We performed a comparison between Check Point Application Control and VMware Carbon Black App Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Control solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can easily switch from a classical firewall to a next-gen firewall using application security."
"The overall security of the environment has been greatly improved by the Check Point NGFWs. Before implementing the Check Point solutions, we relied on the Cisco ACLs and Zone-Based firewalls configured on the switches and routers, which in fact a simple stateful firewall, and currently appear to be not an efficient solution for protecting from the advanced threats."
"It improved the performance outcome for all our verticals due to more automation in system security, which helped in the identification and blockage of malware-affected applications and widgets."
"Among the features that we have used, we like being able to identify the identity of the user who is doing transactions."
"It blocks ransomware attacks that can affect performance-enhancing secure work environments with zero-day attacks."
"We can combine Application Control with Identity Awareness and URL Filtering to create security policies for users/groups based on characteristics about security, productivity and network bandwidth."
"One of the greatest capacities and the benefits it gives us is the ability to control applications based on defining access or denial policies in specific applications, groups, or category profiles."
"The product offers easy-to-install policies and makes it simple to troubleshoot application-related traffic."
"I use the console to check for threats and I find it to be very user-friendly."
"The visibility is valuable."
"The visibility, reporting, and the ability to stop or prevent malicious or undesired applications from being installed are the most valuable features."
"The effectiveness of application whitelisting is very good."
"If any malicious activity, like VAT viruses, anything RNE, ZOD malware, or something similar, comes in we know that unless we approve it, it's going to be blocked."
"We use App Control to scan the network for virtual machines that have unauthorized applications. We can isolate the problem VMs and control application access."
"All the functions within VMware Carbon Black App Control are valuable."
"The API integration is good."
"I think that the pricing for the Check Point products should be reconsidered - we found it to be quite expensive to purchase and to maintain (the licenses and the support services need to be prolonged regularly), or create some additional bundles of the software blades with significant discounts in addition to the current Next Generation Threat Prevention & SandBlast (NGTX) and Next Generation Threat Prevention (NGTP) offers."
"It would be nice if there was a platform and small application owners could come and send their own applications' name and IP information from there."
"The set performance monitoring systems are complex to interpret and scale down their operations."
"Check Point is a fairly complete security vendor, however we would like to have a better SLA for technical support issues."
"Check Point Application Control needs to ensure that they release up-to-date security patches regularly. It should release better documentation so end-users can use the product without depending on the support team."
"The learning curve for new users is challenging since the integrated data models are complicated."
"They need to improve the graphical interface."
"Custom applications for internal applications must be defined frequently."
"Its setup is very complex, and it requires guidance from the support team, but it is well worth the effort."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex."
"Carbon Black does not use the database for identifying the file, the fields, or malware."
"I would like to see the addition of some more features that are in other, similar solutions."
"The reporting is not good and needs to be improved."
"The solution should have overhead in keeping lists of applications that you want don't want to run."
"I rate App Control six out of 10 for scalability."
"Another issue is that even sometimes if you approve, for example, Adobe as a publisher, you say any product or anything that's from Adobe has to run. It generally runs, but especially in a large environment and with a lot of users, sometimes, due to some certification validation issues or some other issue, it might stop the process from running. Genuine processes like Adobe and Chrome can get blocked. so that needs to be improved."
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Check Point Application Control is ranked 2nd in Application Control with 34 reviews while VMware Carbon Black App Control is ranked 1st in Application Control with 8 reviews. Check Point Application Control is rated 8.8, while VMware Carbon Black App Control is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Application Control writes "Reliable, reduces management requirements, and lessens manual interventions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Carbon Black App Control writes "We can isolate problem machines and limit their access". Check Point Application Control is most compared with Ivanti Application Control and WatchGuard Application Control, whereas VMware Carbon Black App Control is most compared with McAfee Application Control, ThreatLocker Elevation Control, Ivanti Application Control and Zscaler CASB. See our Check Point Application Control vs. VMware Carbon Black App Control report.
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