Recommendations to others considering Check Point SmartEvent Event Management:
Estimate the number of security events needed to be analyzed before purchasing the licenses for management servers - may be you will need to perform the distributed installation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is Check Point SmartEvent Event Management solving and how is that benefiting you?
In our company we use the Check Point Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) with a bunch of software blades to protect the edges of our offices. The NGFWs produce a numbers of security logs every second, for every connection passing through it. As per many security regulations (e.g. our company must comply with ISO 27001 and PCI DSS), all the firewall logs and event must be stored, analyzed and correlated to find additional threats, which are not seen by standalone blade checks. The Check Point SmartEvent Event Management software blade lets us to do all these tasks in one place, and without purchasing the additional products from the 3rd party vendors. It serves as SIEM solution quite well - the security events are checked on the Correlation Units, and the activity is reported directly to the unified Check Point SmartConsole in the real time. Our support team constantly monitors the alarms triggered, serving as a basic Security Operations Center with zero additional costs for the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
