We performed a comparison between Check Point Security Management and Nagios Log Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Check Point management is one of the most complete solutions for managing Check Point Firewall appliances."
"It has a central management log server that helps us to easily identify faults and issues in the environment, especially during outages and incidents during the implementation of policy rules."
"The reporting system provides real-time insights into the security situation and shows measures that can be taken to protect our data."
"Being able to install a version of Check Point Security Management helps us avoid the expense of creating a server dedicated to that function, and we save on equipment and technical personnel in installing it, which in the end accelerates the administration and management of equipment to connect to it."
"We can easily push the policies to any of our gateways."
"The SSL VPN monitoring based on users and tunnel monitoring are great value-added features present in the management console."
"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."
"We are now able to monitor the different VPN communities in real-time."
"The initial setup of Nagios Log Server was easy and straightforward."
"It provides an easy way to identify errors and spot issues, making troubleshooting more efficient."
"One of the most valuable features is the dashboard because the UI was effective and easy to use. The alert systems are good as well. We had no failovers and had high availability. We can search the queries fast as well in Nagios Log Server."
"A great feature of the solution involves its internal portal."
"The product is scalable."
"The graphical interface is nice but it is a bit heavy."
"It would be helpful if the documentation and good practice guides are updated. Many are still from R77."
"SD-WAN functionality could be added."
"Check Point could improve by enhancing the networking in their solution in order to align it with the existing network architecture."
"Among the things that I would like in the future is for the solution to have its application on Android and iOS, as many of the administrators have adopted remote administration positions due to what has happened since the pandemic. This would help us to have an easier and simpler administration."
"They need to make a Mac version of the SmartConsole, in my opinion."
"In the last version from 80.20, there are some issues around SSNA Diction. I would like this to be improved."
"They could offer educational courses to help individuals improve their knowledge and skills."
"The configurations during initial setup could be improved. If they could be agentless, as in the case of the Ansible product, it would be better. I would like to be able to analyze the network bandwidth."
"As we are talking about a product which is open to the public, the pricing makes it challenging for us to profit off of its marketing."
"The customization and dashboards have shortcomings and need to be improved to make the tool look more presentable."
"It would be beneficial for Nagios to incorporate a tool that goes beyond log management and includes features to monitor overall system health and assess the effectiveness of antivirus solutions."
"The support could be better."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 10th in Log Management with 56 reviews while Nagios Log Server is ranked 40th in Log Management with 5 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while Nagios Log Server is rated 7.8. 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 Nagios Log Server writes "A scalable and affordable tool for monitoring data centers ". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM and Splunk Cloud Platform, whereas Nagios Log Server is most compared with Wazuh, Graylog, LogRhythm SIEM, syslog-ng and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server. See our Check Point Security Management vs. Nagios Log Server report.
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