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.
"CloudGuard's intelligent tools help us automate many manual security tasks, guaranteeing our customers' environments will be secure."
"The main benefit of the Check Point Virtual Systems solution is its ability to split up the hardware appliances that we have into several logical, virtual devices with separate traffic handling policies, as well as the switching and routing."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"It improves the availability of engineers to carry out projects."
"The tool's most valuable features are IPS and blades. These features are valuable for security."
"The easy management of the policies is great for us because we are a small team and having easy management is great and useful for us."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to run the gateways as virtual machines in our virtual data center. The tool protects the virtual data centers."
"The scalability is very good; again, very user-friendly. I wouldn't even say "user-friendly" because, as long as you deploy it properly, you can kill an EC2 and it will spin up another one right away, within about a minute and a half. And it will be ready for production right away."
"It is easy to implement it."
"Over the last two years, they've enhanced a lot, especially in regard to integration with OpenStack."
"From a security standpoint, the customer was able to better secure critical workloads while routing L2/L3 worked normally, giving them more confidence that they would be ready for any potential security incident mitigation or outage (DR)."
"This is a good firewall and overall it is rich in features."
"The initial setup is easy and takes between one and five days."
"The microsegmentation allows me to sleep at night. My job is reducing risk, plugging security holes, and working with the automated layer security. Even if somebody spins up a new server, it has to have a tag in NSX."
"NSX has excellent security features like virtual firewalls. I also like the micro-segmentation features, which are useful for the virtual machines inside the servers."
"To be able to do the DR and SRM migrations from datacenter to datacenter, we're able to do them with SRM with VXLAN, with the NSX product."
"Improvements needed include better integration with Azure features to match on-premises capabilities."
"The management console can be simplified because at the moment, it is a bit of a challenge to use."
"When upgrading the firewall, the old VPC containing the firewalls needs to be destroyed. After that, a new firewall is redeployed in the setup. Additionally, there's a need to separate the routing, and the routing from the old VPC has to be recreated in the new one."
"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."
"New features have been introduced recently, but they have not yet been integrated into CloudGuard Vsec."
"I want the upgrades of their CloudGuard solution to major versions to be easier. We have had a few small hiccups. They have different types of cloud clusters called Geo Clusters, and those just cannot be upgraded past a certain point, which is a hurdle that we are currently experiencing."
"Some more built-in marketplace templates would be nice. It would be nice to see more vendor assistance in deployments and backup of recoveries versus having customers rely upon that themselves. That would make it a lot more seamless and aligned with the standard on-premise model that is there. Check Point can extend the same posture that they have to CloudGuard and make that transition very seamless."
"The complexity to deploy should be decreased."
"VMware NSX can improve the migration tools from the older environments to the new environment. For example, the NSX-V has become a legacy solution, it's out of support, but customers are able to keep using it. For migration purposes, it's better for them to provide a proper tool. It will be easy to migrate from an old environment to a new one."
"The feature it can improve is essentially application-based load balancing with intelligent load distribution for applications that require redundancy and high availability."
"The setup is complex and should be made easier."
"The price could be better. The non-enterprise version of the product should also be improved. I would like VMware to expand beyond the network and provide some VLAN technologies and more. I think we have one, but it's more on the distribution side because it's more on the upper side of the network. I'm looking forward to that."
"In the future, the solution should be compliant with internet NIC."
"I would like to have automating reporting built into common service management platforms, such as JIRA, Serviceaide, and ServiceNow."
"I would like to see automation capabilities in the deployment process."
"It lacks full knowledge of physical side of the network topology."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 119 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 "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". 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, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, 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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