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Check Point Quantum Smart-1 Security Management vs. Logstash

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Check Point Quantum Smart-1

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ACheck Point offers security management architecture delivered from the Cloud designed to manage security across on-premise Firewalls, Networks, Cloud, Mobile and IoT. The Smart-1 security management solution is available in cloud and appliance-based editions.N/A

    Logstash

    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Check Point Quantum Smart-1Logstash
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
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    Firewall Security Management
    Comparison of Firewall Security Management features of Check Point Quantum Smart-1 Security Management and Logstash
    Feature
    Check Point Quantum Smart-1 Security Management
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Logstash
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    Ratings
    Policy planning and rule management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Policy Orchestration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device Discovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy Compliance Auditing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Attack Path Simulation Testing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Scans9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Rule Cleanup9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Check Point Quantum Smart-1Logstash
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Check Point Quantum Smart-1Logstash
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Check Point Software Technologies
    It is very suitable to manage and monitor a large amount of network security information. It is not recommended to use the network information security management of a single firewall device in terms of cost.
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    Elastic
    Perfect for projects where Elasticsearch makes sense: if you decide to employ ES in a project, then you will almost inevitably use LogStash, and you should anyways. Such projects would include: 1. Data Science (reading, recording or measure web-based Analytics, Metrics) 2. Web Scraping (which was one of our earlier projects involving LogStash) 3. Syslog-ng Management: While I did point out that it can be a bit of an electric boo-ga-loo in finding an errant configuration item, it is still worth it to implement Syslog-ng management via LogStash: being able to fine-tune your log messages and then pipe them to other sources, depending on the data being read in, is incredibly powerful, and I would say is exemplar of what modern Computer Science looks like: Less Specialization in mathematics, and more specialization in storing and recording data (i.e. Less Engineering, and more Design).
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    Pros
    Check Point Software Technologies
    • Centralized Database
    • Detailed and indexed logging
    • Securely connects to each device
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    Elastic
    • Logstash design is definitely perfect for the use case of ELK. Logstash has "drivers" using which it can inject from virtually any source. This takes the headache from source to implement those "drivers" to store data to ES.
    • Logstash is fast, very fast. As per my observance, you don't need more than 1 or 2 servers for even big size projects.
    • Data in different shape, size, and formats? No worries, Logstash can handle it. It lets you write simple rules to programmatically take decisions real-time on data.
    • You can change your data on the fly! This is the CORE power of Logstash. The concept is similar to Kafka streams, the difference being the source and destination are application and ES respectively.
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    Cons
    Check Point Software Technologies
    • The user interface is very convenient to use. To say what is missing. It is only not supported in the language system that displays Chinese.
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    Elastic
    • It is heavy i.e., intensive as of now. Need to reduce overhead to save CPU/RAM consumption
    • Need to be more Kubernetes-friendly. Should support auto-scaling and K8s observability
    • Initial configuration is still complex. A seamless config procedure is still required
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    Usability
    Check Point Software Technologies
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    Elastic
    As I said earlier, for a production-grade OpenStack Telco cloud, Logstash brings high value in flexibility, compliance, and troubleshooting efficiency. However, this brings a higher infra & ops cost on resources, but that is not a problem in big datacenters because there is no resource crunch in terms of servers or CPU/RAM
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    Far exceeds any testing we were able to think of when testing.
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    Elastic
    Logstash can be compared to other ETL frameworks or tools, but it is also complementary to several, for example, Kafka. I would not only suggest using Logstash when the rest of the ELK stack is available, but also for a self-hosted event collection pipeline for various searching systems such as Solr or Graylog, or even monitoring solutions built on top of Graphite or OpenTSDB.
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    Return on Investment
    Check Point Software Technologies
    • Reduce personnel management costs
    • The elastic expansion capability solves the rapidly changing environment that needs to be changed.
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    Elastic
    • Positive: LogStash is OpenSource. While this should not be directly construed as Free, it's a great start towards Free. OpenSource means that while it's free to download, there are no regular patch schedules, no support from a company, no engineer you can get on the phone / email to solve a problem. You are your own Engineer. You are your own Phone Call. You are your own ticketing system.
    • Negative: Since Logstash's features are so extensive, you will often find yourself saying "I can just solve this problem better going further down / up the Stack!". This is not a BAD quality, necessarily and it really only depends on what Your Project's Aim is.
    • Positive: LogStash is a dream to configure and run. A few hours of work, and you are on your way to collecting and shipping logs to their required addresses!
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