We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management and Lacework based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is known for its extensive data protection, incident identification, and detailed reporting. It includes IAM role control and compliance features. Lacework is highly regarded for its machine-learning anomaly detection and agent-based vulnerability management. It offers compliance reports and continuous monitoring. Check Point could enhance reporting options, vulnerability assessments, and integration with other tools. Lacework requires improvement in visibility and compliance-related metrics.
Service and Support: Some Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management customers expressed satisfaction, but others found technical support lacking at times. Lacework's support has garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews. Customers appreciate their promptness and proactive approach.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is fast and straightforward, whereas Lacework's setup may take a few weeks to complete.
Pricing: Some users say Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is reasonably priced and seamless to integrate with the public cloud. Others view it as costly. Lacework has a fixed annual fee and no extra charges. Users have generally had a positive and fair experience with Lacework's pricing and licensing.
ROI: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has been praised for its ability to help with compliance programs. Lacework has been commended for its positive ROI achieved through reducing monitoring efforts and automating ticket generation.
Comparison Results: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is preferred over Lacework. Users appreciate its comprehensive data security and protection. CloudGuard offers a complete 360 view of customers' entire cloud infrastructure. It is commended for its granular reporting, ruleset customization, IAM role control, and embedded machine learning for real-time attack prevention. The intuitive dashboard, powerful reporting, and ability to enhance security are also highly praised. Users say Lacework needs improvements in visibility, compliance metrics, and integration with other systems.
"We use the infrastructure as code scanning, which is good."
"It's positively affected the communication between cloud security, application developers, and AppSec teams."
"The visibility is the best part of the solution."
"We mostly use alerts. That has been pretty good. If we use the alert system from Amazon, it is much costlier to us, so we use PingSafe."
"PingSafe has a dashboard that can detect the criticality of a particular problem, whether it falls under critical, medium, or low vulnerability."
"We like the platform and its response time. We also like that its console is user-friendly as well as modern and sleek."
"All the features we use are equal and get the job done."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its storyline, which helps trace an event back to its source, like an email or someone clicking on a link."
"Helps identify and correct misconfigurations in cloud environments, ensuring that infrastructure and applications are secure and optimized."
"I can take proactive actions based on an alert without having to interact with the platform directly."
"The most valuable features of CloudGuard CNAPP are its reporting capabilities for aggregating vulnerability information and scoring."
"It is easy to administer and easy to deploy. It has automated or pre-configured templates, security features, and proactive threat detection."
"It offers security insights and recommendations to assist organizations in acting and remediating issues swiftly."
"It saves time because I can look across the organization. Instead of checking 50 different accounts atomically and spending 15 minutes investigating each, I can spend 15 minutes exploring all 50 accounts. It allows me to quickly look across the org for similar problems when one comes up. That's a huge time saver."
"The new scanning function is a valuable feature that wasn't available until recently."
"We like the ability to investigate, analyze, and generate reports."
"Polygraph compliance is a valuable feature. In our perspective, it delivers significant benefits. The clarity it offers, along with the ability to identify and address misconfigurations, is invaluable. When such issues arise, we promptly acknowledge and take action, effectively collaborating with our teams and the responsible parties for those assets. This enables us to promptly manage problems as soon as they arise."
"The compliance reports are definitely most valuable because they save time and are accurate. So, instead of relying on a human going through and checking or providing me with a report, I could just log into Lacework and see for myself."
"For the most part, out-of-the-box, it tells you right away about the things you need to work on. I like the fact that it prioritizes alerts based on severity, so that you can focus your efforts on anything that would be critical/high first, moderate second, and work your way down, trying to continue to improve your security posture."
"There are many valuable features that I use in my daily work. The first are alerts and the event dossier that it generates, based on the severity. That is very insightful and helps me to have a security cap in our infrastructure. The second thing I like is the agent-based vulnerability management, which is the most accurate information."
"Lacework is helping a lot in reducing the noise of the alerts. Usually, whenever you have a tool in place, you have a lot of noise in terms of alerts, but the time for an engineer to look into those alerts is limited. Lacework is helping us to consolidate the information that we are getting from the agents and other sources. We are able to focus only on the things that matter, which is the most valuable thing for us. It saves time, and for investigations, we have the right context to take action."
"The best feature, in my opinion, is the ease of use."
"The most valuable aspects are identifying vulnerabilities—things that are out there that we aren't aware of—as well as finding what path of access attackers could use, and being able to see open SSL or S3 buckets and the like."
