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Check Point Security Management vs. Trellix Advanced Threat Defense

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Categories and Ranking

Check Point Security Manage...

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

10th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (11th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (4th)

Trellix Advanced Threat Def...

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

22nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) category, the mindshare of Check Point Security Management is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trellix Advanced Threat Defense is 1.9%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Check Point Security Management	0.5%
Trellix Advanced Threat Defense	1.9%
Other	97.6%

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

Featured Reviews

Roy Lopez

TI at a security firm with 51-200 employees

Simplified threat detection and reduced policy deployment time

The standout features of Check Point Security Management are unified policy management, real-time visibility, and automation capabilities, making it a powerful tool for security management. Consistency across environments with Check Point Security Management helps me ensure that instead of maintaining separate rules for firewalls, cloud workloads, and data centers, we apply one unified policy that covers them all. This reduces misconfigurations and ensures compliance, proving to be a time-saver because rolling out a new rule or updating an existing one takes minutes, not hours, because it is propagated everywhere automatically. Automation is one of the most valuable aspects of Check Point Security Management, and it often does not get enough attention compared to headline features like unified policies or visibility. With policy automation, routine tasks such as rule creation, compliance checks, or policy updates can be automated, reducing human error and saving hours of manual work. Check Point Security Management has simplified administration in my organization because instead of juggling multiple consoles, everything is managed from a single pane of glass. This has reduced complexity and saved significant time for our IT team, improving our operational efficiency. For a policy update, I used to spend two or three hours across multiple consoles. Now, with unified management in Check Point Security Management, it takes thirty to forty minutes, resulting in about a seventy percent reduction in effort, greatly boosting productivity.

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Philippe Panardie

RSSI at SDIS49

Ensuring long-term reliability while seeking internal email management enhancements

Prisma is a commercial name of the firewall now, but we don't work with the cloud product. Only our company is using it and we do not recommend it to customers. For us, it's transparent because it's a cloud product, so we don't really know the version as it's always updated. We have not had any problem, but it's difficult to report on what's going on because some days they can wash out perhaps 100 mails, and then it's difficult to say how many attacks you have reached. The right email has been washed out and then nobody has complained. We do not use the Threat Visualization feature; as we are in MX, the mail is washed out before it is in the mail inbox of the user, thus avoiding any problem requiring a reservation. In fact, there is no integration with existing security frameworks. The only problem we can have is that as we have no API interface, there is no inspection of internal mail. I rate Trellix Advanced Threat Defense a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Once we deployed Check Point Security Management, the manageability and the reporting capabilities made our job easier."

"Check Point Security Management has impacted my organization positively because the organization's security and perimeter area is better after using this technology."

"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."

"Regarding the tool's valuable features, I would say that Check Point is a very accessible and fast tool, especially when dealing with logs for the first time."

"The product has done a great job in protecting our business network and SCADA systems."

"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."

"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."

"One of the most outstanding characteristics of its centralized administration is its great computing power."

More Check Point Security Management pros

"The most valuable features are the administration console and its detection and response module."

"The fact that in 10 years, we have had no problem is the most valuable feature for us; it's really a washing machine, but the only problem we face is that it's difficult to report on this product."

"Provides good exfiltration, and is an all-in-one product."

"Its greatest strength is the DXL client which can rapidly disseminate attack information to all clients via the McAfee Agent instead of going through the ePO server."

"It is very scalable."

"I recommend this solution because of its ease of use."

"It is stable and reliable."

"It stops in excess of twenty-five malware events per month, all of which could be critical to the business."

Cons

"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."

"In order to work management console, you need some good appliance or you need to provide more CPU and Memory to the appliance."

"In the future, I would like to see more frequent updates because of the changing security landscape."

"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."

"The reporting should be improved in future releases. It needs to be very explicit. This is very important."

"As per personal experience and based on many organizations, Check Point needs to improve PS services."

"Check Point Security Management can be improved because for smaller organizations with only a single or a couple of devices, there is no need for the management. They are required to use the management system, which increases costs for smaller organizations."

"While SmartConsole is powerful, it can feel cluttered at times. A cleaner layout or customizable dashboard would help users focus on what matters most."

More Check Point Security Management cons

"The initial setup was industry standard complex. It takes awhile and has a lot of planning involved. It could be simplified with product redesign."

"The only problem we can have is that as we have no API interface, there is no inspection of internal mail."

"There could be a tool that automatically updates all-new Microsoft IPs, which are available for free to connect to the client."

"This solution needs to be made "cloud ready"."

"I would like to see future versions of the solution incorporate artificial intelligence technology."

"We'd like them to be better at dealing with script threats."

"Make the ATD system a part of the whole product and take the whole thing onto the cloud. While it is there already, it is not to the same level as the on-premise version."

"Lacks remote capabilities not dependent on the internet."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Price-wise, it is an expensive solution."

"The solution is expensive."

"The solution is expensive and there is an annual license."

"Do the homework because Check Point is rather expensive."

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

"Check Point is much cheaper than the competition ($4/server as compared to $17/server)."

