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Check Point Infinity vs CyberArk Privileged Access Manager comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.5
Check Point Infinity enhances ROI by improving security, reducing threats, and offering comprehensive features for simplified management and remote access.
Sentiment score
7.0
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager enhances security, reduces costs, improves efficiency, and offers significant ROI through automation and streamlined workflows.
During our quantitative analysis, we estimated potential savings of one to ten million dollars a year by using a PAM solution.
With other tools such as Okta where you have self-service for resetting your own passwords and things like that, the average savings is 12 minutes, which is six dollars for a password reset, and you can extrapolate that over your organization.
A strong identity and access management solution aids in navigating significant incident responses or breach situations.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
Check Point Infinity support is praised for its expertise, despite occasional delays, earning high ratings for customer satisfaction.
Sentiment score
6.4
CyberArk's support is improving with knowledgeable staff, but faces challenges in response times and complex issue resolutions.
As soon as we raise a ticket, they engage promptly, indicating strong vendor support.
CyberArk has been exceptional in coming back to us with immediate responses.
It could be forever until you talk to someone who knows what they are doing.
They are helpful, but complex issues can take a long time to resolve, which can delay solutions for urgent customer issues.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Check Point Infinity is scalable, flexible, adaptable for all organization sizes, and facilitates security despite potential hardware challenges.
Sentiment score
7.7
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager offers impressive scalability with horizontal and vertical growth, but requires careful architecture planning.
The CPM can reportedly handle up to 50,000 accounts independently without issue.
I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.
They had 40,000 passwords in this one safe, and it was saving the last ten iterations of each password object. That means they had 400,000 password objects in this safe. They exceeded the limit.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
Check Point Infinity offers stable, reliable performance with high ratings, requiring minimal maintenance and providing efficient, smooth operations.
Sentiment score
7.8
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is stable with minor issues, praised for robustness and high availability, improved by updates.
Proper fine-tuning and expertise ensure the product performs well.
Overall, the stability of the solution is high.
It has a large customer base and positive feedback within my network.
 

Room For Improvement

Check Point Infinity requires improved support, documentation, pricing clarity, and enhancements in speed, integration, and user accessibility for better performance.
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager requires UI updates, enhanced integrations, better performance, simplified deployment, and improved reporting and documentation.
I would recommend having more comprehensive documentation, including a guide for installation and configuration of Check Point Infinity.
They want everything to be on the cloud, but even in the SaaS version of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, they need to deploy some servers on-premises.
We cannot generate a plug-in for web-based applications.
If they want clients to move to the cloud, they need to support them in real-time.
 

Setup Cost

Check Point Infinity offers high-end pricing and licensing, often requiring vendor consultation and additional licenses for full functionality.
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is effective yet pricey, ideal for large enterprises but less suited for small businesses.
The product, as supported by Check Point, offers invaluable assistance for ease of deployment.
CyberArk is expensive compared to other products I know.
CyberArk is comparatively expensive compared to other PAM solutions, such as Delinea, especially during renewal.
CyberArk's SaaS solution is particularly expensive.
 

Valuable Features

Check Point Infinity offers unified management, Zero Trust security, scalability, and seamless integration for comprehensive cybersecurity across various environments.
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager offers automated secure password management, real-time monitoring, compliance support, scalability, and extensive integration options.
Check Point Infinity offers a multi-layered security approach that enhances our IT security environment.
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager helps ensure data privacy because we now know who is using which credentials and at what time.
It keeps a record of activities, allowing me to easily fetch screen recordings to detect any misuse and see who did what and what happened.
As a security professional, I have real-time visibility into ongoing sessions.
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point Infinity
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (12th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (7th)
CyberArk Privileged Access ...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
210
Ranking in other categories
User Activity Monitoring (1st), Enterprise Password Managers (3rd), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (1st), Mainframe Security (2nd), Operational Technology (OT) Security (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Network Security Systems solutions, they serve different purposes. Check Point Infinity is designed for AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms and holds a mindshare of 0.0%.
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, on the other hand, focuses on Privileged Access Management (PAM), holds 19.7% mindshare, down 23.7% since last year.
AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
 

Featured Reviews

Ashish Upadhyay - PeerSpot reviewer
Provide unified threat prevention and response across our entire decentralized finance system
While Check Point Infinity offers a robust security operations platform, it could benefit from improvements in several areas. Firstly, the platform's pricing structure can be complex, which might be prohibitive for smaller businesses, limiting its accessibility. Simplifying the pricing model or offering more flexible pricing options could make Check Point Infinity more appealing to a wider range of organizations. Secondly, alert fatigue is a common issue with platforms that have strong detection capabilities. Implementing more filtering and prioritization mechanisms can help address this issue, ensuring that security teams can focus on the most critical threats. These are the areas where I believe there's room for improvement. In future releases, I would like to add more integration features. The ability to integrate seamlessly with more third-party applications would make it more customizable for our needs and simplify the integration process. This would improve our overall threat detection capabilities.
Lasantha Wijesinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
We have visibility and control through real-time user behavior analytics
It took us some time to realize its benefits because there was a learning curve for us. It took us about a year to get our heads around this product and start effectively using it. It is a journey. It takes at least five years for any company to make this product very useful and reach maturity. It is not only the product's fault. The company needs to have a vision, and the company culture needs to go with it. Senior leadership needs to support the vision. You need to have lots of ingredients for success. If everything is in place, you will see success after one year. In the first year, it is a struggle for everybody. My company was bought by a bigger company, and they were very new to privileged access management. Everybody was struggling. The advice I would give is to have a good vision for privileged access management. You need dedicated teams, senior management support, and proper company policies and standards before implementing the solution. Start building knowledge slowly and avoid jumping into the deep end without preparation. I would rate CyberArk Privileged Access Manager a nine out of ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Security Firm
10%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
9%
Educational Organization
34%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Check Point Infinity?
Check Point Infinity's threat prevention capabilities benefitted our organization.
What needs improvement with Check Point Infinity?
I would recommend having more comprehensive documentation, including a guide for installation and configuration of Check Point Infinity. This would help users to easily understand and deploy the so...
What is your primary use case for Check Point Infinity?
We have been deploying Check Point Infinity as a new technology for security purposes with our biggest customer in Ethiopia. It serves to secure endpoints and protect from intrusion and various thr...
How does Sailpoint IdentityIQ compare with CyberArk PAM?
We evaluated Sailpoint IdentityIQ before ultimately choosing CyberArk. Sailpoint Identity Platform is a solution to manage risks in cloud enterprise environments. It automates and streamlines the m...
What do you like most about CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?
The most valuable features of the solution are control and analytics.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?
I focus more on the technical side, but I hear customers say that if CyberArk was more affordable, they might have acquired more licenses. Some clients consider alternative solutions due to pricing...
 

Also Known As

R80, Infinity
CyberArk Privileged Access Security, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Edel AG
Rockwell Automation
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