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 Check Point Management server is isolated from security gateways, which means that in case there is an issue, we have our configuration ready and we can directly replace the device and push the configuration."
"Each department can easily share data with the management without fear of data compromise."
"The cluster solution made our job easier any fault to the device will not halt entire internet connectivity."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point Security Management is the high level of visibility"
"With the generation and review of logs, we have verified some vulnerabilities and attempted attacks to generate improvements in our infrastructure and policies to help avoid issues in the future."
"The unique management using Smart Console for all firewalls is very useful."
"We can easily push the policies to any of our gateways."
"The interface also makes it easy for us to configure the VPN from the GUI rather than the command line, which makes it easy even for less experienced engineers to work with."
"Wazuh automatically scans the host for CIS benchmarks for the latest updates and vulnerabilities and gives a host score. It provides a percentage of perceived risk due to of non patches or any missing patches on that work."
"The most valuable feature of Wazuh is the ELK for doing an investigation."
"Wazuh offers numerous features, such as the ability to define custom rules for detecting malicious activities and remembering behaviors."
"The tool is stable."
"The main thing I like about it is that it has an EDR."
"The product is easy to customize."
"Integrates with various open-source and paid products, allowing for flexibility in customization based on use cases."
"Wazuh's logging features integrate seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services. There are also Wazuh agent configurations for different use cases, like vulnerability scanning, host-based intrusion detection, and file integrity monitoring."
"It sometimes blocks safe sites when I am researching, affecting the overall output and wasting time."
"It would be helpful if we could enable URL and application traffic control remote access."
"We would like to improve the upgrade process in order to do mass upgrades to firewalls and to be able to upgrade target firewalls at the same time."
"Some costs are ridiculously high."
"I've found the solution was a bit unstable."
"It would be great if the SmartView Monitor could become integrated into the SmartView Console Platform."
"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 upgrade procedure already made huge improvements, yet it remains more challenging compared to other products."
"Alerts should be specific rather than repeatedly triggered by integrating multiple factors. This issue needs improvement to create a more efficient alert system."
"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."
"They need to go towards integrating with more cloud applications and not just OS like Windows and Linux."
"The tool does not provide CTI to monitor darknet."
"Wazuh could improve the detection, it is not detecting all of the attacks. Additionally, it is lacking features compared to other solutions."
"There's not much I like about Wazuh. Other products I've used were a lot more functional and user friendly. They came with reports and use cases out of the box. We need to configure Wazuh's alerts and monitoring capabilities manually. It'd be nice if we could select from templates and presets for use cases already built and coded."
"One area where Wazuh could use some improvement is in its reporting mechanism, especially for high-level management like CSOs and CEOs."
"Scalability is a constraint in the on-prem version of Wazuh in terms of the volume of logs we can manage."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 9th in Log Management with 55 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, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and Graylog. See our Check Point Security Management vs. Wazuh report.
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