Item: CheckPoint
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with CheckPoint

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 and Cons

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

Return on Investment

Smart console with lower operational overhead
Compliance with Hipaa, PCISSS and saving on compliance plenties
Less compatibility issues
licensing model is costlier at the beginning
Some modules require special training
False positives may occur

Usability

-Good API support but not as good as Palo Alto’s user friendly and fortinet automation tools -Policy enforcement is very granular and good for complex environments -User interface is spectacular but bit hectic -Very good customizable dashboards but not something can be achieved out of the box, -Pricing is fine if the company is ready to achieve their compliance at the highest levels and stop being targeted by attackers, - Features can achieve some out of box requirements as well

Alternatives Considered

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, Fortinet FortiGate and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

-policy granularity of achieving the incoming traffic behaviour better than fortinet -best suited for enterprise companies then barracuda -stability is very long -compliance can be achieved according to industry standards and best practices according to security standards, - Moreover threat intelligence better than Palo Alto- Symmetric and asymmetric rout can be processed with ease, - Routing protocols works with ease especially OSPF

Key Insights

Do you think CheckPoint delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with CheckPoint's feature set?

Yes

Did CheckPoint live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of CheckPoint go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy CheckPoint again?

Yes

Other Software Used

F5 BIG-IP, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Barracuda Application Protection

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

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