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.
"The SSL VPN monitoring based on users and tunnel monitoring are great value-added features present in the management console."
"Regarding the tool's valuable features, I would say that Check Point is a very accessible and fast tool, especially when dealing with logs for the first time."
"The control is granular, so you can set policy profiles for different organizational profiles."
"The layered architecture is really understandable and easy to use."
"I love the URL filtering as well as the identification capabilities which link with the Active Directory and work for me even with bandwidth regulation. These allow me to select to whom to do what, and when."
"We can easily push the policies to any of our gateways."
"Key features include the ability to include logs for everything that you do for admin. Also, it has web filtering built in and VPN."
"It provides for capabilities and has allowed us to be more scalable."
"The MITRE ATT&CK correlation is most valuable."
"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."
"It's stable."
"The configuration assessment and Pile integrity monitoring features are decent."
"The product’s interface is intuitive."
"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."
"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."
"Good for monitoring, active response, and for vulnerabilities."
"They need to make a Mac version of the SmartConsole, in my opinion."
"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."
"Installing a policy takes a very long time to complete."
"It also offers compatibility with third-party security solutions, however, it is not a lot. This needs to be improved."
"Some of the configuration elements could be improved."
"The usability of the solution could be improved."
"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."
"Even though the platform is simple, and creating security policies is a fairly quick task, creating a bulk of policies at once (ie. for a migration) could be a useful tool. This is probably possible through scripting, however, having an easy-to-use "import CSV" button would be beneficial."
"The only challenge we faced with Wazuh was the lack of direct support."
"The tool doesn't detect anomalies or new environments."
"I have yet to find the same capability in Wazuh to get logs from different sources into the system"
"I think that the next release should be more suitable for large enterprises, because currently they are not because large companies do not rely on open source solutions."
"The support team could be more responsive and provide quicker replies during our working hours in Indonesia, which would be a significant improvement."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
"The technical support can be improved. Wazuh has some bugs that need to be fixed. It would be good if we can have automation with respect to incidence responses."
"Alerts should be specific rather than repeatedly triggered by integrating multiple factors. This issue needs improvement to create a more efficient alert system."
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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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