The Check Point Enterprise Security Radars (Vendor Focus)

Introduction

This brief analyses the strengths and weaknesses of Check Point's enterprise security offering. Check Point is rated according to its market impact (based on revenues), user sentiment (based on customer perceptions) and technology.

Scope

• Technology: an assessment of Check Point's technology based on specific attributes and the availability of certain features.
• User sentiment: tracks end-users' impression of Check Point's products based on a survey of over 300 enterprise security users.
• Market impact: measures Check Point's market impact based on its revenues and financial performance.

Highlights

Check Point has been lagging behind Cisco and Juniper with regards to IPS technology, and the nFR acquisition offers it an opportunity to catch up with its competition. The Pointsec acquisition will also allow Checkpoint to enter the growing information protection market.

Reasons to Purchase

• Gain detailed knowledge of Check Point's strengths with regards to technology, user sentiment and market impact.
• Enterprise security vendors can benchmark their own performance in various key criteria against Check Point's.
• Enterprise IT managers will gain valuable insight to improve their enterprise security purchasing decisions.