CloudGuard

Last updated: Mar 25, 2026

How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to CloudGuard's?

The following comparison table enables you to discern the performance of both providers across various attributes essential for meeting your company's cybersecurity needs. To better understand each attribute, read their descriptions in the dedicated page.

This comparison focuses exclusively on the product itself, even though it belongs to a larger parent company. All information collected is based on the product’s technical, functional, and theoretical capabilities, not on attributes of the parent company.

Organization

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	CloudGuard
Focus	Native ASPM with in-house scanners	AI-powered PTaaS on top of native ASPM with in-house scanners	Cloud Native Application Product Platform (CNAPP)
Extras	None	None	SCA
Headcount	157	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Headcount distribution	Engineering 40%, IT 14%, sales 15%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 25%	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Headcount growth	+14%, +15%, -1%	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Headquarters	CO and US	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Countries	AR, BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, MX, PA, PE and US	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Reputation	9.76 from 228 reviews over 8 years on Gartner and Clutch	Same	9.02 from 824 reviews over 12 years on G2, Gartner and PeerSpot
Followers	22K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Research firms	None	None	None
Founded	2001	Same	2018
Funding	Bootstrapped	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Acquisitions	None	None	Acquired 0 times and made 1 acquisition
Revenue	10M to 15M	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
CVEs as CNA Researcher	289 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide	Same	98 CVEs reported to MITRE by Check Point
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3	Same	ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27032, ISO/IEC 27701 and SOC 2 Type II
Bug bounty	Yes	Yes	No
Visits	27K per month. Top 3: 34% PE, 33% CO, 6% CL. Others 27%	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Authority	31 out of 100	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Public vulnerability DB	Discovered and third-party	Same	Check Point - Discovered and third-party
Content	Blog, documentation, e-books, glossary, reports, success stories, videos, webinars and white papers	Same	Documentation
Comprehensive documentation	13 documentation sections, 4 in common and 9 additional	Same	8 documentation sections, 4 in common and 4 additional
Community	Forum	Same	Forum by Check Point
Sync training	1 workshop	Same	No
Async training	3 product use courses, all free	Same	11 product use courses by Check Point (10 free and 1 paid with certification)
Distribution	Direct or with any of its 14 partners	Same	Direct or with any of its partners
Marketplaces	AWS	Same	AWS, Azure and GCP
Freemium	No	No	No
Free trial	21-day free trial	PoV	30-day free trial
Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Open demo	No	No	No
Pricing	Contact sales and marketplace	Contact sales	Contact sales and marketplaces
Pricing tiers	1 plan	1 plan	1 plan
Minimum term	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly
Minimum payment period	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly
Minimum capabilities	ASPM, binary SAST, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and secrets	Same plus: AI SAST, API security testing, PTaaS, RE and SCR	CNAPP
Minimum scope	1 author	Same	1 user
Pricing drivers	Authors	Same	Users
Free implementation	Yes	Yes	No information available
Free support	Yes	Yes	No

Service

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	CloudGuard
PTaaS	No	Yes	No
Reverse engineering	No	Yes	No
Secure code review	No	Yes	No
Pivoting	No	Yes	No
Exploitation	No	Yes	No
Manual reattacks	Not applicable	Unlimited reattacks	Not applicable
Zero-day vulnerabilities	None	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research	Zero-day detection with WAF
SLA	Availability	Accuracy, availability and response	Availability and support
Minimum availability	99.95% per year	Same	99.9% per month
After-sale guarantees	No	Yes	Yes
Accreditations	CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST	Same	AWS Outposts Ready Product and CNA (as Check Point)
Pentester certifications	Not applicable	202 from 59 different types	None
Type of contract	Employee	Same	Employee or freelance
Endpoint control	No	Total	Not applicable
Channel control	No	Total	Not applicable
Standards	Some requirements from 67 standards, 4 in common and 63 additional	All requirements from the same standards	7 standards, 4 in common and 3 additional
Detection method	Automated tools	Automated tools, AI and human intelligence	Automated tools and AI
Remediation	5, 3 in common and 2 additional	Same, plus 1	3, all in common
Output	5, 1 in common and 4 additional	Same, plus 2	6, 1 in common and 5 additional

Product

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	CloudGuard
ASPM	Yes	Yes	No
API	GraphQL with JSON	Same	REST with JSON
IDE	5 functionalities, 2 in common and 3 additional	Same, plus 1 functionality	2 functionalities, all in common
CLI	Yes	Yes	Yes
CI/CD	Breaks the build	Same	Breaks the build
Vulnerability sources	4 sources	Same	No information available
Threat model alignment	Yes	Yes	No
Priority criteria	CVSS v4.0, CVSSF, EPSS and KEV	Same	No information available
Custom prioritization	Priority score	Same	No
Scanner origin	In-house	In-house	In-house
SCA	19 package managers, 9 in common and 10 additional	Same	17 package managers, 9 in common and 8 additional
AI security	No	Yes	No
Reachability	12 languages	Same	No
Reachability type	Deterministic	Same	Not applicable
SBOM	22 package managers, 8 in common and 14 additional	Same	17 package managers, 8 in common and 9 additional
Malware detection	Yes	Yes	Yes
Autofix on components	No	No	No
Source SAST (languages)	12, 8 in common and 4 additional	Same	16, 8 in common and 8 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)	22	Same	No information available
Custom rules	No	No	Detectors
IaC	6, 1 in common and 5 additional	4	1 in common
Binary SAST	1 type of binary	Same, plus 2 types of binaries	Yes. No information available
DAST	7 attack surface types	Same	No
API security testing	No	4 types of APIs	No
IAST	No	No	No
ASM	No	No	Yes
Secrets	15 secrets types	Same, plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability	Yes. No information available
AI	4 functions, none in common	Same	3 functions, none in common
MCP	Yes	Yes	No
Open-source	MPL-2 license, totally equivalent to the paid version	Not applicable	No
Provisioning as code	Yes	Yes	No
Deployment	SaaS (multi-tenant)	Same	SaaS (multi-tenant) + on-premises (single-tenant)
Regions	US	Same	EU, IN, JP, SG and US
Status	Yes	Yes	Yes
Incidents	4 per year	Same	No information available

Integrations

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	CloudGuard
SCM	6, 2 in common and 4 additional	Same	2, all in common
Binary repositories	None	None	10
Ticketing	3, 1 in common and 2 additional	Same	2, 1 in common and 1 additional
ChatOps	None	None	2
IDE	3, 1 in common and 2 additional	Same	1 in common
CI/CD	21, 9 in common and 12 additional	Same	10, 9 in common and 1 additional
SCA	Native	Same	Native
SAST	Native	Same	Native
DAST	Native	Same	None
IAST	None	None	None
Secrets	Native	Same	Native
Remediation	None	None	None
Bug bounty	None	None	None
Vulnerability management	None	None	1
Compliance	None	None	None

The latest update to this comparison was on Mar 19, 2026. The primary sources of information were spectralops.io and sc1.checkpoint.com, which were supplemented by specialized information-gathering sites, social media, and other sources.

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