We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management and Cloudflare based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Cloudflare offers Zero Trustability, load balancing, DDoS protection, SSL certificate protection, and a user-friendly GUI. On the other hand, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management provides complete 360 security, granular level reports, governance, and administration portal panel, and automated compliance checks. Cloudflare needs to work on reporting, support response time, traffic routing, log collection, and automation. Meanwhile, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management could benefit from expanded reporting, better investigation of security events, reduced price, and additional features for vulnerability assessments and integration.
Service and Support: Cloudflare and Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management both have mixed reviews regarding their customer service. Some customers have praised Cloudflare's knowledge and responsiveness, while others have criticized their response times and limited support for lower-tier plans. Similarly, some customers have had positive experiences with Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management meeting service-level agreements, while others have reported delays and the need for improvement in technical support.
Ease of Deployment: Cloudflare's setup is generally straightforward and easy to manage, while Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management may require professional deployment. However, once both solutions are set up, they are considered easy to maintain.
Pricing: Cloudflare is generally seen as expensive, but offers unlimited bandwidth, while Check Point has mixed reviews for pricing and licensing. Check Point has an affordable and easy setup cost, while Cloudflare is considered cost-effective overall.
ROI: Cloudflare is a cost-efficient option for safeguarding websites and avoiding disruptions, resulting in significant savings. On the other hand, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management delivers an excellent ROI growth rate and compliance solutions.
"Helps identify and correct misconfigurations in cloud environments, ensuring that infrastructure and applications are secure and optimized."
"The rulesets and the findings are valuable. The actual core functionality of it and the efficacy of events are great."
"Auto remediation is a very effective feature that helps ensure less manual intervention."
"It offers advanced detection of threats that can harm data from the cloud database."
"The ability to drill down to individual hosts on an account and see which ones are affected is valuable."
"Visibility is a key feature. It helps me to validate my overall network posture."
"The Compliance engine has helped put our auditors and senior executives at ease, as we can quickly and accurately measure ourselves against hundreds of compliance checks to include CIS benchmarks, PCI, and other best practices."
"On Dome9, you can have reports on compliance, users created, and EAM access to the cloud infrastructure. For example, if some machine is exposed to the Internet, importing and exporting to the Internet when it shouldn't, we get immediate alerts if someone does this type of configuration by mistake. Dome9 is very important because AWS doesn't protect us for this. It is the client's responsibility to make sure that we don't export things to the Internet. This solution helps us ensure that we comply with our security measures."
"We're using dynamic components to build flexible pages to create and manage Git merge requests for code and reviews."
"Cloudflare allows us to self-host services such as Rocket.Chat and Node-RED, in high-availability mode, thanks to round robin DNS which allows us to share one hostname between our two locations."
"What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering, so it's a valuable tool."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"The UI is good."
"The reporting has a lot of opportunities to continuously improve so that we can continue to show value."
"The security of Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management could improve. There are always new security issues coming out."
"The entire system is complicated, and the setup process may not cater to the company's demands."
"I would like to see improvements in the vulnerability assessments in terms of how the solution discovers vulnerabilities or compromised workloads. Also, customizable reports would be nice."
"We were demotivated by the lack of native automation modules for the Terraform and Ansible tools."
"Reporting should have more options."
"Check Point must provide a multi-cloud facility where AWS, Azure, and GCP can seamlessly work together and display posture in an integrated manner."
"The support it provides is not very good. They should improve it since we have had several setbacks due to support issues."
"The solution could work at being less expensive. It costs a lot to use it."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
"The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful."
"It should confirm audit findings of the assigned area with auditees to ensure that the audit conclusions are based on an accurate understanding of the issues."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"DNS Management."
"It would be beneficial for us if Cloudflare could offer a scrubbing solution. This would involve taking a snapshot of my website and keeping it live during a DDoS attack, ensuring uninterrupted service for our users. DDoS attacks are typically short in duration, and having Cloudflare maintain the site's availability from its secure network would enhance the overall user experience. I would appreciate it if Cloudflare could consider implementing this feature. Many organizations already utilize similar capabilities in their CDN platforms, where a static snapshot of the web page is displayed during DDoS attacks. In terms of features, Cloudflare needs to enhance its resilience and stay more focused on adopting new technologies. For instance, solutions like F5 XC Box, Access Solution, and Distributed Cloud Solution have impressive features, and Cloudflare should strive to match and exceed those capabilities. There's a need for improvement in areas like AI-based DDoS attacks and Layer 7 WAF features. Cloudflare should prioritize enhancements in areas such as behavioral DDoS and protection against SQL injection attacks, considering the prevalent trend of public exposure to the internet for business reasons. Overall, Cloudflare needs to invest more in advancing its feature set."
"For the free and Pro plans, Cloudflare could use a simple bot to provide information to users. This would improve support, especially for less advanced users who utilize the free components."
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 4th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 64 reviews while Cloudflare is ranked 13th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 57 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.6, while Cloudflare is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP writes "Threat intel integration provides us visibility in case any workload is communicating with suspicious or blacklisted IPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, AWS GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Qualys VMDR, whereas Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. See our Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs. Cloudflare report.
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