Check Point ThreatCloud vs. IBM X-Force Exchange

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.

Incentivized

IBM X-Force is well suited for organizations with medium to large SOC's and run IBM Qradar as their SIEM.

Incentivized

• anti virus
• anti bot

Incentivized

• Ready made security research on threats.
• Security Intel
• Integrate threat intel feeds with SIEMs.

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

• Pruning of IOC to reduce false positives.
• Add more flexibility to integration on SIEMs to allow users to compare UserAgents, Compromised users/domains like HIBP.
• Only watch vulnerabilities for selected vendors.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

IBM X-force is community-based and crowd strike is not. Community-based will always be best-effort quality.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Threat Intel - Low Confidence IOC - Overhead.
• Lack of integration with IBM Qradar+Vulnerability via X-Force.

Incentivized