Check Point Infinity Reviews

We have main offices in Brazil and branch offices in each of our state capitals. So, we have 26 branch offices in total. Each branch office used to have a small Check Point appliance. We're moving away from that model; they won't access the internet directly anymore. Instead, they'll pass through a central kind of star network.

We use two levels of firewalls: an external firewall and an internal firewall. We have a DMZ between these two firewall clusters with high availability. Each firewall has IPS, web content filtering, bot protection, and antivirus enabled. We'll contract some of those features as part of an MSSP service. We don't buy products or appliances directly.

Our procurement requirements allow other manufacturers to participate. The decision isn't ours or the integrator's – it's how we buy in Brazil. The vendor offering the lowest price for a product that meets the requirements wins. We cannot choose a specific brand or product name.

Before contracting the MSSP, we had an IPS (I don't remember if it was Check Point). However, we only detected signatures; we weren't confident enough to block them due to false positives. For the past 10 years, we have had a procedure where we get new signatures weekly, test for false positives, and set exclusions. Most relevant signatures are now in use, so the IPS is an important layer of protection for us. So, Check Point Infinity's threat prevention capabilities benefitted our organization.

We haven't had any problems with integration, but we don't need many integrations. The main one is with SIEM. The bigger issue is that we use ArcSight as our SIEM. It's very difficult to migrate from one SIEM solution to another.

We are on the journey of moving to the cloud right now. We had on-premises services, but we are going to move to a cloud environment where we have Azure and AWS Cloud. Because of this, the new solution will have virtual firewalls at the edge of each cloud.

I like all the features because within the suite we use, it's sometimes hard to know exactly which features are being used and where they come from. 

But, the main feature is the integration with Active Directory, where you can allow or deny traffic based on users or groups of users from Active Directory.

We have had some performance issues. Because of this, we had to redirect traffic to be analyzed by other appliances. I'm not sure if higher-end appliances would still have this problem. 

We also experienced issues with deploying new configuration versions to all branch appliances, but we won't be using this setup anymore. We don't know exactly how the virtual appliances will work to protect the cloud. It's a new thing for us.

I have been using it for 14 years now.

I would rate the stability an eight out of ten. We've had some problems in the past.

We had an issue with scalability before. We think the technology changes caused by mobile traffic impacted our appliances. Since we're buying a bigger solution now, I think we won't have this problem this time. 

Check Point engineers were involved, and they suggested we use a virtual appliance to remove this traffic from our physical appliance.

We've had some difficult experiences sometimes, such as we have to send again files and information.  

Neutral

We had another solution a long time ago. It was a small, free solution, very difficult to compare. We've used Check Point for a long time, so it's impossible to make a fair comparison.

We also use Azure Sentinel, but we do not receive logs from security solutions. It's possible we'll migrate to Azure Sentinel in the future. Nowadays, it's difficult to use a SIEM that is local and not cloud-based.

The initial setup will be done by the MSSP provider, not us. They'll handle the appliances, configuration, and integration. When we pay, everything must be working perfectly, and the documentation must be delivered to us.

The first deployment took about nine months because we changed the active tool. The second deployment was a bit different and took about six months. This timeline includes everything: equipment and features, but it also has solutions that aren't exactly Check Point firewalls, like the WAF (Web Application Firewall) or integration with SIEMs—also, the implementation of use cases in the SIEM.

There are two teams involved in the deployment: our team and the supplier's team. Usually, there are three or four people from the supplier and the same number from us.

It's maintained by the supplier. We have an SLA (Service Level Agreement) in place. They install, maintain, and manage the entire solution. We are a user of the solution; we open tickets to them, and they make the configurations. They're also responsible for availability and other aspects.

I would recommend it. However, Check Point could improve its tech support systems. If they had more engineers in Brazil, I think it would be good.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

My company's clients use Check Point Infinity to protect their data.

The most valuable features of the solution stem from factors like ease of use, visibility, and cost to the enterprise.

Endpoints are an area of concern when it comes to Check Point Infinity. There are some issues around the marketing of the endpoint solution, because of which it is not as prominent as other players in the market. The endpoint solutions offered by Check Point are not prominent enough in the market due to Check Point's poor marketing efforts. If the marketing for the endpoint solutions offered by Check Point is done properly, then Check Point can get a more thorough positioning in the marketplace.

I have been using Check Point Infinity for two years. My company is a reseller of products from Check Point and Palo Alto. I have experience with the solution's latest version.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

My company's clients who use Check Point Infinity are mostly enterprise-sized companies.

I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

Positive

The deployment process of the tool can be completed in a few hours.

The solution is deployed on the cloud and on-premises.

I rate the product's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

A payment of 15,000 USD needs to be made towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing costs attached to the solution.

I recommend the solution to those who plan to use it.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

Infinity is a single platform where you can integrate all the Check Point solutions such as Check Point Email Security, Check Point Endpoint Protection, Check Point SaaS, Check Point web proxy solutions, and Check Point Firewall. It can be integrated into the Infinity portal, and we can manage and configure it from the Infiniti portal.

