# Check Point vs. Cisco

Discover why businesses choose Check Point

## See How Check Point Stacks Up Against Cisco

| Feature                         | Check Point Next-Gen Firewall              | Cisco Next-Gen Firewall            |
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| **BUILT-TO-PREVENT**           | **Real-Time Prevention** Check Point **prevents Patient-0**.<br> Malwares are blocked **before** getting in the network | **Legacy** Cisco generates an alert post infection, sometimes over an hour later – Infection is inevitable |
| **SECURITY WITHOUT COMPROMISE** | **Security over performance** **Inspect 100%** of the traffic for threats | **Cutting Corners** Cisco Secure Firewall inspects parts of the traffic for threats, exposing customers to risk (HTTP Client Body Extraction) |
| **APPLICATION AWARENESS**       | **Superior Visibility** Wider visibility of high-risk applications & Shadow-iT. Over **10,400** applications | **Limited Visibility** Lower application visibility, detecting under **7000** applications |
| Robust Security with Business continuity    | **Threat Extraction delivers risk-free documents** Minimum impact on business continuity | **Lacks this feature** Detect malicious documents “post infection” |
| **SENSE OF URGENCY**          | **Fastest Response for Vulnerabilities** Average **1** day to fix | **Late to Fix Vulnerabilities** On average, takes **33 days** to fix high-profile vulnerabilities |
| **VULNERABILITIES IN OWN PRODUCTS**| **Security first** 2021-2024: **4** High/Critical vulnerabilities | **Insecure** 2021-2024: **101** High/Critical vulnerabilities |
| Operational patching cost*      | A lower number of CVEs leads to reduced operational patching costs | **20 times more** High number of CVEs leads to increased operational patching costs |
| **FORRESTER 2023 Zero-Trust Platform LEADERSHIP** | **Rated “Leader”** “Check Point sets the bar for centralized management and usability” | **Rated “Strong Performer”** “Its coverage of ZT is not as consistent or impactful as others.” |
| **MIERCOM PROVEN LEADERSHIP**   | **Best Scores in Miercom Enterprise & Hybrid Mesh Firewall Benchmark 2025** 99.9% Malware, 99.74% Phishing, 98.0% Exploits prevention | **Very Low Prevention rate** 67.1% Malware, 55.87% Phishing, 42.6% Exploits prevention |
| Unified Log & Troubleshooting View| **Unified view for all logs** Clear view of logs with free-form search and filtering. Shows object names instead of just IP addresses | **Complicated log view and filtering** No free-form search. Logs listed from oldest to newest, making filtering difficult |
| **SCALABLE & EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT** | **Best-in-class security and administrator experience** #1 in Miercom Zero-Trust Platform Efficacy | **Lower administrator experience compared to Check Point** #3 in Miercom Zero-Trust Platform Efficacy |
| **AI Assistant**               | **Fully-featured AI Copilot** Check Point Copilot is able to securely read security configuration and logs and give relevant information and statistics | **Limited functionality** Can’t read logs to report on incidents or provide statistics |
| **TRUE HYPER-SCALE SOLUTION (MAESTRO)** | **Pay as You Grow** Single, unified platform. Allows Mix & match between appliances. Grow with performance requirements | **Limited In Scale** Complex scale-up deployment. Lacks single view of overall platform |

*based on the number of high and critical CVEs identified in each vendor’s firewall and management platforms between 2021 and 2024. The values represent the operational patching cost of a medium-sized enterprise.

### 90%

of organizations are using outdated cyber security tools

### 77%

of security professionals anticipate a significant breach in the near future

### 95%

of breaches will likely occur as a result of customer misconfigurations, or other human errors

## The 10 Most Critical Considerations in Choosing Your Cyber Security

### Real-Time Prevention

Your prevention platform should include cutting-edge technologies, like behavioral detection and machine learning algorithms, that can identify and block exploits on networks, cloud, and endpoints, before they execute and infiltrate your network. The ability to prevent patient-zero, so to speak, is critical.

### Control the Cloud

Organizations need the ability to easily manage security and compliance for cloud environments. The development of the public cloud allows organizations to scale, and to conduct business more efficiently, but the lack of borders also demands an entirely new level of security.

### Protection from Every Direction

Locking down everything is critical. The only way to ensure that your network is secure is by ensuring that everything connected to it is secure. Secure your individual computers, phones, tablets, and other extensions of your network.

## See all 10 critical considerations in choosing your cyber security solution

## Network Security Through the Voice of the Customer

**Banregio**

“We decided to install this version of security management primarily to ensure our strategy was centralized, simpler and allowed more effective decision-making. Check Point R80 significantly improved the presentation of information.”

**Eurowind**

“The Check Point Total Protection model covers all current threats. I don’t have to choose different vendors for specific tasks or challenges. Everything is included.”

**ENT Credit Union**

“Check Point gives us peace of mind knowing that our members’ information stays safe and secure. That peace of mind is invaluable.”

## Our Customers Love Us

_**Versatile Security Protection –Like A Swiss Army Knife For Security**_

_Checkpoint Next Generation Firewall proves to be a great solution for our small business infrastructure. R80 Security Management has allowed our company to easily (and significantly) improve our protections over time._

**Network And Systems Administrator I**

★★★★★

_**CheckPoint Next Gen FW, The Best Way To Protect A Corporation Against The Latest Threats**_

_Our experience with CheckPoint has been very satisfactory for the advanced security approach, being able to provide our corporation with the latest generation security mechanisms and being able to have maximum control and visibility of our perimeter security._

**Analista De Proyectos**

★★★★★

_**Apple In The World Of Firewalls**_

_The Check Point Next Generation Firewall is like Apple in the world of Firewall and Security. It is an old, but still modern and competitive solution, and Check Point is always on the edge of security technologies._

**Senior Network Engineer**

★★★★★

**Check Point Software Technologies**

**Hybrid Mesh Firewall**

4.5

**2167 Ratings**

As of 26 Jul 2026

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