Check Point CloudGuard Network Security Scalability

Amber Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Manager at DCIPHERS IT SOLUTIONS

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.

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Vincent Rendon - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a training & coaching company with 11-50 employees

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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RK
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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GB
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.

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Rohit Ghorpade - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud network engineer at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd.

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.

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Scott Chambers - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Jonathan Gamlin - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at Thomson Reuters

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.

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Alfonso Peterson - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at Edgewell Personal Care Company

Scalability has been great. We utilize scale sets, deploying two gateways per region with settings ranging from two to ten.

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Sony James - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Head at Quoinx Technologies private Limited

We have more than 50 customers.

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SHRINKHALA SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Agriculture Skill Council of India

The solution is scalable and attractive.

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DR
Head of customer operations at Pentesec Limited

The tool has improved its scalability over the four years. 

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Ajdin Heric - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Security Analyst at BH Telecom

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.

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Hans Moggert - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Datacenter at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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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HS
Web Designer at Milestone Technologies, Inc.

The performance has been excellent.

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BW
Digital Coordinator at Modis

The set network security planning has been achieved, and we are happy with it.

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GC
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.

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Aaron Vivadelli - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Security Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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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JS
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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LT
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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MP
Cloud Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

CloudGuard Network Security's scalability is easy. 

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Sunil M Naik - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Regional Head- Southern at ASCI

The solution is scalable.

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AT
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.

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Paulo Lemos - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at Pamafe Informatica LDA

Scaling up is straightforward, involving the purchase of additional licenses and allocating virtual CPUs to the client.

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Fabio Fukushima - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at L8 Security

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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BR
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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OY
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. 

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Adrian Cambronero - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at ITQS

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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JH
Database Administrator at Ordina

The performance has been excellent since we deployed this solution.

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Justin Mcclung - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT Operations at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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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BW
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.

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Allan Vasquez - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

It is scalable. We do not have any problems with it.

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AG
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution's scalability is good. 

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NB
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. 

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it_user1033941 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

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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MA
Software Engineer at Mercado Libre

I am impressed by the great performance.

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AG
Planning Analyst at Ovato

I am impressed by the overall performance.

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BD
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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MG
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.

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Darren Fine - PeerSpot reviewer
It manager at ReportStar Technologies

The solution's scalability is good. 

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Jan Vobruba - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Security Consultant at ANECT

We use CloudGuard to manage 15,000 people. We have ten applications and 14 subscriptions.

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LV
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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BS
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.

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Fabio Carvalho - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems engineer at Pamafe Informatica LDA

The tool's scalability is good. 

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Nagendra Nekkala - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager ICT & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is very much scalable. My company has 1000 users. 

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KW
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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MP
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.

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Derron McLarty - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Ministry of Finanace and the Public Service

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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OP
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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GF
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.

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it_user583365 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cyber Security Department at NGT Group

The scalability of the solution is good. Right now, the solution protects about 400 customers.

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LS
Delivery Executive at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

CloudGuard is scalable.

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AS
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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RS
Network and Security Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

CloudGuard Network Security's scalability is good. 

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BS
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.

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AlexOgbalu - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at LiveFromSpace Limited

The solution is scalable. However, we have not needed to scale yet.

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OP
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.

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Achim Buettner - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at BNC Business Network Communications AG

The tool is scalable. 

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SG
Network security architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We faced issues with scalability. 

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MH
Consultant at a consultancy

I'd rate the scalability a nine out of ten. 

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PL
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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OP
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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AM
Principal Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

CloudGuard Network Security has been quite stable.

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JM
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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JT
Network security at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

CloudGuard Network Security is scalable. 

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CD
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. 

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Do Anh - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Consultant at M.Tech

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.

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Bernard Otieno - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Engineer at Harnssen Group Limited

The scalability is there if a company needs to expand it. 

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it_user1042488 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is absolutely scalable. 

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US
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.

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it_user919560 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a government with 10,001+ employees

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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JT
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.

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Alberto Vallesa - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead Manager at Wizlynx

With the virtual assistant, its scalability is very good.

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RM
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.

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Aditya Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Team Lead at Softcell Technologies Limited

Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Network Security has good scalability.

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FN
IT Professional at a government with 10,001+ employees

I would rate the scalability potential of this solution as average.

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JM
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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SS
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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VS
Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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PD
Associate Consult at Atos

This solution is highly scalable.

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it_user715161 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at InfoGuardian

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.

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it_user631224 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Analyst at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

No scalability issues but I don't think we are utilizing the device to its maximum capability.

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MK
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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SF
Security Platform Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is very good.

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JC
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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VK
Cybersecurity Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The scalability is good.

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it_user106689 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Infrastructure with 51-200 employees
No. You need to look upon sizing, one should never oversize nor undersize. Detail understanding is a requirement one needs to keep in mind. View full review »
RR
Network Engineer at Acliv Technologies Pvt Ltd

We maxed out scalability. 

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AS
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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MS
Information security officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

This product is quite scalable.

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OM
Business Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Check Point Virtual Systems is very scalable. 

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Buyer's Guide
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.