Infinity is a technical console where we have to log in, and we can navigate to all the products very easily because it is written in a normal installation. People who know about the product can click and take care of their activity.

Technical support is pretty delayed. It's very slow, and they have not yet received their IT. Compared to other OEMs, Check Point's response is a bit slow but could have been improved. There are two areas to improve: The latency of the sandboxing and the technical support efficacy.

I have been using Check Point Infinity for five years.

I never felt any downtime or any login issues. Whenever I try to log in, it happens properly and normally.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten.

5,000 end users are using the solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.

The initial setup is very straightforward. Also, the OEM vendor will help you with the login, configure the authentication, get into the login, or get into the console, load your device, and start configuring it.

Check Point Infinity offers numerous benefits. It provides peace of mind by simplifying security management. It is responsible for on-premises security, allowing users to configure it anywhere. Additionally, it enables seamless remote connection, even if the user is away from the central point. It's the latest in security technology, offering immense value.

Customers need to pay yearly.

Infiniti is a portal that integrates multiple products.

It's a unified management console. I'm able to manage all the solutions and products from my single Infinity console regardless of multiple branches across the globe, anywhere in the world, and they can be controlled from a single console. The major benefit is the SaaS offering. So, customers don't have to manage everything or keep any infrastructure on-premises; it's completely provided by Check Point, with data centers integrated into Infinity. Thus, there are no data integration problems.

Check Point Infinity is well known for its CDR (Content Disarm and Reconstruction) technology rather than CRO (Customer Revenue Optimization) debt protection. This technology is primarily associated with its sandboxing capabilities. However, there is room for improvement in terms of latency when scanning and delivering attachments, links, or files. Although the delay is often negligible, competitors may offer faster results with their sandboxing solutions.

For customers prioritizing robust security, performance, and stability, Check Point can be an excellent choice. Their extensive technical expertise and global deployments contribute to the reliability of their products. With the Infinity architecture, which facilitates comprehensive threat coverage, Check Point offers scalability, reliability, and expandability across various infrastructure needs.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

The Infinity Portal is primarily a management tool. It's a single pane of glass to access and control all our Check Point products from one central location.

I work extensively with the Infinity Portal. It's the central management interface for all our Check Point products.

It has brought value. For example, a customer already has Check Point solutions in place. Rather than opening a separate console for each product, they can use the Infinity Portal. Just open Infinity, and with a single click, they're redirected to the product they need – email security, Harmony Connect, Harmony Internet Access, for example. It eliminates the need to open multiple interfaces.

It's how we manage products like Harmony Mobile, which enhances our mobile security.

Infinity is a platform. The zero-day protection capabilities would come from the specific products we use within it. 

My primary work involves Check Point firewalls and the Harmony product portfolio. We've definitely seen a lot of focus and new business growth in areas like Harmony and Arbor.

It's very easy to access and works fine for me. Centralizing the management of all our Check Point products in one place saves our team a ton of time.

Infinity is a platform rather than a specific security feature. It provides a central access point for our purchased Check Point products like Harmony Email, Harmony Connect, Harmony Browser, Harmony VPN, etc.

The unified management console enhances security operations. We manage all our products through a single console instead of needing to open separate interfaces for each one.

The updates could be less frequent. 

I have been using it for six years now. 

I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. Stability is always important. I haven't faced any issues with the Infinity Portal in the last six or seven years.

There is no need for scalability as it is a ready-made and web-based product that we got from Check Point. Most of our customers use it, for example, firewalls, Harmony product portfolio, and cloud/network security. Most of these customers find the Infinity Portal beneficial because of its convenience.

There are easily over a hundred customers. Customers already using Check Point products are, by default, using the Infinity Portal to access them. Even I use it.

The customer service and support are very good. It is very fast and customer friendly. It has been very friendly. 

It's incredibly easy. Once you have a Check Point account, the portal is ready to use. All you need is the URL.

As a cloud-based platform, so, there wasn't easy to difficult. It is a one-minute job. There are no specific requirements for the platform. 

One of the benefits is that there's no deployment required for the Infinity Portal itself. It's accessible via a simple URL.

There's no additional license requirement.

Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. It's reliable, stable, and very easy for anyone to access from anywhere.

The tool's most valuable feature for threat prevention is the encryption alarm. 
I find the centralized management console, including the log analyzer and reports in Check Point Infinity, extremely beneficial for enhancing security and operations efficiency in our enterprise. I would rate it a perfect ten out of ten, as it effectively helps us analyze logs,  and detect potential attacks. 

The tool's technical support lags. 

I have been using the product for six to seven months. 

I rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten. 

I rate the tool's scalability an eight point five out of ten. 

