Our main use case for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is protecting our cloud infrastructure from advanced threats while maintaining consistent security policies across hybrid environments; we rely on it most for perimeter defense, traffic inspection, and automated threat prevention.
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Robust Cloud Security with Seamless Multi-Cloud Integration
What do you like best about the product?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is a strong, automatic threat prevention and fits easily with multi-cloud setup. It provides centralized management, scalability and compliance to secure cloud implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The configurations involved in check point cloud guard might be complicated to the teams that lack in-depth knowledge in cloud security. Its pricing model is also a little high when compared to small organizations or organizations with constrained budgets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It safeguards cloud environments by preventing sophisticated cyber adversaries and unauthorized access by means of automated and consolidated security regulations. This increases transparency, compliance and enhances the overall security of the cloud network.
Flexible Cloud Security with Scalable Licensing Options
What do you like best about the product?
Checkpoint Cloudguard Network Security supports both public as well as private cloud. It has different type of licensing BYOL which depends upon number of cores as well as pay as you go model and it will increase the capacity as the size grow.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is fully dependent upon cloud like AWS and Azure for whose we donot have any access to their infra. We will be vulnerable for the issue they face in their services like last time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves our need to increase the firewall capacity during our peak season due to its pay as you go licensing model. It also auto retrieves all the object from its Cloud manager once any object is created in the cloud.
Effortless Cloud Integration and Flexible Licensing
What do you like best about the product?
The most useful features about checkpoint is that how it fetches all the object from cloud when you create the datacenter. It has different licesing feature like BYOL which depends upon the number of core as well as elastic license which depend upon the volume of traffic passed.
What do you dislike about the product?
It mainly lies on cloud platform and it depends upon cloud to work without any disrution. Like the outage that happened on last time both for aws and azure, this would result in outage for other companies as well since the infra wont be accessible to anyone.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has improved the elasticity of our firewall as the traffic during season gets easily handled by the firewall and we do not have to worry about any drops in the packet and firewall not handling it.
Robust Security and Seamless CI/CD Automation with Cloudguard
What do you like best about the product?
What I like about Checkpoint Cloudguard is that it provides the features of firewall like efficacy against malware, ransomware and zero day attacks. It also provides seamless CI/CD automation with cloud native tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its pricing is little bit costlier and it is only as Saas based solution where the edge location is not present in most of the country which can result in increased latency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped to secure our application in without need of more capital for on prem WAF solution.
Has improved threat response and reduced cloud-related alerts through automated security policies
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The advanced threat prevention feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security stands out the most to me. The threat prevention feature in Check Point CloudGuard is highly effective because it blocks attacks before they reach cloud workloads, using real-time intelligence and automated controls; one standout scenario for us was stopping a zero-day exploit targeting a misconfigured API, which CloudGuard detected and blocked instantly, preventing lateral movement.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security integrates natively in Azure, allowing security policies to follow workloads as they scale or move, and it also supports infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation for security.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has had a strong positive impact on our organization across several dimensions, especially in security posture, operational efficiency, and cloud agility. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has significantly reduced our organizational risk, particularly in cloud environments, with a measurable drop in misconfiguration, threat exposure, and incident response time, contributing to an estimated 30 or 40% reduction in overall cloud-related risk.
What needs improvement?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could be improved by enhancing its user interface, simplifying policy management, and expanding third-party integrations. The documentation has a learning curve, which can be dense and sometimes outdated. At first, I needed to learn different documentations, but now it is easier. More interactive guides, real-world examples, and clearer walkthroughs would help new users get up to speed faster.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for around two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's customer support is very good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What was our ROI?
I have saved time due to Check Point CloudGuard Network Security.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is very good in Azure for me.
What other advice do I have?
Since implementing Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, my confidence in moving workloads to the cloud has remained the same. I recommend Check Point CloudGuard Network Security because it is better for its security. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Check Point CloudGuard Network Security an eight.
CloudGuard: My First Line of Defense
What do you like best about the product?
The way CloudGuard handles cloud traffic feels effortless. I don’t have to constantly tweak settings or chase down alerts it just works in the background, keeping everything secure.
The integration with different cloud platforms is smooth, and I get the visibility I need without digging through endless dashboards.
The integration with different cloud platforms is smooth, and I get the visibility I need without digging through endless dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing that could be improved is the initial setup it’s not exactly plug and play.
