We compared Check Point Security Management and LogRhythm SIEM based on our users' reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data, and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Check Point Security Management is praised for its centralized management features, user-friendly interface, and extensive monitoring capabilities. Users praised LogRhythm SIEM for its user-friendly centralized dashboard, strong integration capabilities, and event-filtering capabilities. 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. LogRhythm SIEM has the potential to improve its SOAR and NDR features, platform stability, and MDI integration. LogRhythm users requested expanded log storage, better load balancing, and streamlined search capabilities.
Service and Support: 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. LogRhythm SIEM was generally praised for its helpful and knowledgeable support, although there have been occasional delays and knowledge problems.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Security Management is generally seen as easy to set up if the user has some expertise. LogRhythm SIEM's setup is considered to be straightforward. However, it is more time-consuming and complex for enterprise deployments involving multiple components or vendors, and users often require assistance from professional services or LogRhythm-certified engineers.
Pricing: Check Point Security Management is seen as a solid investment, offering flexibility and a good value for the price. LogRhythm SIEM’s license typically includes all elements. However, enterprise customers may encounter complexities related to additional features and add-ons.
ROI: Check Point users said the solution offers a steady ROI over time. LogRhythm SIEM has proven to be highly valuable, delivering a significant ROI by reducing the mean time to detect and respond.
"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 cluster solution made our job easier any fault to the device will not halt entire internet connectivity."
"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."
"Check Point management is one of the most complete solutions for managing Check Point Firewall appliances."
"We love the ability to monitor performance in real-time, and gather critical information about network flows and traffic."
"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."
"It provides for capabilities and has allowed us to be more scalable."
"Compliance reporting is another great feature of this product. It has built in reports right out of the box."
"As a healthcare company, what we use it for is compliance, then to protect our data from exaltation."
"The Web Console is my favorite. It enables me, at a glance, to see the health of the environments."
"This solution has improved our organization in many different ways. The biggest benefit is being able to view all information in one dashboard instead of having to look at several different applications and dashboards. I can see information across our entire environment and every aspect of our network."
"Alarms are the most valuable feature. We also like the dashboard and how things are at your fingertips. The fact that we can now edit the report templates is going to be a great thing."
"Currently, we are in the implementation phase. LogRhythm is better than QRadar from the point of view of collecting Windows events. It has a much higher view. You can enable monitoring by default."
"Provides visibility into the network."
"The ability to investigate a particular period of time where you can analyze logs is its most valuable feature."
"SD-WAN functionality could be added."
"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."
"I would like the ability to have an overview, cross-site: One portal that does all firewalls. Also, the user interface is overly complicated."
"It would be helpful if we could enable URL and application traffic control remote access."
"While the console and administration work well, they have to work on performance since it consumes a lot of CPU and memory."
"The tool is expensive."
"The application filtering and URL filtering could be better."
"Among the things that I would like in the future is for the solution to have its application on Android and iOS, as many of the administrators have adopted remote administration positions due to what has happened since the pandemic. This would help us to have an easier and simpler administration."
"More help and assistance with some of the open source products, everything seems to be focused on Windows versus giving some guidance and some documentation on how to use it."
"One thing we have mentioned to them before is that we'd like to be able to do searches, or drill-downs, directly from an alarm. When you click it and the Inspector tab slides out, that might be a good place to be able to click the host to search for the last 24 hours. I know the search is right there but it would be even nicer to just click that and then have an option to search something there."
"One area for improvement in LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is that it's a Windows-based tool, and I feel it should be on the Linux operating system instead. Another area for improvement in the tool is the UI. There should be minor changes in the UI to make it better, though I like the dashboards in LogRhythm NextGen SIEM."
"I would really love to be able to take some of the data and not have to export it to a CSV file, so I can pull it into Excel to turn it into some other kind of graph."
"My big thing is the easability. I don't like to go to two different systems. The fat client that you have to install to configure it, then the web console which is just for reporting and analysis. These features need to collapse, and it needs to be in a single solution. Going through the web solution in the future is the way to do it, because right now, it is a bit cumbersome."
"The installation was a bit complex because we are running a virtual infrastructure."
"The web and on-premise console interface should be the same instead of having a separate engine for each."
"I think they probably need to, because a lot of companies are having this cloud-first strategy, where anything that's new has to go into the cloud for some reason."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 9th in Log Management with 56 reviews while LogRhythm SIEM is ranked 7th in Log Management with 166 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while LogRhythm SIEM is rated 8.4. 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 LogRhythm SIEM writes "The solution reduced our investigation time from days to hours and assists in managing our workflows". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Cloud Platform and Graylog, whereas LogRhythm SIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, LogRhythm Axon and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Check Point Security Management vs. LogRhythm SIEM report.
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