We performed a comparison between Check Point Security Management and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Key features include the ability to include logs for everything that you do for admin. Also, it has web filtering built in and VPN."
"One of the most outstanding characteristics of its centralized administration is its great computing power."
"The layered architecture is really understandable and easy to use."
"Having the possibility to use Smart Event to check for threats on a broader scale helps after a security incident and also makes it easier to check - instead of looking through different logs."
"The solution is easy to use and comes with few vulnerabilities. You don't have to worry about release upgrades. Life cycle management is very easy."
"The support is pretty incredible. Check Point has support rep programs that go all the way up to putting one of their own people in your business to help you. Then, they have support programs. If you're an expert, you just need to be able to download updated files and stuff. They have support programs like that, too."
"The compliance is great."
"Check Point Security Management has improved our organization because all corporate firewalls can be managed with a single interface."
"The scalability is good."
"Automatic scanning and cleaning of viruses is the best and most valuable feature helping this tool to thrive. If any viruses are found, they are cleaned automatically."
"We apply the DLP policies across a range of endpoints and it is very accurate when reporting vulnerabilities, including those in email attachments."
"The intelligence mechanisms are good."
"Within its class I think, it has a high and decent detection rate."
"It's absolutely free to use."
"There are some competitive products on the market, but the best is Microsoft Defender because it's very easy to integrate. That's one reason a lot of clients want Microsoft Defender. It's also very easy to implement compared to other solutions."
"The solution provides protections and reports about strange behavior and automatically blocks some of it. I love the way that statuses are represented."
"The tracking of new threats could be improved."
"Check Point's hybrid cloud integration needs significant improvements. These resources need to evolve as data transfers to the cloud increase, so hybrid cloud models are easier to implement. Better hybrid cloud integration would improve how we manage our security logs and provide our administrators with a low-cost solution that enables them to meet all our essential requirements."
"It sometimes blocks safe sites when I am researching, affecting the overall output and wasting time."
"It would be great if the SmartView Monitor could become integrated into the SmartView Console Platform."
"Sometimes the security system slows down when it is overloaded."
"They need to make a Mac version of the SmartConsole, in my opinion."
"It also offers compatibility with third-party security solutions, however, it is not a lot. This needs to be improved."
"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."
"There is no behavior analytics for devices and endpoints. There is no behavior-based protection."
"Right now, the solution provides some recommendations on the dashboard but we don't have any priorities. It's a mix of all the vulnerabilities and all the security recommendations. I would like to see some priority or categorization of high, medium, and low so that we can fix the high ones first."
"The biggest issue I had with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint was the antivirus and ransomware. I wanted central visibility over all the machines that we operate."
"The automation could be simpler on the mitigation side. It has a learning curve. Otherwise, it's pretty easy."
"We would like more customization."
"The time it takes to implement policies has room for improvement."
"I personally haven't experienced any pain points, but some of my coworkers feel that it isn't secure enough."
"The time to generate certain alerts on our dashboard can take between 45 minutes to an hour, and I am unsure of the factors that influence this duration."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 13th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 55 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 2nd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 182 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 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 Microsoft Defender for Endpoint writes "Eliminates the need to look at multiple dashboards by automatically providing one XDR dashboard to show the security score of each subscription". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM and Splunk Cloud Platform, whereas Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Security, Intercept X Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, CrowdStrike Falcon and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our Check Point Security Management vs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint report.
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