We performed a comparison between Check Point Security Management and Splunk Cloud Platform 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."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 layered architecture is really understandable and easy to use."
"The solution is ideal for use and deployment in a large infrastructure environment."
"The SSL VPN monitoring based on users and tunnel monitoring are great value-added features present in the management console."
"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 support is pretty incredible. Check Point has support rep programs that go all the way up to putting one of their own people in your business to help you. Then, they have support programs. If you're an expert, you just need to be able to download updated files and stuff. They have support programs like that, too."
"It's a great solution for management. We can manage a lot at the same time with one security management system. Also, each gateway depends on the other, which is helpful."
"Check Point Security Management Server offers a wide range of security features, including firewall, intrusion prevention, VPN, application control, and threat prevention capabilities."
"The data management and instant search features are the most valuable ones for us, as they allow us to instantly retrieve information needed for reports and security compliance."
"The ability to correlate data and then present it in a meaningful and valuable way is crucial."
"I can trace an event back to its root cause. I can find the root cause instead of just looking at the symptoms across different things."
"Splunk Cloud's most valuable features are log aggregations, dashboarding, business management, reporting, and business controls. Additionally, it has awesome indexing and the solution is always improving"
"It has definitely improved our organization by virtue of reducing the amount of overhead we would have had for those environments. Having to implement, maintain, or even update the existing stuff would have been extremely time-consuming. Splunk Cloud handles all of that for us. So it's definitely been helpful from that perspective. It's allowed them to maintain upgrades for far further than they are. Some of the hosts of that environment were still on version 7 so they could get upgraded feature parity."
"Its monitoring is completely automated."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its flexibility and readiness because it's already prebuilt, and everything is click-to-go."
"We only buy the services we need. We don't have to pay for other things we don't."
"In order to work management console, you need some good appliance or you need to provide more CPU and Memory to the appliance."
"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."
"In future releases I'd like to see better integration with other applications and solutions. Also, the cost of the license is too high, it's too expensive."
"They need to make a Mac version of the SmartConsole, in my opinion."
"We would like to improve the upgrade process in order to do mass upgrades to firewalls and to be able to upgrade target firewalls at the same time."
"Sometimes the security system slows down when it is overloaded."
"While the console and administration work well, they have to work on performance since it consumes a lot of CPU and memory."
"Check Point EDR has room for improvement, especially in the area of Data Loss Prevention where it currently lacks functionality."
"The training models can only be accessed for 30 days, even if it is paid training."
"The on-premises version of Splunk includes all the integrations, while the Cloud platform lacks certain integrations and is limited in terms of the number of supported apps."
"The only thing I would say is an issue is the cost. It matches other products. The costs can be justified for the value that we gain. The entire threat analysis stack should come in a bundle. If the cost was matchable with other products I think Splunk would pick up in the market."
"From an enterprise standpoint, we are more limited in terms of what data we can export and how we can present it."
"There can be more modules and more integration with other areas in the cloud and on-prem. I am not sure whether it includes network devices and things like that."
"Splunk currently manages the components, which restricts our ability to access them directly."
"When one of my customers needs an app, and I am able to find that app on the Splunk base, I have to create a ticket and wait for five days for them to download the app into the cloud environment. That is probably one of the main things. It is painful because I have to wait to get that app in the cloud."
"They can offer more self-service capability to their customers. Currently, most of the things happen behind the Splunk Cloud Platform. As a customer, I do not have an opportunity to see my platform. If they can offer more self-service to see the health of my endpoints and stack, it would be appreciated."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 10th in Log Management with 56 reviews while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 37 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while Splunk Cloud Platform is rated 8.0. 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 Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM and Graylog, whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, AppInsights and Panther. See our Check Point Security Management vs. Splunk Cloud Platform report.
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