We compared VMware NSX and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security based on our users' reviews in six categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: VMware NSX's setup process is intricate and time-consuming, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is praised for its simplicity. VMware NSX boasts advanced features like virtual switches, micro-segmentation, distributed firewall, and integration with VMware Hypervisor. Conversely, Check Point CloudGuard Network Security receives accolades for its VPN Blade, IPS Blade, URL filtering, and Applications Control Blade. Both products are considered pricey, but Check Point CloudGuard Network Security offers good security and value. The ROI for VMware NSX is generally positive, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has demonstrated a valuable return on investment. Customer service and support for both have received mixed feedback.
"Moving into the cloud without having to change a lot of our internal processes and retrain staff is one of the biggest benefits of this solution."
"The easy management of the policies is great for us because we are a small team and having easy management is great and useful for us."
"This solution brings us closer to having a better security score, which helps us a lot in complying with information regulations based on security."
"The 24/7 online customer support services enhance effective operations and provide quick services in case of a system failure."
"The solution is easier to manage than an on-premise firewall. It is easy to manage. The use of dynamic objects for these gateways made it easy to create the right rules and the right policies. Integration with Azure is also easy where we have to just add the subnets. In an on-premise setup, we have to add everything from scratch. We can automate a lot of actions."
"Customers appreciate the CME plugin for automatically understanding assets within the cloud. This information appears in the manager, allowing users to tag the assets and adjust policies and rules accordingly."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The product gives analytic reports."
"The micro-segmentation and the ability to create policy rules are valuable."
"It provides a single pane of glass. You can do the switching, routing, load balancing, IPS, IDS, etc. Everything is under one umbrella. So, there is no vendor dependency over there."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the load balancing and routing of firewall rules. Many of the features are beneficial."
"The firewall is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are the micro-segmentation and integrated security options."
"It is easy to implement it."
"Provides protection for virtual machines."
"The most valuable features are security and dynamic routing."
"We miss full blade support for all blades that are compatible with the cluster. Especially notable is the lack of support for Identity Awareness in active standby environments for customers. In our setup, transitioning to Connective clusters would be preferable for maintaining connections during failover situations."
"I hope that Check Point continues to improve its technical documentation regarding the Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateway and management system."
"The documentation could be much better."
"The operations require skilled manpower with extended experience of working with networking systems for better results."
"Most clients nowadays tend to move to the cloud and their data security is key. If CloudGuard could be able to give the client that full visibility of how their data is protected on the cloud, then that would be a great selling point for Check Point."
"Its architecture and user interface need improvement. The user experience for this solution also needs to be improved, particularly in implementation, management, and operations."
"With the incorporation of a lot of AI and machine learning, they can build some sort of a matrix for low-level threats or low-level things that require attention. There can be automation of those tasks so that we don't have to take more time and effort. There should be machine learning to eliminate level-one types of tasks."
"We are at the place where we are looking at better integration with the management system. We use an MDS today, and it is self-deployed. We want to get to the Smart-1 Cloud, but we do not know what that looks like today because it does not support a multi-domain setup. Smart-1 should either be able to do multi-domain or there should be some form of taking a multi-domain environment and putting it in Smart-1."
"Lacks integration with other solutions."
"We've have had good and bad experiences with them. We don't always find them to be so impactful. Sometimes the support guy isn't so on top of resolving the issue and it can take a while to sort out."
"The solution is complex but for the key user, it's not really complex. You just need to learn the standards and mechanics for your specific product."
"It needs to be cheaper."
"Everybody needs a network to connect to, and VMware doesn't readily provide one."
"The solution could benefit from improvements in its pricing and scalability."
"VMware NSX should be able to scale for different customers, even the big ones. Its scalability needs improvement. Stability for it should also be improved."
"The solution can improve by making it more straightforward, easier to install and maintain in the environment."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 119 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 1st in Cloud and Data Center Security with 93 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. VMware NSX report.
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