We compared Check Point Security Management and LogRhythm SIEM based on our users' reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data, and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Check Point Security Management is praised for its centralized management features, user-friendly interface, and extensive monitoring capabilities. Users praised LogRhythm SIEM for its user-friendly centralized dashboard, strong integration capabilities, and event-filtering capabilities. 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. LogRhythm SIEM has the potential to improve its SOAR and NDR features, platform stability, and MDI integration. LogRhythm users requested expanded log storage, better load balancing, and streamlined search capabilities.
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. LogRhythm SIEM was generally praised for its helpful and knowledgeable support, although there have been occasional delays and knowledge problems.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Security Management is generally seen as easy to set up if the user has some expertise. LogRhythm SIEM's setup is considered to be straightforward. However, it is more time-consuming and complex for enterprise deployments involving multiple components or vendors, and users often require assistance from professional services or LogRhythm-certified engineers.
Pricing: Check Point Security Management is seen as a solid investment, offering flexibility and a good value for the price. LogRhythm SIEM’s license typically includes all elements. However, enterprise customers may encounter complexities related to additional features and add-ons.
ROI: Check Point users said the solution offers a steady ROI over time. LogRhythm SIEM has proven to be highly valuable, delivering a significant ROI by reducing the mean time to detect and respond.
"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."
"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 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."
"This solution is easy to install and deploy. It is also user-friendly."
"The control is granular, so you can set policy profiles for different organizational profiles."
"Having the possibility to use Smart Event to check for threats on a broader scale helps after a security incident and also makes it easier to check - instead of looking through different logs."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point Security Management is the high level of visibility"
"We now have a central point of monitoring for all potential threats."
"It seems like it will scale easily with the way our environment is set up."
"I have found the Advanced Intelligence Engine has provided the most value to us because we can customize alarms based on our requirements and have created hundreds of alarms that notify different people for different scenarios."
"Currently, we are in the implementation phase. LogRhythm is better than QRadar from the point of view of collecting Windows events. It has a much higher view. You can enable monitoring by default."
"In terms of security, LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is great."
"When it comes to dealing with support, all my interactions have been great. Everyone has known what they're doing and have been quick to respond. They seem to always know the answer. I haven't stumped anybody yet."
"The artificial intelligence engine."
"The most valuable feature of LogRhythm for me is the ability to correlate logs throughout many different log sources."
"They could offer educational courses to help individuals improve their knowledge and skills."
"Check Point could improve by enhancing the networking in their solution in order to align it with the existing network architecture."
"We'd like to see more and more integration possibilities between Checkpoint and other vendor security solutions such as Malwarebytes, SIEM solution providers, and standalone vulnerability scanners."
"I would like it to be the administrator of equipment or Next Generation firewalls (which have to be managed on this platform) and to be able to manage other services (like Harmony) that also belong to Check Point."
"It would be helpful if the documentation and good practice guides are updated. Many are still from R77."
"Check Point EDR has room for improvement, especially in the area of Data Loss Prevention where it currently lacks functionality."
"The application filtering and URL filtering could be better."
"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."
"I would like to see support added for Exchange 2016, and CheckPoint OPSec Lea."
"The console installation is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that needs improvement. If LogRhythm SIEM can offer a web console, it would be great."
"I would like to see more integration with more products that are out there within the same security field."
"We do about 750 million a day and some days we do 715 million. Some days we do 820 million or 1.2 billion. But there's no way to drill in and find out: "Where did I get 400,000 extra logs today?" What was going on in my environment that I was able to absorb that peak? I have no way to identify it without running reports, which will produce a long-running PDF that I have to somehow compare to another long-running PDF... I would like to see like profiling behavior awareness around systems like they've been gunned to do around users with UEBA."
"Scalability misses the mark sometimes, especially when you have an integrated disaster recovery built into the solution."
"More detail in the alerts given to avoid additional searches, as often the source or destination associated with the alert is not evidenced."
"Right now there is the concern about being able to gather all of the data into the system."
"Appliance-based setups can sometimes pose scalability issues"
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 9th in Log Management with 56 reviews while LogRhythm SIEM is ranked 7th in Log Management with 166 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while LogRhythm SIEM is rated 8.4. 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 LogRhythm SIEM writes "The solution reduced our investigation time from days to hours and assists in managing our workflows". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Cloud Platform and Graylog, whereas LogRhythm SIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm Axon. See our Check Point Security Management vs. LogRhythm SIEM report.
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