Check Point CloudGuard Network Security Scalability
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is a scalable product. I would recommend the solution to small, medium, and enterprise companies because it has a scalable model. The solution is over the cloud and can be integrated with any company.
View full review »It would be able to scale up even bigger and beyond what our local site needed. There were about a hundred and fifty employees. It was a manufacturing organization in San Antonio, Texas, but we were just one of twenty sites all throughout the US and Europe.
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reviewer2355630
Sr Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
It scales pretty easily. At this time, I am not aware of any plans to increase its usage.
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security
March 2024
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reviewer2350659
Network and Security Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
That goes back to how the AWS services run because the software runs in any virtual box. It is exactly the same software that you can use in a physical box. We never had a need to use Autoscale so far. We have tested Autoscale. We have seen it working, but we never had the need. We are in a stable environment, and we foresee when it is needed ahead of time to avoid any bottleneck. It has been running without issues.
We have 12 active AWS versions worldwide. Three of them are the main data centers that we use. In every data center where we have AWS, we have at least different architectures of products, so our environment is quite big.
The management is standardized between all regions. They run exactly the same way with exactly the same purpose. It is standardized. We define the architecture and when there is a need, we have the solution already available.
View full review »I have been using the solution in my company for the last year. Other than the employees in my company, more than 25,000 users are using the solution hosted on AWS.
Basically, the application, which is hosted, is used internally. It's the same user account because it's not exposed anywhere on the internet. If anyone wants to access the solution from the internet, the traffic comes from Direct Connect, and from Direct Connect, it goes to AWS.
I have not directly experienced the need for scaling, particularly horizontally. Based on studies, presentations, documentation, and architecture, scalability is definitely there, so I have confidence that if my business needs to shift to high throughput and high sessions, Check Point will have a solution for me to do that seamlessly.
View full review »It seems to be very scalable. We have plans to increase the usage of CloudGuard Network Security.
We do scale sets across our clouds and across many regions globally. The number of applications behind it is in the hundreds if not thousands.
View full review »Scalability has been great. We utilize scale sets, deploying two gateways per region with settings ranging from two to ten.
View full review »We have more than 50 customers.
View full review »The solution is scalable and attractive.
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Dan Ramsell
Head of customer operations at Pentesec Limited
The tool has improved its scalability over the four years.
View full review »CloudGuard Network Security is highly scalable in our virtual environment. We can easily add more ports, and it functions perfectly. We use it in cluster mode, deploying multiple Check Point clusters horizontally and vertically, making scalability easy and excellent.
View full review »Regarding scalability, you have the flexibility to deploy as many instances as necessary. If additional instances are required, you can easily add them to production by obtaining the necessary licenses.
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reviewer2115711
Web Designer at Milestone Technologies, Inc.
The performance has been excellent.
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reviewer2005803
Digital Coordinator at Modis
The set network security planning has been achieved, and we are happy with it.
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GeraldChege
ICT Officer at Kenyatta National Hospital
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security can scale but it will cost you more.
We have approximately 2,000 mailboxes using this solution.
View full review »The scalability aspect functions seamlessly, although there's a significant process involved, particularly with the CME and management components recognizing new gateways and pushing necessary files. Despite the complexity, the CME serves as an effective tool for deploying scripts and managing tasks. However, the requirement for management to push configurations to the firewall adds an additional layer of intricacy beyond simply pushing to the gateway.
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reviewer2355798
IT Advisor at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It is good. They have all kinds of solutions from on-premises to the cloud. There might be some limitations to their partnership with certain cloud providers. They can speed up to give us better solutions, especially for CloudGuard. I know some competitors offer solutions to address customer concerns faster than Check Point. It is an area for improvement.
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GGNOOB
IT Security Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We haven't had to scale much yet, but we are confident CloudGuard Network Security can meet our needs effectively if required in the future. I would rate the scalability as a nine out of ten.
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reviewer2350671
Cloud Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
CloudGuard Network Security's scalability is easy.
View full review »The solution is scalable.
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Alex Tremblay
Cyber Security Manager at H2O Power Limited Partnership
Scalability is amazing when you're in the cloud. It's no problem. Once you settle on a configuration like we have, and once you've put it together and decided that this is your de facto template, all you have to do is click a couple of buttons to deploy another one. And that scales upwards. It's very simple.
It's used pretty extensively in our environment because we are trying to get the single pane of glass for traffic going through our network in multiple directions from a bunch of different networks. It's playing a more important role than the individual Check Point firewalls we used. We don't, at this time, need anything more with CloudGuard. We may, in the future, need another data center, so that's a consideration. I'm looking at other Check Point products that secure other components, in different ways. Our relationship with Check Point is still growing.
View full review »Scaling up is straightforward, involving the purchase of additional licenses and allocating virtual CPUs to the client.
View full review »It offers good scalability abilities. We have a plan to increase the utilization of CloudGuard Network Security and its services in the future.
