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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Check Point CloudGuard

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACheck Point CloudGuard is a comprehensive cloud security platform used to prevent threats and prioritize risks in the cloud across applications, network, and workloads.N/A

    GFI KerioControl

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AKerio Control is a next-gen firewall for SMBs, from Aurea SMB Solutions (formerly GFI Software).N/A
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    Check Point CloudGuardGFI KerioControl
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Check Point CloudGuardGFI KerioControl
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Check Point CloudGuardGFI KerioControl
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Check Point CloudGuard and GFI KerioControl
    Feature
    Check Point CloudGuard
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    Ratings
    GFI KerioControl
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Identification Technologies00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Visualization Tools00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Content Inspection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    VPN00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    High Availability00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Proxy Server00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Check Point CloudGuardGFI KerioControl
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Check Point CloudGuardGFI KerioControl
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Check Point Software Technologies
    Checkpoint Cloud Guard Native Security Platform is much better in native cloud infra security requirements. It works well, and the manageability of said product is good. But If you are having some hybrid kind of environment, it is not suitable, and the products have more complexity to deploy. There are so many other players to do well in this segment.
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    GFI Software
    IT works very well in the non-profit and small business space when there is a need for remote access or connecting several sites in a point to point VPN, user management and rule creation are very easy. The use of the MyKerio website for remote management also makes it easy to troubleshoot problems and make changes if technical staff are not onsite.
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    Pros
    Check Point Software Technologies
    • Advanced Threat protection via Check Point CloudGuard proven ThreatCloud intelligence feeds for malicious IP's is a nice feature.
    • We have not set up the cloud bots auto-remediation functionality yet, but from initial testing, it looks to be something worth utilizing.
    • Having reporting tie in's with our ServiceNow asset management platform is very handy.
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    GFI Software
    • VPN for Remote Employees
    • Point to point VPNs
    • Scanning of traffic
    • Ease of management
    • Website filtering by both sites and key words
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    Cons
    Check Point Software Technologies
    • Support Services - Support during implementation
    • Proof-of-concept - Needs to more detailed
    • Troubleshooting multi-cloud/ vendor issues
    • Should contain all the compliance standards - NIST, HIPPA, FedRAMP
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    GFI Software
    • Support can take longer to respond that it should
    • Could work better with resellers
    • Spend more effort on adding new features
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    Usability
    Check Point Software Technologies
    Is easy to use, and the standad configuration is well prepared.
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    GFI Software
    Very easy to use and manage, user training takes less then 10 minutes. Technicians can perform basic tasks with less then an hour of training and can master it in under a year.
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    Support Rating
    Check Point Software Technologies
    Checkpoint support is great. They provide great SLAs and they comply with service times accordingly.
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    GFI Software
    Support is very slow to respond and it takes a long time to convince level 1 techs that you need to be moved up to someone more senior. I believe support is outsourced and they are graded on how few tickets they need to escalate to higher tiers so they will try to figure out a solution even if it is detrimental to the overall support experience.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Check Point Software Technologies
    Most products have their pros and cons but Dome9 does everything Evident.io and Redlock can do and more. Evident was a good tool but merging the two products into one complicated things.
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    GFI Software
    We found Kerio Control to provide the most features and easiest management of all the solutions we looked at, while cost was not the lowest the value was by far the best when you considered all the factors, costs, and manhours involved in deployment and management.
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    Return on Investment
    Check Point Software Technologies
    • Significant $$$ cost savings as compared to other competitors in the market
    • Long term contracting also helped in cost savings and good ROI - 750k USD approx
    • Multi-vendor and Multi-cloud capabilities also helped us forecast the capex well
    • No need of any other IAM solution - Some cost savings in that area as well for us,
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    GFI Software
    • Easy to use makes it easy to train, reducing employee time and IT staff costs.
    • Statefull inspection and web filtering greatly reduce malware incursions.
    • Fact it can run on standard PC hardware greatly reduces cost to implement and makes scaling much less expensive.
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