dislike about the product?
it would be useful to have the ability to configure CME high management with a graphical interface, I know the vendor is working on it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
enables replication of on-prem security logic, performing east-west and north-south inspection for our customers' environments on cloud providers.
Helps us secure our organization effectively
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
The product helps in securing our complete organization. We have not received any alerts that were suspicious, which assures us that it's working as expected.
What is most valuable?
It's already helped secure our organization effectively. That said, the integration of all the firewalls should be centralized, which would make management easier.
What needs improvement?
We are not sure if there is a centralized security console available. It would be beneficial if all firewalls could be integrated under one management console.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using the firewall for more than ten years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We are confident in the security solution as we have not faced any alerts that were suspicious.
How are customer service and support?
We have partner support that helps us mitigate vulnerabilities reported by our infrastructure team. Most of the time, we get good support.
How was the initial setup?
The first deployment takes two to three days. After setup, maintenance and updates are straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Since we are using it extensively, we get significant discounts during procurement. The tool is cost-effective.
What other advice do I have?
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Excellent and Robust tool CNAPP
What do you like best about the product?
First thing to highlight about this tool and that has also impressed me is it's easy to installation and integration and set up.
Till now what I have experienced is amazing. Talking and highlighting about the best features or things I personally liked about this tool is it's features about protecting and prevention of our cloud based SFDC lifecycle.
Zero trust refrence architecture is one of them security feature.
Till now what I have experienced is amazing. Talking and highlighting about the best features or things I personally liked about this tool is it's features about protecting and prevention of our cloud based SFDC lifecycle.
Zero trust refrence architecture is one of them security feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such to be highlight but overall impressive tool for cloud code review
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To answer this question,Our business or company got benefitted with Cloud Data Security and compliance issues about data.
Change tracking is available in network security module
What do you like best about the product?
We can able to track the changes of network security group rules and we can able to visualise the vpc route traffics detailly and can manage the configured IP address and it's CIDR.
What do you dislike about the product?
The change tracking of network security group rules is available only in AWS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can easily find and manage the server IP address on single console
Advanced threat modeling for Cloud networks
What do you like best about the product?
It has the capabilities to check and observe if any unusual behaviour happened on our network. It has the feature we can have the custom use case's to observe the traffics.
What do you dislike about the product?
It only supported on cloudtrail and vpc logs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can easily monitor the unusual network traffic and user behaviour on cloud infras
Cloud Security Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
As a Cloud security engineer I have been using and used many and multiple tool,s, softwares and platforms for the network security, network testing and network analysis, etc. Nowdays experiencing my hands on with check points Cloud security tools for my new cloud Security Analysis projects and this particular tool from Check Point has been proven a most adavanced and most secure platform for the our cloud projects. With features I loved and fan of as below-
Easy of integration .
Reatl time monitoring.
And ensuring various compliances.
Easy of integration .
Reatl time monitoring.
And ensuring various compliances.
What do you dislike about the product?
Little bit of learning curve for first time users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I would highly recommend and suggested this tool for the industries and companies Working on projects such as Cloud Network Security Solutions.
Offers firewall and endpoint security that improves the business security posture
What needs improvement?
To make the tool better, I think we could have some sort of analysis similar to how some products offer information related to social media sentiments. If we could get that kind of assessment, some sort of analysis of some sort, I think that would be something that can really improve the solution.
In the future, I would like to see more frequent updates because of the changing security landscape. We should be seeing more updates in the tool, especially those that are not paid. The tool can also put in efforts in terms of maybe the community by conducting some sort of workshop or some sort of online event to bring the community together so that we can all meet. A community portal is needed.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point Security Management for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten, especially for the cloud version. The on-premises version was a bit unstable, and I think I will give stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Speaking about scalability, in terms of maturity, product security, and reliability, I would rate the tool an eight out of ten.
Around 200 to 250 people in my company use the tool.
How are customer service and support?
I have experience with the solution's technical support, and I don't think the product is doing well. We have to reach out to the first level of support and then to the third level of support. I rate the technical support a six out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
The product's initial setup phase had no problems.
