The tool's most valuable features are inspecting internet traffic and IPS. We can manage the firewall using shared policies from a single management server.
CloudGuard Network Security All-In-One
Check Point Software Technologies | R81.20-634.1849Linux/Unix, Other Gaia 3.10 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Helps to inspect internet traffic
What is most valuable?
What needs improvement?
The challenge mainly revolves around the slower functionality of virtual IP switching in Azure Virtual Network compared to on-premise solutions. On-premise, switching between clusters is faster, taking only a few seconds, while in Azure, it can extend up to five minutes. The downtime is a concern for us.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
CloudGuard Network Security's stability is good.
How are customer service and support?
Overall, my experience with Check Point support has been positive. There were instances where basic questions were asked, even though I had already provided the information in the ticket. One ticket took two years to resolve.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The tool's deployment is more complicated than an on-prem setup. Setting up and managing CloudGuard Network Security in Azure presents some challenges. There are complexities in handling downtime in on-premise and cloud firewalls. Additionally, difficulties arise in deploying a new cluster for an upgrade, as the in-place upgrade might not function as expected.
The process of exchanging virtual machines in Check Point is currently complex. You cannot simply deploy a new machine and use it; instead, you need to navigate through several steps. This involves associating the new machine with a network group, entering various details, and sometimes providing the entire path to locate the object in the cloud.
What other advice do I have?
The tool is working well so far for normal use cases. I rate it an eight out of ten.
Helps to secure the Azure environment
What is our primary use case?
I use the product to secure the Azure environment.
What is most valuable?
The tool's most valuable features are firewalls and IPS.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement, especially concerning the integration with the management center. It would be beneficial if tasks that currently require scripts could be performed directly from the GUI.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We faced issues with scalability.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's support is good but can be improved.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product is too expensive.
What other advice do I have?
We have moved our security level from on-prem to the cloud. The security posture is consistent. We can use the same storage system, monitoring system, and objects both on-prem and in the cloud.
I am quite confident with CloudGuard Network Security. The primary reason for choosing the product over other cloud firewall vendors was to maintain the same solution as on-premises. Additionally, it offered a good level of security functionalities.
I rate the overall product an eight out of ten. You should define your requirements before choosing the product.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Microsoft Azure
Offers flexible licensing options since every project requires different pricing
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case is for segmentation and next-generation protection.
What is most valuable?
Our clients choose CloudGuard as a natural progression of their solutions. They understand Microsoft and CloudGuard fits. They are vendor-oriented. They stick with Microsoft. They have a lot of experience with Check Point and this fits in.
Check Point Management is the best and Azure management is also very good. It's simple and has high security. There are no additional costs which is one of the advantages.
Compared to other solutions, CloudGuard is easier to use.
What needs improvement?
I don't see much need for improvement.
In Czech, we are a little behind the USA and Germany so we have matured in our mentality to move towards the cloud.
Check Point could show us use cases that would help us in Czech and could help us with security threats in our specific country.
The level of confidence our clients have in their cloud network security using CloudGuard Network Security depends. Some are very confident but some are worried about information being exploited. When compared to other vendors, CloudGuard is the best when it comes to threat protection.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been implementing CloudGuard for our clients for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It scales well for our clients' needs. We have deployed over 2,000 servers.
How are customer service and support?
Support is good for CloudGuard. It could depend on the support person who is helping us. Different regions offer different levels of support. Israel and US offer the best support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
It's easy for me to deploy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Every project needs different pricing. I believe that when we talk with the particular guys, we will find a price for the customer. They are flexible in terms of that because we need to be flexible, and we have many companies who are aggressive with discounts.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.
Comes with IPS and blade features
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The tool's most valuable features are IPS and blades. These features are valuable for security.
What needs improvement?
CloudGuard Network Security's pricing is expensive. We have encountered issues with its licensing.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
CloudGuard Network Security's stability is good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In terms of scalability in the cloud, manual deployment is straightforward. However, the challenge arises due to the pay-as-you-go model. The issue of buying licenses is not specific to the Check Point but is more related to our ordering process.
How are customer service and support?
The tool's support is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What about the implementation team?
Check Point helped us with the deployment.
What other advice do I have?
