Check Point Security Management Reviews

I am using Check Point Security Management in our day-to-day operations to centrally manage all Check Point Security Gateways within my organization. All of these Check Point Security Gateways are integrated into security management, and from there, I push configuration, reporting, and logging. All firewall activity is managed from the central console of Check Point Security Management.

Our day-to-day activities involve updating firewall policies and security profiles, such as antivirus and anti-spyware. All of these configurations and firmware upgrades for the firewall are completed from Check Point Security Management.

Based on my experience with Check Point Security Management, it is an excellent solution for managing all security gateways from a central console where I can access all logs and security events triggering on different security gateways. I have a single console where I can monitor and configure everything, allowing me to manage everything from security management to all firewalls from a central console.

The best aspect about the centralized control of Check Point Security Management is that it streamlines all configurations across all location firewalls. I have all logs from all firewalls at a single pane of glass where I can filter and check all security events occurring over any number of days I select. I am gaining good visibility over the network, over the cyber threats triggering, and the compliance of the configuration.

Based on my experience, we now have configuration hardening across all branches, and there is no mismatched configuration between the branches. We do not need to communicate with other branches' engineers. We have a single centralized team for security managing all of the organization's Check Point Security Gateways.

It benefits everyone. My configuration errors have been reduced, compliance has improved, and it is saving my team time. We are achieving all three of these benefits.

Based on my experience with Check Point Security Management, I do not see anything lacking. It is currently managing all the gateways, and we are able to achieve what we want from our perspective. I am not seeing anything that needs to improve right now, but in the future, it might be upgraded with additional AI features and automation.

We have been using Check Point Security Management for more than three years.

Check Point Security Management is stable in my experience.

As of now, there is no issue with the scalability of Check Point Security Management regarding my organization's needs.

The customer support team for Check Point Security Management is excellent. They provide technical support whenever I require it.

The selection of Check Point Security Management was not done by my team; it was completed by a different team. I do not have any information about previous solutions.

I advise anyone having multiple security gateways that are managed stand-alone to deploy Check Point Security Management and manage all security gateways from a central console and central team. This will minimize configuration errors and reduce the requirement of engineers. I rate Check Point Security Management a nine on a scale of one to ten.

On-premises

We are using Check Point Security Management to centrally push the configuration to our security gateway, and we are using this solution to upgrade patches and firmware updates to our security gateway devices.

We have upgraded our security gateway from central management using Check Point Security Management, eliminating the need to log in to each security gateway device individually. We simply push the upgrade firmware version from centralized management, and it upgrades from there.

With central management of Check Point Security Management, we track all employees connected to our network to prevent security breaches or issues. All these features can be implemented from centrally management with the help of visibility.

The best feature of Check Point Security Management is centralized management and login, making it an easy job for engineers to configure and manage it.

After implementing the management of devices using Check Point Security Management, it became very easy and we are getting full visibility.

Time savings have been significant because with Check Point Security Management, our engineers spend less time managing or configuring the security gateway. We simply log in from central management to push changes to multiple security gateways easily.

The initial configuration and setup knowledge base document for Check Point Security Management could be upgraded to make it more helpful for configuration reference.

Apart from the knowledge base improvements needed, everything is very useful and meaningful in Check Point Security Management.

I have been using Check Point Security Management for almost three years.

Check Point Security Management is stable.

Check Point Security Management is good in terms of scalability. We can add more gateways, and it handles them very easily.

I have had a great experience with the support team of Check Point Security Management. They are supportive and very knowledgeable. When we face technical issues, they are ready to help us.

Positive

Regarding pricing, setup costs, and licensing for Check Point Security Management, we have not faced any challenges. Everything was as per expectation and costing.

We evaluated Fortinet FortiManager before choosing Check Point Security Management.

Anyone looking for a centralized management solution can consider Check Point Security Management as one of the most valued solutions that will really help them to centrally manage all security gateways. I rate Check Point Security Management nine out of ten.

