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.
"We love the ability to monitor performance in real-time, and gather critical information about network flows and traffic."
"Mobile access has helped us cater to more than 4000 users so that they can work from home."
"URL filtering is a very important feature."
"Each department can easily share data with the management without fear of data compromise."
"Security Management gives us complete visibility into our security operations, allowing administrators to identify and address problem areas, reduce unnecessary costs, and improve efficiency. It offers detailed reports on network usage and security, which helps my company to monitor and control its security expenses."
"The reporting system provides real-time insights into the security situation and shows measures that can be taken to protect our data."
"It has brought significant improvements, including features like spam and anti-spam measures, intrusion prevention (IPS), and advanced filtering."
"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 feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"The visualization is very good."
"The performance is good and it is faster than IBM QRadar."
"ELK documentation is very good, so never needed to contact technical support."
"Elastic provides the capability to index quickly due to the reverse indexes it offers. This data is crucial as it contains critical information. The reverse index allows fast data indexing because of Elastic's efficient search engine."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Security is that you can install agents, and they are not separately licensed."
"It is an extremely stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature for me is Discover."
"If the SmartView monitor can be integrated in the R80.40 and R81 versions, that would be ideal in understanding the trends and graphs of how traffic is observed hitting the different Check Point Firewall Gateways that the Security Management controls."
"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."
"While the console and administration work well, they have to work on performance since it consumes a lot of CPU and memory."
"In future releases I'd like to see better integration with other applications and solutions. Also, the cost of the license is too high, it's too expensive."
"I would like the ability to have an overview, cross-site: One portal that does all firewalls. Also, the user interface is overly complicated."
"I would like to bind users to their network, as well as their local office machine."
"It could improve by showing DNS-specific information for connections to unknown public IPs."
"The tool is expensive."
"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."
"The biggest challenge has been related to the implementation."
"There is an area of improvement in the Logs list. The load list may need to be paginated as there are limits."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"I think because we are a cybersecurity company, the thing that can be improved is the prebuilt tools, especially quality. Compared to its competitor, they still have fewer prebuilt security rules. Elastic Security, in terms of generating alerts, cannot group the same products into one another. Even though the alerts are the same, they still generate them one by one. So, it is very noisy in our dashboard. I would like the Elastic Security admin to group all the same alarms into one alarm so that our dashboard is not noisy."
"They don't provide user authentication and authorisation features (Shield) as a part of their open-source version."
"The tool should improve its scalability."
"This solution is very hard to implement."
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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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