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Check Point Based on 33 reviews.	Elastic Based on 9 reviews.
Overview
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an international provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, data security and security management. As of 2014 the company had approximately 2,900 employees worldwide. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company has development centers in Israel, California, Sweden, and Belarus. The company has offices in the United States, in San Carlos, California, in Dallas, Texas, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and Sydney Australia.	Elasticsearch is a search server based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and is released as open source under the terms of the Apache License. Elasticsearch is the second most popular enterprise search engine. Shay Banon created Compass in 2004. Elasticsearch BV was founded in 2012 to provide commercial solutions around Elasticsearch and related software.
Sample Customers
Check Point Security Management: Hedgetec, Geiger	ELK Logstash: Sprint, Grab, Autopilot, Just Eat, Verizon Wireless, Green Man Gaming, Compare Group, Tango, Perceivant, Quizlet Elastic X-Pack [EOL]: Sprint, Travelport, Grab, Autopilot, Just Eat, Accenture, Dell, Verizon Wireless, Guidestar, Influence Health, Shopback, Kaidee, Compare Group, Tango Elastic Beats: Sprint
Popular Solutions
Check Point Next Generation Firewall 4 reviews Check Point UTM-1 3 reviews Check Point VSX 3 reviews	ELK Elasticsearch 6 reviews ELK Logstash 2 reviews ELK Kibana 1 reviews
Top Comparisons
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Check Point Security Management Compared 19% of the time.	Graylog vs. ELK Logstash Compared 42% of the time. ELK Logstash vs. Elastic Beats Compared 30% of the time. Splunk vs. Elastic X-Pack [EOL] Compared 38% of the time.
Top Industries
Financial Services Firm 20% Comms Service Provider 14% Transportation Company 7% Manufacturing Company 5%	No Data Available

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Most Helpful Reviews

Ashok Sharma
Co-founder & CTO at a tech services company
What is most valuable?: Valuable features include centralized management using the MDM solution of Check Point and...
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Carlos Eduardo
IT Manager at a government
What is most valuable?: The most important features are performance and ease of management. • How has it helped...
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Anonymous User
Managing Partner
What is our primary use case?: We used it to replace the old Lotus Notes application with a full deployment of the...
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David Roy
Head of IT
What is our primary use case?: Perimeter protection. It has performed well. It's good. • How has it helped my...
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Anonymous User
System Administrator at a tech services company
What is our primary use case?: We leverage it as a next gen firewall, it does all of our IPS, URL filtering. We use...
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Prabhanshu Pandit
Programmer at a tech services company
What is most valuable?: Documentation is very good, so implementation is fine. • What needs improvement?: ...
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Prabhanshu Pandit
Programmer at a tech services company
What is most valuable?: Elasticsearch helps us to store the data in key value pairs and, based on that, we can...
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Dacina Crainic
Product Owner at a tech services company
What is our primary use case?: To create a dashboard for the data of job posts and the labor market, in addition to...
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Customer Service

VikasSharma
Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm
Customer Service: Excellent – the vendor always supports us and is very proactive. We have excellent relations with...
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Steve Switzer
Information Security Analyst at a non-profit
Good. We go with a distributor but they work okay. It is a lot more reliable with the latest OS than it used to be.
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Ifeanyi Ndukwe
Head IT Services at a healthcare company
Customer Service: 9/10. Technical Support: 9/10.
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Ashok Sharma
Co-founder & CTO at a tech services company
Support is one area where efforts should be required from Check Point. Customers having multiple, more than ten,...
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Mario Figueiredo
Security Specialist at a insurance company
My company has used technical support, but I have not.
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Kerem Ozturk
IT Security Assistant Manager at a insurance company
Customer Service: Customer service is definitely degrading, according to me. Check Point technical support can be...
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Carlos Eduardo
IT Manager at a government
I would give technical support a rating of seven out of 10.
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SenNetwo86
Senior Network and Security Analyst at a pharma/biotech company
We tend to go to our reseller for technical support.
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Anonymous User
Manager of Infrastructure
Customer Service: Good customer service.Technical Support: Good technical support.
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Anonymous User
Network/Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company
Customer Service: It's excellent. Technical Support: It's excellent.
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Anonymous User
Cyber Security Engineer at a tech consulting company
Customer Service: Excellent. Technical Support: Excellent.
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Anonymous User
Information Techologies System Administrator at a energy/utilities company
Customer Service: It's satisfactory. Technical Support: It's satisfactory.
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Anonymous User
IT Professional
Outside of official channels, we could not find a lot of sources of technical material. However, the tech support and...
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Anonymous User
IT Director
Customer Service: Horrible. It takes them days, sometimes weeks, until they try to help, and then they don't help...
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Anonymous User
Systems Administrator at a tech services company
I would give the technical support team a rating of 8/10.
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Anonymous User
Commercial Manager at a tech services company
Technical support is really good. We work with a partner from Check Point, a very good partner. The time of response...
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Anonymous User
System Administrator at a tech services company
We had third-party tech support through our contract, and it was okay. I pretty much ended up having to figure...
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David Roy
Head of IT
I would say tech support is about a six out of 10.
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Anonymous User
Network Engineer Info & Security
Customer Service: 7/10. Technical Support: 6/10.
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Anonymous User
Network Engineer at a tech consulting company
Customer Service: ExcellentTechnical Support: Excellent
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Anonymous User
IT Director
Customer Service: Customer service is not their strong suite. It takes a lot of time until they fix anything, and it...
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Prabhanshu Pandit
Programmer at a tech services company
ELK documentation is very good, so we have never needed to contact technical support.
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Prabhanshu Pandit
Programmer at a tech services company
ELK documentation is very good, so never needed to contact technical support.
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Randall Hinds
Program Manager - Enterprise Command Center at a financial services firm
Not applicable, for my team's experience with ELK. Being a FOSS, there is limited support from Elastic without a...
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Yogesh-Sharma
Senior DevOps Engineer at Intuit at a tech company
We were using the open source version. Community support is good.
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Hristo Mohamed
DevOps/System Administrator at a consultancy
To date, we haven't had the chance to use Elasticsearch's technical support.
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Shreya Singhal
System Engineer at a tech services company
Have worked on the open source version and, hence, I don't have much information about tech support.
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Anonymous User
EChannel IT Architect at a tech vendor
I would rate technical support with a nine out of 10. Support is very reactive and proactive.
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Technical Support

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