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."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 management API is the best new feature for me. It allows us to further automate our customers' automated server ordering."
"The rulebase management and the shared layers concept is implemented well."
"It provides for capabilities and has allowed us to be more scalable."
"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."
"We are now able to monitor the different VPN communities in real-time."
"The most valuable feature for me is Identity Awareness."
"The solution is easy to use and comes with few vulnerabilities. You don't have to worry about release upgrades. Life cycle management is very easy."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform has reduced our mean time to resolve. It has easily saved 20 to 30 minutes every time someone gets locked out. We get 10 or 15 instances per day where people get locked out. It definitely saves a few hours per day."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"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."
"Not having to manage Splunk Cloud's infrastructure is valuable."
"Dashboards and alerting are the most valuable features. The dashboards let us see how the system looks in terms of anomalies, and the alerts trigger us to go and look at what possible problems are happening."
"he cloud performance is good."
"Index manager is most valuable because we do not have to bother about internal storage. It is all managed by the Splunk team."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud is the quick setup."
"It would be helpful if we could enable URL and application traffic control remote access."
"Check Point Security Management lacks some of the competitor features."
"They need to make a Mac version of the SmartConsole, in my opinion."
"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."
"We sometimes have trouble with the performance of the solution. Maybe some performance tuning options could be added in a future release. There should be more visibility about which blade in your firewall is causing the latency."
"I would like to bind users to their network, as well as their local office machine."
"Check Point EDR has room for improvement, especially in the area of Data Loss Prevention where it currently lacks functionality."
"In my experience, the place they can improve the most is in the technical support where I have had some serious problems that could not be solved in time due to a lack of knowledge of the assigned engineer."
"The administration could use improvement. We have to rely on support more often than we're used to."
"There is sometimes no documentation or updated documentation available."
"Splunk should increase the frequency of new feature releases, particularly those related to real-time operational flow monitoring and analytics reporting."
"Support is the bigger issue when we have a problem. When we need their help, it takes weeks or months to actually get resolved."
"Splunk should offer various options for real-time monitoring."
"From an enterprise standpoint, we are more limited in terms of what data we can export and how we can present it."
"The dashboards should be easier to customize."
"Splunk Cloud could improve by having pre-defined templates. It has very good design views, but there is no predefined template. You have to define your own. If they could add predefined templates for different use cases."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 9th in Log Management with 55 reviews while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 34 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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