Check Point Security Management Reviews

The main use case for Check Point Security Management is for controlling different gateways in my infrastructure, for example, in Azure or on-premise. I need to centralize my control, my monitors, and other things in one site.

One unique angle about my main use case for Check Point Security Management is how they tailor the platform to their own operation writing. When I need to control different roles based on the dashboard, other things include automated policies staging and specific rules.

The best features include centralized management, policy creation, and dashboard visibility, which stand out as positives for me.

The reporting feature of Check Point Security Management is one of the most practical tools for my daily and weekly routine. I perform daily checks, quick traffic, and threat summaries to spot anomalies or spikes in attacks, and weekly reports that a security team might schedule list the top ten blocked threats per branch office.

One last point worth adding about the features of Check Point Security Management is how scalability and flexibility play into its strengths. As environments grow, you do not need to reinvent your setup, and the same centralized console can handle new gateways, cloud connectors, or remote offices without losing consistency. Features like policies layering and dynamic objects make it easy to adapt rules to changing business needs.

Check Point Security Management has had a very positive impact on my organization by making security operations more efficient and reliable. Simplified management means policies are consistent across all sites, reducing errors and saving time.

Check Point Security Management could be improved by adding more specific or easier documentation.

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

Check Point Security Management is very stable.

Check Point Security Management is very scalable.

Customer support for Check Point Security Management is excellent for me.

I did not previously use a different solution.

I think about the saved time when considering the return on investment.

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

My advice to others looking into using Check Point Security Management is to take your time. I would rate this review nine out of ten.

Microsoft Azure

My main use case for Check Point Security Management is to control my gateways and the other Check Point security tools.

In this case, I use Check Point Security Management for controller, admin, change different topics in my gateways; my gateways are in Azure and this gateway has only a gateway, with no specific controlling because for this I use Check Point Security Management in other service, specifically in Infinity Portal.

I have no additional information to add about how I use Check Point Security Management in my environment, particularly with Infinity Portal or Azure gateways.

I love the real-time monitoring feature of Check Point Security Management because when I need to see different problems or block different traffic, I need to use a tool with real-time capabilities for troubleshooting or the other documentations with the real issue.

Real-time monitoring helps me solve issues, for example, when I have a problem with the VPN; I need to view different traffic and identify different calls about the problem, or when I need to view when I have different user a problem with into others networks or something else.

Check Point Security Management positively impacts my organization as it is a great tool for completing the security checkpoints tools, making it possible to create this solution in different sites, for example, in Azure and on-premise, with the same impact or application.

The documentation of Check Point Security Management is not intuitive because it is for advanced technical support, and when I need to deploy different features, it is complicated for junior support or technical personnel.

I would like to see more intuitive documentation or easier documentation for Check Point Security Management.

I have been using this solution for two years in my current field.

Check Point Security Management is stable in my experience.

Check Point Security Management is very scalable and handles growth or changes in my organization well.

My experience with customer support for Check Point Security Management has been very good.

Neutral

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

This is a great tool for admin or controlling your gateway.

I have not seen a return on investment from using Check Point Security Management; however, it provides better time response.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is great because I need to put the licensing in the different tools over or around Check Point. I don't know the price because it's in a different area, not the support area.

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

I rate Check Point Security Management a nine out of ten.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure

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

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 as a firewall. I have connected it in my office premises as a firewall. The people who connect to the internet in the internal network have their packet captures go through the firewall itself, ensuring everything is safe and secure.

The best feature Check Point Security Management offers is the GUI. The GUI shows everything in different categories such as mobile phones, connected devices, laptops, and desktops. It displays everything in different dashboards, making it easy to understand what is connected to what.

Having that dashboard helps me in my day-to-day work because it saves time. It shows all the devices that have been connected and how many devices are connected in different ways. Through this, I am able to track how many laptops and mobile phones have occupied my IP addresses.

If I had to pick one thing that could make my experience even better, I would say they need to change the support resolution time. Everything else meets expectations.

I have been using Check Point Security Management for 1.8 years.

Check Point Security Management is stable in my experience with no downtime.

Regarding scalability, I have given the rating of nine out of ten. The support is the only aspect having a glitch; everything else is satisfactory.

I choose a nine out of ten specifically because sometimes the support has a glitch.

I used a different solution before but prefer not to disclose that name. Currently, there are no issues with anything, and everything is functioning properly.

I have seen a hundred percent return on investment with Check Point Security Management.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point Security Management is positive. The products they provide from Check Point are reasonably priced and satisfactory.

Before choosing Check Point Security Management, I did not evaluate other options. I chose only one option, which is Check Point.

