Check Point IPS Reviews

Check Point IPS was implemented two years ago to protect our infrastructure from threats.

It began by being implemented in local environments with a reduced staff to carry out the corresponding tests and not cause a total company blockage. Once the tests were over, we gradually extended to different departments. We began to use Check Point IPS to be able to provide security of Internet to users using the IPS and anti-virus anti-bot modules, we also apply them to invite us to enter the company and thus monitor outgoing Internet traffic and thus avoid malicious users. Prevention and detection are one of the most valuable pillars of security.

This tool has allowed us to obtain complete reports of the applications' vulnerabilities, which helps us remedy these vulnerabilities presented by the organization. 

It helped us a lot to monitor the internal traffic keeping monitored each server or user that enters the platform in this way Check Point IPS. It has allowed us to proactively reduce any incorrect configuration of network access that results from delegation. 

One of the points where Check Point needs to improve is in the support they offer, since there we have had a few inconveniences.

The implementation of Check Point IPS brought a lot of value to our organization with all the characteristics that the tool shows, starting with great visibility in a single dashboard, which makes it much better. You don't have to go through different tabs. 

Another feature is that it allows you to create multiple rule profiles. We can block directly from the outside without waiting to look at the logs.

With these and other features, Check Point IPS manages risk categories very well and accordingly helps us protect each of our devices in real-time.

It is always important to be improving the product to be at the forefront of technology. 

One of the improvements that would be good is to improve the latency in the portal. When entering, it always takes a long time to load. Also, when the tool is already running, you feel a slight decrease in performance.

The application has many facilities when using the tool. The configuration of each of the policies should have filters. 

We need to be able to understand and detect each of the vulnerabilities.

This solution has been used for approximately two year in the company.

It's very stable. We never had any issues of it stopping to work. It's been very stable.

We have not observed any significant performance impact on the firewall gateway by enabling the IPS module.

The Check Point engineer we dealt with during setup had a lot of experience. His working knowledge helped us with the implementation.

It is the first time that we've implemented a tool of this type.

We implemented the product in-house with the aid of support as part of a POC.

A Check Point engineer who had a lot of experience helped us with the implementation.

We implement the product internally with the help of support.

Attacks are prevented and detected based on severity, helping our organization eliminate compromising attacks. When making an investment with these tools, you are taking care of an important aspect that will double your profits.

With Check Point, the IPS license could be included with the firewall product. Therefore the cost of the license is not huge.

Other solutions were not evaluated. We have always worked with Check Point products.

One piece of advice is to have the latest database. You want to be protected against the latest attacks.

It has allowed us to provide protection that we did not have before. We have tested and reviewed different solutions throughout the year to establish the best solution that would allow us to meet internal demands based on the products our organization sells and makes available from third parties. We need to protect information from those catalogs the database users who are willing to purchase services with us and at the same time we need to keep them protected. We need a safeguard from cyber threats to reduce downtime in costs associated with attacks and a potential loss of communication against our services in the data center.

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. We get an environment with protected data centers where there is no interruption of services and no significant loss (including reputational loss) to our company. 

By having a solution that allows us to protect systems and data from cyber attacks or unauthorized instructions (including malware and DDoS attacks), we can protect our system from all kinds of threats. Check Point reduces downtime and costs associated with attacks that cause communication losses and guarantees compliance with security. It also ensures the privacy of all the data that we have stored, which helps us maintain a high level of reputation when it comes to careful administration and data segmentation. Now, there is a formalization of data protection. Check Point is really compatible with the internal needs of our organization, and its features offer us a great advantage.

There is an issue with precision. There is room for improvement based on the type of threats that are constantly evolving. They need to ensure they are managing to keep up with threat changes and generate some new approaches. 

Another feature that I would like to see as a substantial improvement is the expansion of support in cloud environments. We need to ensure we can have access to public and private clouds and need to be able to include integrations with different popular providers. 

They need to offer IoT as device support.

I've used the solution for one year.

This tool seals any loopholes that could be detected by ransomware attackers and may lead to data loss. It has protected the organization from potential vulnerabilities affecting operations and the slowdown of workflows. It ensures that the applications are performing efficiently based on the set objectives. It delivers many signatures that enable teams to ascertain the security situations in various departments. It saves the organization a lot of costs since it is less costly and more powerful than many versions in the market.

