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.
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"Cloud Native Security is user-friendly. Everything in the Cloud Native Security tool is straightforward, including detections, integration, reporting, etc. They are constantly improving their UI by adding plugins and other features."
"The UI is responsive and user-friendly."
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"PingSafe's integration is smooth. They are highly customer-oriented, and the integration went well for us."
"PingSafe stands out for its user-friendly interface and intuitive software, making it easy to navigate and use."
"All the features we use are equal and get the job done."
"The most valuable features of PingSafe are the asset inventory and issue indexing."
"The rulesets and the findings are valuable. The actual core functionality of it and the efficacy of events are great."
"Its monitoring and alerts are triggered by a failure or non-compliance with policies. It helps us to be able to act effectively and quickly."
"The system has deployed security tools to enhance effective investigations in the entire company networking system."
"The audit feature is the most valuable for compliance reasons. It gives you a full view of the whole environment, no matter how many accounts you have in AWS or Azure. You have it all under one umbrella."
"The solution is scalable."
"The tool is also very intuitive; its dashboards are very complete and provide a lot of valuable information for decision-making to improve security."
"The feature that I value the most about Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is the possibility of checking compliance with different standards. This compliance check can be performed for each subscription or service that we have on all the different cloud providers that we use."
"Good interface and visibility."
"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 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."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"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 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 is easy to use."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"There's an array of upcoming versions with numerous features to be incorporated into the roadmap. Customers particularly appreciate the service's emphasis on intensive security, especially the secret scanning aspect. During the proof of concept (POC) phase, the system is required to gather logs from the customer's environment. This process entails obtaining specific permissions, especially in terms of gateway access. While most permissions for POC are manageable, the need for various permissions may need improvement, especially in the context of security."
"They need more experienced support personnel."
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"There is a bit of a learning curve for new users."
"In addition to the console alerts, I would like PingSafe to also send email notifications."
"PingSafe can be improved by developing a comprehensive set of features that allow for automated workflows."
"Their search feature could be better."
"The resolution suggestions could be better, and the compliance features could be more customizable for Indian regulations. Overall, the compliance aspects are good. It gives us a comprehensive list, and its feedback is enough to bring us into compliance with regulations, but it doesn't give us the specific objects."
"Addressing the large amount of compliance information and benchmarks we need to observe, the tools are becoming our goto dashboards."
"I would like to see Test B functions at the application access level."
"The user interface could be improved. Sometimes, the visibility is not immediately available for the environment. We have the native servers that come with the solutions, but we cannot see them in the Check Point log. Another issue is with the integrated file monitoring. It would make sense to have stuff like file integrity monitoring and malware scanning available within this module because we don't want to integrate another product."
"Integration could be improved."
"The impact analysis that they perform can be improved. It is currently lacking. It should be more detailed."
"I would like to see tighter integration with other compliance tools, like Chef Compliance, in addition to Inspector."
"Reporting should have more options."
"CloudGuard could be improved by including integration with vendors other than AWS, especially Azure, especially in permissions."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"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."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"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."
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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 8th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 64 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, Wiz, AWS GuardDuty, 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 Zero Networks Microsegmentation. See our Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs. Illumio report.
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