We used Trend Mico before Check Point Infinity.We currently have approximately 500 endpoints deployed. So far, the system is working seamlessly, and we haven't encountered any security issues. I'm confident in the product's security features. We are currently the documentation, and the support portal has been reliable, providing us with ample resources to troubleshoot any issues.

When it comes to price, the paramount consideration is the strength of the security. If the security measures provided by the product, such as Check Point Infinity, are robust and meet our requirements, price becomes a secondary concern.

For those considering Check Point Infinity, my advice is to gain hands-on experience and acquire a foundational understanding of the product before diving into the implementation process. I rate it a nine out of ten. 

We were looking for a solution that would allow us to establish a configuration with the different security devices remotely while centralizing management and including other products available at the security level. 

We looked into different options and brands that allowed us to establish, achieve and fulfill this need. This was one of the solutions that met all of these aforementioned characteristics, thus giving us 360º protection and accommodation in terms of managing security services. 

This solution gave us the freedom to be an institution with its own security team, which has allowed us to establish ourselves. It is one of the best brands and products in terms of centralization. It allows us to establish all security products or security software under a single pane with a single view of a centralized dashboard. We are managing everything from there and have been able to handle threat prevention. It has allowed us, in a complete way, to handle expanded organizational scope. 

The portal gives us many advantages. 

It has great internal analytics, which contains artificial intelligence. It has the ability to be managed centrally and acquire and consume computing power from the cloud. This means that we will make a payment for the use of the services and a payment for the licensing. Additionally, computing power doesn't all come in a single license. We can take a single product and enable and facilitate it as necessary, making all of these capabilities and features available as needed. 

We need improvement around the Smart-1 cloud solution. It is included in the Infinity service, and it needs to be able to be restarted only from the background, with the brand's specialists - not done in an autonomous way. Developing this aspect and making it available to everyone consuming the services through the platform would help us manage many of the incidents due to cosmetic errors that can happen on the platform. 

I've used the solution for one year.

Today we have the need to protect various infrastructures we have. We have infrastructure on-premise and in the cloud, and we have a variety of branches. All of the infrastructures has demanded greater security from us. We needed a new and evolved way of managing equipment and the security of our infrastructure. As a result of all these concerns, we have been adopting innovative security technologies, and this is where we have added additional value to the protection that we want to give to each of the places where we have hosted data and information. We have been adopting the themes of Infinity Cloud to have total protection.

Infinity has come to give us total protection. It has come to cover branches, devices, infrastructure, different clouds, and various types of sites where we host data, and we need to share it between the different regions we have a presence in. It has given us the protection that we did not have before.

The segmentation and management came in decentralized, which means that this has given us protection while providing the ability to centralize a single portal for our security teams so that each one of them can administer and manage everything. Infinity is of great value as it can centralize all those dashboards. Before we had them separate.

Everyone who uses Check Point products has been realizing that it has been innovating in immense ways. Before we had the perimeter network administration teams in one place, with the management of mobile devices or web browsing handled separately. Today, we have them in a centralized place and are managing (in different tabs) the security of each of its devices, branches, clouds, etc. It is a more efficient way to take advantage of all the computing power and intelligence behind it. And it has additional AI.

In the future, I would like to see new developments that allow us to centralize the cloud. Infinity Cloud is one of the most powerful clouds in security where a number of sites or technological capabilities have been established to protect our networks, our equipment, and our infrastructure, however, in the future what we could have is a comprehensive and novel way for new or additional features to protect services such as blockchain or web services3.

I've used the solution for one year.

As part of a large organization, this product gained the visibility of our security team thanks to its reputation of having the most advanced technology against the latest cyber threats. 

It protects everything, from cloud and company networks to endpoints and mobile devices, by adopting Check Point Infinity security architecture as a strategy to neutralize fifth-generation threats that spread fast and at a large scale through different vectors. 

We also saved money in our security implementation measures with this solution.

Check Point Infinity's security framework requires all users to be authorized and authenticated regardless they're from within or outside the organization. In order to maintain or gain more access to applications and data, the users have to be continuously validated by posture and security checkpoints as if there was no traditional network edge. Whether the network's in the cloud, local, both, or hybrid, and regardless of the location of the worker, the solution is comprehensive to the digital transformation taking place. It opens lots of backdoors and exposes gaps consequence of non-stop data sharing.

You can tell this product's standards have gone through heavy validation and testing; it's always verifying access from all resources at all times. If a breach happens, it minimizes its impact, which is a determining factor of its efficiency (worst-case scenario behavior), and incorporates the data to strategize on the best possible responses with the most accurate neutralizing actions. It provides fantastic visibility of security incidents through deconstructing and dissecting the threat's infection protocol.

The management console has given us some trouble, and the documentation is a little bit rigid in its solution paths. We could use more audiovisual material with more examples of setups and configurations to minimize the need to discover the information we need in the extensive documents we have available. 

The support team is great. However, we don't want to be constantly on the phone with a technician for Q&A or even to open tickets to design our protocols the way the company requests them.