We performed a comparison between Check Point Security Management and Elastic Beats based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."It provides for capabilities and has allowed us to be more scalable."
"HA Structure provides good coverage and works fine."
"URL filtering is a very important feature."
"Each department can easily share data with the management without fear of data compromise."
"We are now able to monitor the different VPN communities in real-time."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point Security Management is the high level of visibility"
"We can track logs of each firewall which is very helpful."
"The company uses software called Harmony. Check Point integrates nicely, whether on an endpoint or mobile device. It integrates well with the firewall and can give me reports that I can check without going to an online portal."
"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product."
"The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"I would like it to be the administrator of equipment or Next Generation firewalls (which have to be managed on this platform) and to be able to manage other services (like Harmony) that also belong to Check Point."
"Installing a policy takes a very long time to complete."
"I would like the ability to have an overview, cross-site: One portal that does all firewalls. Also, the user interface is overly complicated."
"SD-WAN functionality could be added."
"Being a security appliance, there should be the ability for the Security Management server to send email alerts via authenticated email."
"Some costs are ridiculously high."
"Support is the main area that they need to improve. Our support experience is not very smooth. We are based in Africa, and we don't know whether it is because of our region. I would like a feature where there is a workflow to provide authorization to some users before they're able to create and apply rules. Such a feature should be integrated with the management. It should not be in the box that comes with it."
"I would like to bind users to their network, as well as their local office machine."
"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 9th in Log Management with 55 reviews while Elastic Beats doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Log Management. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while Elastic Beats is rated 8.0. 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 Elastic Beats writes "A robust solution with a whole spectrum of features that's extremely scalable". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM and Splunk Cloud Platform, whereas Elastic Beats is most compared with .
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