We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management and Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management provides solid data security, advanced incident detection, and detailed reporting. It offers IAM role control and governance support. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation has been praised for its automated policy writing and visibility into application communication and network protocols. Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management could be more customizable and improve its false positives rate and vulnerability assessments. Users suggested that Zero Trust Segmentation should support more operating systems and improve its labeling functionality.
Service and Support: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management customer service has garnered positive feedback, highlighting prompt responses and pleasant support experiences. Some Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation customers commended the support team, while others expressed discontentment.
Ease of Deployment: The setup for Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is fast and straightforward, requiring only a few minutes. Setting up Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is significantly lengthier, taking around six months to finish.
Pricing: Some users found Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management affordable, but a few reviewers thought it was expensive and recommend exploring alternative options. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is generally considered expensive.
ROI: Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management provided our reviewers with a solid return by simplifying administration and compliance solutions. We have not received feedback on ROI from Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation users.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management over Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation. CloudGuard is praised for its comprehensive data security, granular reporting, and ruleset customization. It offers visibility into traffic flow, threat detection, and real-time attack prevention. Users appreciate its intuitive dashboard, powerful reporting, and ability to enhance security. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is criticized for its limited operating system support and lack of effective agents in certain environments. Users also desire better customer service and improved data security.
"The way they offer container security is a big highlight that I have noticed. The solution is also agentless, so the scanning, runtime, really everything is offered directly by CloudGuard."
"The visibility in our cloud environment is the most valuable feature."
"The administration portal panel is very intuitive."
"The system has deployed security tools to enhance effective investigations in the entire company networking system."
"It offers advanced detection of threats that can harm data from the cloud database."
"The reporting against compliance is an important feature that helps you comply with policies and standards within your organization."
"The solution has intelligence that integrates with a range of threat intelligence feeds, including Check Point's ThreatCloud, to provide real-time intelligence on emerging threats."
"It is able to bring visibility into that cloudy space where the security departments do not really see what is happening on the DevOps side. It brings visibility, security control, and standardization."
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We have had some issues with the performance. In some cases, the performance of CloudGuard CNAPP is impacted. Particularly during the intensive security scans in high-traffic environments, there has been a performance impact."
"Almost all features are good, however, they still require improvements to the code security portion on which integration with the major source code repository is required."
"The Check Point solution is somewhat expensive."
"Reporting should have more options."
"The costs are really high if you want the entire capabilities of the platform."
"There are opportunities for improvement that can be addressed through a roadmap."
"I'd like to see more advanced encryption for local features, which is not present right now."
"The Check Point Infinity admin portal sometimes freezes."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 7th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 63 reviews while Illumio is ranked 4th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 8 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.6, while Illumio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP writes "Threat intel integration provides us visibility in case any workload is communicating with suspicious or blacklisted IPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Qualys VMDR, whereas Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. See our Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs. Illumio report.
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