If you’re not familiar with cloud architectures or Check Point’s ecosystem, getting everything configured can take some time.
Once it’s running, it’s solid, but that onboarding curve might be steep for smaller teams or those new to cloud security.
If you’re not familiar with cloud architectures or Check Point’s ecosystem, getting everything configured can take some time.
Once it’s running, it’s solid, but that onboarding curve might be steep for smaller teams or those new to cloud security.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudGuard helps me stay ahead of cloud threats without having to be a cloud security expert.
Before, I was constantly worried about misconfigurations or missing something critical.
Now, it handles the heavy lifting monitoring traffic, spotting risks, and keeping things locked down.
It’s like having a quiet guardian that watches over my cloud setup while I focus on everything else.
Before, I was constantly worried about misconfigurations or missing something critical.
Now, it handles the heavy lifting monitoring traffic, spotting risks, and keeping things locked down.
It’s like having a quiet guardian that watches over my cloud setup while I focus on everything else.
Reliable network protection across cloud environments
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about CloudGuard Network Security is that it gives really strong protection for my cloud traffic. It’s reliable, integrates well with AWS and Azure, and I like how easy it is to manage security policies in one place. The threat prevention feels solid and up to date.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the setup and configuration can be a bit tricky, especially for more complex environments. The interface could be a little more intuitive, and updates or policy changes can take some time to apply. It’s also not the cheapest option out there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudGuard Network Security helps us protect cloud workloads and traffic from external threats and misconfigurations. It makes it easier to manage security across multiple cloud platforms and keeps our policies consistent. The biggest benefit is better visibility and control, which gives us more confidence that our environment is secure.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security Product is a reliable cloud-based security solution
What do you like best about the product?
This product provides a reliable and secure network for your businesses. It gives a massive amount of upside features for a cloud-based environment such as data loss prevention, IPS, application control, IPSec VPN, URL filtering, antivirus, threat emulation and threat extraction. Customer support provided by Check Point vendor is one of the best options to choose this product.
What do you dislike about the product?
First time implementation for an unexperienced engineer with this product is not good easy. Learning resources are not easy to understand for a junior. Its cost is a drawback feature for a developing country although its product's capabilities is absolutely good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For AWS Cloud, It protects cloud assets with a full suite of advanced security capabilities, including firewall, data protection, IPS, IPSec VPN for network traffic security, URL filtering, antivirus, threat emulation and threat extraction.
A scalable, unified solution with strong threat prevention and consistent security across cloud.
What do you like best about the product?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security provides unified, cloud-native protection with advanced threat prevention, centralized policy management, and seamless scalability-making it an ideal solution for securing hybrid and multi-cloud environments with operational efficiency and deep visibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
While check point CloudGuard Network Security offers powerful, consistent threat prevention across multi-cloud environments, its value is often diminished by step licensing costs, difficult integrations, and limited visibility into detailed log data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is a robust, cloud-native solution that delivers consistent, advanced threat prevention and unified policy enforcement across multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. It empowers organization to secure dynamic workloads, automate security operations, and reduce breach and compliance risks-all from a single, scalable management platform.
Enables secure access and traffic control with reliable security features
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is that we're using it to filter inbound and outbound Azure traffic from on-premises to Azure and from Azure to the internet.
I use it for filtering traffic between on-premises and Azure to secure an SAP application accessed from on-premises while the SAP is in Azure.
What is most valuable?
The best features Check Point CloudGuard Network Security offers are security features, VPN capabilities, filtering, and IPS.
I rely on IPS and access control the most because it controls access to on-premises and from Azure.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has positively impacted my organization by making the network more secure and controlling the access to the applications.
What needs improvement?
I think Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is an ideal product, so I see no improvements needed.
If I had to think of one area where it could be improved or made easier, I would say that support isn't very good and documentation sometimes is lacking.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is stable in my experience.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's scalability is good because we can put the firewalls in VM scale sets and scale.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is not good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution before Check Point CloudGuard Network Security.
How was the initial setup?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is that pricing was good, the initial setup is easy, and licensing is a bring your own license, so it's good to bring licenses already from on-premises.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, I evaluated other options, including Fortinet.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is to deploy with scale set.
I would rate Check Point CloudGuard Network Security an eight out of ten because it's mostly complete and the support is a minor downside.
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