We performed a comparison between Check Point Security Management and Elastic Security 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. Elastic Security is commended for its adaptability, extensive customization options, and seamless integration with the ELK Stack. 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. Elastic Security could improve by reducing resource usage, automating threat response, and simplifying the user experience.
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. Some Elastic Security users found their support helpful, while others experienced difficulties and delays.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Security Management is generally seen as easy to set up if the user has some expertise. Elastic Security generally has a straightforward setup but may require trained specialists.
Pricing: Check Point Security Management is seen as a solid investment, offering flexibility and a good value for the price. Elastic Security is considered affordable and cost-effective, with pricing based on the size of the monitored environment.
ROI: Check Point users said the solution offers a steady ROI over time. Elastic Security has shown mixed results in terms of ROI, with some users expressing concerns about the quality of their premium support.
"The log dashboard in the SmartConsole is very useful and convenient for monitoring and tracking."
"It's a great complete endpoint security solution that prevents the most imminent threats to the endpoint such as ransomware, phishing, or malware."
"The intuitive interface also allows new team members to adapt to the technology if they are not familiar with it initially. It doesn't take much for one to familiarize themselves with the product."
"This solution is easy to install and deploy. It is also user-friendly."
"Check Point management is one of the most complete solutions for managing Check Point Firewall appliances."
"The additional features offered by the solution are excellent. We didn't have a lot fo these on a previous solution, and they've proven to be an advantage for us."
"Check Point Security Management has improved our organization because all corporate firewalls can be managed with a single interface."
"The reporting system provides real-time insights into the security situation and shows measures that can be taken to protect our data."
"The scalability is good. It can be scaled easily in the production environment."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"The performance is good and it is faster than IBM QRadar."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. We are in Indonesia, more engineers understand Elastic Security here. So it is easier to scale and also develop. In features, the discovery to query all the logs is very important to us. It is very easy, especially with the query function and the feature to generate alerts and create tools. Sometimes we use the alert security dashboard to monitor our clients."
"Enables monitoring of application performance and the ability to predict behaviors."
"The most valuable feature is the machine learning capability."
"The most valuable feature is the search function, which allows me to go directly to the target to see the specific line a customer is searching for."
"The product has huge integration varieties available."
"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."
"I guess it lacks in providing visibility of the many incidents."
"The web administration tool that allows administration in the browser must be developed even more."
"You need some technical expertise to use the solution. I don't think it's accessible to the typical end-user. You need to access the box and use some command lines or the web interface. It would be nice to have a user-friendly dashboard and comprehensive reporting."
"I would like the ability to have an overview, cross-site: One portal that does all firewalls. Also, the user interface is overly complicated."
"Being a security appliance, there should be the ability for the Security Management server to send email alerts via authenticated email."
"I would like this solution to be integrated directly into the Cluster XL equipment."
"For those not familiar with the Command Line interface, there should be an option in the GUI for operating backups."
"The solution does not have a UI and this is one of the reasons we are looking for another solution."
"The solution could also use better dashboards. They need to be more graphical, more matrix-like."
"The process of designing dashboards is a little cumbersome in Kibana. Unless you are an expert, you will not be able to use it. The process should be pretty straightforward. The authentication feature is what we are looking for. We would love to have a central authentication system in the open-source edition without the need for a license or an enterprise license. If they can give at least a simple authentication system within a company. In a large organization, authentication is very essential for security because logs can contain a lot of confidential data. Therefore, an authentication feature for who accesses it should be there."
"We set up a cron job to delete old logs so that we wouldn't hit a disk space issue. Such a feature should be available in the UI, where old logs can be deleted automatically. (Don’t know if this feature is already there)."
"The Integration module could be improved. It is a pain to build integration with any product. We have to do parking and so on. It's not like other commercial solutions that use profile integration. I would also see more detection features on the SIEM side."
"The tool should improve its scalability."
"The solution's query building is not that intuitive compared to other solutions."
"It would be better if Elastic Security had less storage for data. My customers do not like this. Other vendors have local support in different countries, but Elastic Security doesn't. I would like to have Operational Technology (OT) security in the next release."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 9th in Log Management with 55 reviews while Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while Elastic Security is rated 7.6. 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 Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM and Splunk Cloud Platform, whereas Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. See our Check Point Security Management vs. Elastic Security report.
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