CloudGuard WAF
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Check Point CloudGuard WAF: AI-Powered Protection for Web and API Workloads
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Check Point CloudGuard WAF is its contextual AI-driven threat prevention, which delivers precise, signature-free protection against zero-day attacks and OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities—while seamlessly integrating into CI/CD pipelines for automated, cloud-native security.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about Check Point CloudGuard WAF is its steep learning curve, limited documentation, and high cost—factors that can slow down adoption, complicate integration with custom applications, and restrict accessibility for smaller teams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard WAF solves the critical challenge of protecting web applications and APIs from zero-day threats, OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, and malicious bot traffic by using contextual AI and machine learning—benefiting me by enabling precise, signature-free threat prevention, reducing manual tuning, and ensuring secure, compliant cloud operations across dynamic environments.
Check Point CloudGuard WAF: Essential Shield for Web Applications
What do you like best about the product?
1. Offers robust protection against a wide range of web application attacks, including SQL injection and cross-site scripting
2. Simplifies the setup process with user-friendly interfaces and quick configuration options
3. Provide real-time visibility into web traffic and security incidents, enabling proactive threat detection
2. Simplifies the setup process with user-friendly interfaces and quick configuration options
3. Provide real-time visibility into web traffic and security incidents, enabling proactive threat detection
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Higher cost for a small business organization
2. Users might encounter false positives that can disrupt legitimate traffic
3. The extensive features may lead to a steep learning curve for new users, impacting initial adoption
2. Users might encounter false positives that can disrupt legitimate traffic
3. The extensive features may lead to a steep learning curve for new users, impacting initial adoption
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard WAF addresses several critical problems:
1. Protect against a variety of common threats
2. Helps safeguard sensitive data transmitted over web applications, reducing the risk of data breaches
3. Provides detailed insights into web traffic and security incidents
1. Protect against a variety of common threats
2. Helps safeguard sensitive data transmitted over web applications, reducing the risk of data breaches
3. Provides detailed insights into web traffic and security incidents
An interesting proposition in a sea of competitor
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is easy to understand. When I compare to the competition with overly complex menu and nested option. It’s a bref of fresh air. It’s also cohesive with the rest of checkpoint’s offering
What do you dislike about the product?
With more comprehensive approach I feel that’s it’s missing a few features. Such as a zero trust feature for clients which the competitors offers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Peace of mind for any Saas product I have in the cloud and my azure subscription
Development cycle has streamlined with enhanced collaboration and automation while cost estimation remains challenging
What is our primary use case?
We mainly use Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines for our applications, as well as project management and tracking bugs.
What is most valuable?
It has definitely streamlined our development cycle. The integration with other Microsoft products, especially Visual Studio, is seamless. The automation capabilities have saved us a lot of time and reduced manual errors. We are also using the Boards feature to manage sprints and track progress, which has improved team collaboration significantly.
What needs improvement?
The pricing can be a bit complex to understand initially. It can be challenging to estimate costs, especially when scaling our usage. Also, while the documentation is comprehensive, it can be difficult to navigate at times.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing can be a bit complex to understand initially. It can be challenging to estimate costs, especially when scaling our usage.
What other advice do I have?
Azure DevOps is a comprehensive platform that streamlines our development workflow and enhances team collaboration, though the pricing structure could be simplified.
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?
Other
AI-Powered Protection WAF for Web and API
What do you like best about the product?
CheckPoint Cloud Guard is an intuitive feature packed firewall providing our clients with the best web protection in this dynamic technological sector.
I like that is Ai powered, has feature rich management Web UI which is easy to navigate.
I like that is Ai powered, has feature rich management Web UI which is easy to navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial setup is a bit complex but once done all is good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Looking at protection against web app attacks.
Achieved improved security compliance with comprehensive visibility across cloud environments
What is our primary use case?
