Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management vs FireMon | TrustRadius

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Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 9 reviews and ratings

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 97 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is rated higher in 2 areas: Usability, Support Rating
FireMon is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

8.0

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management

80%

5 Ratings

8.6

FireMon

86%

59 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management

N/A

0 Ratings

8.4

FireMon

84%

4 Ratings

Usability

8.0

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management

80%

1 Rating

7.3

FireMon

73%

3 Ratings

Support Rating

8.2

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management

82%

8 Ratings

7.7

FireMon

77%

34 Ratings

Implementation Rating

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management

N/A

0 Ratings

9.1

FireMon

91%

2 Ratings

Product Scalability

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

FireMon

81%

38 Ratings

Pros

Integration with public cloud providers.
Rich UI with great dashboards.
Great assets inventory.
Clarity module.

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DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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PCI Reporting - After identifying which firewalls and rulesets are in scope, producing a report artifact to satisfy PCI requirements on Firewall reviews is literally a two-click operation.
Storing Rule Metadata - FireMon stores metadata (prefilled fields, standard fields, and custom fields) for each rule in each policy which is valuable for context during firewall reviews in particular
API - FireMon exposes most if not all of its functionality via REST API

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Engineer in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

There is not a comprehensive amount of documentation on how to set up best practices.
Our initial set up assistance from Proofpoint approved vendor did not go smoothly.
The ability to add more customized widgets in the main overview screen would be helpful.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Some features could be added to the existing functionality which include NAT rules usage
Rule expiration normalization from firewalls rather than entering them in rule documentation
.csv exports of the files from the firewall pane only gives usage for 30 days by default and that should be increased

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Starting Price

—

Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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FireMon 8.4

Based on 4 answers

I would give a 10 but if for some crazy reason Firemon does not add support for Firepower (without using FMC) before renewal then we'd have a major problem but I have absolute confidence this will not be an issue

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Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Is easy to use, and the standad configuration is well prepared.

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Professional in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 1001-5000 employees

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FireMon 7.3

Based on 3 answers

It save me time and I'm able to have the review - review the rule independently with using my time.

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Network System Administrator

Univ of MDHigher Education, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management 8.2

Based on 8 answers

I haven't dealt so much with support but we are enjoying the tool!

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Professional in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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FireMon 7.7

Based on 34 answers

FireMon technical support is awesome! They respond quickly to our requests and they are well trained and very knowledgeable about the tool. Some issues have to be referred to the development team, but technical support largely provides solutions for any issues that we may have.

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Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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FireMon 9.1

Based on 2 answers

Implementation is fairly simple. Most issues can be resolved by referencing manuals.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

First and foremost reason of our client selecting CheckPoint CloudGuard Posture Management / Dome9 was because they already had CheckPoint Firewalls which are in active use e.g. R75.40 and R82.x products. Customization Vs these other Vendors is another great assetReporting is one more standout feature, + Multi-cloud capabilities Centralized dashboarding is smooth to navigate as compared to other VendorsSyslog handling is much better as compared to some other vendors , Memory and space issues if planned well are less

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Senior Solution Advisor

Deloitte India (Offices of the US)Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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I has worked with AlgoSec and while they are very similar product, I find the FireMon is easier to understand and get rolling with. While both require some learning, FireMon is by far the easier one. Once you have an understanding of how things are arranged and labeled you can easily import firewalls and begin to work on them to improve them

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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FireMon 8.1

Based on 38 answers

Firemon Is easily scalable and maintainable with any size team. Although it requires some tech debt, it is well worth the time to invest to ensure compliance is visible and reports are accurate. Although our environment is very large we do not fully utilize the scalability of the Firemon product.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

For production environments it is worth the investment.
Getting to know how many assets you have helps with cost savings.

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DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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The use of FireMon has eliminated the backlog in firewall policy changes, approval, and implementation.
FireMon has greatly increased the accuracy of changes, and reduced the risk of planned changes (3 incidents in over 27000 change tickets--most with multiple policy changes in each, is a stellar record)

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Cybersecurity/Firewall Analyst

DuPontChemicals, 10,001+ employees

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