Check Point CloudGuard Network Security Stability
In terms of stability, I've never encountered any issues where a gateway went down or experienced faults. My experience across various environments has been consistently positive, without any instances of gateway crashes or failures for any specific reasons.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is a stable product.
View full review »I thought it was extremely stable. I didn't see any downtime. Any of the maintenance windows were either on weekends or in time frames that didn't affect our organization. It was very good.
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security
April 2024
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It is very stable, but in any virtualized environment, you are still dependent on your cloud provider. If Amazon, Microsoft, Google, or any other cloud provider reboots the gateway because they are doing some maintenance and did not tell you about it, it is not Check Point's fault. It is something where you have to correlate whether you had an outage or lost a node. You still have to report that. It still looks like that your Check Point firewall went down, so guilty until proven innocent type of deal comes into play. That has been a little bit more challenging than when it is your hardware on-premises. Outside of a power issue or an upstream switch, if something goes wrong in the box, it is not on Check Point. At that point, you can hammer down to the cloud. Having shared resources makes it a little bit difficult to delineate. You have to go case by case.
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reviewer2355630
Sr Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
It is very stable. I would rate it a ten out of ten for stability.
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reviewer2379408
Sr Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Its stability is amazing. We have never had any weird downtime issues with our CloudGuard firewalls.
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RajivT
Senior System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
I would rate it a ten out of ten for stability. It has been running since we put it up.
View full review »It feels very stable to me.
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reviewer2355798
IT Advisor at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Check Point overall is pretty stable. We can rely on them. This is one of the key reasons why we stuck with Check Point for more than 20 years.
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reviewer2350659
Network and Security Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It is tricky to distinguish because we have the software and we have the instance. There is the tricky part of AWS not sharing some information around the instances where the software runs and then saying that it is a software issue and not sharing deeper details. Check Point struggles with having that information directly from AWS.
So, there is room for improvement if Check Point wants to be a native-use solution in AWS, for example, which is our main provider. It is tricky, and I understand. It is also about how Amazon or AWS manages their data centers. They do not disclose some information. In terms of throughput, performance, etcetera, they do have the numbers, but when it comes to some issues, nobody can explain or when an issue is from a network background, there is no explanation. Finger-pointing is not a solution.
There should be more sharing of information between them directly, not involving the customer. In the end, we were able to sort things out. We had to read between the lines. They were not disclosing exactly what was the problem. Check Point did not see any issues with the software, and in the end, it was about how the instances in a shared environment inside the AWS run and how they control the resources on each virtual machine that the customer runs. That is their way of doing business. AWS wanted to run it on a bigger box. In the end, I was able to overcome all the issues with a different instance type that was never proposed to us. It was a matter of the CPU generation that was being used on the instance. It was not the fact that the machine was not able to cope with it.
View full review »Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten since it takes too much time for deployment. However, it is flexible since we used to push the policy normally. It takes hardly ten seconds to install the policy. It's much easier.
View full review »From our experience in five years, it has been very stable.
View full review »We haven't had any stability issues so far.
View full review »It's stable.
View full review »It provides excellent stability capabilities.
View full review »The product offers amazing stability and we had no discomfort or hassle in the setup.
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Dan Ramsell
Head of customer operations at Pentesec Limited
CloudGuard Network Security has improved its stability. It is a stable platform.
View full review »CloudGuard Network Security is stable.
View full review »In terms of stability and reliability, the virtual machine running CloudGuard functions seamlessly and as anticipated, demonstrating no issues or disruptions.
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reviewer2115711
Web Designer at Milestone Technologies, Inc.
It is stable with faster performance rates.
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reviewer2005803
Digital Coordinator at Modis
The product's stable performance has stimulated business growth.
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GeraldChege
ICT Officer at Kenyatta National Hospital
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is very stable.
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Tsachi Mishori
Network and Security Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is always running. Its availability is high because it is located in two different data centers. This is the purpose of the cloud. It is located in two data centers in two different countries. We have placed one in Frankfurt, and the other one is in Amsterdam or London. That is the advantage. Because it is not the same country or city, the availability is great.
View full review »It is stable. I cannot remember a time when we had any issues with it. Our operations are 24/7.
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GGNOOB
IT Security Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We haven't had any stability issues with the product so far.
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reviewer2350671
Cloud Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The product is stable.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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Alex Tremblay
Cyber Security Manager at H2O Power Limited Partnership
I've had no problems with its stability or reliability. It's been up and running since then. We've done some patching of the system. And we've built it to be highly available so that we could shut certain ones down and bring other ones up. As we've done that, we've had no outages, nothing even close; nothing that would be of impact, since the implementation.
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reviewer1832184
Senior Enterpirse Security Architect at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees
The overall stability is there. Our firewalls monitor our most crucial systems. If those firewalls went down, it would take out almost our entire cloud network.
View full review »CloudGuard Network security is stable.
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Raimondo Lemma
ICT Security Coordinator at Menarini
The solution is stable.
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reviewer2350668
Communication Department Manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is getting better. We faced issues a few years back. Its stability depends on Azure.
View full review »Check Point CloudGuard Network Security maintains very good stability, and, best of all, maintains excellent compatibility with Azure.
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reviewer2029350
Database Administrator at Ordina
I am impressed by the overall output. It has been stable.
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reviewer2350692
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
CloudGuard Network Security's stability is high.
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reviewer2353200
Sr Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
CloudGuard Network Security is very stable.
View full review »This is a stable solution.
Six months ago, we updated our version to the most recent one.
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AmitSingh14
Security lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
In terms of stability, it's rock solid. I haven't encountered much trouble over the past three and a half years.