The product's installation phase was easy. The moment we transitioned from on-prem to the cloud, we realized that the on-prem version was a bit more difficult to use, and the cloud version was easier because it has some sort of configuration wizard. The provisioning was easy.
The solution is deployed on the private cloud version offered by AWS, but we use it across the company's group, and it is hosted in South Africa.
The solution can be deployed in an hour and a half. The deployment phase was not so bad.
I was not involved in the deployment since I had my tech team with 12 security engineers for it who can take care of the product and the firewall. My company's IT department has around 30 technical members but only 12 take care of information security matters associated with the tool.
What was our ROI?
In terms of the tool's financial and commercial aspects, we do a risk assessment every quarter. There is a huge cycle of risk assessment every quarter. As a part of risk assessment, Check Point reviews threats. When the risk team comes, it assesses the group. They give us some values about the threats that we are facing. They explain that since implementing the solution, this is the threat, and this is the value. Some empirical data is used.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Honestly, the tool is expensive. It's a good product, so definitely, it is expensive. I realized that the tool is a bit more expensive than the rest, at over 20 to 30 percent overall. If one will be very expensive, and ten means low price, I rate the tool's price as a three out of ten. There are so many other products out there that are more expensive than Check Point. There are also so many other products that are cheaper than Check Point.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Over the other tools in the market, my company chose Check Point even if it is a bit pricey, but it fits the bill. From a business requirements point of view, it fits the bill. With the tool, we have been able to restructure our infrastructure in terms of the IT landscape. We are also able to bring policies without any fear of infiltration. In a nutshell, it fits before a business case.
What other advice do I have?
Check Point Security Management streamlines operations in our specific industry. We used to have a lot of instances, but because of the alerts that come from the kind of configuration the solution offers, we are now able to take care of instances even before they happen. Basically, the tool has really helped us reduce instances by about 40 to 50 percent.
The tool has a firewall and endpoint security to improve our company's security posture, especially for our mobile devices. Our company has a sort of principle where there is a need to bring your own device, so it is used to take care of things in terms of security. The security team within our department escalates things quickly.
Speaking about threat prevention in our daily operations, I would say that before the tool's implementation, we used to report a loss of about 50,000,000 dollars, but it has now gone down after the product was installed. It looks like it has helped capture those threats, alert in advance, and anomaly detection. It has been a very helpful product.
Speaking about the influence of Check Point Security Management on our IT infrastructure, I would say that we have implemented the product across endpoints, including mobile devices and devices that fall under the BYOD category. With Check Point, we were able to implement and allow our staff to bring their devices and work from wherever they want. Without Check Point, we would not have been able to do so, and that changes the landscape and trims down on the devices that we would have been acquiring centrally for our staff.
My company started the analysis on AI and areas like trends. The trends, especially transactional trends and all that kind of thing, are areas where we have already started some use cases for AI, about five of them, and I think the engine is still in the learning phase. I would say that we haven't really started using AI, but we already have it set up in Check Point, and it will be around the area associated with trends. Basically, we have not really explored the AI part yet.
I recommend the tool to others.
The tool's maintenance is done automatically on the cloud. When we were using the tool's on-prem version, we were happy to offer support for the product in our company.
I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Advance platform for cloud infrastructure network protection and security
What do you like best about the product?
We can sync this tool with our whole cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure for advance network security.
Protection to cloud server gateways.
Automations is biggest advantage of this tool.
Our VPC security.
Protection to cloud server gateways.
Automations is biggest advantage of this tool.
Our VPC security.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing comes top of the my mind for dislikes for this tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
NSPM and helping or benifiting in our VPC server security.
Friendly secuirty partner of our cloud architecture
What do you like best about the product?
One platform offers many features such as, compliance functions and securtiy. Easy to manage and its automated service like detect, prevent and responding to the issue are best part that i like.
What do you dislike about the product?
After sales support should be enchnaced further.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With new risks in the digital age, it is getting more and harder to keep track of several cloud accounts from different cloud partners. Cloud guard has made it easy for us to moniter and secure our digital environment effectively.
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