Good support, minimizes threats, and offers complete endpoint security
What is our primary use case?
One of the recent use cases for this solution has been related to a power company, which was facing issues but was able to get its infrastructure secured and get back its business continuity and growth. In addition, its management was able to get back its confidence with solutions or services provided by Check Point.
The client was able to quantify its security elements. As a result, a strong defensive framework was developed. Deployment of Check Point's solution resulted in the evasion of any existing and potential threats.
How has it helped my organization?
Check Point is not just a firewall. They deliver everything including IPS, application control, threat emulation and extraction, identity awareness, and more. In line with the quantum security gateways, other elements and services as provided by Check Point have also proven to be very helpful and reliable in keeping the company environment secured. The organization has also gone a great mile to tag itself as a proactive threat elimination expert in the industry viz a viz its competitors.
What is most valuable?
Harmony Endpoint is one of the great solutions by Check Point; it ensures compliance with policies and minimizes the risk of threats entering through endpoints.
It's a great complete endpoint security solution that prevents the most imminent threats to the endpoint such as ransomware, phishing, or malware.
It has proved to be very successful in identifying ransomware behaviors such as file encryption or attempts to compromise operating system backups and safely restore ransomware-encrypted files automatically.
What needs improvement?
While the console and administration work well, they have to work on performance since it consumes a lot of CPU and memory. There is also latency in the administrative panel when entering. There has been a problem with updating licenses as well. There is ground-level feedback based on interaction with the relevant stakeholders that states implementing it would make a major difference in the overall experience.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution has not caused major deviations and the historical experience has been quite good. The stability and reliability of the solution is pretty much appreciated
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The overall impression of the scalability is good and impressive.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support has been pretty good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have been involved with a lot of other partners in parallel, depending on the requirements of the customers.
How was the initial setup?
I am not directly involved in the setup and deployment of the product.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation was handled by an in-house team.
What was our ROI?
I've witnessed an ROI of 25% to 30%.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Users should actively evaluate the existing options available in the market and finalize the one that matches their requirements, budget, and priorities. Check Point can definitely be considered based on my personal experience.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The choice to evaluate would not be my personal decision but the requirement raised by the customers.
Enterprise level scalability and meeting all the PCI guidelines regulating financial market players
What is our primary use case?
Our use cases are protection infrastructure in a financial corporate environment.
How has it helped my organization?
Check Point firewalls meet all the PCI guidelines that regulate players in the financial market.
What is most valuable?
The support is pretty incredible.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in reliability.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for ten years. I worked from version 840 to 8120.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability a six out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is very scalable. I would rate the scalability for this solution a ten out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I initially took Cisco training for routers, switches, and firewalls. I did actually work up the Cisco firewalls long enough to convert them to Check Point.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was complex. But that was really the fault of Check Point just because we deployed it into the Google Cloud environment, and their environment is a little different.
We have security management deployed on-premises and on the cloud.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is about par for the enterprise-class firewalls.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Palo Alto and Cisco. And the reason for going with this solution was the price. So, with Cisco, it was priced. We actually checked the overall price of the cost of ownership. When you talk about support costs and everything else, was cheaper than Cisco. And with Palo Alto, also had reliability issues that could not be overcome by their support.
What other advice do I have?
I definitely recommend it, but unless you're fully trained and experienced on Check Point, you should get the better support program.
Check Point has support rep programs that go all the way up to putting one of their own people in your business to help you. Then, they have support programs. If you're an expert, you just need to be able to download updated files and stuff. They have support programs like that, too. The worst possible situation is if somebody isn't really skilled with the thing and they cheap out on the support program, and they'll just flounder.
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Enhanced security with centralized control for threat prevention
What is our primary use case?
Check Point plays a crucial role in enhancing our security firewall solution in our company. It has brought significant improvements, including features like spam and anti-spam measures, intrusion prevention (IPS), and advanced filtering.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature for me is the firewall. Whether it's five stars or even higher, the analytics reports it provides are truly impressive. They offer valuable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that shed light on various situations and different logs.
What needs improvement?
They could offer educational courses to help individuals improve their knowledge and skills.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with it for two years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It provides good stability features. I would rate it eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate its scalability capabilities nine out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
In my previous company, I had experience using Fortinet and Palo Alto.
How was the initial setup?
I find that the setup process is somewhat distinct from other solutions. I believe that having some guidance from the website or tutorials would make it easier.
What other advice do I have?
I strongly recommend this solution because it's a highly effective and reliable choice. I would rate it nine out of ten.
An expensive solution with easy life cycle management
What is our primary use case?
We use Check Point Security Management for firewall management.
What is most valuable?
The solution is easy to use and comes with few vulnerabilities. You don't have to worry about release upgrades. Life cycle management is very easy.
What needs improvement?
Check Point Security Management lacks some of the competitor features.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point Security Management is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have around 4,500 users for the product.
How are customer service and support?
Check Point Security Management doesn't have good support since it is difficult to get the right person.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is expensive.
Review of CloudGuard
What do you like best about the product?
The way how the Cloud Guard Network Security product handels traffic
What do you dislike about the product?
Till now i havent seen any dislike features in this product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It hepls me to manage my network
Easy to implement, easy to use and great feature
What do you like best about the product?
I like the interface about how this product represent data with so comprehensive features. Another reason is how easy the implementation is in a large scale environment without having a headache with minimum of time. It so easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, everything work great and reliable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Best cloud-based firewall solution, easy to use, easy to implement, great features. It will increase security level and visibility.
Secure Your Network with CloudGuard
What do you like best about the product?
First and foremost, CloudGuard Network Security for Gateway Load Balancer delivers advanced cyber threat defense, such as DDoS attacks and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). It provides various features, such as a Web Application Firewall, Content Filtering, etc. The second excellent feature is that it provides real-time monitoring and reporting, allowing organizations to quickly identify and respond to security incidents.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing to dislike. However, there are certain limitations, such as if I want some specialized requirements that CloudGuard does not fully provide. Its additional configuration increased the difficulty and cost of building a secure cloud network.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of the most challenging problems I've encountered regarding protection and security is that CloudGuard is readily linked with load balancers to provide additional security and scalability. I can defend their cloud network from threats while ensuring high availability and performance by deploying CloudGuard with load balancers.
Review of Cloud Guard Network Security
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud Guard is Network layer Load Balancer used to load balance traffif at network level and benefits of network load balancer are it can manage tcp and udp traffic at network level and easy to troubleshoot using packet tracer tcpdump or wireshark tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
CloudGuard works well to manage network level traffic and load balance traffic at network level but it cannot be used as Application Load Balancer to manage http or https traffic and apply ssl certificate on load balancer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudGuard Network Security is best Network Load Balancer which has maximum throughput and we were looking solution for tcp and udp traffic which serves best using CloudGuard Network Security product.
Excellent Product
What do you like best about the product?
Makes load balancing seamless and the security is excellent
What do you dislike about the product?
Can't think of any issues in CloudGuard yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We primarily use this for load balancing
Review on CloudGuard Network Security for gateway load balancerIt helps to
What do you like best about the product?
It helps to protect assets with advance Security technologies that include Firewall, IPS, Application Control and anti-Virus. User-friendly interface is easy to understand.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no such dislike from my side as I am satisfied with its services. The only drawback is that it does not support VPN.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides HA in the cloud for scalability and maintenance while bringing the best security to the firms with inbuilt features.
