We compared Check Point Security Management and USM Anywhere based on our users' reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data, and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Check Point Security Management is praised for its centralized management features, user-friendly interface, and extensive monitoring capabilities. USM Anywhere is highly regarded for its extensive reporting capabilities, thorough vulnerability assessment, seamless file integration, and user-friendly management features. 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. USM Anywhere users have suggested improvements in self-service plugin management, database optimization, and third-party threat intelligence integration.
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 users say that USM Anywhere's customer service is knowledgeable and responsive, while others have faced delays and incomplete answers.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Security Management is generally seen as easy to set up if the user has some expertise. The initial setup for USM Anywhere is generally considered to be straightforward if the user has technical knowledge. Vendor assistance is also available during the deployment phase.
Pricing: Check Point Security Management is seen as a solid investment, offering flexibility and a good value for the price. USM Anywhere is seen as more cost-effective than premium solutions like IBM QRadar and Splunk, with pricing considered reasonable and relatively low.
ROI: Check Point users said the solution offers a steady ROI over time. USM Anywhere has garnered favorable feedback regarding its ROI.
"HA Structure provides good coverage and works fine."
"The most beneficial features for us are the alert classifications, which help us prioritize critical issues, and the detailed reports that provide insights into attack origins and purposes, such as TLS violations or content violations."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point Security Management is the high level of visibility"
"The management API is the best new feature for me. It allows us to further automate our customers' automated server ordering."
"As the security administrator, who is responsible for the day-to-day tasks (e.g. creating new firewall rules, monitoring the security alerts and incidents etc.) and the maintenance (e.g. installing the new Jumbo Hotfixes), I find the Check Point Security Management R80.10 to be the great solution."
"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."
"We can easily push the policies to any of our gateways."
"It has brought significant improvements, including features like spam and anti-spam measures, intrusion prevention (IPS), and advanced filtering."
"We're using it more for reporting, that's all. We're using it to help our customers to pass any kind of audits that they receive."
"AlienVault's reporting is good. I like that vulnerability assessment is part of the solution, and the UI is intuitive. Also, the overhead is low, which is to say we don't need a dedicated SOC team to manage and analyze things constantly. We're a small company that doesn't have those resources."
"AlientVault has helped us in improving our visualization and incident response during cybersecurity situations."
"The other big selling feature for us was its integration capabilities with all the other security-based products."
"Asset discovery seems to be good."
"There are multiple tools for information security. The solution includes all the latest advances on the network and host intrusion detection systems."
"The solution has all the features that we need, however they do not work correctly."
"As we have to service several servers, we can manage them in a economical way, which is beneficial to our team and business."
"I would like to bind users to their network, as well as their local office machine."
"In the future, I would like the platform to be able to integrate or manage appliances or third-party equipment."
"It sometimes blocks safe sites when I am researching, affecting the overall output and wasting time."
"It would be helpful if the documentation and good practice guides are updated. Many are still from R77."
"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."
"It would be great if the SmartView Monitor could become integrated into the SmartView Console Platform."
"Troubleshooting is quite complicated within multi-domain management. If an issue arises, the local administrator has to keep in mind that there are other domains that could be also affected."
"I would like this solution to be integrated directly into the Cluster XL equipment."
"The solution is a bit complicated. It could be simplified quite a bit."
"Sometimes the log is unclear, and the report is a bit ambiguous."
"I think plugin management should be self-service on AlienVault USM. The other product is self-service but on the USM side. You have to submit a ticket then AT&T creates and updates the plugins."
"Source material on the forums to be more up-to-date with the changes happening within the product. Forums being out-of-date with information due to the changes makes troubleshooting a little more difficult - specific to the HIDS agents."
"It should be able to communicate with other security solutions to stop threats."
"It would be hard for any legitimate MSSP to use it."
"AlienVault needs to continue to integrate with other third-party technologies that clients want to have monitored."
"More complimentary training needs to be done for use with this tool. If you get into a bind, then it will cost you."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 10th in Log Management with 56 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 17th in Log Management with 113 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while USM Anywhere is rated 8.4. 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 USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM and Splunk Cloud Platform, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Check Point Security Management vs. USM Anywhere report.
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