On-premises

We need central management for our policy, monitoring, and different day-to-day administrative tasks, so Check Point Security Management fits all the requirements for our needs. As we know, Check Point Security Management can be used for central policy management. It is an all-in-one management system. We can manage firewalling, application control, URL filtering, IPS, Anti-Bot, and Threat Emulation. We can unify the rule base and reduce it in one central management console called SmartConsole. That is our main use case for this product.

I can use one console for access lists, application control, managing day-to-day reporting, granular access control, managing large and segmented environments with multiple domains or customers, and integrating threat management with that console. It has summed up the tasks in one console, which is our specific use case.

We can manage one firewall in one site, one cluster in one of our sites, and another cluster in another site with a single console. This feature allows us to manage large and sophisticated management tasks in one console, which is why it is called Multi-Domain Security Management.

The granular and general access control allows us to centralize our policy management in one console for firewall, application control, URL filtering, IPS, Anti-Bot, Threat Emulation, and Threat Extraction. It is unified in one console, allowing us to unify the rule base to reduce complexity. These features are beneficial, and the system is scalable.

Administrators are operational, so it creates operational efficiency through faster rollouts of change with policy packages, creating faster and easier operational day-to-day activities.

I strongly admire the compliant support feature. It creates detailed logs, audit trails, and customizable reports. It has excellent reporting features including the threat blades, threat prevention blades, and firewalling blades. I can comply with this and provide it for auditors, which makes it an interesting feature.

Performance with logs needs improvement as Check Point Security Management has large-scale environments that need dedicated log servers. If you store logs on the central management server or Check Point SMS, it will create resource-intensive tasks. When the logs are too heavy for the security management server, the CPU spike will be high, causing our management day-to-day activity to lag or become difficult. This needs to be improved. Additionally, the resource demands need improvement. For example, log indexing related to SmartEvent needs strong servers, which should be improved for the future.

I have been deploying Check Point Security Management products for almost three years.

It is stable for our clients.

It is scalable because it can manage different gateways or different firewalls in different sites. It can be multi-domain Security Management server and can manage large or segmented environments with multiple domains or customers.

For management, we did not use another solution. We just used Cisco ASA on that single firewall which can be managed through CLI. We switched from Cisco ASA, but that was not management; it was a firewall.

We considered other vendors such as FortiGate and Palo Alto firewalls. We chose Check Point Security Management server because we selected Check Point for our firewall.

I rate Check Point Security Management nine out of ten because it has good features. I decreased one point due to the performance and resource demanding issues on the log indexing, and SmartEvent needs strong servers, which needs to be considered.

It is deployed on-premises and is not costly. The management server can be expensive, but it excels at what it does.

Check Point Security Management server centralizes our policy management by unifying the firewalling features and threat prevention features to manage it in one console. It creates ease and operational efficiency. We save time and increase our day-to-day operational efficiency by removing management complexity.

If you want to centralize your policy management such as firewalling, application control, URL filtering, and different threat prevention features, and unify your rule base to reduce operational complexity, you need to use Check Point Security Management.

On-premises

My main use case for Check Point Security Management is to manage about 500 Check Point firewalls, and we manage all this equipment with this solution.

In my day-to-day work, I manage typical tasks with Check Point Security Management such as policy updates, monitoring, and troubleshooting, and it's easy to manage all the firewalls in this big environment with this solution.

I do not have anything else to add about my main use case or how I use Check Point Security Management.

In my opinion, the best feature Check Point Security Management offers is the ability to upgrade firewalls directly from the management console of the security management, which stands out to me.

Being able to upgrade firewalls directly from the management console makes a big difference for me because it reduces errors, and we do a lot of things automatically, which improves the upgrade process.

Check Point Security Management has positively impacted my organization by saving a lot of time because we have a lot of firewalls, and it provides a console where I can see directly all the managed firewalls, allowing us to manage all of our firewalls from just one point.

I have used Check Point Security Management for several years and have seen its evolution, and I believe they can improve the management by allowing better API functionality because the API now is a little complicated, making it difficult to do automation.

