We performed a comparison between Check Point Security Management and Wazuh 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. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. 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. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
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. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Security Management is generally seen as easy to set up if the user has some expertise. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: Check Point Security Management is seen as a solid investment, offering flexibility and a good value for the price. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Check Point users said the solution offers a steady ROI over time. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
"Key features include the ability to include logs for everything that you do for admin. Also, it has web filtering built in and VPN."
"The company uses software called Harmony. Check Point integrates nicely, whether on an endpoint or mobile device. It integrates well with the firewall and can give me reports that I can check without going to an online portal."
"The most beneficial features for us are the alert classifications, which help us prioritize critical issues, and the detailed reports that provide insights into attack origins and purposes, such as TLS violations or content violations."
"The control is granular, so you can set policy profiles for different organizational profiles."
"This solution is easy to install and deploy. It is also user-friendly."
"The features we like and find the most valuable are the ways we can manage the policy, create objects, and drag and drop objects in our daily operation. It makes our daily operation on the firewall management much easier than going, for example, to one firewall, then going to the other."
"It is good when it comes to access control, which is the basic feature that we use in a firewall appliance or solution. Check Point is effective when it comes to security control and threat prevention."
"We can track logs of each firewall which is very helpful."
"The log monitoring and analysis tools are great in addition to SIEM file activity monitoring."
"I find the PCI DSS feature the most valuable, along with the feature that monitors the compliance of Windows and the CIS benchmarks on other devices like Unix or Linux systems."
"Some of the strengths of Wazuh that stand out for us include its scalability when deployed on Azure, its open-source nature, which allows for customization based on our needs, and its compatibility with various security solutions like threat intelligence platforms."
"Good for monitoring, active response, and for vulnerabilities."
"We use it to find any aberration in our endpoint devices. For example, if someone installs a game on their company laptop, Wazuh will detect it and inform us of the unauthorized software or unintended use of the devices provided by the company."
"It's very easy to integrate Wazuh with other environments, cloud applications, and on-prem applications. So, the advantage is that it's easy to implement and integrate with other solutions."
"It's stable."
"I like the features we use, including malware detection, inventory, detection of hidden processes, and activity logs. Inventory is probably the most important feature. It tells us when processes and packages were installed and what they are, which is helpful."
"I've found the solution was a bit unstable."
"It sometimes blocks safe sites when I am researching, affecting the overall output and wasting time."
"Some costs are ridiculously high."
"Being a security appliance, there should be the ability for the Security Management server to send email alerts via authenticated email."
"The migration from R77 Manager to R80 is a major upgrade. It's not very easy to do. There should be some kind of Wizard for a direct upgrade from the R77 to the R80. There should be an easy way for the customers to do the upgrade."
"They need to make a Mac version of the SmartConsole, in my opinion."
"The usability of the solution could be improved."
"I like that the Compliance software blade is available for free with the Security Management server purchase, but it is free for only one year - after that you have to buy an additional license to continue using it. I think such an important feature is vital for the management server, and should not be licensed separately."
"The tool doesn't detect anomalies or new environments."
"Adding the flexibility to integrate various plug-ins or modules into its core system would enhance functionality."
"Its configuration process is time-consuming."
"There's not much I like about Wazuh. Other products I've used were a lot more functional and user friendly. They came with reports and use cases out of the box. We need to configure Wazuh's alerts and monitoring capabilities manually. It'd be nice if we could select from templates and presets for use cases already built and coded."
"I have yet to find the same capability in Wazuh to get logs from different sources into the system"
"A more structured approach, perhaps with modular UI components, to facilitate easier integration and navigation within the Wazuh platform for custom integrations would be beneficial."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
"The biggest part that's missing is threat intelligence. It isn't inbuilt, and if a sudden incident occurs, we don't get that feedback inside the SIEM tool. That's a big gap, I see. It would be better if we could get the threat intelligence feeds integrated with the SIEM tools. That would help us push value solutions to the clients in a big way."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 10th in Log Management with 56 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. 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 Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM, Splunk Cloud Platform and Graylog, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, AlienVault OSSIM, Splunk Enterprise Security and Graylog. See our Check Point Security Management vs. Wazuh report.
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