My advice to others looking into using Check Point Security Management is to ask all vendors and customers to take the demo for five to 10 times. After ensuring it is supported by their organizations, then proceed forward. I rate Check Point Security Management a nine out of ten.

On-premises

This is the Wi-Fi documentation. I work with the service, and we are partners with Check Point. One of our clients, Parliament, required an upgrade from physical to virtual implementation. This was my first implementation. We have another client, and the plan is to do something with them this year, although I'm not sure when. I've been involved in some other things, however, this was my first implementation.

It's a reliable solution for security without mentioning its importance. We can't work without Check Point since it provides the real visibility needed to manage the environment. You can depend on it, as it assures the environment is well-secured. It's doing great work, and we can't work without SQL. We don't work with any other solution.

One case I saw was with the logs, which gave me the transfer and the vibration. There's a lot of logs, and I'm unsure about their validity, however, they take up a lot of space. We had to provision the virtual machine twice. Another reason is that the database was already large thanks to the numerous logs. I'm not sure how they can be managed comprehensively.

I have done my first implementation of the solution.

Ever since I implemented it, we have not had any complaints from the client side. That is a good sign regarding stability.

Check support was involved during the implementation. We had support during the migration process. The issue was the size of the partition for logs. After the support, we realized we needed to resize. The challenge was with drivers due to the size, and we had not provisioned the partition to the right size. This was resolved with support.

Neutral

We had to determine the specifications required for the security of the virtual machine, such as memory, storage, and network setup. The provisioning of the VM depended on the available resources since the box itself had a lot of memory. Specifications are crucial for the setup, and we needed enough storage. The migration was time-consuming but manageable.

With Check Point, I can compare it with Fortinet. Fortinet is a bit lower, while Check Point is on a higher level in terms of visibility and reliability. I've seen recommendations for Check Point over other products.

I would definitely recommend Check Point, especially since our client was already using it. We had considered other options, but Check Point was preferable. The implementation supports an environment with more than one hundred users. 

Overall, I would rate this product a ten out of ten.

We work with multiple security tools, including network security and information security solutions. Our primary use case includes using Check Point and other tools like CyberArk for privilege access management, Cisco, and WebSight CloudSec.

The product helps in securing our complete organization. We have not received any alerts that were suspicious, which assures us that it's working as expected.

It's already helped secure our organization effectively. That said, the integration of all the firewalls should be centralized, which would make management easier.

We are not sure if there is a centralized security console available. It would be beneficial if all firewalls could be integrated under one management console.

We have been using the firewall for more than ten years.

We are confident in the security solution as we have not faced any alerts that were suspicious.

We have partner support that helps us mitigate vulnerabilities reported by our infrastructure team. Most of the time, we get good support.

Neutral

The first deployment takes two to three days. After setup, maintenance and updates are straightforward.

Since we are using it extensively, we get significant discounts during procurement. The tool is cost-effective.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

My main use case for Check Point Security Management is to troubleshoot or add policy, depending on the situation. It could be both, but mainly troubleshooting. We go and take care of the customer's management and resolve issues, create new configurations, and such.

I find very useful the central view offered by Check Point Security Management, as you're able to have all your gateways and policy and different policy packages. The maintenance and addition of new policy is fairly easy. The GUI is also very simple and user-friendly.

The logging feature in Check Point Security Management is effective because the view is one single view and you can have multiple log servers to retrieve the logs from.

The needed improvements in Check Point Security Management depend very much on the customer's infrastructure. For example, an appliance has an easier time than someone with VMs. With VMs, there can be multiple issues related to performance.

I have been working in my current field for around two years.

Since I mainly work on other customers, Check Point Security Management does not much affect my scenario positively, so I cannot provide specific information about deployment issues.

Check Point Security Management has experienced some reliability issues, but it depends on VM, appliance, and any other implementation.

The scalability of Check Point Security Management for a VM depends because you can only enlarge the disk size once and then you probably have to remake it. Also, when you upgrade multiple times, you leave many files that are useless. They are dated, so it's always better to create a new machine every few versions, for example, three or four major versions.

I reach out for help multiple times with Check Point Security Management because many issues are related to the hotfix and known issues or new issues, which we have to work with R&D. The customer support quality varies significantly depending on who you get, what you get, and what the issue is.

I would rate the customer support of Check Point Security Management around a six because recently there's been a decrease in quality.

I am not sure if I previously used a different solution before Check Point Security Management.

I am not aware of the specifics regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point Security Management, but as far as I know, licensing is quite expensive.

My company is not a customer for Check Point Security Management specifically, but we are a partner.

I am not sure if I have seen a return on investment with Check Point Security Management.

I am not aware of the specifics regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point Security Management, but as far as I know, licensing is quite expensive.