The improvements I would like to see in the API specifically relate to ease of use because the REST API is not easy to use.

I have been using Check Point Security Management for more than 13 years.

Check Point Security Management is really stable, and I have not experienced any downtime or issues with reliability except for when we do upgrades, but after the upgrade, the platform is very stable.

I have reached out to customer support for Check Point Security Management many times, and they answer quickly, with the level of support depending on the difficulty of the problem.

Before using Check Point Security Management, I used a Cisco solution, and we switched to Check Point because Cisco management was not user-friendly, had a lot of bugs, and was very difficult to use.

I can't respond to how much time I've saved or how many incidents have been reduced since I started using Check Point Security Management because I'm pretty sure we saved a lot of time due to the central point of this tool, but I can't share examples.

I have not seen a return on investment in terms of time saved, fewer employees needed, or other benefits since I cannot share any relevant metrics.

We use Fortinet and Cisco as other tech products.

My advice to others looking into using Check Point Security Management is that if you're looking for an easy tool to manage your firewall, you have to use this tool.

I do not have any additional thoughts about Check Point Security Management before we wrap up.

On a scale of one to ten, I rate Check Point Security Management a ten.

On-premises

My main use case for Check Point Security Management is to unify firewall and threat prevention policies across multiple international sites, so I use SmartConsole to streamline rule updates and monitor security events in real-time.

The best features Check Point Security Management offers me are unified management console, automated policy management, and real-time monitoring and reporting.

Check Point Security Management has positively impacted my organization by providing centralized control, allowing us to manage all security policies and gateways from a single console, reducing complexity and saving time, and by enabling faster policy updates, which allowed quicker roll-out of rule changes across multiple sites, improving agility and reducing configuration errors.

I see areas of improvement for Check Point Security Management such as GUI stability and performance, and simplified firmware upgrades.

I and my colleagues occasionally report glitches or missing data views with the GUI stability and performance issues, and sometimes SmartConsole crashes.

The main things regarding needed improvements are GUI stability and performance, and there is no need to add more.

I have been using Check Point Security Management for five to six years.

Check Point Security Management is stable, although sometimes it is not.

Check Point Security Management is scalable.

The customer support for Check Point Security Management is good.

Positive

I did not previously use a different solution before Check Point Security Management.

I have seen a strong ROI from using Check Point Security Management through unified policy management, reduced misconfigurations, and faster incident response.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing Check Point Security Management.

My advice for others looking into using Check Point Security Management is that if you manage complex or multi-site networks, it is a powerful tool for centralizing control and improving security consistency.

I don't have specific metrics or examples of time saved, fewer errors, or other measurable benefits.

I don't have information regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing.

My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

I was offered a gift card for this review.

On a scale of one to ten, I rate Check Point Security Management an eight.

On-premises

Our main use case for Check Point Security Management is for unified management of our security devices, so our administration can control everything from one centralized interface.

A specific example of how we use Check Point Security Management for shipment security management and administration control is that we have multiple security gateways integrated with security management. For any required configuration, we use the console on security management to implement all changes.

The best features Check Point Security Management offers are Smart Logging and Smart Console, which are helpful for log searching and analysis. While we have raw data, these two tools provide better visibility on incident trends and ensure GDPR compliance.

Smart Log and Smart Console help with visibility and compliance by capturing all events and traffic flow from central management. All users and events are captured in security management, providing full visibility.

Check Point Security Management has positively impacted our organization by providing better administration control and a unified central pane of glass for daily configuration.

A specific outcome demonstrating how Check Point Security Management has helped our organization is the reduction in human error through centralized policy management.

Check Point Security Management can be improved as it requires significant resources, particularly in larger deployments.

We have been using Check Point Security Management for more than three years.

Check Point Security Management is stable.

Check Point Security Management demonstrates good scalability.

The customer support for Check Point Security Management is excellent, as the support engineers are supportive and have excellent knowledge in troubleshooting.

Positive

We are using Check Point Security Management exclusively and have not previously used a different solution.

