We performed a comparison between Check Point IPS and Cisco NGIPS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Check Point IPS manages risk categories very well and accordingly helps us protect each of our devices in real-time."
"Its event analysis and centralization features are very important for any organization."
"It protects against specific known exploits but also, with SandBlast integration, it is able to protect against unknown or zero-day attacks at the perimeter level."
"We are able to define our own rules for detection."
"It is also worth noting that many IPS signature comes with detailed background about the vulnerability, and potentially how the vulnerability would affect the network security."
"The Check Point IPS module allows me granularity in creating rules."
"The autonomous threat prevention is very easy to use. The APIs and SmartConsole tool also work well."
"IPS signatures can be set quite granularly depending on your environment. You can filter on performance impact, severity, and confidence which makes sizing and adapting easier."
"We have found the IPS detection to be a very valuable feature of this solution. It is easy to use to stop policy violations."
"I like Firepower's automation, and the security intelligence is a powerful feature."
"Ir's signature-based. We are also using the anomaly baseline formation, where it links the network, then anything that goes away from the norm is also flagged. Those are the two most valuable features."
"We use the solution for cybersecurity purposes. The tool helps us to identify anomalies that come from internal or external networks."
"The integration with the Cisco portfolio is very helpful."
"The most valuable features are the intrusion detection ones."
"Cisco NGIPS is working well overall with our current needs."
"The solution is very powerful coupled with Firepower."
"The cost is high."
"It requires a lot of people to maintain the solution."
"I would like the product to provide us with intelligence to understand what we really have in our environment."
"The cost is a bit high but it is worth it."
"I am not aware of a preview channel or some repository to have a preview on upcoming signatures, however, this would be nice to have."
"We have a lot of false positives and the list of IPs are not up to date in terms of their location."
"The price has room for improvement."
"After the R80 release, there are almost all feature sets available under IPS Configuration. However, further to this, adding a direct vulnerability scan based on ports and protocol for every zone (LAN, DMZ, or Outside) will make Check Point very different compared to other vendors on the market."
"My opinion is that this solution should improve the pricing."
"Cisco NGIPS should work on its shortcomings related to the issues that stem from bugs and performance."
"I would like to see integration with monitoring tools such as Nagios or BMC."
"The price could be improved."
"More flexibility with the dashboards is needed because some of them are not fully developed."
"We would like an option to search through the logs to be added to this solution."
"Should include additional security features."
"What I don't like about Cisco recently is they keep changing the names, which makes it hard for customers and sometimes even us as engineers to know what is the solution they are speaking about. For example, with AMP, now they call it Secure Endpoint and I don't know if in the next couple of years they're going to change it to something else. They should keep the names the same."
Check Point IPS is ranked 3rd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 46 reviews while Cisco NGIPS is ranked 5th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 63 reviews. Check Point IPS is rated 8.6, while Cisco NGIPS is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point IPS writes "Great for detection and access with the capabilities of defining specific rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco NGIPS writes "Very effective for malware and signature-based anomalies but stability needs improvement". Check Point IPS is most compared with Darktrace, Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Fortinet FortiGate IPS, whereas Cisco NGIPS is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Cisco Sourcefire SNORT and Trellix Intrusion Prevention System. See our Check Point IPS vs. Cisco NGIPS report.
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