It's not straightforward. It's better to use professional services from Check Point or others for the first installation. It's not so easy. I'd rate it a three out of ten in terms of ease of setup.

All of its deployments are on-premises. You can install DDoS Protector in one to two days. It's not a long period, but you need to put it in learning mode to learn the traffic behavior over a few days and weeks. After that, you need to tweak some parameters, and then you need to go back after a few days to see if it's blocking some of the regular traffic. If you have put DDoS Protector in the blocking or protecting mode, you need to tweak some parameters, and then it needs a few days to learn the traffic with the new set of parameters. It takes three to four weeks, but it's not continuous work. It's done in phases.

The number of people required for deployment and maintenance depends on the customer. Generally, service providers in Croatia have one person for DDoS, but that person also does other things in addition to DDoS. It takes about 10% of his or her time. Generally, two to three hours per day are required.

The setup was straightforward and the support was excellent.

The configuration requires understanding the services that are hosted against each public IP, as there might be some additional configuration required depending upon the application or services.

The configuration and implementation were simple. It is very friendly and easy to use.

The setup was quite straightforward with no drawbacks from a technical standpoint. However, you should have at least have a basic understanding of DDoS types and behaviour for the initial setup.

The initial setup was difficult. But we contracted a Check Point partner. They helped us with the deployment. It was a big internal change which was difficult. The deployment took three months. It was a lot of information. We needed a lot of time to acquire this information and to know very clearly what we needed to do for the deployment. We did this work before the deployment, so it was a lot of months, maybe five or six months to acquire all this information.