We have seen a return on investment through reduced cost and time.

Before choosing Check Point Security Management, we evaluated FortiManager.

My advice for anyone looking into using Check Point Security Management is to look for the centralized single pane of glass to manage security devices.

I rate Check Point Security Management 8 out of 10 because of its unified console, usability, and proper reporting capabilities.

On-premises

My main use case for Check Point Security Management is to centrally manage all my security gateways that are deployed in different branches so that we can configure any policies and get full control of the security gateway from a central location.

In our day-to-day IT team requirements, they need to harden the security policy of the security gateways that are hosted across the branches in different locations. They access the security gateway through Check Point Security Management from a central location, and whatever they want to harden the policy, they can push the configuration from that single console.

Good control, good visibility, and a single console to manage all the security gateways in our organization are the best features of Check Point Security Management.

It will be helpful to meet the compliance of security, so we have full visibility on the configuration part of each and every security gateway, and we can compare the policies that are configured across different security gateways from a single console.

It has impacted positively and has really saved the team time and compliance.

Basically there were multiple teams, the team who handled the security gateways at each location, but now we have a central team where one to two engineers handle all the security gateways.

As of now, I don't see anything that needs to be improved in Check Point Security Management because it is working fine and providing a great console with good visibility and control.

It has been more than three years since I started using Check Point Security Management.

Check Point Security Management is stable.

Check Point Security Management's scalability is excellent.

They are helpful and good in the technical part.

Since starting, we have been using Check Point Security Management only.

It was a great experience, and the sales team really helped us to get a good price and licensing.

I have seen a good rate of return on the investment, so it has really saved our money and time.

We had evaluated FortiGate security management as an alternative.

I will advise anyone having multiple security gateways that they can deploy this solution on the cloud or on-premises to centrally manage from a single console. We are partners. I would rate this solution a 9 out of 10.

On-premises

Other

My main use case for Check Point Security Management is centralizing my different gateways into the company, because I have a gateway in Azure and on-premise, and I typically use it for day-to-day management.

My main use case for Check Point Security Management also includes monitoring and logs, as I create sites or portals in one centralized portal because I need to see different events in different sites with my gateways.

Check Point Security Management has positively impacted my organization by defining how we oversee and enforce security policies across the entire infrastructure. Instead of juggling multiple consoles, we now have a single, unified view that makes monitoring and response much faster.

The specific outcome is about the saved time because the IT support team reduced their workload by 20% hours a day.

The best features Check Point Security Management offers for me include real granular policy control, as the availability to define very specific rules for different users, applications, and environments ensures that security is tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.

Granular control has helped me in practice. For example, we had a project team working with an external partner who needed access to certain cloud collaboration tools that weren't normally allowed on the corporate network. Using granular policy control, we created a rule that applied only to the team's device and only during working hours, while keeping the rest of the organization restricted. This meant the project could move forward smoothly without compromising overall security.

Another feature worth highlighting is the role-based access control, as it allows us to assign different levels of permission to administrators, auditors, and operations, so each person only sees and manages what's relevant to their role. This reduces the risk of accidental misconfigurations and keeps responsibility clearly separate.

Centralized administration is also a great feature.

Check Point Security Management could be improved by enhancing the documentation, as Check Point needs to create more and easier documentation.

I have been using Check Point Security Management for around six years.

Check Point Security Management is stable.

The scalability of Check Point Security Management is wonderful.

The customer support is very fast, and I have no problems with this.

Positive

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My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is moderate because I think the pricing is great but somewhat high.

Check Point Security Management is a great opportunity for centralizing your gateways, as it presents an excellent opportunity. I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.

Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Check Point Security Management serves as our command center for centrally managing our firewalls and security policies across multi-sites, enabling us to configure rules, monitor traffic, and respond to threats in real-time.

Using SmartConsole, we monitor all network traffic across our gateways in Azure and VPNs to on-premise locations, providing us with a live view of sessions, blocked attempts, and threat indicators. The log monitor tab is especially useful, allowing us to filter by source, destination, and other types for examining different events.