CloudGuard Network Security is an efficient solution. I rate it an eight out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Microsoft Azure
Helps with internet surfing and handles inter-sector traffic between VPCs
What is our primary use case?
We utilize CloudGuard Network Security for internet surfing and handle inter-sector traffic between VPCs. Specifically, we have over 200 accounts in AWS, each with its own VPC. The solution interconnects all the regions.
What is most valuable?
The tool's most valuable feature is its scalability. You will only have to pay less for scaling up. Its notable benefit is deployment complexity. Regional deployment is simpler compared to on-premise setup.
What needs improvement?
When upgrading the firewall, the old VPC containing the firewalls needs to be destroyed. After that, a new firewall is redeployed in the setup. Additionally, there's a need to separate the routing, and the routing from the old VPC has to be recreated in the new one.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We had issues with stability. We have an open ticket at the support regarding this.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
CloudGuard Network Security is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The tool's support is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
CloudGuard Network Security is not too cheap.
What other advice do I have?
I don't see any difference in user experience between on-prem and the cloud setup. We have an MDS environment where we can manage the whole country. The tool enables us to manage policies on the same platform for branches and regions in the country. I rate the product an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Comes with analytic reports but needs improvement in support
What is our primary use case?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security helps to ensure the security and protection of IT systems. We have many API integrations and want to ensure its protection.
What is most valuable?
The product gives analytic reports.
What needs improvement?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security should give productive reports as per business requirements. It needs to improve support since the time-limit extended beyond a day. It should include more seamless API integrations.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product's stability is good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is very much scalable. My company has 1000 users.
How was the initial setup?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's deployment is easy and takes one day to complete. You need four resources to handle it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product's licensing costs are yearly.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the product an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Allows filtering of servers on AWS for Internet access and significantly reduced the risk of unauthorized access
What is our primary use case?
We use it to protect Internet access from our AWS environment.
How has it helped my organization?
Before we implemented CloudGuard, we had no filtering on what was accessed on the internet from our AWS environment.
Now, we can filter which websites users can access and block categories that are a risk. For example, we can block social media and gambling sites. This has helped to decrease the risk of access to malicious content on the internet.
What is most valuable?
It allows us to filter what the servers on AWS can access on the Internet and allows us to filter in terms of IPS, antivirus, and so on, for the contents that are accessed on the Internet.
What needs improvement?
The complexity to deploy should be decreased.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for about five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution. It has been pretty stable for us. We haven't faced any problems since it rolled out.
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We have around 200 end users using this solution in our company.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support from the vendor take a lot of time.
The first line of support is not very good. They usually start with junior engineers when you open a case, which can be time-consuming.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is easy and ten is difficult to setup.
What about the implementation team?
For the deployment, we work with the vendor. So, the deployment took two weeks.
We need to provision the firewall, deploy the manager, and understand where the firewall needs to connect, which AWS area, and so on.
We just needed more than two people for the deployment. We worked with the security network security architect and called them engineers.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
With ten being very expensive, I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten.
It is expensive.
What other advice do I have?
It's worth it in the sense that it can protect your network, and it's very scalable.
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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.
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
Versatile with a good interface and fair pricing
What is our primary use case?
My clients were different small businesses, and they were migrating to the cloud. We've been using it as a general cloud security tool.
How has it helped my organization?
The interface in terms of being able to have access for myself and the client so that we can easily observe and watch what is going on, has really improved the organization.
We have seen time to value with this solution. We will continue to use more Check Point solutions in the future.
What is most valuable?
The versatility is the solution's most valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
There are some usability issues we'd like to see improved.
We're going to be switching to XDR and would like integration with XDR.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for only about a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is good. I'd rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I'd rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
The support is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not previously use a different solution.
How was the initial setup?
I'm involved with the integration and was involved in the setup of specific areas.
The initial setup was alright. I wasn't the architect of the whole thing. In my area, the implementation seemed to be pretty straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
We did not use an integrator, reseller, or consultant for the deployment.
What was our ROI?
We do not yet have enough of a baseline to calculate ROI.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is fair. It's the client who is paying for it, not me directly. However, they seem satisfied.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We previously evaluated a few other options.
What other advice do I have?
The usability is moderate.
The product has helped us free up some time. It's a complicated situation, however.
I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten.
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