I evaluated other options before choosing Check Point Security Management, specifically the Panorama equivalent from Palo Alto Networks.

The challenging part I have experienced with Check Point Security Management has been related to the central licensing. We had some issues where the license got duplicated and it's been a year going around and trying to clean it, but it also made me able to learn multiple things, which included CME and the VSec licensing.

If you have VSec licensing and you add a license that's central, you're going to be able to see it inside the CPMELG file as a VSec common.

I would advise others looking into using Check Point Security Management to put their hands on it. It's easier to learn that way. It's really something you can study, but you're going to be able to know it better when you work on the management itself. At first, people are going to make policy, which is fine. It's the beginning of the CCSA certification. That's the first step.

I was offered a gift card or incentive for this review.

On a scale of 1-10, I rate Check Point Security Management a 7.

We utilize Check Point Security Management for our daily security operations, including managing firewall rules, reviewing alerts, and generating reports on a weekly basis.

We've integrated Check Point Security Management with some of our business associates' portals for HR, finance, and payroll activities, which are outsourced. Check Point alarms us about any version changes on these sites, allowing us to block unauthorized changes. So far, we haven't encountered any serious incidents that require immediate action. We receive incident reports, but they usually involve blocked or quarantined threats rather than major security breaches. Additionally, our internal management console provides us with alerts, adding another layer of security monitoring.

Over the past 1.5  years, we've started monitoring it more regularly, analyzing alerts closely. 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. 

While we use a cloud-based Security Control console, we primarily conduct in-depth analysis of reports on a weekly basis to enhance our security posture.

Check Point EDR has room for improvement, especially in the area of Data Loss Prevention where it currently lacks functionality. 

I'd also like to see enhancements in content filtering and categorization features.

I would appreciate the ability to restrict forwarding of confidential documents to specific groups, ensuring tighter security measures.

I have been using Check Point Security Management for the past 1.5 years.

I would rate the stability 9 out of 10. 

I would rate the scalability 8 out of 10. 

We faced issues, but with the help of tech support, it was solved. It took almost one week approximately to set the solution through firewall.

We rely on tech support to enhance our capabilities.

We have a small, focused team of four engineers.

Currently, we only use Check Point and are satisfied with its benefits in terms of time-saving and security performance, estimating a 30% time savings.

The pricing can be estimated around 3 or 4 out of 10 in terms of expense.

I have evaluated another product before Check Point but found the local account manager to be more aggressive.

I would rate the product overall at 8 out of 10, mentioning that while functionalities are there, improvements could be made to make it more user-friendly for laymen, such as incorporating drag-and-drop functionality.

We use the product as a primary gateway firewall for all offices at different locations. 

We have deployed their high-end firewall UTMs to medium business grade devices 1400 series. They are easy to manage either centrally or as separate devices. We are using them for Network security including firewall rules, NATTing, Web application access, IPSec VPN tunneling between offices and cloud services, user VPN clients for access from home, data encryption, anti-malware/anti-virus solutions, and as network gateway devices for routing and DNS.

We have seen tremendous improvement in the overall security of the organization's IT assets. We performed Pen Tests and External vulnerability audits on our network and we always scored top-rated thanks to Check Point. 

Their management portal and firmware are very stable and don't require frequent maintenance. Their IPSec tunneling is very stable, especially with Azure and AWS networks. 

Access to detailed network logs in real time helps us decide and take prompt action to block/fix threats. 

The most valuable aspects of the solution include:

• IPSec VPN Tunneling: they are easy to configure and offer multiple options to set them up with Cloud services and other vendor firewall products over certificates, shared keys etc.
• DDoS Protection: Firewall cleverly handles such attacks without compromising on performance.
• HA and Clustering: Seamless load management and High Availability between nodes of firewall clusters.
• Firewall Rules: You have access to set up rules at a very granular level and all are accessible through the GUI platform as well as over CMDLET.

We didn't find any major feature missing or lacking in Check Point products that we used. We'd just like them to continue to improve their products with new features and updates. 

We'd like to see more and more integration possibilities between Checkpoint and other vendor security solutions such as Malwarebytes, SIEM solution providers, and standalone vulnerability scanners.

The Check Point SandBlast platform could also be merged with the Check Point GAIA platform for a central management console and easier controls.

I've used the solution for more than ten years.

The solution is very stable compared to peers.

The solution is highly scalable.

Technical support is satisfactory, however, it takes some time to escalate your ticket.

Positive

We did use Sophos and Cisco ASA, however, they were either complicated products to manage or lacked features.

The initial setup wasn't difficult after you attended free platform support sessions by Check Point.

We handled the initial setup in-house.

We evaluated Sophos, Cisco ASA, SonicWall, and FortiGate.

On-premises