Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention Reviews & Product Details

Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect organizations from sophisticated cyber threats, including zero-day attacks and advanced malware. By integrating real-time threat intelligence with advanced AI technologies, SandBlast delivers proactive defense mechanisms that prevent unknown cyber threats while maintaining seamless business operations. Key Features and Functionality: - Zero-Day Threat Prevention: Utilizes powerful threat intelligence and AI-based engines to detect and block previously unknown cyber threats before they can infiltrate the network. - Threat Emulation and Extraction: Employs CPU-level inspection and threat emulation to analyze suspicious files in a virtualized environment, identifying and mitigating potential threats without impacting network performance. - Streamlined Security Management: Offers single-click setup with out-of-the-box security policy profiles optimized for various business needs, reducing administrative overhead and ensuring up-to-date protection. - Seamless Productivity: Delivers a prevention-first strategy that does not compromise user experience, allowing uninterrupted business operations even when dealing with suspicious files. Primary Value and User Solutions: SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention addresses the critical need for organizations to defend against evolving cyber threats without disrupting daily operations. By providing real-time threat intelligence, automated response mechanisms, and seamless integration with existing network infrastructure, SandBlast enhances security posture, minimizes security incidents, and ensures robust defense against malware, ransomware, and advanced persistent threats. Its intuitive management and comprehensive threat protection enable security teams to maintain high levels of protection with reduced complexity and administrative effort.

Seller

Check Point Software Technologies

Discussions

Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention Community

Overview by

Mahendra Navale

Top-Rated Alternatives

CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Platform

4.7/5

(362)

SolarWinds Observability

View All Alternatives

G2 reviews are authentic and verified.

Here's how.

D. A.

Cloud support leader

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/11/2026

"Quiet, Proactive Protection That Delivers Peace of Mind"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention is the way it quietly shields our environment from complex attacks without disrupting daily work—it feels reliable, proactive, and gives me genuine peace of mind knowing threats are stopped before they can even surface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

It is that sometimes the configuration feels overly complex, and it takes extra time to fine‑tune policies to match our environment. While the protection is strong, the learning curve can be steep, and occasional false positives mean I have to spend more effort reviewing alerts than I’d like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is solving the challenge of stopping zero‑day attacks and advanced malware before they reach users, which used to be a constant concern for us. By detecting and blocking threats in real time, it reduces downtime, prevents data breaches, and ultimately saves us both time and resources. The biggest benefit is the peace of mind it provides our team can focus on productivity knowing that the network is safeguarded against sophisticated cyber risks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rodrigo L.

Security Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/20/2025

"Solid performance and strong security reliability over the year"

5/5

What do you like best about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

Simplicity of rules for run tests in the sandbox, fast time for determine a decision. Integration with the rest of Checkpoint ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

Limitation to static analytics in MacOs and current limit of 100mb of file size Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/22/2025

"Check Point SandBlast is the best protection"

4/5

What do you like best about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

It's easy to use and integrate

The feature is very unique and useful

Can detect any ambiguous file and detect the threat Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

The price can be intimidating and it can stress the CPU Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aiman S.

Network Security Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/23/2024

"Check Point SandBlast acts like a great wall against zero-day attacks ."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

The most favourable feature is that Checkpoint Point Sandblast is very accurate and gives a almost no false positives, it has great threat prevention against severe zero day attacks.Great TAC team support.Deployement is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

The UI and the cost can be improved ,Higher CPU utilization in some instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VISHAL K.