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reviewer2379408
Sr Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We do not use any of the auto-scaling features that Check Point provides. We do not have a use case for it, so I cannot attest to that.
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reviewer2350668
Communication Department Manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution's scalability is not good. Our upgrade process was not straightforward. It took one day to complete.
View full review »The scalability is great. You can make a network scale up or down. This allows you to have good control of bandwidth in the organization or to be able to distribute it in the different departments of the company.
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reviewer2029350
Database Administrator at Ordina
The performance has been excellent since we deployed this solution.
View full review »Its scalability is good. It is being used across multiple departments. There are 300 users and a lot of endpoints.
We do not have any plans to increase its usage this year. We might do that in 2025.
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reviewer2379444
Senior IT Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability of CloudGuard Network Security is very good and we can scale it as needed.
View full review »It is scalable. We do not have any problems with it.
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reviewer2350692
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution's scalability is good.
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reviewer2353200
Sr Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have 28 licenses. We have 800 servers on our private cloud.
The scalability of this solution is limited, which is why we have started looking for alternatives. Currently, we have about twenty-thousand users.
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reviewer2098998
Software Engineer at Mercado Libre
I am impressed by the great performance.
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reviewer2024712
Planning Analyst at Ovato
I am impressed by the overall performance.
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Basil Dange
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
As with other Check Point products, this solution is scalable.
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reviewer1026111
IT Security Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is also great. It's not complicated to configure it and the environment can become really scalable. Everything can be auto-provisioned: instances created, policies pushed, licenses installed. Check Point did a great job in covering all these aspects and reducing manual intervention, which is how it is supposed to be on the cloud.
It is deployed in all AWS regions and we plan to increase the number of security features in use in the future.
View full review »The solution's scalability is good.
View full review »We use CloudGuard to manage 15,000 people. We have ten applications and 14 subscriptions.
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reviewer2350638
Platform Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution's scalability is excellent, but we do encounter some restrictions with the API on the cloud platform. This occasionally causes issues with the frequent pulling up of new resources.
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reviewer2379471
Cyber Security Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
So far, it is great. We use scale sets. We have deployed two gateways per region with the scale set settings of two to ten. We do not have much workload yet, so I cannot say how the scaling is working, but overall, I am sure we will be able to scale the gateways.
View full review »The tool's scalability is good.
View full review »Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is very much scalable. My company has 1000 users.
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reviewer1459770
Advisory Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability is great. That is the big thing. We went from our existing not-that-scalable network to a full scale-up, scale-down. I feel like it's inherently scalable because of that. It gives you as much power or as little power as you need.
Currently, there are about 150 users in our organization. When the new deployment is done, there will be about 700 users. Right now, it is primarily software development. These are the people who are in there now spinning up and down servers, building out environments, etc. It's just going to be that on a larger scale once the new deployments are out there. We need to have the guardrails in place with CloudGuard and Dome9 to ensure that they don't wreck the company, but it's mainly software development and the various roles inside of that, like architecture. There are a hundred different teams in the company that do dev, so they each have their little functions that they would have to do in there.
Right now, the solution is lightly used, given the fact that most of our development is taking place on-prem. However, we are eventually moving everything to the cloud. By virtue of that fact, it will be heavily used for the next two to three years.
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M Poczobut
CISO and Senior Director Technical Operations at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Scalability was well thought out and designed. I've spoken about this at several Check Point CPX events. Throughout the instances that we have, if a single Check Point CloudGuard instance is overloaded due to event load, it will intelligently redirect that workload to another service on a different host, so that it's not delaying the interrogation of the traffic.
It's being used throughout our environment. We will increase usage only when we augment our cloud offerings.
Users, in this case, are the IT security and networking folks that support it and rely on these controls being effective. They analyze the output of the event interrogation. Right now, I have three resources supporting CloudGuard. I don't have dedicated staff for maintaining the solution. They're shared resources who work on other network and security devices. From an operational standpoint, it's a fraction of an FTE that is required.
View full review »Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is scalable, it is good for enterprises. The scaling is simple to do.
We have over 500 people in my company using this solution.
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Oleg Pekar
Senior Network/Security Engineer at Skywind Group
The solution is scalable. I believe you could just add the new hardware into the cluster without affecting the functionality, and thus increasing the performance on the spot.
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Genesis Floresta
Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
They do implement Auto Scaling and that was one of the requirements that I asked them about. One of their southbound firewalls did not have Auto Scaling at that time, so that's why I requested it.
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.
Our production environment never decreased, it only increased. Our presence in AWS quadrupled over the time that we used CloudGuard. I'm managing about 32 accounts that, obviously, need protection. Once they implement that particular solution, we'll be very happy to have them integrated within our environment.
The number of users of CloudGuard, because we had deployed it in our production environment, was as many customers as we had. All traffic went through CloudGuard.
View full review »The scalability of the solution is good. Right now, the solution protects about 400 customers.
