Check Point NGFW ROI

Ozan Durmus - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Security Specialist at AKBANK TAS

We always believed and saw that the money we spent on Check Point was not in vain.

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AS
Works at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Every dollar spent is worth it.

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reviewer09751353 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Upstream

Since I am in the engineering department, I can't evaluate the actual income or costs of handling our production traffic with this solution.

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Buyer's Guide
Check Point NGFW
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Check Point NGFW. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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reviewer02975255 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at BDO Unibank

Unfortunately, our team does not have visibility on the ROI.

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reviewer802415 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at POET

I have no visibility on ROI.

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Tempreviewera A - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Developer at Holmen Iggesund

We ran these gateways for five years and will look to do the same with the replacements.

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Rifma Dwika Octora - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at PT. Nusantara Compnet Integrator

We have witnessed ROI within four years.

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JR
Systems Architect at PHARMPIX CORP

My peace of mind is the ROI.

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SF
Network Administrator at University of Kelaniya

It has a great ROI. 

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NT
TitleNetwork Manager at Destinology

You cannot put a price on security. Check Point is a field leader. However, it comes at a high price. 

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JV
Principal Associate at Eurofins

The stability makes it all worthwhile. 

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SR
Security Engineer at Hitachi Systems

They have made domain improvements to SmartConsole. If you check older versions, such as R77.30, you have to open a separate, smart tracker to view logs. However, in R80.10 and above, you can view logs in SmartConsole. You don't have to open another smart tracker to view logs. That is the improvement Check Point has done which makes it better because it is much easier to find logs. This saves time, approximately 40 to 50 a day in one shift.

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Robert Bartos - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales IT solutions at ICCO

To feel safer in the online environment is the most important thing these days. Everything is online now. A solution like that makes it easier and safer for you to work and do things online.

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TD
Network and Security Administrator at CNR-ISTP - Consorzio RFX in Padua at Politecnico di Milano

We may need more time to measure ROI.

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Alessandro Bolzonella - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Security Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

We have seen an ROI in that we need less time on managed policies and we have better control.

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PD
Cyber Security Consultant at Capgemini

The ROI is double annually.

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BZ
IT System Operations Manager at Hamamatsu Photonics KK

I do not measure ROI financially, although personally speaking, we have definitely gotten back every dollar we've spent by having reliable and secure infrastructure.

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reviewer1692963 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

It was not the cheapest solution to go for, but the amount of admin time that has been saved by the use of Check Point firewalls has definitely given us a great return, giving us more time to work on other aspects of our network. Also, being able to consolidate 2 solutions (Firewall and Client VPN) into one solution has saved more money and admin time. 

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reviewer1523535 - PeerSpot reviewer
IP LAN and Integrity Specialist at Chevron

Our ROI with this firewall is high.

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KP
Network Engineer at LTTS

I would say it's complete ROI for us.

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Saurabh Lahoti - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Worldline Global

It's worth the cost.

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reviewer9814083 - PeerSpot reviewer
Flat Earth Networking, Inc. at Cyber Security Engineer

We tell the customer that the ROI is the protection they are receiving and the stability of the product.  

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Champika Wijewickrama - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at EIT

Our customers are pleased with the return on investment. The occasional bugs and updates, common to all firewalls including Check Point, are being addressed promptly. The platform is regularly updated to ensure optimal performance.

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BW
Consultant at work@lim.it Systemhaus

ROI is really hard to pinpoint. However, if we were using another security solution, our personal efforts to maintain it would double.

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Thapelo Kwesi Baabusi - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at Engineers Registration Board

The ROI is on the positive side.

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S
Network Security Engineer at Fujairah Port

It's excellent and the management is very satisfactory.

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VJ
Senior infrastructure technical lead at Westpac Bank

It serves the purpose and primarly gets the best output.

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VN
TitleManager - Datacenter IT at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I don't have much detail on this.

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CB
AGM Cyber Security CoE at Bata Group

We did not calculate our ROI; however, it provides good visibility to us.

