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Check Point CloudGuard

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What is Check Point CloudGuard?

Check Point CloudGuard is a comprehensive cloud security platform used to prevent threats and prioritize risks in the cloud across applications, network, and workloads.

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Extremely well architecture, UI and feature set.

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Ankit Mistry
IT Software Consultant in Information Technology at Umedica Laboratories Pvt. Ltd (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have eliminated all threat-related parameters from the implementation of Check Point Cloud Guard Cloud Native Security Platform. We have been deployed our infrastructure in Microsoft Azure Cloud and worried about the security after the deployment of Check Point Cloud Guard; we have achieved all our security concerns with a Native solution.

Pros

  • Cloud Native integration.
  • Excellent and Clean UI.
  • Cloud Infra Security Management.

Cons

  • Deployment method.
  • Technical support.
  • Cloud-based manageability.

Most Important Features

  • Cloud Native integration.
  • Threat management.
  • Security and Protection.

Return on Investment

  • Negative - ROI.
  • Positive - Good product with UI.
  • Negative - Technical Support.

Alternatives Considered

FortiSOAR (formerly Cybersponse), Proofpoint Cloud Account Defense (PCAD) and McAfee Cloud Workload Security

Other Software Used

McAfee Cloud Workload Security, Proofpoint Cloud Account Defense (PCAD), Symantec Cloud Workload Protection

Cyber Security Guru - One stop shop for all our Security Solutions

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Vighnesh RegeView profile
Senior Solution Advisor in Information Technology at Deloitte India (Offices of the US) (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Automate Alert Management
  • Threat identification
  • Compliance and Security Posture checks
  • Detect misconfiguration
  • Centralized event management

Cons

  • 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

Most Important Features

  • Threat intelligence feature and its capabilities
  • Auto detection of alerts and even misconfigurations
  • Multi-cloud integration capabilities
  • Security posture management
  • Custom Dashboards and Reporting

Return on Investment

  • 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,

Alternatives Considered

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR and Tufin Orchestration Suite

Other Software Used

Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon, Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

Dome9, a great option to have an inventory of your public cloud assets and more

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Oscar Martinez
DevOps in Information Technology at Aval Digital Labs (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

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

Cons

  • Costs.
  • Add more supported assets.
  • SAML integration.

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Public Cloud (formerly Evident.io) and Symantec Cloud Workload Protection

Other Software Used

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Public Cloud (formerly Evident.io), Jenkins, GitHub

Check Point CloudGuard delivers a robust set of features if you can handle the cost

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Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

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.

Return on Investment

  • Having one single pane of glass dashboard helps cut downtime for one tech to assess the overall health of the cloud.
  • The cost was a little high, and the setup time was longer than expected to leverage the functionality we paid for fully.
  • Overall a good product so far

Alternatives Considered

Trend Micro Cloud App Security

Built for the cloud!

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Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Minimal false positives if configured properly.
  • End to end visibility in real-time.
  • Multi platform monitoring.

Cons

  • Compared to another widely used competitor, this meets all our requirement as of today.

Return on Investment

  • Helps with early detection which is key for any monitoring tool.
  • Notification integration with most enterprise ticketing systems, thus prompt remediation.

Alternatives Considered

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Public Cloud (formerly Evident.io)

Other Software Used

Cb Defense, Sophos Intercept X for Server, Vectra Cognito Platform, Qualys Cloud Platform (formerly Qualysguard), Cisco Umbrella, Nessus