We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Check Point Security Management based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Dynatrace is highly regarded for its advanced AI engine and ability to identify infrastructure automatically. It also offers session replay and impressive visualization features. Check Point Security Management is praised for its centralized management features, user-friendly interface, and extensive monitoring capabilities. Some Dynatrace reviewers feel the learning curve is a little steep, and the documentation could be clearer. Users say that Dynatrace should offer more security options and improve integration with other tools. 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.
Service and Support: Users generally found Dynatrace's customer service to be helpful and available, but some said that the response times and documentation have room for improvement. 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.
Ease of Deployment: Dynatrace's setup is simple, efficient, and requires minimal technical configuration. It takes a few hours at most. Check Point Security Management is generally seen as easy to set up if the user has some expertise.
Pricing: Users say Dynatrace is expensive. Some noted that the licensing model is complicated and not transparent. Some said they struggled to accurately predict the number of units needed. Check Point Security Management is seen as a solid investment, offering flexibility and a good value for the price.
ROI: Dynatrace users said the solution saved them money and reduced downtime. Check Point users said the solution offers a steady ROI over time.
"The solution is ideal for use and deployment in a large infrastructure environment."
"Being able to install a version of Check Point Security Management helps us avoid the expense of creating a server dedicated to that function, and we save on equipment and technical personnel in installing it, which in the end accelerates the administration and management of equipment to connect to it."
"The Check Point Management server is isolated from security gateways, which means that in case there is an issue, we have our configuration ready and we can directly replace the device and push the configuration."
"It has a central management log server that helps us to easily identify faults and issues in the environment, especially during outages and incidents during the implementation of policy rules."
"Each department can easily share data with the management without fear of data compromise."
"The firewall cleverly handles such attacks without compromising on performance."
"It's a great solution for management. We can manage a lot at the same time with one security management system. Also, each gateway depends on the other, which is helpful."
"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."
"Gives systems back-end visibility, allows for proactive monitoring, and improves the user's experience."
"Real time monitoring helps reduce downtime. It saves a lot of time in determining what is the likely cause of an issue an end user may be experiencing."
"We are using Dynatrace for prediction and staging for every step of our development cycle."
"Great tool for deep diving into performance data and tracking issues through all the connected systems to better diagnose and pinpoint the real issues."
"Agentless Transaction Analysis allows my team to granularly decompose complex operations and flows for business applications."
"Understanding how the user was being targeted by the application as well as knowing their behavior using those applications."
"Service discovery with artificial intelligence automatic anomaly root cause detection, and problems replay."
"Real user monitoring is one of the best things in solution. The possibility to analyze any particular user session is wonderful."
"Even though the platform is simple, and creating security policies is a fairly quick task, creating a bulk of policies at once (ie. for a migration) could be a useful tool. This is probably possible through scripting, however, having an easy-to-use "import CSV" button would be beneficial."
"Check Point could improve by enhancing the networking in their solution in order to align it with the existing network architecture."
"It would be helpful if the documentation and good practice guides are updated. Many are still from R77."
"It sometimes blocks safe sites when I am researching, affecting the overall output and wasting time."
"Installing a policy takes a very long time to complete."
"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."
"Check Point EDR has room for improvement, especially in the area of Data Loss Prevention where it currently lacks functionality."
"Policy installation time can be reduced."
"They could also, develop an observability platform where you could have the ability to inject events, locks, and traces."
"Alert triggers could be easier to setup and more granular."
"Needs support for more technologies."
"Another area for improvement is that I would like the alerting to be set up a little bit more easily. Currently, it takes a lot of work to add alerting, especially if you have a large environment, and I consider our environment to be quite large. The alerting takes a lot of administration."
"As the product is evolving quickly and product features are added on a monthly basis, a more transparent roadmap would be more than welcome."
"It is always requiring us to update the Dynatrace client."
"The user interface is complicated, but recent web versions are getting better all the time."
"There is another challenge, which is in case of the Managed solution. In our old solution we could simply export the data as session data, and that would be imported and seen. Now, if we are using the Managed solution, then giving someone access to that solution is a challenge. We can handle it, but it's different than taking screenshots and saving that information the way we used to. The copy/paste features that were there in old application - because it was a fat app - were nice, compared to browser-based app, because you cannot really use those features anymore."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 9th in Log Management with 55 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 4th in Log Management with 340 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. 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 Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM and Splunk Cloud Platform, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor. See our Check Point Security Management vs. Dynatrace report.
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