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Gulrez - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Kotak Mahindra Bank

It's good & the same as expected.

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JH
Payroll Specialist at Dice

The current ROI is 35%.

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RW
Senior Systems Engineer at Upper Occoquan Service Authority

We've not done an initial study on any kind of ROI. We rarely do. In positives, we try to perform a yearly risk assessment of our systems, and we find very few vulnerabilities. So, it is doing what it's supposed to. It is keeping us safe.

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GB
Consultant - Site Reliability Engineering Manager (SRE) - Managed Services at Servian

I'm not involved in finance. I can't speak to any ROI.

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VP
PLM Consultant

The biggest investment is the initial one when you purchase the solution. It needs very little maintenance, and the automation it offers makes it easy to maintain.

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erdemerdag - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Operations Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

As a security solution in this kind of market, prestige and being reliable cannot be measured with money. It costs more than a million dollars to have a defacement attack. The costs to prevent this kind of attack cannot be measured with money, in my opinion.

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Rohit Gambhir - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

It has a good return in terms of usage and the security that it provides. We are very happy with the security capabilities that this firewall has.

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Adrian Cambronero - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at ITQS

The prices are competitive. However, it is worth making an investment since, in the future, the profit will be seen against any environmental attack.

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DD
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is easy to control from the central management system. For example, if we have 10 firewalls, and we want to push that same configuration among them, we can use this solution's central management system to do that simultaneously. So, there is time saving in that way. The time savings does depend on the situation. For example, if I am running half an hour of work on each firewall, that will take around 300 minutes. However, if I do this work from the central management system, then it will only take 30 minutes to push the same configuration to those same 10 devices.

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PS
Principal Network and Security Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

A customer I'm working with right now was running with Check Point and they wanted to move to Fortinet firewalls. However, when I worked with them on the design to upgrade the existing Check Point firewalls, what we worked out was that even though the Fortinet might have seemed like a cheaper option, it didn't have the security capabilities that Check Point is offering. On that basis, the customer signed off on a project for upgrading their existing firewalls, on-premise and cloud, from R77.30 to R80.10.

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SR
Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The greatest value is evident when an immediate threat targets your organization. Check Point firewalls excel in preventing such attacks, thanks to their highly advanced protection engines.

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SQ
IT Manager at Gainwell Technologies

To maximize the ROI of Check Point NGFW, it is important to choose the right deployment model, use Check Point's security services, and keep the software up to date.

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ES
Innovation Consultant at KPN IT Solutions - Trusted Services

In the end, the ROI is good once a company knows the protection level on offer.

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MB
IT Security Engineer at PricewaterhouseCoopers

I would need to compare it with other solutions used in our environment, which I haven't done.

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reviewer1692972 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at PROWERS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT

That is difficult to calculate. We have had hospitals and clinics drop like flies to ransomware, DDOS attacks, and other issues. The financial impact of something like that would be huge. You can't put a price on safety. 

We are trying to do the best we can in an ever-changing landscape of cyber dangers, and we feel that Check Point has been a great name to hang our safety on. In the 15+ years I've been working with Check Point, I have only changed out the hardware twice. We pay an annual fee to cover licenses and support. In general, this is a great investment.

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GC
Senior Infrastructure Service Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

As the platform delivers competent security enforcement with simplicity, the ROI is great. The easy-to-operate nature of the product means fewer hours spent by people struggling with things, while the network itself is constantly kept safe. 

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MG
IT Security Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The solution has saved us a lot of costs from an operational perspective.

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SK
Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The ROI meets our expectations.

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MP
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We are happy with the return that we are getting from this firewall.

Rather than money, this product is saving the security of our organization. This is the first thing that we were looking for, before deploying this firewall in our organization. We know that ASA is cheaper than Check Point, but our concentration was making the environment more secure.

Cost-wise, it is more expensive than Cisco ASA, but the returns include better security and more granular options. We are happy with that. We were not looking to save money but rather, providing a safer environment for our users.

