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Pros

Valuable Reporting and Analysis Tool: Users have found Checkpoint Smart Dashboard to be a valuable tool for reporting and analyzing activities in their infrastructure. It has helped them gain insights into their network security, enabling them to make informed decisions based on the data provided.

Easy-to-Use Management: Reviewers have praised Checkpoint for its easy-to-use management interface. The software's intuitive design and navigation make it simple for users to navigate and operate, saving time and effort in managing their network security.

Straightforward Installation and Upgrade Process: Many users have appreciated the straightforward installation and upgrade process of Checkpoint NGFW. They found it hassle-free, allowing them to quickly set up or update their firewall system without encountering any major issues.

CheckPoint Reviews

4 Reviews

CheckPoint for the World

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CheckPoint is the main NGFW of the infrastructure and it provides the scalability for the growth of the services. The management perfectly adapt the correct solutions for most of the network business problems. The log collector helps support to investigate and troubleshoot the problem finding a lot of useful information. Also used as reverse proxy, can forward packet between more than one webserver with correct policy associated.

Pros

  • NAT table
  • Log collector
  • Shared layers

Cons

  • VPN ipsec
  • VPN ssl
  • IPS functioning

Likelihood to Recommend

CheckPoint is well suited in the internal network space, behind application delivery controller or just at perimeter of the network infrastructure as Front End NAT firewall. It's also allow the segmentation of network with the public cloud using the VPC inherited for the policy. The scenario less appropriate result the configuration of the IPSEC and SSLvpn policy, too much complex in some case.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Engineering (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
CheckPoint
15 years of experience

Check with CheckPoint before its too late

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CheckPoint enables our organization and clients to address a broad range of complex cybersecurity challenges through advanced, integrated security capabilities.

Advanced Threat Protection:
Network Segmentation

Cloud Security:
Compliance:

Access Control Scope:
Pre-Sales:
Integration & Deployment
Monitoring Services. Even tough the cost is bit higher than palo alto but still provides a lot of good functionalities which can be taken into consideration for buying this firewall and even if this is working in a lot of finance institutions around the globe than but still it depends on you to go for it or not. Traffic is very impressive

Pros

  • Threat Prevention better than Fortinet
  • Granularity of security policy can be customized to the maximum
  • hardware performance is really good
  • Bugs are less as compared to other vendors
  • support is excellent
  • modules work as expected
  • Features can achieve out of box requirements

Cons

  • I think Guard cloud should have an improvement as Palo Alto prism has a more depth integration with container security
  • API management should be having more automation to make interaction with SOC
  • User interface should be more user friendly
  • Harmony should be as good as Palo Alto XDR which offers incident and analytical response
  • Cost should be evaluated for licensing modules
  • false positives may occur

Likelihood to Recommend

-enterprise companies prioritising threat prevention -companies prioritising compliance like Hipaa -companies having hybrid setup like onprem and cloud -companies require strong network segmentation. - I believe that this is best suited for all companies. Since this is run most of the finance companies then you could easily how stable is this -For smaller companies would be bit expensive but if they are already aware of their company is going to run for the long time then they should opt for this firewall to cater their issues at the early stage of their security compliance, the hierarchy of the product features are really amazing
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
CheckPoint
1 year of experience

CheckPoint is good bang for buck

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organisation uses CheckPoint as the secondary layer in our network security architecture, serving as the internal firewall. It operates as the intermediary between our external edge firewall and the internal network, providing an additional layer of protection for applications, systems, and websites. This setup ensures that all inbound and outbound traffic passing through the perimeter is subject to further inspection and policy enforcement before reaching internal resources. By doing so, CheckPoint helps to strengthen our overall cybersecurity posture, prevent unauthorised access, and maintain greater control over internal communications and data flow within the organisation.

Pros

  • Rules
  • Gui
  • Updates and patches
  • Communication from Sales Team

Cons

  • Management console can be complex
  • Reporting Logs hard to manage
  • Integration with Cloud apps

Likelihood to Recommend

CheckPoint performs well as an internal firewall between network zones, providing policy control and deep inspection of internal traffic. It works well for a multi network setup like ours across multiple sites. It is however not a fast changing interface and time needs to be taken to perform changes. It's not a quick as other vendors.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
CheckPoint
6 years of experience

CheckPoint Endpoint Security

Rating: 1 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CheckPoint as an endpoint anti-malware suite. We like its reliability for protecting workstations and servers from all the bad stuff, the only complaint I have with CheckPoint is that the cloud portal user interface is very confusing and not user friendly, even to a veteran system administrator. The cloud portal does display an immense amount of useful information but the navigation and organization of that info is disjointed and doesn't follow normal modern UX design.

Pros

  • Scans local endpoints for malware fairly quickly
  • Can be installed by InTune
  • Technical Support Managers will close support cases for invalid reasons
  • Sales representatives think its OK for support to ghost paying customers

Cons

  • In my experience, notifications are completely broken and non-functional
  • In my opinion, confusing UX for the cloud portal
  • Don't try and import 100's of endpoints when onboarding because it will create a mess
  • When installing the CP client you have to remove Microsoft Defender and if that fails, CheckPoint technical support goes, "Not my problem, sucks to be you!"

Likelihood to Recommend

If the org has more than a couple of hundred endpoints, I would recommend help from pro services otherwise the UX is going to cause confusion. Its almost as if a new customer would need hand holding because the UX is so .... unconventional. CheckPoint technical support does not have the manpower to meet the needs of paying customers.
DF
Darren Freedman
System Administrator in Information Technology at Horizon Distributors Ltd (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
CheckPoint
2 years of experience