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reviewer2173215
Delivery Executive at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
CloudGuard is scalable.
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AmitSingh14
Security lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It performs well in terms of the use case scenario where deployment is required, and its scalability is satisfactory. Overall, I would say it's good enough for our needs.
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reviewer2353203
Network and Security Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
CloudGuard Network Security's scalability is good.
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reviewer2350686
Cloud engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
In terms of scalability in the cloud, manual deployment is straightforward. However, the challenge arises due to the pay-as-you-go model. The issue of buying licenses is not specific to the Check Point but is more related to our ordering process.
View full review »The solution is scalable. However, we have not needed to scale yet.
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Oswald Polo
Electronic Engineer at eBTel Cia. Ltda.
In general, the scalability is good. If a company needs to expand the solution, it should be able to do so.
We typically work with medium-sized organizations. In some of the companies, there are as many as 1,000 users.
View full review »The tool is scalable.
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reviewer2178546
Network security architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We faced issues with scalability.
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reviewer2173371
Consultant at a consultancy
I'd rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
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reviewer1670154
Firewall Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is very scalable due to using the scale-set.
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Oleg Pekar
Senior Network/Security Engineer at Skywind Group
The Check Point CloudGuard IaaS scales well for the Google Cloud Platform with the help of the Instance Groups feature.
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reviewer2379468
Principal Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
CloudGuard Network Security has been quite stable.
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Jose Mendes
Network Security Engineer/Architect at Euronext Technologies SAS
I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We have around 200 end users using this solution in our company.
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reviewer2350683
Network security at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
CloudGuard Network Security is scalable.
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ChrisDagal
Enterprise Security Lead
The solution is scalable and I think they might increase their scope on different virtual, private clouds or private subnets. Monitoring involves anywhere from three to five people.
View full review »Because we are in the demo phase of using Check Point CloudGuard, we only have a small amount of users, all in our IT department.
View full review »The scalability is there if a company needs to expand it.
View full review »The solution is absolutely scalable.
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reviewer897588
Network Security Engineer at a government
We just deployed the solution, so scalability I cannot speak to right now. But, as per Gartner and NSS Lab, they're allegedly very good. I don't think there will be an issue with scalability.
View full review »The scalability potential of the solution is great. We use the solution quite extensively. We do plan to increase usage in the future.
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reviewer1010472
Architect, Network - Service Lead - Design Services at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability depends on the situation. Some situations are not very scalable. High scalability, in AWS, without matting is just not there. It's more of an AWS problem than it is a Check Point problem.
View full review »With the virtual assistant, its scalability is very good.
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reviewer1193514
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The product can scale quite well. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. It's not an issue.
We have 5,000 users on the solution in one particular case. They're on one account. It's kind-of a lot.
View full review »Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Network Security has good scalability.
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reviewer1348143
IT Professional at a government with 10,001+ employees
I would rate the scalability potential of this solution as average.
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Jose Mendes
Network Security Engineer/Architect at Euronext Technologies SAS
Its scalability is one of the best features because of the auto-scaling groups.
There are three users in the company who are all network security engineers.
It's has a 100% adoption rate. Our Cloud environment goes to the internet through the CloudGuard solution.
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Siju Siju
Assistant Manager IT Projects at Mustafa Sultan Office Technology Co. LLC
Scalability is fine. In fact, we are demonstrating the hyper scale with most of the customer now. There is no doubt about the scalability and it is not a problem.
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VikasSharma
Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
No issues encountered.
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PRAPHULLA DESHPANDE
Associate Consult at Atos
This solution is highly scalable.
View full review »This solution is quite scalable, but it requires hardware upgrades from time to time. Or, if you go with a virtual environment then it is very scalable because you start with one CPU and can increase to twenty-four CPUs.
View full review »No scalability issues but I don't think we are utilizing the device to its maximum capability.
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reviewer1392531
Dy General Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
The solution isn't scalable. In fact, it cannot be upgraded at all. This is the main reason why we are switching over to a different firewall under a different brand.
We have many users at the perimeter currently.
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reviewer1637334
Security Platform Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability is very good.
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SeniorNe6125
Senior Network Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable. It's a cloud solution, so it's easy to implement and manage.
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VinodKumar8
Cybersecurity Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The scalability is good.
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No. You need to look upon sizing, one should never oversize nor undersize. Detail understanding is a requirement one needs to keep in mind.
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Rakesh Rawat
Network Engineer at Acliv Technologies Pvt Ltd
We maxed out scalability.
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cofounde574329
Co-founder & CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
A sufficient amount of planning is required to deploy a solution that is scalable. However, as Check Point allows an Open Server to deploy its VSX solution, scalability is not a problem once the base hardware is chosen appropriately.
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reviewer1516461
Information security officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
This product is quite scalable.
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reviewer1203795
Business Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Check Point Virtual Systems is very scalable.
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.