--- title: Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Reviews meta\_title: 'Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 69 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 69 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Network Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/network-security --- # Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) but has limited features. Are you part of the Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Check Point's Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is a comprehensive security solution designed to detect and prevent attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in systems and applications. Integrated within Check Point's Next Generation Firewall, it offers automatic updates to safeguard organizations against both longstanding and emerging threats. By combining signature-based detection, protocol validation, anomaly detection, and behavioral analysis, Quantum IPS delivers robust protection against a wide array of cyber threats. Key Features and Functionality: - Comprehensive Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates specific known exploits, vulnerabilities (both known and unknown), protocol misuse, tunneling attempts indicating data leakage, and outbound malware communications. - Real-Time Protection Updates: Continuously updated with new defenses against emerging threats, including preemptive protections that address vulnerabilities before they are exploited. - Virtual Patching: Provides a proactive approach to security by offering robust IPS functionality that complements traditional patching strategies, ensuring networks remain secure between updates. - Efficient Deployment: Features predefined recommended profiles for immediate use, customizable signature activation rules tailored to network assets, and an optional detect-only mode for evaluation purposes. - 360° Visibility and Reporting: Seamlessly integrates with SmartEvent, enabling Security Operations Center (SOC) staff to prioritize and respond to critical events efficiently. Primary Value and User Benefits: Quantum IPS addresses the critical need for proactive and comprehensive network security by offering real-time threat prevention and automatic updates. Its integration with Check Point's security gateways ensures a unified security approach, reducing the total cost of ownership. The system's low false positive rate and efficient deployment options save valuable time for IT staff, while its robust protection mechanisms safeguard organizations against a wide spectrum of cyber threats, ensuring business continuity and data integrity. * * * Seller [Check Point Software Technologies](https://www.g2.com/sellers/check-point-software-technologies) Discussions [Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/check-point-quantum-intrusion-prevention-system-ips/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Mahendra Navale Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 12 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/check-point-quantum-intrusion-prevention-system-ips/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls") Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls 4.5/5(170) ](https://www.g2.com/products/palo-alto-networks-next-generation-firewalls/reviews) [ ![LevelBlue USM Anywhere](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "LevelBlue USM Anywhere") LevelBlue USM Anywhere 4.4/5(114) ](https://www.g2.com/products/levelblue-usm-anywhere/reviews) [ ![TrendAI Vision One - Cloud Security](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "TrendAI Vision One - Cloud Security") TrendAI Vision One - Cloud Security 4.5/5(187) ](https://www.g2.com/products/trendai-vision-one-cloud-security/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/check-point-quantum-intrusion-prevention-system-ips/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 69 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Integrations (2) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") ManageEngine Log360 ](https://www.g2.com/products/manageengine-log360/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Microsoft Sentinel ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sentinel/reviews) Show More ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") AB Verified User in Banking Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/29/2022 "Centrally managed solution, policy can be applied to multiple NGFW appliances" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? The IPS is centrally managed by one of the best management platforms in the industry. Easy to use, create policies and deploy them to multiple devices. Logging is also integrated into the management console, so troubleshooting or reporting is all in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Automatic signature deployment sometimes is not so desirable. On a few occasions signature file was corrupted/erroneous, which led to operational issues. Problems were resolved with rollback or next update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Lots of signature-based attacks were blocked by IPS. Overall security was increased. Low false-positives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/9/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile LN Linh N. Security Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/18/2022 "A very good IPS solution of Check Point" 4/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Check Point IPS has a rich database for detecting known attacks. It is updated automatically frequently. The IPS feature can be deployed alone in L2 bridge mode or with other security blades in NGFW. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? To be effective, an IPS appliance needs to intercept encrypted traffic. Hence, we should enable HTTPS inspection for IPS to decrypt the traffic. But it will consume CPU usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Without IPS, organizations will face the threats such as exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities and identifying malware communications. Check Point IPS helps to detect instrusion, protect from known attacks, and "provide" virtual patching for known vulnerabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Jonathan L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jonathan L.") JL Jonathan L. Software Developer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/7/2022 "Check Point IPS for today and future security" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? It prevents cyber attackers from discovering weak points in our applications and causing harm to the company data. It has saved the company the time that IT team used to detect attacks and take necessary actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? I have no negative opinion towards the performance of this great product. It has created best and most trusted working environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solving and how is that benefiting you? This IPS has created strong firewalls that malware attackers cannot penetrate easily. It has upgraded the networking system with advanced modern security patches. We have settled on the implementation of new policies and