--- 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 Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") CT Verified User in Telecommunications Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/11/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "No need to have dedicated solution" 5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? IPS is a very static security engine and doesn't have a very complex structure. So there is no need to have best of breed/dedicated IPS solutions. With Check Point IPS module, we can easily enable related IPS signatures to have security and have visibility even on encrypted traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? We may have visibility of IPS signatures in technical detail. When prevention or detection occurs, it would be good to understand why specific traffic matches on the signature. 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? With policy-based IPS, we can set server-related IPS signatures on DMZ traffic while using client-related IPS signatures for client traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Sunil R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sunil R.") SR Sunil R. Network Security Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/16/2021 "Checkpoint IPS" 5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Threat prevention policy tab included all options which can be easily accessible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Nothing. Only need to decrease ips policy installation timing. 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? Log4j. Mitigating vulnerabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/21/2021 "Large Signatures Database" 4/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? All in one solution, there is no need another hardware Automatically updates signatures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Performance impact, if firewall works with high load, it's hard to open IPS 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? with new technology only firewall is insufficient, with IPS signatures we can inspect malware etc. 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.) 1/7/2022 "Easy Setup" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? False positive occurs; it is easy to identify quickly. New signatures for known vulnerabilities come very quickly. Roadmap and future vision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? complex user interface, Policy installation time must be faster. 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? Protect our organization from the latest malware, threats, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/19/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Check Point Intrusion Prevention System" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? PS devices are protecting organization assets from any known vulnerability or threats that are coming from the network and vice versa It's protecting against any specific known exploits With integration with Sandblast its ability to protect against unknown or Zero-day attack at perimeter level itself C&C communication which is getting trigger from compromised systems It's able to detect at preventing any tunneling attempt happening via a compromised system which can result in data leakage It provides the capability to enable security policy based on templates which can be enabled by organization depending upon there to need for e.g. Enabling highest security with low-performance impact organization can select templates accordingly Enabling IPS does not require any additional license purchase from OEM. it comes by default with NGFW bundle and blade/module can be enabled based on the requirement and same can be pushed to Security gateway IPS can be enabled on same security gateway and does not require any additional hardware purchase or additional Network connectivity which in term simplified architecture Signature are constantly updated it also provides Virtual patching protection up to certain extend It provide detect the only mode for IPS Security policy so admin can enable this policy on required segment and monitor before enabling in blocking mode Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Impact on NGFW firewall post enabling IPS blade/Module and which can lead to performance impact and even can lead to downtime if IPS start to monitor or block certain high volume traffic There is no separated dedicated appliance for IPS. Check Point provides the same Security gateway on which only IPS blade need to enable In case of IPS blade enabled on NGFW firewall. It does not provide flexibility to monitor specific segments easily as IPS policies are applied on the Security gateway. There is a lot of configuration and an exclusion policy needs to be configured to bypass traffic from IPS Policy IPS gets bypass in case performance goes above a certain limit. this is the default setting provided 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 can protect our organization from the latest threats/malware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/27/2021 "One of the best IPS protection on the market right now" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? CVE database is updated regularly. Its management is convenient and intuitive. Performance is top-notch and operation is stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Some minor false positives if you are not careful with the policy. 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 had a standalone IPS in front of the Checkpoint firewall, and used Checkpoint without IPS blade, but we removed the standalone IPS because Checkpoint was capable of doing what the other vendor did. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic AM Abraham M. Network Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/14/2021 "Check Point ISP is One of the best blade against latest threats" 5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? We are getting daily reports and that reports we found what activities is happening as IPS which fall under Critical , HIgh severity and based on that we will take action on that, because we have hybrid environment and we could not enable strict protection. Also IPS is getting updated automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? There is no such dislike for this protection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): If you have checkpoint gateway security then you must have to use IPS protection. 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 can protect our organization with latest threat / malware. 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") IF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/30/2021 "Check Point Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Enabling IPS does not required any additional license purchase from OEM. it comes by default with NGFW bundle and blade/module can be enabled based on the requirement and same can be pushed to Security gateway IPS can be enable on same security gateway and does not required any additional hardware purchase or additional Network connectivity which in term simplified architecture Signature are constantly updated it also provide Virtual patching protection up to certain extend It provide detect only mode for IPS Security policy so admin can enable this policy on required segment and monitor before enabling in blocking mode Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Impact on NGFW firewall post enabling IPS blade/Module and which can lead to performance impact and even can lead to downtime if IPS start to monitor or block certain high volume traffic There is no separated dedicated appliance for IPS. Check Point provide same Security gateway on which only IPS blade need to enable Incase of IPS blade enabled on NGFW firewall. It does not provide flexibility for monitor specific segment easily as IPS policy are applied on Security gateway. There is lots of configuration and exclusion policy need to be configured to bypass traffic from IPS Policy IPS get bypass incase performance goes above certain limit. this is default setting provided Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): If your organization is small and looking for all security solution and management on single platform without much Policy or Network segment then checkpoint is one of the best solution to go 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? IPS devices is protecting organization assets from any know vulnerability or threats that are coming from the network and vice versa Its protecting against any specific known exploits With integration with Sandblast its able to protect against unknow or Zero day attack at perimeter level itself C&C communication which is getting trigger from compromised systems Its able to detect at prevent any tunneling attempt happening via compromised system which can results in data leakage It provide capability to enable security policy based on templates which can be enable by organization depending upon there need for e.g. Enabling highest security with low performance impact organization can select templates accordingly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Avi R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Avi R.") AR Avi R. Customer Engagement Manager Consulting Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/11/2021 "Gdjxhxxh" 4/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Simplicity of deployment Competitive pricing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? Lack of APIs Support depends on partner not directly 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? Minimizing risk Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated 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.) 9/23/2021 "A reliable IPS option" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? IPS signatures are updated regularly. In case of an emerging threat, Check Point releases a new signature rapidly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Check Point Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? IPS event logs can be insufficient. You may need to examine capture files as well. 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? In most deployment scenarios, by enabling Check Point IPS blade, we did not need any dedicated IPS device. 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