CloudGuard

Check Point CloudGuard is a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that delivers cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud workload protection (CWPP), code security, network security, and intelligence/CDR capabilities across AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, Oracle, Kubernetes, and on-premises environments. The CloudGuard public REST API (originally Dome9) is used to onboard cloud accounts, run posture assessments, manage compliance bundles, retrieve findings, and configure policies and alerts.

CloudGuard publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including CloudAccounts API, Compliance API, Findings API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Check Point, CNAPP, Cloud Security, Compliance, and CSPM.

The CloudGuard catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

CloudGuard’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, and 11 more developer resources.

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48.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

9 APIs

Check PointCNAPPCloud SecurityComplianceCSPMCWPPPosture Management

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 48.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13

Governance 2.5 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cloudguard Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Spectral

Spectral

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Community

Community

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Terraform Provider

Terraform Provider

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cloudguard
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudguard/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: CloudGuard
tags:
- Check Point
- CNAPP
- Cloud Security
- Compliance
- CSPM
- CWPP
- Posture Management
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cloudguard.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-04-26'
position: Consumer
kind: company
x-company: Check Point Software Technologies
description: Check Point CloudGuard is a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that delivers cloud security
  posture management (CSPM), cloud workload protection (CWPP), code security, network security, and intelligence/CDR capabilities
  across AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, Oracle, Kubernetes, and on-premises environments. The CloudGuard public REST API (originally
  Dome9) is used to onboard cloud accounts, run posture assessments, manage compliance bundles, retrieve findings, and configure
  policies and alerts.
apis:
- aid: cloudguard:cloudguard-workload-api
  name: CloudGuard Workload Protection (CWPP) API
  tags:
  - Container Security
  - CWPP
  - Image Assurance
  - Kubernetes
  humanURL: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_Dome9/Documentation/Workload/Overview.htm
  properties:
  - url: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_Dome9/Documentation/Workload/Overview.htm
    type: Documentation
  description: Workload protection capabilities exposed through the CloudGuard platform for Kubernetes admission control,
    image assurance/CI scanning, runtime protection, and serverless function security.
- aid: cloudguard:cloudguard-code-security-api
  name: CloudGuard Code Security (Spectral) API
  tags:
  - Code Security
  - Secrets Detection
  - SAST
  humanURL: https://docs.spectralops.io/
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.spectralops.io/
    type: Documentation
  description: CloudGuard Code Security (formerly Spectral) provides developer-first SAST, infrastructure-as-code scanning,
    secrets detection, and SCA via CLI and API integrations into CI/CD pipelines.
- aid: cloudguard:cloudguard-waf-api
  name: CloudGuard WAF API
  tags:
  - API Security
  - WAF
  - Web Application Firewall
  humanURL: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_AppSec/Documentation/Default.htm
  properties:
  - url: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_AppSec/Documentation/Default.htm
    type: Documentation
  description: CloudGuard WAF (CloudGuard AppSec) protects web applications and APIs with contextual machine-learning-based
    threat prevention; the platform exposes management APIs for policy, asset, and event configuration.
- aid: cloudguard:cloudguard-network-security-api
  name: CloudGuard Network Security API
  tags:
  - Cloud Firewall
  - Network Security
  humanURL: https://www.checkpoint.com/cloudguard/cloud-network-security/
  properties:
  - url: https://www.checkpoint.com/cloudguard/cloud-network-security/
    type: Documentation
  description: CloudGuard Network Security delivers cloud-native firewalling and threat prevention with management APIs for
    gateway provisioning, rule management, and integrations with CI/CD pipelines.
- aid: cloudguard:cloudguard-cloudaccounts-api
  name: CloudGuard CloudAccounts API
  description: The CloudAccounts API from CloudGuard — 4 operation(s) for cloudaccounts.
  humanURL: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
  tags:
  - CloudAccounts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudguard-cloudaccounts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_Dome9/Documentation/API-Authentication.html
  - type: Terraform Provider
    url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/dome9/dome9/latest/docs
- aid: cloudguard:cloudguard-compliance-api
  name: CloudGuard Compliance API
  description: The Compliance API from CloudGuard — 1 operation(s) for compliance.
  humanURL: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
  tags:
  - Compliance
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudguard-compliance-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_Dome9/Documentation/API-Authentication.html
  - type: Terraform Provider
    url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/dome9/dome9/latest/docs
- aid: cloudguard:cloudguard-findings-api
  name: CloudGuard Findings API
  description: The Findings API from CloudGuard — 5 operation(s) for findings.
  humanURL: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
  tags:
  - Findings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudguard-findings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_Dome9/Documentation/API-Authentication.html
  - type: Terraform Provider
    url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/dome9/dome9/latest/docs
- aid: cloudguard:cloudguard-notifications-api
  name: CloudGuard Notifications API
  description: The Notifications API from CloudGuard — 2 operation(s) for notifications.
  humanURL: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
  tags:
  - Notifications
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudguard-notifications-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_Dome9/Documentation/API-Authentication.html
  - type: Terraform Provider
    url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/dome9/dome9/latest/docs
- aid: cloudguard:cloudguard-policies-api
  name: CloudGuard Policies API
  description: The Policies API from CloudGuard — 1 operation(s) for policies.
  humanURL: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
  tags:
  - Policies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudguard-policies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_Dome9/Documentation/API-Authentication.html
  - type: Terraform Provider
    url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/dome9/dome9/latest/docs
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cloudguard-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cloudguard-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cloudguard-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.checkpoint.com/cloudguard/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.cgn.portal.checkpoint.com/reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_Dome9/Documentation/Getting-Started/Getting-started-with-CloudGuard.htm
- type: Authentication
  url: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/CloudGuard_Dome9/Documentation/API-Authentication.html
- type: Support
  url: https://support.checkpoint.com/
- type: Community
  url: https://community.checkpoint.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.dome9.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.checkpoint.com/privacy/
- type: Terraform Provider
  url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/dome9/dome9/latest/docs
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/cloudguard-context.jsonld
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/cloudguard-rules.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.checkpoint.com/feed/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.19'

CloudGuard

Kin Score

APIs 9

CloudGuard Workload Protection (CWPP) API

CloudGuard Code Security (Spectral) API

CloudGuard WAF API

CloudGuard Network Security API

CloudGuard CloudAccounts API

CloudGuard Compliance API

CloudGuard Findings API

CloudGuard Notifications API

CloudGuard Policies API

Open Collections 1

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP REST API

Pricing Plans 1

Cloudguard Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Cloudguard Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Cloudguard Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Cloudguard Context

Spectral Rules 1

CloudGuard API Rules

Security Posture 2

Cloudguard Authentication

Cloudguard Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Cloudguard Agentic Access

Resources