We compared VMware NSX and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security based on our users' reviews in six categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: VMware NSX's setup process is intricate and time-consuming, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is praised for its simplicity. VMware NSX boasts advanced features like virtual switches, micro-segmentation, distributed firewall, and integration with VMware Hypervisor. Conversely, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security receives accolades for its VPN Blade, IPS Blade, URL filtering, and Applications Control Blade. Both products are considered pricey, but Check Point CloudGuard Network Security offers good security and value. The ROI for VMware NSX is generally positive, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has demonstrated a valuable return on investment. Customer service and support for both have received mixed feedback.
"The solution's most valuable feature is scalability. We can increase the number of CPUs, memory, and firewall throughput easily. Using CloudGuard Network Security for managing cloud firewall rules is considered easier than using the normal security groups provided by Azure or AWS."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can start off with a simple firewall and expand it to UTM."
"The most valuable feature for us is the cluster support."
"Its integration and use of features, such as advanced threat prevention, have helped us a lot with malware prevention and also with avoiding exposure to false positives."
"We have complete visibility of attacks originating from email including spear-phishing, spoofing, etc."
"The number of options it gives for deployment or security is valuable. When it comes to security, it has a feature that is super awesome for zero-day-based attacks. Their IPS is also very capable. We tested other firewalls, and we understood that it is the best one in the market."
"The notifications, the visibility, and the deployment are the most valuable. It could be packaged in such a way that it took a lot of time and resources off our hands, so it was more efficient."
"Its centralized control, ease of use, and flexibility are the most valuable for our data center security."
"The product has valuable features for security and network extension."
"It provides a single pane of glass. You can do the switching, routing, load balancing, IPS, IDS, etc. Everything is under one umbrella. So, there is no vendor dependency over there."
"The interface is intuitive enough."
"Some of the key features I find most valuable are the highly graphical user interface, virtualization of networks, and Microsoft application compatibility. It has all the functionality that we require."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the ability to set up virtual networking environments."
"NSX gives us the ability to put our network, NSX, onto any network there is, which allows us not to have to go to the network team to create networks our VLANs for networks."
"The microsegmentation is great, and the security team thinks it is great."
"I hope that Check Point continues to improve its technical documentation regarding the Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateway and management system."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"The solution’s technical support, DNS security and training could be improved."
"I would like to see more focus on east-west traffic inspection and AWS."
"At the cost level, the solution is somewhat expensive."
"The initial setup is difficult. It took me three tries to get it right. The setup took two or three hours."
"From the policy optimization point of view, they can do better. This is not just for CloudGuard. CloudGuard is one little piece managed by Check Point. They can also integrate a third-party policy management solution to improve that. For example, Tufin is focused on policy optimization and management."
"It needs to cover additional kinds of infrastructure, like containers and serverless options. It's somewhat limited in that area."
"A room for improvement in VMware NSX is that it has some security vulnerabilities, which means my company has to apply the patches every once in a while."
"I would like them to make integration with other vendors easier."
"Its licensing model could be VM based."
"It was stable for one year, there was no impact. In the last two months, we had two big incidents."
"Despite being somewhat behind in the cybersecurity field, VMware should develop a cloud and a red team to continuously monitor for new malware and ransomware."
"VMware NSX could improve by having more compatibility with other none Window-based operating systems."
"The price is rather high."
"One drawback is this solution requires a lot of other products in the VMware ecosystem to have a full end-to-end operation orchestration monitoring. You have to buy a lot of add-ons to fully utilize the functionality."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 121 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 1st in Cloud and Data Center Security with 93 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. 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 VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. VMware NSX report.
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