We performed a comparison between Check Point IPS and WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)."User-friendly and easy to implement."
"The notifications are the most valuable feature of the solution."
"There's less admin burden to detect these threats as Check Point IPS will do it all for you and suggest the best preventive actions to protect the network."
"IPS logs enable complete visibility and reporting through the smart console."
"Check Point helps reduce downtime and costs associated with detected cyberattacks and can block those threats to ensure protection from any significant damage that may be caused within the organization."
"Some of the features for views and visualization are already predefined as default files."
"The Check Point IPS module allows me granularity in creating rules."
"Protection in real-time is very good. It helps us detect things on time and make decisions to improve perimeter security."
"It works right out of the box. You just have to enable it and you can start working."
"The initial setup was straightforward and, because we only need intrusion detection and prevention, we needed only about four hours to deploy it."
"The alarm system is valuable."
"The most important feature of this solution is the SLAs."
"The VPN and the filtering features are the most valuable. Its VPN is very strong, and its services are very nice. The main problem in India is the service. There are not enough Check Point and Fortinet Firewall services, but for this product, the service is very good."
"The pain point that I have with this solution is contacting technical support."
"This is an expensive solution, higher than other products on the market."
"There is no standalone IPS appliance available."
"There are a lot of false positives. I would like to see integration with some kind of network detection and response in order to make some automation on IPS configuration."
"When exceptions need to be done for certain profiles, it is easy to get them done, however, implementation on some general ones may cause some extra work as the IPS is not easy to overwrite."
"Sometimes Check Point documentation is not always updated, which is why when some implementations change, it generates confusion about details."
"I hear from my admin that the firmware upgrade process is quite cumbersome."
"It would be good to update the public documentation of Check Point so that we can generate improvements and best practices based on the documentation."
"Multi properties could be added to the solution in the future to make it better."
"I would like to see faster automatation."
"The user interface and configuration can be improved."
"Regarding technical support, they could use more engineers."
"Its graphical user interface could be improved because not everybody is technical. There is a lack of knowledge, and they can give some training for this solution."
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Check Point IPS is ranked 3rd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 45 reviews while WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is ranked 31st in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 5 reviews. Check Point IPS is rated 8.6, while WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is rated 6.6. The top reviewer of Check Point IPS writes "Great for detection and access with the capabilities of defining specific rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service writes "Good VPN and filtering features, 100% stable, but needs a better graphical user interface and more training". Check Point IPS is most compared with Darktrace, Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Cisco NGIPS, whereas WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate IPS and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT.
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