focused more on software development projects and tasks since we possessed this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Ozan D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ozan D.") OD Ozan D. Senior Information Security Specialist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/6/2022 "Flexible Update Schedule, with staging mode a straight forward IPS" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Wide signature support, good reporting and nice integration with smart event, sandblast etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Performance impact on gateway is a little bit frustrating, Also policy installation makes it a little bit tiresome also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): Need to think where to open this blade, if the gateway busy most of the time, you may experience some high cpu usages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solving and how is that benefiting you? For us, its a little bit imposible to use ssl offload devices all around our network. But enabling this feature on client gateways makes westbound traffic inspection possible for us. We are also thinking to use this blade on our edge gateways, if we somehow manage to solve CPU-RAM issues on busy gateways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Erdem E.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Erdem E.") EE Erdem E. Technical Support Services Deputy Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/29/2022 "CP - IPS! No Need For More!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? I like to customize the profile which can be managed according to severity; performance impact, year, etc. This is extremely important to decide which signature will be enabled; which will be ignored. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Sometimes the "scope" and "source, destination" might be confusing. Normally scope consists of both source and destination. I wonder why the scope feature is in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Intrusion Prevention Systems are generally used to block traffic which is based on signatures. These signatures are based on the known vulnerabilities. In this field, false positives are very common. However, on Check Point IPS false positives are very rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/13/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Management Consulting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Management Consulting") CM Verified User in Management Consulting Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/10/2022 "Checkpoint Excellent IPS blade" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Easy to activate, configure and implement. Easy to assign profiles and rules to the firewalls, easy to monitor, ability to configure in detect mode. It is a very good product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? At the moment, I do not dislike anything about this specific blade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solving and how is that benefiting you? You can identify attacks and protect from them, easily, you can create actions depending on the signature found. You can also send it by email if anything is found. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") AB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/14/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Cheap and effective IPS solution for an enterprise" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Cheap compared to other vendors. Very easy to implement. It really prevents attacks. We test it with multiple breach detection systems, and the score is very high. Rapid updates are a big plus. It has massive coverage in terms of the number of signatures. False positives are low. Confidence and performance levels for profiles is a big plus. It has an autoupdate and activation mode settings. Enable and disabling is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? It has no ASIC support, any high or critical performance signatures affect the firewall performance. IPS bypass is a good option for connectivity, but it depends on the core. Too many updates and signatures on the database, some signatures should be removed. Staging signatures should be manually analyzed. There's no NBA in terms of IPS functionality. Core protection functions are somehow tricky and affect the connectivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): Purchase the HW with proper sizing. Do not open all signatures. Tuning task is infinite. You need to define your network zones and security requirements before activating IPS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solving and how is that benefiting you? We've replaced the classic IPS solutions with Checkpoint IPS. Our security scores significantly increase. With the new deployments, we always add the Checkpoint IPS with the firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic OB Oguz Tuger B. Security Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/13/2021 "Threat Intelligence" 5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? With the zero-trust policy of Checkpoint, IPS signatures updates as much as can be when compared to other firms. Also, logging side easy to readible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Some product need bypass for all signatures like fireeye howevercheckpoint default security mechanism do not allowed to by-pass all of the signatures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Signature updates side much faster and much more reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/14/2022 "Good Prevention Like Dedicated Solution" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Signature updates are satisfied. We could have a chance to test the detection and prevention capabilities, and the solution passed the test. Cloud supported Threat Intelligence is fed from worldwide this is a big plus for security metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? The visibility of the signature hits can be improved for dashboards. This visibility could be handled by SIEM solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Network protection that handles as a first contact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Consumer Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Services") AC Verified User in Consumer Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/18/2021 "Easy setup as 1,2,3!!!" 5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? The protection provided against the various vector, ransomware, and malware that can be attached to any vector, preventing any security threats that can attack our corporation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? The way it is set up once you enable the blade on the dashboard can increase the performance on the server when you change the mode to detect and when you have more blades enabled, the performance can go all the way up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solving and how is that benefiting you? The detection of malware in the corporation, the improvement that we have been reaching on compliance, and risk management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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