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RM
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Overall, it is a good cost saving product. We do not have to purchase additional hardware for it, which is a good. This saves us 10 percent in costs compared to Cisco.

The solution saves us about 20 percent in our time, which is substantial.

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IK
Security Expert at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

It's hard to measure ROI in financial terms, but our productivity has gone up with the new version of the R80 because we don't need to wait for one administrator to log out of the management system for another to be able to log in. Multiple administrators can now work simultaneously on the platform. That productivity increase can be seen as a form of ROI.

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AK
Network Engineer at Pevans EA Ltd

It's used to protect the organization from security threats and provide connectivity to our applications which is the main platform for business. That's the ROI we've noted.

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GA
President at NGA Consulting, Inc.

Peace of mind is my real ROI.

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GA
President at NGA Consulting, Inc.

The malware blocking capabilities more than paid for the cost of the device and license.

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Matt Millen - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & Systems Administrator I at Department of Mental Health

I definitely feel it's been worth our investment. Check Point is there to help when we need them. Our downtime has been very minimal, and when we do have issues, they're there to help us. They're there to get us back up and running as quickly as possible. It's definitely been worth its weight.

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JK
Senior Infrastructure Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I can't really comment, as I do not have much idea about this space.

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I.
Network security engineer at Fidelity Bank

We have surely seen ROI compared to the other vendors I mentioned, in terms of costs. And we tested all the firewall features to see if it is doing what it says can do. And so far so good, it's excellent. It's a good return.

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AH
Works

It is difficult to calculate ROI when it comes to security products. 

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Gonzalez - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Aguascalientes

It has been well worth the investment, as the Check Point technology is there to help when we need it.

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AS
Technical Support Engineer at AlgoSec

The customer feels more secure because they have two layers of security and comfortable working with this particular Check Point Firewall because they previously used Check Point R75. 

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reviewer1396851 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager (Systems) at State Bank of India

Hard to calculate.

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Manzoom Ahmed Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at C-Edge Technologies Limited

The ROI is good. 

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BF
Senior IT Manager at a mining and metals company with 501-1,000 employees

Primarily it's offered stability and caught behaviors and given users (and administrators) a level of confidence as they are doing their daily jobs. The inspection that Check Point does, even when we download a document or a PDF, offers a bit more peace of mind in those types of transactions. GeoIP is working like we had hoped compared to SonicWall.

We have a lot of granularity in our policies. We can accommodate some really interesting scenarios on our operations floors, certain groups needing certain types of access versus other groups. We're accommodating them fairly seamlessly from migrating from SonicWall to Check Point. We might have struggled to try to make stuff happen in SonicWall, and Check Point just seems to ingest it and run with it. Having access to Check Point's AI ThreatCloud cloud has given us a lot of peace of mind. ThreatCloud is 25+ years worth of exploit research that informs and feeds CP technologies and gateways.

Another feature that's been helpful is the sandbox feature. A lot of companies offer this type of thing now, but CP has been offering it for quite a while. If end users are browsing websites, and they download a payload-infected document from a website, SandBlast will detect it and take it offline. It will sandbox it, detonate it there safely, pull out the content that we're actually looking for, then re-present that cleaned content back to the user.

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AU
Network and Security Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

If the firewalls go down, then the employees' car payments would stop. This would be a disaster. 

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MH
Senior Network Engineer at Arvest Bank Group

All current Check Point hardware is destined for the recycle bin. There is a pretty low ROI.

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Amier Wahab - PeerSpot reviewer
RESIDENT ENGINEER at NetAssist (M) Sdn Bhd

My company's customers have seen a return on investment from the use of Check Point NGFW.

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TK
IT Consultant/Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The ROI is good.

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AO
Head of Technology at African Alliance Plc.

We saw an ROI within one year.

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ED
Senior Linux Administrator at Cartrack

A stable and fully functioning solution has enabled us to focus on other aspects of growing the business.

