We compared Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security based on our users' reviews in five categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation has a straightforward setup process, taking approximately six months to complete. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is also easy to set up, but complexity may vary depending on the environment and requirements. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation's customer service received mixed feedback, with some users praising the support team and others expressing dissatisfaction. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's customer support team is generally reliable, but there are complaints about response time, especially for global support. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation requires a subscription and is considered expensive overall. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is also considered expensive, but the cost may vary depending on the size of the organization and the country.
"Check Point CloudGuard technical support is good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized dashboard, which is used for managing all of the Check Point Security Gateways."
"It is scalable. It's a cloud solution, so it's easy to implement and manage."
"The comprehensiveness of the CloudGuard’s threat prevention security is great, especially once they integrate Dome9 in the whole thing. That really ties the whole thing together, so you can tie your entire cloud environment together into one central location, which is nice. Previously, we had three or four different tools that we were trying to leverage to do the same stuff that we are able to do with CloudGuard."
"Workflows across the company ecosystem have can flow smoothly without experiencing any challenges."
"The features of the solution which I have found most valuable are its flexibility and agility. It's a fully scalable solution, from our perspective. We can define scaling groups and, based on the load, it will create new instances. It's truly a product which is oriented toward the cloud mindset, cloud agility, and this is a great feature."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"There is room for improvement, especially concerning the integration with the management center. It would be beneficial if tasks that currently require scripts could be performed directly from the GUI."
"The complexity to deploy should be decreased."
"The deployment phase takes too much time."
"They are coming out with more SD-WAN express route support from a firewall perspective. That would be great."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security should give productive reports as per business requirements. It needs to improve support since the time-limit extended beyond a day. It should include more seamless API integrations."
"CloudGuard functions just like any other firewall. It functions very well. The only thing that could maybe be improved would be to integrate some tools that are not integrated with the SmartConsole, like the SmartView Monitor that we need to open on a different application to access."
"The cost is relatively high compared to the cost of other products in the market."
"We did not use the AWS Transit Gateway, and that's one of the things that we're currently using. I believe we will be working with Check Point again, in the near future, to implement it, once they start having proper support for a single customer with multiple accounts. When we were using them, we had to install Check Point on each and every single account."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 119 reviews while Illumio is ranked 4th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 8 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Illumio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Fortinet FortiGate, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Illumio report.
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