We compared Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security based on our users' reviews in five categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation has a straightforward setup process, taking approximately six months to complete. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is also easy to set up, but complexity may vary depending on the environment and requirements. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation's customer service received mixed feedback, with some users praising the support team and others expressing dissatisfaction. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's customer support team is generally reliable, but there are complaints about response time, especially for global support. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation requires a subscription and is considered expensive overall. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is also considered expensive, but the cost may vary depending on the size of the organization and the country.
"The most valuable feature for us is the cluster support."
"The product gives analytic reports."
"The product offers an easy and nice way to manage the gateways, similar to on-prem hardware. It has packet filtering features. Our security operations are faster and less prone to errors. We selected CloudGuard Network Security due to its visibility."
"I like the firewall and the virtual machine. I also like that it's compatible with Amazon Web Services and Azure."
"Its centralized control, ease of use, and flexibility are the most valuable for our data center security."
"The IPS, application and URL filtering, as well as Identity Awareness, are all very valuable features."
"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 comprehensiveness of the CloudGuard’s threat prevention security is great, especially once they integrate Dome9 in the whole thing. That really ties the whole thing together, so you can tie your entire cloud environment together into one central location, which is nice. Previously, we had three or four different tools that we were trying to leverage to do the same stuff that we are able to do with CloudGuard."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"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."
"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 solution is easy to use."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"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."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"I haven't used CloudGuard Network Security in the past couple of years as I moved out of the network security role. However, based on my previous experience, there were improvements, especially in in-place upgrades. Regarding cost, it might be potentially cheaper considering resource utilization in Azure and VM costs, but licensing could be improved, possibly moving towards a simpler model."
"The solution’s technical support, DNS security and training could be improved."
"New features have been introduced recently, but they have not yet been integrated into CloudGuard Vsec."
"At CPX, we heard that we can see all the things on the same platform. That is what we have been asking for, and hopefully, we are going to start seeing it this year."
"This application can be more integrated with web application firewalls. Better integrations would provide more granularity, which would be helpful for focusing on the application itself and preventing attacks. It would be good to include the cross-domain search. If you have multiple firewalls that are managed on the same platform and you want to check who is using some particular objects or where a specific ID is being used, it should provide an option for this kind of search instead of having to check one by one on each firewall."
"A threat categorization system can be added to give users the authority to define vulnerable attacks and classify areas that can threaten the workflow system."
"The initial deployment using the ARM template in Azure was straightforward, but migrating to Terraform added complexity, although we managed to make it work."
"The migration to TerraForm is a little more complicated, but we made it work."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"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."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 117 reviews while Illumio is ranked 4th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 8 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Illumio 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 Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, 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 Network Security vs. Illumio report.
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