Digital transformation has been efficient and productive thanks to the operation of this great product. After the implementation of IPS, there is increased production, and teams can easily focus on more productive tasks without fear of being attacked by cybercriminals. We have accelerated operations with the modern data management models that come with this application. It is easy to detect threats in advance and plan effectively how to eliminate them. Our organization has been secure since we deployed this tool without cases of external attacks.

Most features in this platform have been of great importance in the organization. The unified system controls the security situation in any system, reducing the total cost of ownership. Real-time protection has blocked most threats that could affect system operations. It can detect and prevent the entry of known and unknown data vulnerabilities. 

The customer support services are efficient and have always helped us achieve most goals. The platform provides continuous cyber security reports that enable us to plan and make informed decisions.

The set features have played important roles in transforming the organization to meet the basic security standards. 

The cost is high. That said, depending on the company's size, there can be a mutual agreement for efficient licensing terms. We are satisfied with the set performance parameters that have enhanced the smooth running of workflows. 

The team should focus more on timely updates and configuration processes that sometimes may fail. I like the performance of this product and the achievements we've made so far.

I've used the solution for eight months.

It is stable, and I recommend it.

I am impressed by the performance.

The customer support staff is always supportive.

Positive

I have not used a different solution.

The initial set up was not complex.

Implementation was done through the vendor.

There is increased ROI.

The setup cost is good.

I have not evaluated other options.

The security measures are effective and I'd recommend the product to companies seeking great performance.

This solution allows us to achieve a healthy network and good security within our organization given its functions, management, and control. The level of detection and intelligent algorithms that protect against distributed attacks have helped us to secure ourselves and provide protection in real time. These capacities and needs complement our security based on a scheme that our fund or financial distribution can achieve under annual or quarterly protection measures (or every three years). 

Check Point offers us good protection. It has also allowed us to acquire services and products under a scheme that allows us to put together, as if it were, an offering of different functions or characteristics, giving added value to each one of them when they connect to each other. It is a solution that we can constantly build with each of the blades that we add. This makes it possible for us to have savings based on the security structure that we need for the organization. Thus it is a solution that has saved us significantly in additional investment when dealing with security.

Speaking of the IPS solution, it is important to understand that each of these features is based on real-time detection, analysis, and centralization of events. We were able to interpret that the solution is a total complement to each of the needs that any organization may have. Its event analysis and centralization features are very important for any organization. Those allow you to generate a general visualization, making a complete panorama of each of the events that you have inside your security system. 

I would like to have the possibility of adding features to this IPS solution in the future. It allows us to reach and integrate with other solutions that we have in the same portfolio of this security provider. It has the possibility of achieving and integrating the detection and analysis of this equipment against the integration and analysis that is done in the final devices, generating a correlation and installation of agent propagation from an internal security center. 

I've used the solution for four years. 

Check Point IPS is focused on prevention rather than strictly detection capabilities.

IPS enables us to secure our clients against the latest cyber threats.

Check Point offers DDoS and endpoint protection called EDR or XDR, so it provides a holistic security architecture for any organization.

I have been working with Check Point IPS for around five years.

Check Point IPS is stable.

I rate Check Point IPS seven out of 10 for scalability.

Setting up Check Point IPS isn't easy, but it's not too complex, either. I rate it seven out of 10 for ease of setup. Generally, customers cannot do it themselves. They need an integrator. 

Pre-planning is necessary. You need to clearly define the use case and the specific policies the customer wants. IPS doesn't require any maintenance after deployment.

My customers see a return in about three months' time. 

I rate Check Point IPS seven out of 10. Check Point is doing some ongoing consolidation. They are trying to unify the look and feel of the on-premise and cloud. That's in the roadmap, so that's why I'm giving it a seven. Once that is unified, maybe I will bump it up to 10. 

If you are an SMB customer, Check Point has prepackaged suites that are cost-effective and best for the total cost of ownership.  If a customer is asking for something specific I will probably recommend Palo Alto. It depends on use case scenarios. This was a perfect fit for my current customer's use case scenarios.

One of the needs that we had within our organization was the need to solve and support the prevention of zero-day attacks or vulnerability attacks within the network. We needed to be as proactive as possible to focus on solving any incident or gap that could be opened in the future within our organization. With this product, we were able to implement IPS solutions. IPS gives us the ability to detect and be proactive against many attacks - even if they are very new. The solution can detect old and new signatures. 

