We performed a comparison between Check Point Security Management and Elastic Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point Security Management is praised for its centralized management features, user-friendly interface, and extensive monitoring capabilities. Elastic Security is commended for its adaptability, extensive customization options, and seamless integration with the ELK Stack. Check Point Security Management could improve by simplifying the migration of security policies, optimizing performance, and expanding its management API. Other pain points include threat tracking and documentation. Elastic Security could improve by reducing resource usage, automating threat response, and simplifying the user experience.
Service and Support: Check Point Security Management's customer service is widely praised for being knowledgeable, supportive, and reliable. Although some users had problems with inexperienced agents and coordination issues, the overall support experience is positive. Some Elastic Security users found their support helpful, while others experienced difficulties and delays.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Security Management is generally seen as easy to set up if the user has some expertise. Elastic Security generally has a straightforward setup but may require trained specialists.
Pricing: Check Point Security Management is seen as a solid investment, offering flexibility and a good value for the price. Elastic Security is considered affordable and cost-effective, with pricing based on the size of the monitored environment.
ROI: Check Point users said the solution offers a steady ROI over time. Elastic Security has shown mixed results in terms of ROI, with some users expressing concerns about the quality of their premium support.
"We are now able to monitor the different VPN communities in real-time."
"The reporting system provides real-time insights into the security situation and shows measures that can be taken to protect our data."
"We love the ability to monitor performance in real-time, and gather critical information about network flows and traffic."
"Check Point management is one of the most complete solutions for managing Check Point Firewall appliances."
"The layered architecture is really understandable and easy to use."
"With the generation and review of logs, we have verified some vulnerabilities and attempted attacks to generate improvements in our infrastructure and policies to help avoid issues in the future."
"The solution is easy to use and comes with few vulnerabilities. You don't have to worry about release upgrades. Life cycle management is very easy."
"Check Point Security Management has a great feature that allows you to automate the request of the automated server."
"It's open-source and free to use."
"It's not very complicated to install Elastic."
"The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"The product has huge integration varieties available."
"ELK Logstash is easy and fast, at least for the initial setup with the out of box uses."
"The most valuable feature is the speed, as it responds in a very short time."
"The intelligence of the system has been very impressive. It's not quite AI, but the technical bit where it correlates information, based on the seen attacks within an organization is good."
"I can look at events from more than one source across multiple different locations and find patterns or anomalies. The machine learning capabilities are helpful, and I can create rules for notifications to be more proactive rather than responding after something has gone wrong."
"It could improve by showing DNS-specific information for connections to unknown public IPs."
"I guess it lacks in providing visibility of the many incidents."
"Some costs are ridiculously high."
"The tool is expensive."
"I would like for users to have more control over the platform in the next release. Right now, the system is very central and general requiring new rules to be created that better-suite our requirements."
"I would like this solution to be integrated directly into the Cluster XL equipment."
"Support is the main area that they need to improve. Our support experience is not very smooth. We are based in Africa, and we don't know whether it is because of our region. I would like a feature where there is a workflow to provide authorization to some users before they're able to create and apply rules. Such a feature should be integrated with the management. It should not be in the box that comes with it."
"If the SmartView monitor can be integrated in the R80.40 and R81 versions, that would be ideal in understanding the trends and graphs of how traffic is observed hitting the different Check Point Firewall Gateways that the Security Management controls."
"I think because we are a cybersecurity company, the thing that can be improved is the prebuilt tools, especially quality. Compared to its competitor, they still have fewer prebuilt security rules. Elastic Security, in terms of generating alerts, cannot group the same products into one another. Even though the alerts are the same, they still generate them one by one. So, it is very noisy in our dashboard. I would like the Elastic Security admin to group all the same alarms into one alarm so that our dashboard is not noisy."
"It's a little bit of a learning curve to understand the logic of searching for things and trying to find what you're looking for in Elastic Security."
"The training that is offered for Elastic is in need of improvement because there is no depth to it."
"Elastic Security could improve the documentation. It would help if they were more simple and clean."
"Authentication is not a default in Kibana. We need to have another tool to have authentication and authorization. These two should be part of Kibana."
"If the documentation were improved and made more clear for beginners, or even professionals, then we would be more attracted to this solution."
"Improvements in Elastic Security could include refining and normalizing queries to make them more user-friendly, enhancing the user experience with better documentation, and addressing any latency issues."
"With Elastic Security, the challenge arises from the fact that there is a learning curve in relation to queries and understanding the query language provided to extract usable data."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 9th in Log Management with 55 reviews while Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while Elastic Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Check Point Security Management writes "Great DDoS protection, high availability, and useful firewall rule implementation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM and Splunk Cloud Platform, whereas Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. See our Check Point Security Management vs. Elastic Security report.
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