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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Offers a great database about application control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

It could be accessed in bundle with ngfws but they decided it to be an add-on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helped us with granular policied to limit usage and scheduled reports. Very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Check Point Application Control Overview

What is Check Point Application Control?

Check Point Application Control provides the industry strongest application security and identity control to organizations of all sizes. It enables IT teams to easily create granular policiesbased on users or groupsto identify, block or limit usage of over 7,800 Web 2.0 applications and 250,000 widgets.

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Check Point Application Control provides the industry strongest application security and identity control to organizations of all sizes. It enables IT teams to easily create granular policiesbased on users or groupsto identify, block or limit usage of over 7,800 Web 2.0 applications and 250,000 widgets.


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Year Founded
1993
HQ Location
San Carlos, CA
Twitter
@CheckPointSW
71,158 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
7,920 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ:CHKP
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$2,064
Description

Check Point Software Technologies is a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, providing advanced threat prevention and security management for enterprises, cloud environments, and mobile devices. Established in 1993, the company offers a comprehensive range of products, including firewalls, endpoint protection, and cloud security services, designed to safeguard networks and data from various cyber threats. Check Point's innovative technologies are built on a unified architecture, enabling organizations to consolidate their security infrastructure and enhance their overall security posture. For more information, visit their website at https://www.checkpoint.com/.


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Heema R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Application Filter : The next generation defense"
The application filter is the solution that provides control on application. easy to implement and superiror TAC support.
Maaz P.
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Maaz P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Application Control: lock down your application"
Check point appliaction control provide granular control overa application, provide critical aspct of network security like threat prevention,integ...
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Suraj V.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Application Filter : secure your infra at application level."
it is easy to deploy enable features and easy to enable on firewall with easy TAC support.
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Maaz P.
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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Check point appliaction control provide granular control overa application, provide critical aspct of network security like threat prevention,integratuin with firewall, performance optimization etc. it is easy use, easy to mange and easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

sometime it provide false positve like in logs it show block but actually it allows. that same things with other OEM so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

Check Point application filter that helps to protect the organization from various kind of application that may be contains some virus, trojans, etc. application control can have full control of the application inside the network. as user can connect inside the LAN and uses a malicios application and download some malicous content from it. that cause organization big loss. with the help of this feature we can easily prevent this kind of attck. also it has total control inside the application as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Check Point Application Filter provides security in such way that if someone using application which not relavent to them so we can directly block the application. this also helps to decrese congetion in network if we deployed at internal layer. as a user and administrator it is easy to use and deploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

there is no such point need to dislike about the fearure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some time user connect there mobiles via access point, so there is an incremenet in network traffic, this cause other paremeters like CPU, RAM, Bandwidth utilization and network congetion. to overcome this we use application filter that when someone joins through the AP and request comes to firewall based on the policy of application filter, it immidiate block the traffic. so there will be no impact on other parameter which I mentioned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

The application filter is the solution that provides control on application. easy to implement and superiror TAC support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

Since I am exploring the solution there is no point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us to provide security on application level that can be categerized customize and by default.

It helps to control bandwidth network utilization and can be effect on cost of Internet.

it also integarted with AD if there are many users in infra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Niyaj T.
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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Application filters can control the application in the infra. It comes with the firewall in-build feature and is easy to use and implement as with same OS GAIA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

in particular feature still we have not faced any issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

In many organisations, there is no visibility or control over applications. that can cause traffic congestion in the network and high usage of bandwidth. to overcome this checkpoint application filter provides control.

in this, we can create a policy to block the applications that are not relevant to the organization. by default there are categories based on category we can also block the application for mobiles. In addition we can create custom application category as per our requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

The Check Point application filter provide seamess control over the application usage with integrated security feature, easy to implement. and easy to manage. all the specification collectively helps the organization secure their network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

No negative feedback recieved from customer and sa per my personal experince. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

it can have totally control on your appliction, as many users in organization connect through wifi and working on applications. some time but accediently they can download malware application and can download malicious content from application. malicious content can have worm, trojans, virus etc that can be effect your entire organization. to prevent this we use application filter. It provide also customize application filter. also we can control within application things with the help of application control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

it is easy to deploy enable features and easy to enable on firewall with easy TAC support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

there is no point which I dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

the application filter is used to secure your infra from malicious application. We can block the custom application as per requirements or we can block the application based category. it also prevent the download malicious content from application. for this there is no need to purchase a separate solution. it has in build feature of firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Users frequently note many critical things they particularly enjoy about Check Point Application Control

1)Granular Policy Control

2)Extensive Application Dashboard

3)Real-time Visibility and Reporting

4)Seamless Integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

Working using Check Point Application Control, there is nothing for dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problem resolved by Check Point Application Control

1)Uncontrolled Application Usage

2)Lack of Visibilty into Application Traffic

3)Difficulty in Managing Application Policies

4)Operational Efficiency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Allows efficient management of permissions for users accessing multiple applications, widgets.

Can be used to categorise applications according to their security risk levels or resource usage and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

Delayed customer support and little bit tough to manage dashboard for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

Check Point Application Control resolves unauthorized app usage, enhancing network security. It helps maintain a secure environment, preventing potential threats and ensuring our network aligns with business objectives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

The tool has many valuable features that help companies with their security, such as:

Threat Protection

centralized management

Reports and analysis

Mejora de la productividad Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

Like every tool, it has its disadvantages and they can be improvements or deficiencies that the tool has, some improvements that can be corrected are

Latency: on the network and affect the performance of applications.

User Interface - Difficult to navigate for some users.

Incompatibilities: with security solutions or existing hardware in the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

By implementing this solution in our organization, we were able to reduce many security breaches and improve the security posture of the company. The tool helped us improve security by providing an additional layer against attacks, facilitating visibility and detailed reports and visibility in time actual network traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Security Engineer
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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Check Point Application Control has the biggest application database in the world. The database groups applications into searchable categories. Hence, we can create granular policies for allowing access to the trusted list while blocking access from the blacklist or limiting usage if consuming much bandwidth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

Almost applications work in encrypted connections. To identify exactly applications and their operations (upload, download, chat,...), we need to enable HTTPS inspection. But we may face resource problems because HTTPS inspection consume much CPU usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Application Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

Check Point Application Control help to solve the following:

- Configure granular policies to access control

- Create an allowlist and blocklist easily.

- Control bandwidth usage and reduce consumption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.