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Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting vs Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 11, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point CloudGuard Clou...
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) (9th)
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto N...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (9th), Container Security (2nd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (2nd), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (2nd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting is designed for Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) and holds a mindshare of 1.7%.
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), holds 12.9% mindshare, down 19.4% since last year.
Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting1.7%
Wiz31.2%
Microsoft Defender for Cloud15.0%
Other52.1%
Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks12.9%
Wiz18.4%
Microsoft Defender for Cloud9.3%
Other59.400000000000006%
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Kishorekumar G - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Specialist at Novac Technology Solutions
Streamlined vulnerability management with efficient threat detection and compliance reporting
The best features that Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting offers include helpful integration for multiple cloud platforms, and it is used for audit compliance. We use features such as CIS Benchmark and cloud compliance, which Check Point CloudGuard provides by default. The integration, such as a read-only feature for reporting, is also very helpful, as it doesn't require any admin rights or changes. The remediation of vulnerabilities or findings or securing cloud configurations is also very helpful for us, allowing me to fix security flaws via Check Point CloudGuard itself. I find myself relying on the CIS Benchmark feature of Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting the most, as it is very helpful on a day-to-day basis to stay up to the current trend. Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting has positively impacted my organization by enabling us to keep fixing our cloud security postures, which is a day-to-day progress based on the open points. I have noticed specific outcomes with Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting, such as a much faster response time, making it easier to address vulnerabilities or security misconfigurations by using reports that help me pinpoint issues, leading to good outputs that keep improving. Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting made our work much easier as it serves as a centralized platform for all my cloud environment and provides workload protection such as malware protection for my entire cloud environment.
reviewer2776578 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Image scanning has supported consistent security practices during cloud deployment
On a scale of ten, we would say people are happy with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks for the part we use. People are okay with it. We probably would give an eight. We don't give ten because if we don't use the other parts of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, it's because it was difficult to implement from an operational point of view. We could have deployed the runtime monitoring with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, but within our organization at our company, it was very difficult to find who would be the owner for the alerts. People have other tools and in the end, we don't use the full capabilities of a product that we pay for. It's partially related to the difficulty to integrate Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks runtime in our company's support process. We don't use the real-time monitoring part of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. We don't know about the automated remediation feature of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"This solution helped me to improve and enhance our security posture."
"During testing, I consistently saw a 70 or 75% faster investigation and reduced analyst workload, which is a concrete way it can deliver our work."
"Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting made our work much easier as it serves as a centralized platform for all my cloud environment and provides workload protection such as malware protection for my entire cloud environment."
"The threat detection feature in Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks integrates with cloud-native controls like AWS GuardDuty and similar services on Azure and GCP."
"The dynamic workload identity creation, attestation, and assignment is the best feature. In addition, the application dependency map across heterogeneous environments for compliance is a striking feature."
"It provides insights into potential vulnerabilities in our code, helping us identify and rectify issues before they can be exploited."
"CSPM is very useful because it gives us good policies and violation alerts."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability monitoring, serverless access, container runtime features, and Defender."
"The client wasn't using all of the features, but the one that stood out was infrastructure-as-code (IaC). I built IaC use cases and was trying to get them to use it. I also liked cloud workload protection. I worked with the vulnerability management team to develop a process. It's a manual process, so it can be challenging to remediate many image or container issues. It was nice that we could build out a reporting process and download the reports. The reports are solid."
"The Twistlock vulnerability scanning tool is its most valuable feature. It provides us insight into security vulnerabilities, running inside both on-premise and public cloud-based container platforms. It is filling a gap that we have with traditional vulnerability scanning tools, where we don't have the ability to scan inside containers."
"This solution helped us by allowing us to schedule and fix things. This is not an easy thing if you're managing 1,000 plus resources."
 

Cons

"Malware protection for my entire cloud environment is an area where improvements are needed."
"The product can be improved by optimizing performance."
"In my testing, Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting's scalability is not easy; it is a very challenging experience for me."
"The integration of the Compute function into the cloud monitoring function—because those are two different tools that are being combined together—could use some more work. It still feels a little bit disjointed."
"The visibility on the SIEM needs to be streamlined so we can get the data without any issues."
"We don't give ten because if we don't use the other parts of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, it's because it was difficult to implement from an operational point of view."
"Runecast gave us more visibility into VMware's private cloud. We have more environments there, but Prisma's lack of visibility into the private cloud was a downside—there weren't many."
"The Application Security dashboard was not as user-friendly as the Cloud Security dashboard."
"We don't give ten because if we don't use the other parts of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, it's because it was difficult to implement from an operational point of view."
"Prisma Cloud's application security capabilities should be enhanced."
"We would like to have the detections be more contemporaneous. For example, we've seen detections of an overprivileged user or whatever it might be in any of the hundreds of Prisma policies, where there are 50 minutes of latency between the event and the alert."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The Prisma Cloud pricing is good."
"The price is high. In the future, when there are more competitors at the same level with different clouds, maybe the position will be different."
"You can expect a premium price because it is a premium quality product by a leading supplier."
"Although the cost can be high, the value is worth the price tag."
"Prisma Cloud licensing works on credits."
"Prisma Cloud is remarkably expensive."
"Its price is reasonable as compared to other products. The main challenge is explaining the licensing model to customers. It isn't a problem related to Palo Alto. Commonly, people don't understand cloud licensing or security licensing. When they have fixed virtual machines, they know what they are going to be charged, but when it comes to cloud automation, it is hard for them to get clarity in case of high workloads or when they have enabled auto-scaling, etc. It would be helpful if Palo Alto can educate people on their licensing programs."
"In general, Prisma Cloud is much cheaper than cloud-native services."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise56
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting?
I would like to see more flexibility in creating custom and scheduled reports in Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting. For example, being able to generate a weekly threat ac...
What is your primary use case for Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting?
I will honestly say that we are just testing Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting in my company. It is just for testing, not production. It has not been experienced for conf...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Intelligence and Threat Hunting?
The payment pricing is a business matter I discuss directly with the key account manager, and it's not something related directly to our technical team. I just go directly to the key account manage...
What is your primary use case for Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks?
Prisma Cloud helps support DevSecOps methodologies, making those responsibilities easier to manage.
What Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform do you recommend?
We like Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, since it offers us incredible visibility into our entire cloud system. We are able to easily see where our container vulnerabilities lie and and where cl...
What do you think of Aqua Security vs Prisma Cloud?
Aqua Security is easy to use and very manageable. Its main focus is on Kubernetes and Docker. Security is a very valuable feature and their speed of integration is very good. The initial setup was ...
 

Also Known As

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Prisma Public Cloud, RedLock Cloud 360, RedLock, Twistlock, Aporeto
 

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Sample Customers

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Amgen, Genpact, Western Asset, Zipongo, Proofpoint, NerdWallet, Axfood, 21st Century Fox, Veeva Systems, Reinsurance Group of America
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