Technical Support Executive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/23/2024

"Check Point Sandblast: strength in Security"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

Check Point Sandblast provide threat prevention and sandboxing feature that helps of in anti-bot, anti-virus and many more sandboxing feature.

also it is veru easy yo use, simple integration . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

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

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/8/2022

"Seemless zero day security that can stop day 0 attacks"

5/5

What do you like best about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

The Sandblast network delivers true zero day protection to your network that can stop the first outbreak of an attack. Nothing is allowed into the network until Sandblast says that its ok Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

Only included on the upper tier of licenses so it can be expensive to maintain across your entire network and for east-west traffic. Would be good to see lower tiers of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/9/2022

"Best protection at value for money"

4/5

What do you like best about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

Non intrusive advanced threat protection (including 0 day threats) with a high detection and low false positives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

Initial configuration is not straight forward if you don't have experience in checkpoint products. There is a best practices guide but not easy to find Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention:

It's important to take care about the future easy of admin/use and against other more intrusive software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our corporation is now protected about threats that could be hidden in important documents (office, PDF, etc.) that standard antivirus/antimalware does not even detect. We have the benefit of knowing that we are protected again 0 day threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/30/2021

"solid and reliable solution"

5/5

What do you like best about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

Sandblast network can be used in a private network or in the cloud with the same features. There are several companies that do not have this option available. As the current trend is the cloud, on-premise solutions lack many features. For the cloud usage called TX is very easy to activate within several clicks, then it's working. Licensing is simple. TE gives you broad coverage for 0 days of several protocols. Threat extraction is unique; even some vendors have dedicated solutions for the extraction of pds and macros. TEX does not damage the original files. MacOS support is a big plus as MacOS support of related security services is lacking, MacOS TE support gives us confidence. I do not need to invest in an additional sandboxing product with TX. I have one platform to cover all network security solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

TX annual pricing is costly compared to the initial investment of the product. In case of problems related to TX, support always directs it to the latest HFA, even to the new version. I see in some cases, the TE process hangs and needs to be restarted. You don't get regular updates if the ATP vectors are covered with TX. There's no specific service to use the sandblast networking in the cloud just for info exchange or api. I can't track or query our uploaded data to the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention:

You need to open SSL inspection on the gateway. Otherwise, there's no meaning to use Sadblast networking. Achieve files should be analyzed in the SandBlast. Sizing should be done properly before deployment. Purchase the TX with 3-year subscription; 1-year initial purchase than the consecutive years is costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides us integrated solution covering the latest threat and attack vectors at the networking layer. It's really detecting, blocking even mitigating the attacks at the boundary. Targeted attacks through the phishing emails can easily be stopped with TX. Reporting through the smartevent module is fantastic. I don't see any difference using just TX or a couple of sandboxing in the service chain as the TX already detects and blocks the threat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Praphulla R. D.

Associate Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/25/2021

"Defense against zero day attacks"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

Checkpoint Sandblast combines evasion resistance Threat Emulation, and Threat Extraction technology which detects and blocks Zero-day attacks, including CPU level.

Emulation is nothing but to detect signature which was previously unknown into checkpoint's virtual server environment knows as traditional sandbox technology, but its beyond that which makes more accurate and fastest response service.

Threat extraction is to sanitized the emails and downloaded file content from web browsers which leads to avoiding phishing emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

The onboarding process is simple but requires more CPU as emulation is a very CPU-intensive process, either on the cloud or on-premises.

Filtering real-time web browser traffic and emails that require more memory and devices sometimes stop responding to it.

Email gets stuck in quarantine which sometimes needs to involve the TAC team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention:

It improves organization security by protecting against zero-day attacks.

NGFW solution doesn't come with Threat Emulation and Extraction blades, so always go for NGTX appliances and licenses.

Emulation always takes place via secured communication between Checkpoint Threat Cloud and gateways.

Onboarding process or 1st-time installation wizards gives easy installation, and default policies get applied. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention solving and how is that benefiting you?

Attack prevention from previously undiscovered signatures, including zero-day attacks.

Sandblast defends against most devasting attacks, including ransomware, phishing attacks, trojan, etc.

Protection against malicious Email and web downloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/4/2021

"Preventing Malicious files"

5/5

What do you like best about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

The way that SanBlast Cloud emulates the downloads when all work personal try to download any software from the internet service protecting the LAN environment within our infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point SandBlast Advanced Network Threat Prevention?

The high performance that it takes when Threat Emulation is enabled, and some times this affects our operations with some latency issues when they try to navigate to the internet service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.