Check Point IPS services give our organization peace of mind. We know that the solution will be running and constantly updated thanks to the integrated Check Point services. It ensures stability. We have a solution that covers us all the time, day and night. In the configuration process, the solution has provided us with detection regarding what is stable. It is scalable and will allow us to grow according to the demand and the need. The service is well-maintained and functional.

The solution with the most organizational value is its 360° view, which has allowed us to integrate it well and speed up the view of records. It is dedicated 24/7 to detecting any attack. Vulnerabilities or incidents be flagged. It has the capability to give us alerts and offers good productivity to ensure that the services and data of our organization are always secured. 

Some of the features for views and visualization are already predefined as default files. This helps us to be proactive and not have to define any search or specialty of the services.

The service that we want to see in the future is a capacity to segment the IPS services by equipment. We'd like to see the integration of the communication of the services in the next-generation firewall and the other solutions that it has, such as Harmony. It would be great if they could start creating interoperability with both technologies. Integrating these solutions with the lighthouses could generate more complex and complete interoperability. That said, we'd want the solutions to be acquired and administered as one solution. 

We have been using the service for about two months.

They are one of the blades that we get to try or use more when we start using Check Point Firewall products. They give us the power of protection and security accompanied by other characteristics and solutions that together become the best in the market. It's uniting all that computing power with the cloud and thus giving organizations greater peace of mind and closing our security gaps in applications or services. Something that we love is that it can be enabled in any gateway, and therefore that saves us implementation time. 

It came to help us in many ways. The most outstanding was being able to have broad visibility and being able to make threats visible in real time. We are able to integrate it with smart events, which allows us at the SOC level to have a complete and reliable panel that saves time for security in visualizing and responding to events of this nature. 

Among its great features is the ability to detect outgoing malware or extraction of compromised data and stop it, thus safeguarding us by isolating the network, the equipment, or the identity of the affected users. 

The IPS feature is available in all appliances that we are going to use as a firewall, and that is how we have a blade that helps at all times. We have both a firewall and also a complete solution with multiple new-generation features that can be physical or virtual and where more advanced analytics can be integrated, for example, in the Infinity Check Point cloud. Among those characteristics is its coverage of updates in real-time and constantly. This is done without an administrator's intervention. 

What I want as a new feature is to be able to bring these solutions to public clouds. However, today, we can do this. We are taking our datacenters, these next-generation places. These technologies evolve at an unparalleled pace. This solution will soon be in mobile services, and it is here that the new equipment management lines will be managed in the future. We want the solution to continue to move towards cloud-based and portability focused for telecommuting users. 

I've used the solution for about two years.

We are using Check Point IPS for the detection and prevention of threats for our PCI firewalls where it's mandatory to use it.

The most valuable feature of Check Point IPS is the management of devices and policies.

Check Point IPS' main problem is it is mostly software based. The performance is dependent on the CPU power, and the limited number of patterns.

I have been using Check Point IPS for over five years.

Check Point IPS is stable.

The stability of Check Point IPS depends on too many factors. It always depends on the usage and the traffic. However, we did not have any issues with scalability.

We have approximately 40 to 50 people involved in using Check Point IPS, such as the firewall and IPS managing teams.

We have onsite engineers from the Check Point IPS directly on our site.

I rate the support from Check Point IPS a four out of five.

Positive

The initial setup of Check Point IPS is straightforward because there are security profiles with default recommended configuration. However, these were beneficial at the time when produced but they are not that helpful anymore. 

It can take some time to do verification because there are some protocols where you know that there could be problems. For example, for some of the sharing features, you have to be careful. Those there are the profiles you can use for the setup, you do have to do a lot of manual work to have everything work correctly.

I rate the setup of Check Point IPS a two out of five.

We did the implementation of Check Point IPS in-house.

There is a license needed to use the Check Point IPS which is not expensive. However, the Check Point IPS device is expensive.

We are replacing the IPS from Check Point with a different solution, which is related to the IPS functionality. The reason for the replacement is because Check Point IPS are at their end of life and are not creating or not using the security policy for the traffic, it mostly acts as an IPS.

We are planning on using Trend Micro. It will be better because there will be a dedicated device that is doing only the IPS. The performance will be better and it has a larger number of patterns updated weekly.

I have a very long and extensive experience with the Check Point ISP. It is a good solution, but sometimes it's causing issues, but it's a general problem for all the networks and security devices.

I rate Check Point IPS a nine out of ten.