Anomali ThreatStream vs. Check Point ThreatCloud

Anomali ThreatStream is excellent in scenarios where we deliver Managed Security Services to customers. It offers exhaustive volumes of information in the form of threat bulletins, IOCs, Threat Actor profiling, and details related to campaigns in the wild which can be used to a great extent by MSSPs. For an enterprise SOC, I believe it is a little less suited purely because of the pricing aspect as it is slightly towards the expensive side of the spectrum.

Incentivized

If you have the Check Point environment and want to utilize the Checkpoint environment, you should use the [Check Point] ThreatCloud. Without [Check Point] ThreatCloud, there’s no way to stop the 0days or APTs. However, [Check Point] ThreatCloud relies on the Checkpoint infrastructure to be used and integrated. If you have other firewall and/or endpoint vendors, [Check Point] ThreatCloud is not the best service to be used. Checkpoint also offers 24x7 threat cloud-managed security services to [...] organizations. Threat cloud-managed security services leverage the threat cloud decreasing the detection time and false-positive rates via increasing protection rates.

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• Indicators of Compromise
• Signatures
• Community Sharing

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• anti virus
• anti bot

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• The user interface, perhaps there is some room for improvement although it is good already.
• Confidence assigning process for IOCs needs to be more robust and transparent.
• While integration with SIEM solutions is a cakewalk, there is definitely added value if SIGMA rule conversion and YARA rule creation are provided from the platform.

Incentivized

• SOAR integration, Checkpoint does not have built in SOAR
• Automation throughout the findings of [Check Point] ThreatCloud
• Special team for threat intelligence
• K8s threat cloud integration and K8S forensics
• Native SIEM integration

Incentivized

Many of the products that can be used to be ingested into a security event management software can be cumbersome with threat streamThere are many opportunities to continue fine-tuning the environment and providing great context in regards to threat research. When compared to other products threat stream stands out from usability and features.

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As Checkpoint next generation firewalls were already implemented in the network, ThreatCloud was easy to implement and had better features and reputation than competitors

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• After the Initial startup cost, it has overall had a positive impact by increasing efficiency of the team and freeing up analysts to do manual threat hunting

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• High score rates [are] seen on breach systems after deploying systems integrated with [Check Point] ThreatCloud
• Catch rates are very high compared to other vendors
• One missing thing is the detection for localized URLs and IPs
• Purchasing within the 3-year perspective is cheap compared to other solutions; ROI is generally six months
• [Check Point] ThreatCloud eliminates the need [for] other additional services that may need to be deployed like dedicated IPS, Dedicated Sandbox, DNS solution, etc.

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