Check Point CloudGuard Code Security vs Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Data Loss Prevention comparison

Check Point CloudGuard Code Security vs. Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Data Loss Prevention

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Cloudflare

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Spencer Malmad

Owner at Tech Exchange

It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes

Cloudflare is highly scalable. Cloudflare is a system with a web portal that the end users like me see. It's a console where we can adjust the DNS, caching, and security features all in that console. Cloudflare owns thousands of servers across the world that cache the data. It's a powerful solution. When clients sign up for Cloudflare, they're getting this monster content delivery network, security, and a web application firewall in one. It's all rolled into one, and it's massive. Unless you have your website hosted on a massive hosting provider, there's no way that you can deliver the amount of data that Cloudflare can provide to the end users. If you have static content, there's no way that you can ever match what Cloudflare can do. Obviously, there are competitors to Cloudflare that do the same, but I'm saying other types of solutions. Let's say you go with F5. Great, that's on-prem. That's in your colo. You can't deliver as much data to the internet as you can with a CDN. You don't have to spend $20,000 on a net scaler, F5, or whatever Cisco's selling now. You don't have to buy that. You pay them $50 a month or $150 a month. It's totally worth it because even in five years, you'll never get the performance value, not just the actual ROI. You have to consider how much throughput you can get with Cloudflare.

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Nagendra Nekkala.

Senior Manager ICT & at Bangalore International Airport Limited

Good security and functionality with helpful support

The security on offer is great. It's secure in terms of testing all the workloads. We can test across any workload or multiple clouds. It offers unified prevention. It also offers posture management by verifying proper scanning. We use the GSL builder. It's easy to write customer rules or policies using it. Of course, you do need proper training on the product first. It takes around one week to get trained. We've been able to reduce human error, and you can build the rules for better coverage. It provides functionality across cloud providers. The solution helps us save time. We've reduced the amount of time spent by 25%. Its unified security management console is a very complete dashboard. We can see all security threats and can gain visibility into what is happening. We have access to automation and can monitor the security of IT systems. The product offers role-based access control so that we can set up different privileges for admin users. Cloud Guard Spectrum is good for automating our organization's security across assets, workloads, and multiple clouds. With it, we have advanced pre-prevention across the cloud security network. It works for on-premises also. We can easily determine our organization's security posture. It will ensure my application's availability time across the enterprise. Network security helped us reduce our compliance and audit activities. We've saved about 20% of our time. Having a cloud detection response helps to very quickly identify security threats in our environment. It's automated so it saves us time. That way, people can work on other projects. On any given day, we're spending 20% less time in general worrying about detection and response. Our security operations are saving a lot of time using a unified platform.

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Kunal Chopra

Presales-Cybersecurity at Orange

Helps to control information flow in and out of networks but needs improvement on stability

Our clients primarily deploy Palo Alto Networks Enterprise DLP to control the flow of information in and out of their networks. The main use cases include monitoring and managing sensitive data such as credit card information and personally identifiable information. The solution needs improvement…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is a stable solution. I rate the stability a ten out of ten...I rate the scalability a ten out of ten."

"The technical support is good."

"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."

"Cloudflare allows us to self-host services such as Rocket.Chat and Node-RED, in high-availability mode, thanks to round robin DNS which allows us to share one hostname between our two locations."

"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."

"The tool is user-friendly."

"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is security."

"The solution is stable, and the DNS servers are simple to use."

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"It helped us to reduce vulnerabilities."

"We have a strong sense of security assurance when utilizing CloudGuard, as it consistently delivers outstanding protection capabilities."

"Automation has helped a lot to identify and automatically execute policies, rules, and blocks due to its machine learning."

"Knowing what measures we must take allows us to reduce costs associated with security in the cloud by providing early identification of a risk or a possible security breach."

"Its fastest and most outstanding characteristic is ensuring a development line that will not lead to applying applications or code development."

"Check Point CloudGuard Code Security helps to improve the code security of our company, generating rapid and complete assessments to be able to make decisions for improvements."

"Having a cloud detection response helps to very quickly identify security threats in our environment."

"We have had a number of real events where developers accidentally made commits of API keys, and we were able to detect and begin response actions in minutes. We had the API key revoked in less than five minutes in such events."

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"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Data Loss Prevention is its comprehensive end-to-end solution in Cloud Delivery Security Services, which includes URL, data loss prevention, and advanced threat prevention as features that can be enabled just by clicking a checkbox."

"Our clients primarily deploy Palo Alto Networks Enterprise DLP to control the flow of information in and out of their networks. The main use cases include monitoring and managing sensitive data such as credit card information and personally identifiable information."

