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 cluster solution made our job easier any fault to the device will not halt entire internet connectivity."
"We can track logs of each firewall which is very helpful."
"The management API is the best new feature for me. It allows us to further automate our customers' automated server ordering."
"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 firewall cleverly handles such attacks without compromising on performance."
"It has brought significant improvements, including features like spam and anti-spam measures, intrusion prevention (IPS), and advanced filtering."
"The rulebase management and the shared layers concept is implemented well."
"HA Structure provides good coverage and works fine."
"It is scalable."
"Elastic has a lot of beats, such as Winlogbeat and Filebeat. Beats are the agents that have to be installed on the terminals to send the data. When we install beats or Elastic agents on every terminal, they don't overload the terminals. In other SIEM solutions such as Splunk or QRadar, when beats or agents are installed on endpoints, they are very heavy for the terminals. They consume a lot of power of the terminals, whereas Elastic agents hardly consume any power and don't overload the terminals."
"The intelligence of the system has been very impressive. It's not quite AI, but the technical bit where it correlates information, based on the seen attacks within an organization is good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Security is that you can install agents, and they are not separately licensed."
"We like Elastic Security because it's a REST API-based solution. That's the primary reason we use it."
"The most valuable features of Elastic Security are it is open-source and provides a high level of security."
"The solution has a good community surrounding it for lots of helpful documentation for troubleshooting purposes."
"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."
"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."
"It would be helpful if we could enable URL and application traffic control remote access."
"They need to make a Mac version of the SmartConsole, in my opinion."
"It sometimes blocks safe sites when I am researching, affecting the overall output and wasting time."
"The reporting should be improved in future releases. It needs to be very explicit. This is very important."
"Check Point could possibly lighten up the software code so that it is not as resource-intensive and will run more smoothly on a variety of hardware and cloud or virtual machine platforms."
"I guess it lacks in providing visibility of the many incidents."
"Elastic Security can be a bit difficult to use if a person only has experience in SMBs with tools like Zoho. The product can also be difficult for those who have never dealt with query language."
"Their visuals and graphs need to be better."
"The tool should improve its scalability."
"It's a little bit of a learning curve to understand the logic of searching for things and trying to find what you're looking for in Elastic Security."
"The solution's query building is not that intuitive compared to other solutions."
"The solution could offer better reporting features."
"There should be a simulation environment to check whether my Elastic implementation is functioning perfectly fine. Other solutions have their own Android and iOS applications that I can install on my mobile so that I am continuously connected to the SIEM."
"We are paying dearly for the guy who is working on the ELK Stack. That knowledge is quite rare and hard to come by. For difficulty and availability of resources, I would rate it a five out of 10."
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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 58 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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