We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management and Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management provides solid data security, advanced incident detection, and detailed reporting. It offers IAM role control and governance support. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation has been praised for its automated policy writing and visibility into application communication and network protocols. Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management could be more customizable and improve its false positives rate and vulnerability assessments. Users suggested that Zero Trust Segmentation should support more operating systems and improve its labeling functionality.
Service and Support: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management customer service has garnered positive feedback, highlighting prompt responses and pleasant support experiences. Some Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation customers commended the support team, while others expressed discontentment.
Ease of Deployment: The setup for Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is fast and straightforward, requiring only a few minutes. Setting up Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is significantly lengthier, taking around six months to finish.
Pricing: Some users found Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management affordable, but a few reviewers thought it was expensive and recommend exploring alternative options. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is generally considered expensive.
ROI: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management provided our reviewers with a solid return by simplifying administration and compliance solutions. We have not received feedback on ROI from Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation users.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management over Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation. CloudGuard is praised for its comprehensive data security, granular reporting, and ruleset customization. It offers visibility into traffic flow, threat detection, and real-time attack prevention. Users appreciate its intuitive dashboard, powerful reporting, and ability to enhance security. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is criticized for its limited operating system support and lack of effective agents in certain environments. Users also desire better customer service and improved data security.
"It presents great visibility of the traffic flow of our cloud, providing information on what data and users are circulating and in the event of a threat, it immediately identifies them by providing detailed and granular information from our entire environment."
"The solution is scalable."
"It provides complete visibility of workload hosted on different cloud platforms including AWS and Azure, along with multiple tenants."
"Compliance is becoming an important tool for us as well."
"The visibility in our cloud environment is the most valuable feature."
"It offers security insights and recommendations to assist organizations in acting and remediating issues swiftly."
"This solution provides threat prevention and detection of anomalies automatically and investigates the activity of each one of them."
"Dome9 wraps our FTP infrastructure with its network security configurations, and this also gives us the ability to monitor FTP activity."
"The solution is easy to use."
"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 product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"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."
"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."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The solution could be improved with a greater analysis of its Microsoft Security score."
"The biggest thing is the documentation aspect of Dome9 is a little lacking. They were purchased by Check Point about a year and a half to two years ago. When they integrated into Check Point's support system, a lot of the documentation that they had previously got mangled in the transition, e.g., linking to stuff on the Dome9 website that no longer exists. There are still a lot of spaces with incomplete links and stuff that is not as fully explained as it could be."
"CloudGuard could be improved by including integration with vendors other than AWS, especially Azure, especially in permissions."
"The dashboard customization has room for improvement."
"The Check Point Infinity admin portal sometimes freezes."
"In general, for the product to be successful, they need to improve security, and configuration detection."
"Check Point tools need to improve the latency in the portal since they take a long time to load."
"When rules change, it messes up the remediation. They haven't found a fix for that yet. The remediation rule goes into limbo. It's an architectural design flaw within their end compliance engine—a serious bug."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"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 customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 8th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 63 reviews while Illumio is ranked 4th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 8 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.6, while Illumio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP writes "Threat intel integration provides us visibility in case any workload is communicating with suspicious or blacklisted IPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Qualys VMDR, 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 CNAPP vs. Illumio report.
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