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reviewer2098998
Software Engineer at Mercado Libre
The CloudGuard security system is ever-stable.
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reviewer2024712
Planning Analyst at Ovato
This platform is stable and has improved the network security in the organization.
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reviewer1026111
IT Security Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
In terms of the stability, so far everything is good. We have had no problems.
View full review »The product's stability is good.
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reviewer2350638
Platform Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Stability is generally good, and I don't have many complaints due to its scalability. When there are hardware issues, it automatically sets up a new, healthy instance. Overall, it contributes to a stable environment for us.
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reviewer2355813
Director comercial at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It is a stable product. I haven't heard any problems or complaints from my customers.
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reviewer2379468
Principal Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
As for scalability, it could be even better with VRF support, as it would allow for more efficient scaling without the need to deploy separate firewalls for different workloads.
The solution's stability is good.
View full review »The product's stability is good.
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reviewer1459770
Advisory Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The stability is great. There are no real issues with it. Even when half of AWS went down last week at some point, our stuff stayed up. Check Point is actually fine, it's more of just whether or not AWS is going to stay alive.
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M Poczobut
CISO and Senior Director Technical Operations at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
The stability has been great. There has been no concern at all. We have not had any known downtime or issues to speak of.
View full review »The stability of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is very good.
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Oleg Pekar
Senior Network/Security Engineer at Skywind Group
The solution is stable and we haven't had any support cases opened that are connected with it.
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Genesis Floresta
Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Its stability was really good.
View full review »The stability is good. It's really good compared with Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Cisco, most of all. But it definitely can be better.
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reviewer2173215
Delivery Executive at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
CloudGuard is stable.
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reviewer2353203
Network and Security Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
There were no major stability issues, although switching gateways could cause some downtime, approximately a minute until the new gateway is fully deployed.
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reviewer2350686
Cloud engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
CloudGuard Network Security's stability is good.
View full review »The solution is stable.
View full review »I cannot remember the last time I had an issue. It is stable, but every product has a few bugs. If you maintain the configuration and the versions, everything is fine.
View full review »CloudGuard Network Security is stable. I haven't encountered any issues with its stability.
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reviewer2178546
Network security architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The product is stable.
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reviewer2173371
Consultant at a consultancy
The solution is good. I'd rate the stability a nine out of ten.
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Oleg Pekar
Senior Network/Security Engineer at Skywind Group
The Check Point CloudGuard IaaS is stable product, and in fact it runs the same code as the hardware Check Point NGFWs, so no issues were encountered there.
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Jose Mendes
Network Security Engineer/Architect at Euronext Technologies SAS
It is a stable solution. It has been pretty stable for us. We haven't faced any problems since it rolled out.
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
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reviewer2350683
Network security at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We had issues with stability. We have an open ticket at the support regarding this.
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ChrisDagal
Enterprise Security Lead
The solution is stable.
View full review »We have had many performance issues with Check Point CloudGuard on the cloud. The issue is with the OS version at this point.
View full review »We find the stability to be good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
View full review »The solution is generally stable although it crashed one time while I was implementing.
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reviewer897588
Network Security Engineer at a government
The solution is very stable.
View full review »The stability of the solution is fantastic.
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reviewer1010472
Architect, Network - Service Lead - Design Services at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We definitely have to watch new versions and deploy them in a smart way, but that is the way with any type of software.
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Oswald Polo
Electronic Engineer at eBTel Cia. Ltda.
While the stability is okay, the servers could use more RAM memory.
View full review »It is pretty stable.
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reviewer1193514
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The product is very stable so far. We haven't had any issues. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches. The performance is reliable.
View full review »I find this product stable. It's a good product.
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reviewer1348143
IT Professional at a government with 10,001+ employees
I would rate stability as average, too. It's not the best, but it's also not the worst.
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Jose Mendes
Network Security Engineer/Architect at Euronext Technologies SAS
It was always very stable, so we deployed it and now we only manage the policy, the application control, and the IPS. In terms of stability, it's very stable.
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Siju Siju
Assistant Manager IT Projects at Mustafa Sultan Office Technology Co. LLC
Check Point is very stable. I would say that initially there were a couple of issues we had during deployments. But now we have climbed the learning curve of the product and all installations are very stable. We have most clients running on version 7.3 and didn't upgrade most further from there because we know that 7.3 is stable and it is what we are running most of the customers now.
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reviewer2350698
Sysadmin at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
CloudGuard Network Security's stability is good.
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NtwrkSec67
Network and Security Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a high-performance device. The network performance is also really good. We check how much time it takes for the servers. Our network performance has increased since using this solution.
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VikasSharma
Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
No, because we keep on top of our installations. We maintain them by performing routine maintenance, and hot-fix applications. Stability wise the product is stable but we had issues when we had really old hardware that had a less than stable OS.
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PRAPHULLA DESHPANDE
Associate Consult at Atos
Need to focus on stability.
View full review »I've got Check Point systems that have not been rebooted in two years, so it is quite stable.
View full review »No stability issues, not even once. The firewall is set up and and the various parts are interconnected. It works just fine. R80.1 is also a major improvement.
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reviewer1392531
Dy General Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
We found the solution to be stable when we were using it. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's not buggy and it doesn't have glitches.
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SeniorNe6125
Senior Network Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is fast. It provides what we need at the moment, and it's still growing.
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VinodKumar8
Cybersecurity Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is stable.
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No issues with stability but it completely depends on how you/ at what stage you implement. Additionally, what features you enable.
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cofounde574329
Co-founder & CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We have not encountered any problems with stability.
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reviewer1203795
Business Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's very stable.
View full review »The program is very stable.
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.