Check Point ThreatCloud vs. Mandiant Advantage Threat Intelligence

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

Threats are expected around the clock, and automated countermeasures are vital as things are time-sensitive. Mandiant has a rich repository of threats reported to date mapped to its ideal defensive response. This helps minimize manual interventions and reduce human errors, which could prove costly. Alert notifications are instantaneous for any compliance actions to follow.

• anti virus
• anti bot

Incentivized

• accelerated threat response feature, prioritizing threats according to requirement.
• Optimization of the threat intelligence , and can be integrated with 3rd party tools.
• Features like - Breach ,Adversary, Machine and Operational Intelligence.
• Mandiant dynamic host and the malware views along with indicators.

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

• Paywalls exist throughout the data set and can halt an investigation without the right model
• Some data was incomplete or broken up between pay tiers
• Navigation through the data lacked a definitive trail or breadcrumbs to retrace steps during investigations

Incentivized

Mandiant provides us with a central console with multiple dashboards to view reports and activities in real-time. However, 99% of the task is performed by Mandiant Engineers remotely, hence giving us the peace of mind and the flexibility to focus our efforts on our regular business.

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

There are multiple SaaS based players offering Threat Intel. But Mandiant TI has the following features which makes it one of the best among the competitors: 1.It understands recent actor, malware or vulnerability trends making it very easy for the analysts to do the research 2.Threat Profiling of the organization and setting the rules proactively hunt threat actors targeting the organization. 3.Accelerating the threat response by prioritizing the threats that matter most helping the analysts priortize the threats. 4.Access threat intelligence via the platform, the browser plugin or APIs

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

• Improved time to detect and respond to incidents
• Makes the analyst job easier by having all the information gathered in the platform
• Ease to contact with the Mandiant team to solve possible issues

Incentivized