"The most valuable feature is Lacework's ability to distill all the security and audit logs. I recommend it to my customers. Normally, when I consult for other customers that are getting into the cloud, we use native security tools. It's more of a rule-based engine."
"It would be really helpful if the solution improves its agent deployment process."
"The reporting works well, but sometimes the severity classifications are inaccurate. Sometimes, it flags an issue as high-impact, but it should be a lower severity."
"I export CSV. I cannot export graphs. Restricting it to the CSV format has its own disadvantages. These are all machine IP addresses and information. I cannot change it to the JSON format. The export functionality can be improved."
"They can work on policies based on different compliance standards."
"We are getting reports only in a predefined form. I would like to have customized reports so that I can see how many issues are open or closed today or in two weeks."
"After closing an alert in Cloud Native Security, it still shows as unresolved."
"It took us a while to configure the software to work well in this type of environment, as the support documents were not always clear."
"We wanted it to provide us with something like Claroty Hub in AWS for lateral movement. For example, if an EC2 instance or a virtual machine is compromised in a public subnet based on a particular vulnerability, such as Log4j, we want it to not be able to reach some of our databases. This kind of feature is not supported in PingSafe."
"The rules are not well-tuned, and many of them generate false positives or nonsensical results."
"You do need to pay extra in order to get better support."
"There are opportunities for improvement that can be addressed through a roadmap."
"I would like to see tighter integration with other compliance tools, like Chef Compliance, in addition to Inspector."
"The product must provide different features like antivirus."
"The support it provides is not very good. They should improve it since we have had several setbacks due to support issues."
"We have had some issues with the performance. In some cases, the performance of CloudGuard CNAPP is impacted. Particularly during the intensive security scans in high-traffic environments, there has been a performance impact."
"The integration process could be enhanced by enabling integration at the organizational level rather than requiring the manual setup of individual accounts."
"The configuration and setup of alerts should be easier. They should make it easier to integrate with systems like Slack and Datadog. I didn't spend too much time on it, but to me, it wasn't as simple as the alerting that I've seen on other systems."
"Lacework lacks remediation features, but I believe they're working on that. They're focused on the reporting aspect, but other features need to improve. They're also adding some compliance features, so it's not worth saying they need to get better at it."
"A feature that I have requested from them is the ability to sort alerts and policies based on a security framework. Right now, when you go into alerts, you have hundreds and hundreds of them that you have to manually pick. It would be useful to have categories for CIS Benchmark or SOC 2 and be able to display all the alerts and policies for one security framework."
"Visibility is lacking, and both compliance-related metrics and IAM security control could be improved."
"Its integrations with third-party SIEMs can be better. That is one of the things that we discussed with them."
"The biggest thing I would like to see improved is for them to pursue and obtain a FedRAMP moderate authorization... I don't believe they have any immediate plans to get FedRAMP moderate authorized, which is a bit of a challenge for us because we can only use Lacework in our commercial environment."
"There are a couple of the difficulties we encounter in the realm of cybersecurity, or security as a whole, that relate to potentially limited clarity. Having the capacity to perceive the configuration aspect and having the ability to contribute to it holds substantial advantages, in my view. It ranks high, primarily due to its role in guaranteeing compliance and the potential to uncover vulnerabilities, which could infiltrate the system and introduce potential risks. I had been exploring a specific feature that captured my interest. However, just yesterday, I participated in a product update session that announced the imminent arrival of this feature. The feature involves real-time alerting. This was something I had been anticipating, and it seems that this capability is now being integrated, possibly as part of threat intelligence. While anomaly events consistently and promptly appear in the console, certain alerts tend to experience delays before being displayed. Yet, with the recent product update, this issue is expected to be resolved. Currently, a comprehensive view of all policies is available within the console. However, I want a more tailored display of my compliance posture, focusing specifically on policies relevant to me. For instance, if I'm not subject to HIPAA regulations, I'd prefer not to see the HIPAA compliance details. It's worth noting that even with this request, there exists a filtering mechanism to control the type of compliance information visible. This flexibility provides a workaround to my preference, which is why it's challenging for me to definitively state my exact request."
"Lacework has not reduced the number of alerts we get. We've actually had to add resources as a result of using it because the application requires a lot of people to understand it to get the value out of it properly."
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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 6th in Vulnerability Management with 64 reviews while Lacework is ranked 10th in Vulnerability Management with 9 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.6, while Lacework is rated 8.8. 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 Lacework writes "Makes us aware of vulnerabilities and provides a lot of data but it's not easily understood at first look". 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 Lacework is most compared with Wiz, AWS GuardDuty, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Snyk and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. See our Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs. Lacework report.
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