Check Point CloudGuard Network Security Pros and Cons

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users value the advanced threat intelligence of Check Point CloudGuard, enhancing cloud security and compliance effectively. (36 mentions)

Users find Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to have an intuitive interface, simplifying implementation and data management. (23 mentions)

Users value the easy integration and real-time monitoring features of Check Point CloudGuard for enhanced security. (23 mentions)

Users appreciate the robust threat detection of Check Point CloudGuard, enhancing security across diverse cloud environments. (22 mentions)

Users commend the anomaly Threat Intelligence Engine for effectively detecting network traffic, enhancing cloud security significantly. (19 mentions)

Users note a lack of features in CloudGuard, particularly for managing HTTP/HTTPS traffic effectively. (11 mentions)

Users find CloudGuard lacking features for application load balancing, SSL management, and have concerns about log retention and costs. (9 mentions)

Users find the missing features in CloudGuard, such as limited log retention and lack of application load balancing, frustrating. (9 mentions)

Users find the expensive pricing and complexity a barrier to fully utilizing Check Point CloudGuard's features. (7 mentions)

Users find the cloud console difficult to monitor, with complex logs and limitations impacting usability and cost. (6 mentions)

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Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/12/2021

"Simplified Management"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

User friendly gui, logging mechanism and simplified management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

sometimes management console can crashes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manish K.

Network engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/15/2021

"CloudGuard IaaS CheckPoint"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

Protection against data theft and server protection in any cloud or container environment. CloudGuard IaaS provides best protection with options of multiple blades to enable and use in any cloud environment. Either it be autoscaling/ VMSS, single standby deployment or HA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

CheckPoint CloudGuard IaaS does not has CLI compatibility within cloud infra in terms of policy creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point CloudGuard Network Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using VPN services along with IDS/IPS solution and able to monitor and prevent internet usages among our end users.

By the use of App and URL filtering we are able to ingest policies as per users and groups limiting traffic.

With HA setup we are seamlessly able to protect our servers connectivity even in terms of AZ failover. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Minal M.

Sales Coordinator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/5/2021

"CheckPoint Public Cloud IaaS Security Firewall"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

CheckPoint CloudGuard offers various modes of deployments not only among Public Cloud but also in containers and kuberentes Solutions.

Either it be Single Standby deployment or HA deployment or Autoscaling mode deployments. Checkpoint offers all the modes with good suitable amount of features embedded in its software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

CheckPoint CloudGuard IaaS does not support Active active Deployment in HA in Public Cloud. This feature is only available in Appliance/ Console environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Industrial Automation

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/3/2021

"CloudGuard Network Security (IaaS)"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

This solution allows us to apply Check Point CloudGuard solution to private clouds! This brings the automation for compliance to our data centers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

Nothing for now, we'll see it in the future Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tanya B.

Sales

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/18/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"CheckPoint CloudGuard IaaS"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

CheckPoint CloudGuard IaaS protects multiple big organisation against zero-day attacks. With CloudGuard you can deploy any kind of setup either it be HA, Single Standalone or autoscaling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

Only one dislike being that CloudGuard IaaS does not support Active-Active- mode of deployment as for now in HA for any cloud environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kirtikumar P.

Senior Executive

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/1/2021

"Secure Our Cloud Infra with CloudGuard Network Security (IaaS)"

5/5

What do you like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

CloudGaurd Network Security provide industry best lastest threat protection and secure our cloud enviournment from bad actors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

Check Point CloudGurad Network security has no such dislike but checkpoint has to add some features such as WAF with this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Praveen K.

Co-Founder & Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/11/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"CloudGuard IaaS CheckPoint"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

Checkpoint CloudGuard IaaS is one of the products which is used widely across our organisation as well as deployed amongst various customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

Checkpoint CloudGuard IaaS is a good product as compared to other market OEMs but only one thing remains which is Active Active deployment in any cloud environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David M.

Cybersecurity Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/22/2020

"Homogeneous security in cloud as on-premise"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

The Cloud solution integrates in a homogeneous way with your current infrastructure and it's centrally managed within your current environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

Some functionalities are developed and offered a bit later compared with the similar physical systems (or not supported at all). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Check Point CloudGuard Network Security:

Advise to not generating too much configuration at native cloud provider tools as you're going to have to migrate such configurations to the IaaS solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point CloudGuard Network Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Essentially the efficiency and visibility cost of managing different security solutions that do not integrate very well. If you are already using other vendor's products its easy to start running this solution as the way of managing them it's practically the same between cloud and on-premise systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abraham M.

Network Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/9/2021

"Check Point CloudGaurd IaaS is Industry Best Solution"

5/5

What do you like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

CloudGaurd IaaS is very easy to deployment and easy to scalable as per envoiurnment to secure our cloud front. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

The Cost is huge as per us, but performance vise this is very good solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Check Point CloudGuard Network Security:

This is very best for cloud solution it is supporting all cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point CloudGuard Network Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Earlier we found some of our resources faced security breaches on Cloud but after implemented CLoud Gaurd IaaS, we are secure the resources. It is very good for Security compliance prospective as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajiv T.

Senior IT Security Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/28/2020

"Check Point Cloudguard Iaas is a life saver for companies requiring reliable protection and access"

5/5

What do you like best about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

The quick deployment and scalability and fully functional firewall available in the cloud. We were able to scale as required based on load and performance. With Covid-19 our users including our Customer Center agents are completely remote and use Check Point Cloudguard to even take calls so our customers are not affected in any way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security?

The documentation could be done better but this was in the initial stages when we deployed it but it has come a long way since Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Check Point CloudGuard Network Security:

It is a very easy install for a product that does so much. I would highly recommend it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point CloudGuard Network Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed reliable protection for our assets in the cloud as well as remote connectivity to our hosted application in other data centers while giving our users remote access to all of the above assets. We were doing this on premise with 3 clusters of firewalls where as with Cloudguard IaaS we are doing all of this and more with 1 cluster. this is a huge cost saving for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.