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Check Point Security Management vs WhatsUp Gold comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Check Point Security Manage...
Ranking in Log Management
9th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
86
Ranking in other categories
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (14th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (5th)
WhatsUp Gold
Ranking in Log Management
41st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (39th), Network Monitoring Software (25th), Server Monitoring (14th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (20th), Configuration Management (21st), Cloud Monitoring Software (26th), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Check Point Security Management is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhatsUp Gold is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Check Point Security Management1.1%
WhatsUp Gold0.8%
Other98.1%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

RL
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.
EC
Technical Manager at Quan Hung Gourmet
Efficient monitoring with detailed customization, yet complexity remains
The best feature of WhatsUp Gold is the automatic generation of topology and its integration with virtualization and wireless. I have used the automated device discovery with this topology feature. The interactive map feature helps me manage the topology because sometimes we cannot draw the topology correctly, so we need to manually edit the connections. The alerting system is very tunable and customizable, but it's a little complicated to use. Many customers cannot manage it by themselves and need support from us, the provider. We always use the dashboards in the SOC, where we constantly display a dashboard or multiple dashboards. This allows us to know immediately if the connection or bandwidth is full or if the connection is broken.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's by far the best product we have to manage firewalls."
"Check Point Security Management has always made it simple and easy to manage all our firewall systems and firewall policies."
"Throughout my professional career I have operated, implemented, and designed solutions with Checkpoint's NGFW for clients of all kinds - public and private, small and large."
"The reporting system provides real-time insights into the security situation and shows measures that can be taken to protect our data."
"Check Point Security Management really shines when it comes to giving security teams control without complexity, as it is built for scale but still lets you move quickly when threats emerge or policies need to change."
"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."
"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."
"It's a stable and complete product that is easy to use and capable of managing their next-gen firewall infra around the globe without compromises."
"The new version has a lot of improved features."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the application monitors that allow for discreet roaming on network devices."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"It is very good at monitoring the network and keeps us up to date on the status of internal devices."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution, but after that, it's possible to do almost anything with it."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"One thing good about WhatsUp Gold is that it is fairly stable."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
 

Cons

"They need to make a Mac version of the SmartConsole, in my opinion."
"Troubleshooting is quite complicated within multi-domain management. If an issue arises, the local administrator has to keep in mind that there are other domains that could be also affected."
"I and my colleagues occasionally report glitches or missing data views with the GUI stability and performance issues, and sometimes SmartConsole crashes."
"In the last version from 80.20, there are some issues around SSNA Diction. I would like this to be improved."
"Check Point Tech Support will not assist with new configurations if we encounter any issues during the configuration process."
"For the first deployment, Check Point Security Management is not so easy and can be difficult for the first implementation."
"Check Point Security Management could be improved with more intuitive documentation, as it is not currently intuitive. When I needed to deploy for the first time, it was very difficult."
"While the console and administration work well, they have to work on performance since it consumes a lot of CPU and memory."
"The product is old and not updated."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"The tool should focus on increasing its market share, as it is the only area of concern where improvements are needed."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"There is a very big gap in the support."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Check Point is much cheaper than the competition ($4/server as compared to $17/server)."
"The pricing can be estimated around 3 or 4 out of 10 in terms of expense."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution is expensive and there is an annual license."
"Do the homework because Check Point is rather expensive."
"Price-wise, it is an expensive solution."
"If one will be very expensive, and ten means low price, I rate the tool's price as a three out of ten."
"This product can be used for 25 security gateways on a basic license."
"The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products."
"Pricing is reasonable compared to other products."
"The price of WhatsUp Gold is good."
"The tool's price is reasonable. WhatsUp Gold is cheaper than SolarWinds."
"I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees."
"It is per device, per year. The pricing is very clear. If you have a service agreement, you get all of your major upgrades and minor upgrades. It was under $10,000 to go all-in with all of the different add-ons for it."
"This is a well priced solution."
"There is a license needed to use WhatsUp Gold."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business55
Midsize Enterprise31
Large Enterprise43
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise14
 

Questions from the Community

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 advice do you have for others considering Check Point Security Management?
I advise anyone having multiple security gateways that are managed stand-alone to deploy Check Point Security Management and manage all security gateways from a central console and central team. Th...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WhatsUp Gold?
Clients find the licensing calculator confusing, but we simplify this for them by collecting relevant information first. The licensing is based on devices, providing better cost-effectiveness than ...
What needs improvement with WhatsUp Gold?
It would be great if WhatsUp Gold could add features that simplify management with AI, as it is currently too complicated to manage.
What is your primary use case for WhatsUp Gold?
My use case for WhatsUp Gold includes all device availability checks, bandwidth usage, CPU, and memory usage, as well as alarm notifications.
 

Also Known As

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

Hedgetec, Geiger
Artoni Trasporti, Austin Independent School District, Banca Marche, Burke County North Carolina, Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine, Clayco, Community Integrated Care, Desca, Deutsche Bergbau, Flexi-Van, Gropper, Hamleys, Hammonds Furniture, Knowledge IT, Idras S.P.A., Sibeg, Swann Engineering, Trivium Lindenhof
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