"Another important feature is that the solution doesn't require any additional infrastructure to implement. It's a software license that is compatible with our existing hardware. We were able to install and configure the product seamlessly and effortlessly."

"It is a stable solution with good support."

"The primary feature is managing firewalls through Panorama, especially when handling multiple firewalls across different sites like headquarters and remote sites."

"The setup is very easy as we just need to switch on and switch off."

"The security aspect in finance is crucial for controlling from a DLP perspective and ensuring protection."

Cons

"Integration involving API with other products could be more user-friendly."

"There could be more courses with engineers. I like e-learning, however, having a specialist in a classroom is more comfortable for me."

"Areas like how assessment, discovery, and payload are dealt with and how it all comes into your organization can be considered when trying to make suggestions to Cloudflare for improvements."

"It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration."

"Sometimes their more advanced caching tools can cause higher first-byte times and problems with JavaScript."

"The integration of LLMs on the dashboard is something that is needed in the tool."

"We are a product integrator and reseller, and we would like to have a better partner relationship, similar to a channel sales relationship. Sometimes we are on our own or get diverted by Cloudflare because they have direct sales, which competes with us and makes it difficult to build a relationship with this company since we want to be an MSP or a managed service provider for the solution."

"I think the APIs are a little bit hard for us to work with. The APIs could be more open so that we could integrate better with our SolarWinds or our monitoring solution."

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"It is generally difficult to find documentation about the product, and there is relatively little to find."

"The solution should improve false-positives."

"There needs to be better security around API integration."

"There are a lot of opportunities for how they can use their technology to do more. That would be more like sensitive data discovery and other things besides Git Repos, but then you are expanding the scope of what necessarily their product is."

"The enhancements are needed in the logging system and log management processes."

"The costs are not transparent."

"The ease of use could be better."

"They could include web functionalities such as sandboxing."

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"There is room for improvement in the documentation around the maintenance of the product, how the automatic updates work, and pushing out new policies. A little more detail and context in that area would be helpful."

"Its scalability is not on par with the features of others."

"The product is still overly complicated compared to other vendors such as Check Point, which could be improved."

"There are mostly performance issues."

"Pricing is expensive."

"The configuration for Palo Alto Networks firewalls requires specifying many details, such as protocols and services."

"The solution needs improvement in stability. There has been feedback regarding the accuracy of file categorization."

"You need to have an external solution to backup everything. For example, you need to have Syslog installed on your server as well so that you can back it up to another place."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We don't have any issues with the price."

"The cost primarily depends on the size of the organization."

"I think the pricing is competitive. I think as far as licensing is concerned it's pretty straightforward because it's based on domain. It's just that sometimes domains could be tricky with some customers."

"In terms of licensing costs, we don't pay for licensing for Cloudflare. We only establish communication, then for peering, Cloudflare takes care of the cross-connection in different data centers."

"Cloudflare's pricing is not much higher and is good for middle-level organizations."

"There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."

"The pricing for the service is reasonable, neither excessively cheap nor prohibitively expensive. It aligns well with the value of their solution."

"I give the price a five out of ten."

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"It is extremely affordable and high value for cost."

"The pricing of the solution depends on the buyers. But, from my point of view, it is in line with the rest of the products and the price list of Palo Alto."

"It's expensive."

"The licensing model is very fair-minded and it's a good value. It scales well... Its licensing model is more streamlined when compared to other DLP solutions."

"Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Data Loss Prevention is expensive, and licensing costs are monthly."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

21%

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

27%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Healthcare Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GR...

Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?

Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service...

What do you like most about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications.

What do you like most about Spectral?

We have had a number of real events where developers accidentally made commits of API keys, and we were able to detec...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spectral?

Pricing and licensing modules need to be improved.

What needs improvement with Spectral?

The solution should improve vulnerability in-depth, false-positive reduction, integration with other tools, performan...

What do you like most about Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Data Loss Prevention?

Our clients primarily deploy Palo Alto Networks Enterprise DLP to control the flow of information in and out of their...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Data Loss Prevention?

Palo Alto Networks' pricing can be complex. Their catalog is extensive. They have a licensing model based on credits ...

What needs improvement with Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Data Loss Prevention?

The product is still overly complicated compared to other vendors such as Check Point, which could be improved. Simpl...

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Overview

Cloudflare is a highly-regarded Content Delivery Network (CDN) and a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) protection solution. The robust global connectivity cloud platform that is Cloudflare ensures users are able to connect to the Internet quickly, securely, and reliably. Cloudflare is one of the world's largest networks in the marketplace today. Using Cloudflare, businesses, educational entities, NGOs, vloggers, bloggers, and anyone else with an internet presence can experience more secure, faster websites and applications.