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RG
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have seen ROI; for the purpose that we have deployed this firewall, we are getting returns. Based on this, we are buying more Check Point firewalls.

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CL
System Architekt at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is like insurance for us.

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CA
Integration engineer at S21sec

With the few replacements we need to do, there is very little downtime. It is worth the investment. The great support team behind Check Point is also worth the cost.

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PI
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

It's not easy to calculate, however, given the stability and security of the solution, it's elevated. There are no bulletproof solutions. That said, now we can rest a bit more because our assets are more protected than they were a couple of years ago.

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PD
Associate Consult at Atos

We are definitely getting most of the things that we expect from this product.

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KK
Network Associate at a wireless company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have seen ROI and when you consider the features like central management, antivirus, and threat management, it is a good investment.

We did have cost savings, moving to Check Point from Cisco ASA. We required additional hardware devices, such as an IPS solution, antivirus, and threat management. In addition, we needed too many resources because we had so many individual ASA firewalls. There was no central management system, so more staff were required.

Ultimately, with Check Point, we needed fewer people and we also saved on the cost of hardware.

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JZ
Senior Consultant at Integrity360

The solution is super stable.

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RA
AVP - IT Security at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The ROI for security is the confidence that the solution is able to deliver the expected outcome. This includes stability, Threat Prevention capabilities, Granular policies, etc.

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reviewer1697127 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

We've seen ROI at 6 months to 1 year.

However, the ROI was realized within weeks of deployment.

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AN
Security Engineer at Gosoft (Thailand)

This product is a good investment and I expect a full return in approximately three years.

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VR
Lead Solution Advisor at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Our clients have seen ROI.

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JM
Network Security Engineer/Architect at Euronext Technologies SAS

The return on our investment with Check Point firewalls is that we are secure and that we haven't had any attacks that have had a big impact or that were successful. If we had been paying a lot and were being targeted to the same extent, I would say no, that we have not had a return on investment, but at this stage it's a "yes."

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AJ
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

This product provides a complete return on investment. It gives us the level of security that we expect and should have.

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PJ
Security Administrator at R Systems

It's saving us a notable amount of time. 

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IT cloud network engineer - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Network Specialist - Cloud Operations Engineer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's hard to measure ROI, but our sense of security, as a company, is good with Check Point.

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KK
IT Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

There is a money saving because we no longer require other devices, like an IPS, a separate antivirus, or vulnerability tests. We get all the devices within a single tool. Before, we would have different teams taking care of different devices. Now, we take care of only one device, which is another source of savings. We have saved a lot of money with this solution.

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ÜG
Consultant at KoçSistem

There are different ROIs for each customer but our customers' ROIs are high, as expected.

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SS
Network Security Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

When we first started using them, we were just using them for basic functionality. Then we started using more features and introducing other components. For example, we had a different proxy server which we depended on. Once we got the Check Point, we could use the same device for multiple roles, which reduced the cost a lot. I would estimate our costs have been reduced by 30 percent.

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AK
Sr. Network Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are happy with our investment in Check Point's firewall. Per our standards, and for our environment, it is a very good firewall. It is protecting us well.

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AR
Firewall Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are happy with the return on investment from the Check Point firewalls. We are happy with the features and with the protection they provide us.

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TL
IT Security Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have seen a decent ROI. I'd rate it at a four out of five. 

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ND
Associate Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I am happy with the investment that we made on Check Point. The reason behind this: It has advanced features for protecting the environment.

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Oswaldo Gimeno - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Getronics

I can deploy one firewall in an easy way. I can do it quickly by equiping firewall rules in text mode or in the API. However, when I have a problem, it's totally the opposite. I lose a lot of time.

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Sathish Babu - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We have definitely achieved ROI with Check Point firewalls.

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TH
Network Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have seen ROI. There have been no complaints. We haven't had any security breaches, so it's been good.

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DmitryPavlukhin - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst at HOST
GG
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The firewall is only for protection. It is not used to sell services.

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Buyer's Guide
Check Point NGFW
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Check Point NGFW. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.