Check Point Security Management offers centralized control, real-time threat visibility, and automation tools that streamline security operations across complex environments. The unified management console, SmartConsole in this case, acts as a single pane of glass for managing firewalls, gateways, and related infrastructure.

A significant strength of Check Point Security Management is the role-based access control, which allows us to delegate specific tasks such as log review, policy editing, and threat analysis to different teams without compromising security.

Check Point Security Management has positively impacted our organization by improving efficiency. Centralized policy management has drastically reduced the time we spend configuring and deploying rules across multiple gateways from hours to minutes, thanks to SmartConsole and automated policy deployment.

Check Point Security Management could be improved by enhancing its user interface, expanding third-party integrations, and refining reports and automation capabilities to make it more intuitive and scalable for diverse enterprise environments.

I have been using Check Point Security Management for five years.

Check Point Security Management is very stable.

Check Point Security Management's scalability is also very good.

The customer support for Check Point Security Management is very good.

Positive

The setup process of Check Point Security Management was mostly smooth, though we encountered a few surprises along the way.

The relevant metrics for return on investment is the time saved.

Since implementing Check Point Security Management, we have saved approximately 10 to 15 hours per week due to a significant reduction in manual workload and incident response times.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is moderate because I need to be informed when deploying these different tools. The department expert handles this in our case.

I would advise others looking into using Check Point Security Management to give it a try. When companies look for a centralized security solution, they should use Check Point Security Management. I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.

Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft Azure

My main use case for Check Point Security Management is for centralizing my different gateways in different sites, such as Azure, on-premise, and other clouds, which allows me to control, see events, and make different policies over my security in different sites at the same time.

Managing those different sites with Check Point Security Management is much easier because the policies can be applied centrally and pushed out across Azure, on-premise, and other cloud environments, allowing me to update changes in one management console that automatically syncs everywhere, which saves time and avoids inconsistency. Monitoring events is also streamlined since all logs and alerts feed into the single dashboard.

One unique aspect of our setup with Check Point Security Management is how we manage policies across both traditional on-premise firewalls and multiple cloud environments simultaneously, relying on a centralized console to push consistent rules everywhere, which keeps our workflow simple and avoids misconfigurations.

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The best feature of Check Point Security Management for me is the Advanced Threat Prevention because it integrates protection against malware, phishing, and network attacks in different blades or gateways, alongside centralized policy management.

One more feature worth highlighting about Check Point Security Management is how advanced threat prevention and centralized policy management work together to simplify our daily operations, as threat prevention tools automatically block malware and phishing attempts across all environments while centralized policies ensure those protections apply consistently everywhere, significantly reducing the gaps between sites or platforms and lessening the team's troubleshooting time.

Check Point Security Management has positively impacted our organization by streamlining different policy management in a single console, and incident response has also become faster because all alerts and logs feed into one security tool or management tool, giving us immediate visibility without needing to switch between tools.

Check Point Security Management could be improved with better reporting and dashboard customization options, as having more tailored insights for different stakeholders would enhance visibility, but this is a minor concern.

I have been using Check Point Security Management for five years.

In my experience, Check Point Security Management is very stable.

Check Point Security Management is very scalable in our organization, and we have had no problems with it at all.

The customer support is very fast, and I love the support.

Positive

I have seen a return on investment, mainly in terms of the time saved.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing is great, and I find the pricing to be good for me.

Check Point Security Management should be considered by others as the best centralized management for different gateways, as it is an excellent tool that I recommend to others.

Check Point Security Management is deployed in a hybrid cloud environment in our organization.

We use Azure as our cloud provider.

I did purchase Check Point Security Management through the Azure marketplace.

Incident response has improved significantly; for example, phishing attempts or firewall misconfigurations that used to take a full day to investigate can now be identified and addressed within a couple of hours, freeing up the team around two to five hours per week.

Check Point Security Management is very scalable in our organization, and we have had no problems with it at all.

I give this review a rating of ten out of ten.

Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft Azure