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Check Point Security Management pros and cons

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PROS

Check Point Security Management provides comprehensive threat prevention.
Offers robust and customizable security policies.
Ensures consistent and reliable performance.
Integrates well with other security tools and systems.
Enables detailed logging and reporting features.

CONS

Licensing cost can be high for small businesses
Initial setup and configuration can be complex
Technical support response times can be slow
Performance impact on network speed
Compatibility issues with certain third-party applications
 

Check Point Security Management Pros review quotes

reviewer1098015 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 27, 2020
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.
JK
Jul 13, 2024
The product's installation phase was easy.
reviewer1965150 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 22, 2021
The management API is the best new feature for me. It allows us to further automate our customers' automated server ordering.
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reviewer1626507 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 14, 2021
The solution is ideal for use and deployment in a large infrastructure environment.
reviewer1626507 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 14, 2021
It has a central management log server that helps us to easily identify faults and issues in the environment, especially during outages and incidents during the implementation of policy rules.
reviewer1098015 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 17, 2024
Check Point Security Management excels over Forti Management in daily operations, policy management, and graphical interface. It is easy to open and edit policies, search within them, and view logs.
Oleg P. - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 23, 2020
As the security administrator, who is responsible for the day-to-day tasks (e.g. creating new firewall rules, monitoring the security alerts and incidents etc.) and the maintenance (e.g. installing the new Jumbo Hotfixes), I find the Check Point Security Management R80.10 to be the great solution.
SanjeevKumar20 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 8, 2024
Check Point's management portal and firmware are very stable and don't require frequent maintenance. Their IPSec tunneling is very stable, especially with Azure and AWS networks.
Ozan Durmus - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 30, 2022
HA Structure provides good coverage and works fine.
reviewer1629138 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 16, 2021
The intuitive interface also allows new team members to adapt to the technology if they are not familiar with it initially. It doesn't take much for one to familiarize themselves with the product.
 

Check Point Security Management Cons review quotes

reviewer1098015 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 27, 2020
The migration from R77 Manager to R80 is a major upgrade. It's not very easy to do. There should be some kind of Wizard for a direct upgrade from the R77 to the R80. There should be an easy way for the customers to do the upgrade.
JK
Jul 13, 2024
In the future, I would like to see more frequent updates because of the changing security landscape.
reviewer1965150 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 22, 2021
The management API can be further developed so that all functions offered by the dashboard are also available via the API (for example, Network Topology).
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reviewer1626507 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 14, 2021
If the SmartView monitor can be integrated in the R80.40 and R81 versions, that would be ideal in understanding the trends and graphs of how traffic is observed hitting the different Check Point Firewall Gateways that the Security Management controls.
reviewer1626507 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 14, 2021
It would be great if the SmartView Monitor could become integrated into the SmartView Console Platform.
Oleg P. - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 23, 2020
I like that the Compliance software blade is available for free with the Security Management server purchase, but it is free for only one year - after that you have to buy an additional license to continue using it. I think such an important feature is vital for the management server, and should not be licensed separately.
SanjeevKumar20 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 8, 2024
License update and upgrade processes can be made a little easier.
Ozan Durmus - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 30, 2022
In order to work management console, you need some good appliance or you need to provide more CPU and Memory to the appliance.
reviewer1629138 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 16, 2021
Even though the platform is simple, and creating security policies is a fairly quick task, creating a bulk of policies at once (ie. for a migration) could be a useful tool. This is probably possible through scripting, however, having an easy-to-use "import CSV" button would be beneficial.
RW
Mar 4, 2022
Some of the configuration elements could be improved.