Currently, there are millions of Internet locations on Cloudflare, and the Cloudflare network
continues to grow every day by the thousands. The solution is able to fulfill the requests for
millions of websites seamlessly and serves on average 45 million HTTP requests per second.

Cloudflare has safe, secure data centers in close to 300 cities worldwide to ensure every
client request is filled as quickly as possible. It is Cloudflare’s edge network that makes this
possible by keeping content and other services as close to each client as possible, so the
information requests are always only seconds away.

Many organizations that work in democracy, civil society, human rights, or the arts are able to
access Cloudflare's highest levels of protection for free via Project Galileo. Additionally, official
election websites can be secured from hacking and fraud through Cloudflare’s Project
Athenian, also at no additional cost.

Cloudflare can also help organizations of all sizes develop a robust zero-trust strategy to
ensure the highest levels of productivity and profitability. Employees, stakeholders, and end users have a greater level of satisfaction and overall improved user experience, which can, in
turn, result in higher revenues and overall ROI. Zero-trust and BYOD (bring your own device)
access ensure end users and employees always have the best resources and technology
available to them at all times.

Cloudflare benefits

Cloudflare has many benefits. Some of its most valuable benefits include:

- Faster load times

- Robust DNS security

- Intuitive cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF)

- Free universal SSL

- Image enhancement

- Automatic browser caching

- Next-generation cloud load balancer

- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

- Rate limiting

- Minification

- Zero-trust capabilities

- Cost-effective

- Reduced carbon footprint

Reviews from real users

“Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare
comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and
an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. If you have a connection between your
website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host, you don't necessarily need a
certificate.” Spencer M., Owner at Tech Exchange

“What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage
applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare
also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering,
so it's a valuable tool.” Daniel P., Network Engineer at Ufinet

“The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very
well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service.” PeerSpot user, Competence Center Manager at a tech services company

Cloudflare

Check Point CloudGuard Code Security enhances application and site security in Microsoft Azure, detecting vulnerabilities, preventing breaches, and safeguarding against malicious activities while ensuring compliance and improving code quality.

Check Point CloudGuard Code Security, designed for cloud and on-premise environments, scans applications configurations, detects exposed credentials, and aligns with legal frameworks. It offers simple implementation, centralized management, customizable rules, and improved security practices. It supports multiple clouds, offers real-time data loss prevention, advanced posture management, and remediation guidance. It enhances policy enforcement and provides powerful analytics, intuitive dashboards, and automation for reduced human error and better security.

What are the key features of Check Point CloudGuard Code Security?

Simple Implementation: Easy to deploy and start securing environments quickly.
Broad Language Validation: Supports multiple coding languages for fast identification of security issues.
Real-Time Data Loss Prevention: Continuously monitors and mitigates data leakage risks.
Powerful Analytics: Provides in-depth insights and detailed reports for better decision-making.
Centralized Management: Allows control and oversight from a single interface.
Intuitive Dashboards: User-friendly displays for monitoring security status and trends.
Improved Security Practices: Encourages the adoption of better security measures.
Strong Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates threats rapidly.
Automation: Reduces human error by automating routine security tasks.
Customization: Enables tailored security rules to meet specific needs.

What benefits should be considered when evaluating Check Point CloudGuard Code Security?

Reduced Human Error: Automation and robust features lessen the risk of mistakes.
Enhanced Policy Enforcement: Ensures consistent application of security policies.
Time Savings: Streamlined processes save valuable time for security teams.
Secure Remote Connections: Protects data during remote access.
Fast Risk Identification: Quickly identifies and addresses vulnerabilities.
Advanced Posture Management: Comprehensive oversight of security posture.

Check Point CloudGuard Code Security is vital in industries where securing cloud and on-premise environments is critical. For instance, in finance, it aids in regulatory compliance and protects sensitive data. Healthcare relies on it for safeguarding patient information, while tech companies use it to protect intellectual property during development. In retail, it enhances security against cyber threats, securing transaction data and customer information.

Check Point Software Technologies

Cloud-Delivered Data Protection: The industry’s first cloud-delivered Enterprise DLP that consistently protects sensitive data across all networks, clouds and users.

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Sample Customers

Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more.

Doddle, Bangalore International Airport, Grupo financiero ACOBO, DigitalTrack

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Check Point CloudGuard Code Security vs. Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Data Loss Prevention