Check Point Quantum Smart-1 Security Management vs. ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer

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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Offering enhanced network security, performance, and connectivity, it is well as used in a business setting. Features including application control, web content filtering, firewall, IP address, application control, VPN, and good advanced threat protection. With enhanced features and advanced threat protection you get an awesome performance cost effective firewall device.

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• Centralized Database
• Detailed and indexed logging
• Securely connects to each device

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• Live traffic monitor: Firewall Analyzer lets us monitor traffic as it flows through the firewalls. It also breaks it down according to what type of traffic (e.g., web, mail, FTP, etc.) it is. It lists the tops hosts, the top users from traffic, and a lot of other useful statistics, all in a very visual format.
• Security Monitoring: Another good visual graph Firewall Analyzer provides is the security one, which shows us if we're being attacked, from where, by what, how many, etc. It will also send us alerts when there's an alarm of any kind on the firewall.
• Reporting: We can run all sorts of custom reports, and that helps us both with compliance and informing management as to what's going on. It would be difficult to describe all the various kinds of things we can include in these reports, but they are extensive.

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• 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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• Configuration is easy and you can expect all the features and modules.
• Simple and intuitive dashboard.
• Firewall Analyzer helps us to gain insight into security threat and traffic.
• Analyze the user behavior.

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It is fast to
download the test software and implement. It takes some sometime to understand the
ways you have to on board your firewalls into it. It is nice to buy and just
activate the product that you have already installed. Maybe some wizards could
be improved in order to accelerate these tasks.

Far exceeds any testing we were able to think of when testing.

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ManageEngine was chosen over the use of AlgoSec as it slotted nicely with other Manage engine services we use for services such as active directory management. Other benefits include how lightweight and easy to install and set up it is. You can install it inside your network and start testing within 20 minutes.

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• Reduce personnel management costs
• The elastic expansion capability solves the rapidly changing environment that needs to be changed.

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• Firewall Analyzer has definitely freed up a lot of IT's time, by congregating logs and displaying them in a more useful, visual way.
• The cost for licenses and proactive alerting, compared to the man-hours spent reactively through data, paid for itself in a few months.
• There was no negative impact to users, and only some to IT staff who had to train on the software, which mostly consisted of videos and playing around with the software.

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