We compared Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Cisco Secure Workload based on our users' reviews in six categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is commended for its easy and direct initial setup, valuable features including VPN and IPS blades, and solid security and value. On the other hand, Cisco Secure Workload has a moderate initial setup, user-friendly interface, and robust technical assistance. In general, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security may have an edge in terms of ease of setup and valuable features, while Cisco Secure Workload may excel in user-friendliness and technical support.
"The tool's most valuable features are inspecting internet traffic and IPS. We can manage the firewall using shared policies from a single management server."
"Identity awareness, URL filtering, IDS, DLP, Content Filtering, VPN, and Application Control are all excellent."
"Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good."
"SSL/TLS traffic inspection features are used for advanced threat prevention against secure SSL traffic."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"Its blades and VSLS (Virtual System Load Sharing) work fine."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"This solution brings us closer to having a better security score, which helps us a lot in complying with information regulations based on security."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don't have to do packet captures on the network."
"Scalability is its most valuable feature."
"Generally speaking, Cisco support is considered one of the best in the networking products and stack."
"Secure Workload's best feature is that it's an end-to-end offering from Cisco."
"It's stable."
"The product offers great visibility into the network so we can enforce security measures."
"A complete and powerful micro-segmentation solution."
"The product provides multiple-device integration."
"There is room for improvement in the integration with PaaS services from the public cloud. It would be very helpful."
"The memory and hard disk capability could be strengthened."
"People don't know about the tool's features. There's a lack of skill. Users require more knowledge on how to integrate it into the cloud environment and orchestrate routing. So, it's not necessarily a CloudGuard Network Security or Check Point issue but more about integration, knowledge, and understanding."
"As an administrator, I can say that among all of the Check Point products I have been working with so far, the Virtual Systems solution is one of the most difficult."
"The product needs to offer multi-tenancy."
"Having a web UI in the VSX (or something similar) would be nice."
"It is somewhat problematic in the area of the cloud."
"The product needs to improve technical support."
"The emailed notifications are either hard to find or they are not available. Search capabilities can be improved."
"The product must be integrated with the cloud."
"The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring."
"The integration could be better, especially with different types of solutions."
"Secure Workload is a little complicated to use, and the dashboard isn't intuitive, so it takes a while to learn how to use it."
"There is some overlap between Cisco Tetration and AppDynamics and I need to have a single pane of glass, rather than have to jump between different tools."
"They should scale down the hardware a bit. The initial hardware investment is two million dollars so it's a price point problem. The issue with the price comes from the fact that you have to have it with enormous storage and enormous computes."
"It is not so easy to use and configure. It needs a bunch of further resources to work, which is mainly the biggest downside of it. The deployment is huge."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 121 reviews while Cisco Secure Workload is ranked 9th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 13 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Cisco Secure Workload is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Workload writes "A solution that provides good technical support but its high cost makes it challenging for users to adopt it". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with VMware NSX, Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, whereas Cisco Secure Workload is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Illumio, VMware NSX, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco ACI. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Cisco Secure Workload report.
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