We have over ten root domains that we need to protect through the firewall. All our hosts are in EC2 instances, and it is challenging to protect them by using any AWS load balancer or shields. Therefore, we have implemented Check Point CloudGuard WAF as a solution to protect all these domains from the open internet. It supports all environments, including on-premises, Azure, AWS, and we have also implemented it for CDN URLs as well.
How has it helped my organization?
It has improved the overall security posture of our organization. Earlier, our security score was around eight to nine, which increased after implementing Check Point CloudGuard WAF. We have achieved NIST compliance, and now ninety-five percent of the environment compliance level is equal to ninety-five percent.
What is most valuable?
The support of the root domain is one of the best features, as is the support for the CDN and advanced load balancer. These are key features that differentiate Check Point CloudGuard WAF from other vendors. Additionally, rate limiting is another significant feature of the WAF.
What needs improvement?
The UI interface needs improvement because there are a number of bugs. Integration with the SIEM platform is currently one of the key challenges that need to be addressed.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Check Point CloudGuard WAF for the last six months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I think Check Point CloudGuard WAF is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a SaaS-based model, and we have not encountered any scalability issues. They have sufficient resources, and there are no challenges from a scalability perspective.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is good. They have skilled personnel to provide support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not use a different solution prior to this.
What was our ROI?
The return on investment is reflected in the improvement of the overall security posture. While it does not have a direct monetary impact, it enhances security with an improved NIST compliance score and better overall security scores for our organization.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing and setup costs are fine. It is less costly than Cloudflare, Fortinet, and other vendors. Additionally, it is less costly than the OEM.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated Cloudflare and Fortinet.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others to use and implement Check Point CloudGuard WAF as a solution in the firewall segment. Check Point has been in this segment for two decades and is more stable than other firewall vendors. I recommend using it and implementing all the features it offers. Overall, it's a good solution, and it fulfills all our core purposes, providing complete visibility and security. That's why I rate it ten 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?
Other
unified gateway level security solution for All Web, API application.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to integrate, support of all use case like root domain mapping, auto discover of API endpoints, Rate limiting of web traffic, customization based on integrated assets. easy to Integrate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Quick Support is a only pain for checkpoint
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protection of all incoming web traffic, DDoS Attack, securing over exposed API.
Reliable Threat Prevention for Web Apps and APIs
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how easy it is to deploy in the cloud and how it just works with AWS and Azure. It blocks threats before they get near our apps, and the real-time alerts are super helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
While CloudGuard WAF is effective, the initial configuration and policy tuning can be complex, especially in environments with custom applications. The user interface could also be more intuitive when managing large rule sets or viewing logs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
"Check Point CloudGuard WAF helps us secure our web applications and APIs against common and advanced threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and bot attacks. It addresses the challenge of protecting dynamic, cloud-native workloads by integrating directly with AWS and Azure. The benefit is real-time protection with automated scaling and consistent policy enforcement across our cloud environments, significantly reducing the risk of breaches and downtime.
CloudGuard WAF Delivers Peace of Mind and Similipfied
What do you like best about the product?
1 ) Accurate threat detection with minimal false positives
2) Prevention First approach
3) Reduces operation overhead
4) Good detection technology
5) Minimal false positive
6) Onboarding is easier
7) Best feature is its comprehensive API security and automated API discovery
2) Prevention First approach
3) Reduces operation overhead
4) Good detection technology
5) Minimal false positive
6) Onboarding is easier
7) Best feature is its comprehensive API security and automated API discovery
What do you dislike about the product?
1) Initial onboarding is tedious
2) Documentations needs further improvement
3) Drastic improvements needs in support
4) Need further improvement in antibot
2) Documentations needs further improvement
3) Drastic improvements needs in support
4) Need further improvement in antibot
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Zero-day threats, API risks, operational complexity—with AI-driven automation, precise threat prevention, and seamless cloud integration. This resulted in stronger security postures, lower operational costs, and scalable protection.
Protecting your brand with Check Point CloudGuard
What do you like best about the product?
The automation of rules and the visibility of logs by category
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup was a bit complicated having an AWS behind it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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