AWS CloudTrail vs. Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management

AWS CloudTrail

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudTrail	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of an AWS account. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking,…	N/A
Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management	Score 6.2 out of 10	N/A	CloudGuard Posture Management provides cloud security and compliance posture management for cloud-native environments, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. CloudGuard automates security, governance and compliance, with customized policies, delivering high-fidelity visibility and control. It is based on technology acquired with Dome9 by Check Point Software Technologies in late 2018. Their product CloudGuard Dome9 was a cloud security and cloud security operations visualization…	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrail	Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

You can view, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services free of charge. You can set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events in each region free of charge. Once a CloudTrail trail is set up, Amazon S3 charges apply based on your usage. You will be charged for any data events or additional copies of management events recorded in that region. In addition, you can choose CloudTrail Insights by enabling Insights events in your trails. CloudTrail Insights analyzes write management events, and you are charged based on the number of events that are analyzed in that region.

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Community Pulse
	AWS CloudTrail	Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management
Considered Both Products	AWS CloudTrail AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Chose AWS CloudTrail We mainly needed to focus on logging and auditing of AWS services and activity, while Datadog & New Relic are more about performance monitoring and analytics. Moreover, AWS CloudTrail has a seamless integration with AWS, since it's coming from one bucket of products. So having … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWS CloudTrail For this specific functionality, I am not aware of any other product that can do what [AWS] Cloudtrail does. We did not evaluate any other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWS CloudTrail Our company has not used any alternatives. Within our industry, it seems that AWS CloudTrail is the defacto standard for this type of functionality within the AWS environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWS CloudTrail I think in the end, CloudTrail has more features and you can dive deeper inside the logs so it depends on your usage and what you expect in the end to make the right choice, I would say that both tools are really useful and bring a lot of benefits to I.T. companies. Incentivized Helpful?	Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management Vighnesh Rege Senior Solution Advisor Chose Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management First and foremost reason of our client selecting CheckPoint CloudGuard Posture Management / Dome9 was because they already had CheckPoint Firewalls which are in active use e.g. R75.40 and R82.x products. Customization Vs these other Vendors is another great asset Reporting is … Incentivized Helpful? OM Oscar Martinez DevOps Chose Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management Dome9 is a comprehensive security and compliance orchestration platform that provides end-to-end security life cycle management across accounts, regions, and clouds. Using Dome9 we can monitor our security baselines are applied to all our cloud accounts, also we can prevent … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management We are also piloting Trend Micro Cloud App Security, but we don't have enough data to make a fair comparison, but from what I've seen, Check Point offers a much more comprehensive platform. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management Most products have their pros and cons but Dome9 does everything Evident.io and Redlock can do and more. Evident was a good tool but merging the two products into one complicated things. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management Much more useful for the cloud, and less costly, at least when you already had some checkpoint products in use. Incentivized Helpful?

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	AWS CloudTrail	Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management
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User Ratings
	AWS CloudTrail	Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudTrail	Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management
Likelihood to Recommend	Most probably it would be suitable for Finance industries, where security is at the head of the table. However, in our case for E-commerce, it's also quite suitable, since we have quite a significant amount of data and usage of AWS services. Especially with usage of AWS services, AWS CloudTrail comes into play as a heavy plus. For instance, troubleshooting any issues in AWS services is really nice. Therefore, it would be less appropriate with a small amount of AWS service usage and some basic web hosting. Incentivized AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Read full review	Dome9 can be used to have visibility into cloud assets and security policies across all the virtual networks, regions, and accounts on AWS, Azure and GCP. It also provides continuous enforcement of regulatory compliance standards and security best practices, with the ability to auto-remediate misconfigurations. So Dome9 is well suited for companies using cloud providers that want to take control of their resources. Incentivized OM Oscar Martinez DevOps Read full review
Pros	Logs details Easy implementation Great support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Minimal false positives if configured properly. End to end visibility in real-time. Multi platform monitoring. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Delay User interface, must send logs elsewhere to view them Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Needs to add features for an on-premise cloud. Cost is a little high. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Is easy to use, and the standad configuration is well prepared. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Checkpoint support is great. They provide great SLAs and they comply with service times accordingly. Incentivized OM Oscar Martinez DevOps Read full review
Alternatives Considered	For this specific functionality, I am not aware of any other product that can do what [AWS] Cloudtrail does. We did not evaluate any other products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	First and foremost reason of our client selecting CheckPoint CloudGuard Posture Management / Dome9 was because they already had CheckPoint Firewalls which are in active use e.g. R75.40 and R82.x products. Customization Vs these other Vendors is another great asset Reporting is one more standout feature, + Multi-cloud capabilities Centralized dashboarding is smooth to navigate as compared to other Vendors Syslog handling is much better as compared to some other vendors , Memory and space issues if planned well are less Incentivized Vighnesh Rege Senior Solution Advisor Read full review
Return on Investment	Saved us from purchasing and managing 3rd party solutions Satisfies Security/Governance requirements No upkeep/maintenance Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Having one single pane of glass dashboard helps cut downtime for one tech to assess the overall health of the cloud. The cost was a little high, and the setup time was longer than expected to leverage the functionality we paid for fully. Overall a good product so far Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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