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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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Product Description

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.
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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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Verified User in Banking
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Check Point Application Control can detect wide variety of applications by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

You need to define applications manually if it is not in default applications list. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Application ports may vary. Check Point Application Control helps you to use applications instead of ports. This way, you do not need to know all the ports used for the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Easy to configure white and black lists, understandable dashboards, improved visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

Configuration and deployment are bit hard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Application whitelisting and blacklisting are manageable with the solution. Client users using the application list can be delivered quickly. Output of the solution could be input of the Threat Modeling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Its provide a granular level of visibility along with control to an administrator for allowing access based on application and what features need to be allowed within the application

Application control is default module available with NGFW, and with integration with identity awareness module of checkpoint policy can be created based on user id or group

The application control module is getting updated frequently bases on integration on Appwiki

SSL inspection can be bypassed for certain traffic or application based on organization requirements or user privacy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

TApplication control does not work independently its the required URL filtering module to be enabled along with application control. Checkpoint Security gateway certificate needs to be added on each user machine

It works only when the User is in Office or traffic flow via NGFW Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As it comes by default with NGFW license, we are using this as an additional level of security

We are performing POC with few User to check how this works as additional security as we already have proxy solution deployed for both on-prem and roaming user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

User friendly, easy, control and manage all applications, app wiki, stable, there is no performance impact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

uncategory feature (bcz it allows https applications) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Application whitelisting and blacklisting are managed with this solution. It's mitigating the common threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

Categorize and cover all applications ,

Easy, User friendly, Control and manage all applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

I do not have something to dislike this blade Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Protect our Bandwidth, understand and manage our traffic as applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

The most useful feature is the App wiki by which current statistics of the quantities and types of Applications and Social Networking Widgets . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

Some times there are more than one category tags to an applocation which can be tricky . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Check Point Application Control:

Provide more app categories and increas the local cache in smart gateway without degrading throughput. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It provides to provide us application insights to what applications being used in our environment and also letting us know their category . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

The more granular and most substantial security application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

dependent on the gateway as it needs NGFW and certificate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As it is more granular, it will be effortless to achieve my goal of having the best security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

I have seen checkpoint work very stable in the hevay load , attack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

access to linux root system should be restricted . All fix need to be controlled by Checkpoint through some patches instead of fixing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Check Point Application Control:

It is already a best solution . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

some time we need to give access to social network site but need to restrict to games and other stuff this can be controlled to app control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

We are using Check Point Application Control blade since 2016 and It is giving us complete control and visibilities of each and every applications which is moving between our organization and also better to understand the traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

there is no such dislike or draw back or check point application control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Check Point Application Control:

If you have check point as next generation firewall then application blade is must to control and manage the access as per business need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This Check Point Application Control help us to understand or manage our traffic as application vise and our management is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Check Point Application Control?

One you start using it you start liking it because it makes your life easy with many things you otherwise have to spend more time to find out in the production env Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Application Control?

It could have made more light weight and robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are currently using it for the debugging the issues raised by the customers to mimic the prod environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.