"This product can be used for 25 security gateways on a basic license."

"If one will be very expensive, and ten means low price, I rate the tool's price as a three out of ten."

"Our licensing fees for this solution are approximately one million dollars per year."

"The product is expensive, but it is better than the rest of them in the industry."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

18%

Security Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

14%

Comms Service Provider

13%

Performing Arts

11%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	55
Midsize Enterprise	32
Large Enterprise	43

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Check Point Security Management?

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...

What needs improvement with Check Point Security Management?

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. ...

What is your primary use case for Check Point Security Management?

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 ...

What do you like most about McAfee Advanced Threat Defense?

I recommend this solution because of its ease of use.

What needs improvement with McAfee Advanced Threat Defense?

I would like to see an API interface for internal email and control of outgoing email to make it closer to 10. It's necessary; today we have an MX interface, and it would be interesting to have an ...

What is your primary use case for McAfee Advanced Threat Defense?

We are working with Palo Alto products, specifically firewalls. We are only using Palo Alto Firewalls and not Cortex. With FireEye and Trellix, we only work with ETP now because the NDR function wh...

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Also Known As

R80.10, R80, R77.30, R77, Check Point R80.10 Security Management, R80 Security Management

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Overview

Check Point Security Management is an advanced security management platform for enterprises. The platform integrates all aspects of security. A single platform manages the entire infrastructure, from data centers to private/public cloud deployments.

Check Point Security Management is a reliable and easy-to-use security platform. It integrates all aspects of your security environment to strengthen the security posture without impairing productivity. The system has a layered policy model. This means the security policy can be separated into layers for network segmentation. Different administrators can manage different policies. The policy layer automates the tasks.

The platform is extensible, scalable, and integrates easily with orchestration systems and change management.

Basic Components of the Infrastructure

Smart Console: The Check Point Graphical User Interface for connecting and managing Security Management Servers. The smart console provides an integrated solution via the following features:

Security policy management
System health monitoring
Multi-domain management

The smart console offers several advantages. Changes in security policies and logs can be done with a click. You can navigate from an item within a log to the policy. There are also built-in multi-language support and accessibility features.

1. Security Management Server: The server manages security gateways with set security policies and monitors security events on the network.

The automation server is an integrated part of the management server. The API server is active by default on servers with 4 GB of RAM or more and on standalone servers with 8 or more GB of RAM.

The automation server communicates with the management server the same way as the Smart Console. This architecture allows the same validation errors and warnings to be presented when using an automation session.

The same audit logs generated using the Smart Console are also generated using an automation session. If you have a multi-domain environment, there is only one automation server that monitors all the IP addresses of the multi-domain management server.

2. Security Gateway is placed at the edge of the network. It monitors and filters traffic and enforces security policies.

Logging, Event management, and Monitoring

With Check Point Security Management, logging, reporting, event management, and monitoring are integrated. The platform features widgets and chart templates that optimize visibility. One of the best features is the one-click exploration. This simplifies going from a general overview to specific event details.

Benefits of Check Point Security Management

The platform keeps pace with dynamic network changes
Helps align security with business goals
Helps with threat prevention.
Reduces operational costs

The unified console also means a single policy for users, data, applications, and networks. The granularity control helps accelerate administration processes. This feature, together with automation, is key to achieving reduced operational overhead. Security teams can automate tasks and even create self-service security web portals with the Check Point Security Management platform.

Threat management is fully integrated, with reporting, logging, and monitoring all in one dashboard. This provides full visibility into the security of the network.

Security Management Suite

The Security Management Suite consists of the following modules:

Policy Management: Includes central management of different security policies across multiple domains and browser-based security management.
Operations Management: Includes compliance, provisioning, workflow automation, and user directory centralization.
Threat Management: Includes centralizing security event correlation for enforcement points. Centrally monitors Check Point devices.

Reviews from Real Users

A Network Security Engineer/Architect at a tech services company says, "The features we like and find the most valuable are the ways we can manage the policy, create objects, and drag and drop objects in our daily operation. It makes our daily operation on the firewall management much easier than going, for example, to one firewall, then going to the other."

"The management API is the best new feature for me. It allows us to further automate our customers' automated server ordering," says a System Engineer Network & Security at OTTO GmbH & Co KG.

A Senior Infrastructure Services Specialist at St.George Bank Limited adds that "The solution is ideal for use and deployment in a large infrastructure environment."

Check Point Software Technologies

Powerful advanced threat detection

Uncover Hidden Threats

Combine in-depth static code analysis, dynamic analysis (malware sandboxing), and machine learning to increase zero-day threat and ransomware detection.

Threat Intelligence Sharing

Immediately share threat intelligence across your entire infrastructure—including multi-vendor ecosystems—to reduce time from threat encounter to containment.

Enable Investigation

Validate threats and access critical indicators of compromise (IoCs) needed for investigation and threat hunting.

Trellix

Sample Customers

Hedgetec, Geiger

The Radicati Group, Florida International University, MGM Resorts International, County Durham andDarlington NHS Foundation Trust

Check Point Security Management vs. Trellix Advanced Threat Defense