We performed a comparison between Check Point Application Control and McAfee Application Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Check Point Software Technologies, McAfee and others in Application Control."Among the features that we have used, we like being able to identify the identity of the user who is doing transactions."
"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."
"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."
"Being able to choose specific applications in our policy rule base in order to better manage access and bandwidth utilization has had a significantly positive impact on our environment and saved a lot of management time."
"It has many important features that have greatly helped the company and the IT department."
"The most outstanding feature is the Check Point APK wiki."
"It ensures that the health of each application can handle the set tasks and projects without any challenges."
"This solution is stable and we have not had any issues."
"We also like the Change Control. We can control how things get executed. It has signatures for different kinds of protocols."
"This is a basic solution; the policy screen is okay, and it's easy to configure."
"More and more product specifications should be infused with new incumbent features in the market to stay relevant and concurrent with the organization's needs."
"We expect applications to be updated regularly."
"One of our continued challenges is having a more accurate, real-time view of how our bandwidth is actually being used at any given moment."
"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 is expensive."
"I would like this layer to be faster to install in the future."
"It's important that there is the option to validate the policies before applying them."
"Custom applications for internal applications must be defined frequently."
"The intrusion detection features should also be improved. It is a very good feature but it should be maximized."
"I would like to see better reporting and alerting features in the future."
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Check Point Application Control is ranked 2nd in Application Control with 34 reviews while McAfee Application Control is ranked 3rd in Application Control. Check Point Application Control is rated 8.8, while McAfee Application Control is rated 7.6. 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 McAfee Application Control writes "Has signatures for different kinds of protocols but the licensing model is confusing ". Check Point Application Control is most compared with VMware Carbon Black App Control, Ivanti Application Control and WatchGuard Application Control, whereas McAfee Application Control is most compared with VMware Carbon Black App Control.
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