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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS CloudTrail

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAWS 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

    Score6.2 out of 10
    N/ACloudGuard 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
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    AWS CloudTrailCheck Point CloudGuard Posture Management
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    AWS CloudTrailCheck Point CloudGuard Posture Management
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsYou 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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    User Ratings
    AWS CloudTrailCheck Point CloudGuard Posture Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS CloudTrailCheck Point CloudGuard Posture Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It is necessary to enable [AWS] Cloudtrail when using AWS in a production environment, otherwise you will not have any idea what is happening within your accounts. Third party monitoring applications will all require [AWS] CloudTrail to be enabled as well. I would not recommend it solely as a monitoring tool, to get the most out of it you must send the logs elsewhere. Either to Cloudwatch logs or a third party product.
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    Scenarios most suited - 1) All the Cyber Security focused development environments 2) Definitely a must for Financial Clients since it deals with live money transactions - Hence it is imperative to keep the Network and tech asset environment secure, and compliant to standards 3) IAM is another area where it plays an IMP part - For eg one of our healthcare clients where they wanted to restrict access 4) Dashboards are also great, we can share the results to GISO/CISO level folks - Custom dashboard feature
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • API Log
    • User activity tracking
    • Real-time alerts
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    • Integration with public cloud providers.
    • Rich UI with great dashboards.
    • Great assets inventory.
    • Clarity module.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • [In my experience] Cost can easily get out of control with multiple trails on full logging
    • Logs can be difficult to decipher
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    • There is not a comprehensive amount of documentation on how to set up best practices.
    • Our initial set up assistance from Proofpoint approved vendor did not go smoothly.
    • The ability to add more customized widgets in the main overview screen would be helpful.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    Is easy to use, and the standad configuration is well prepared.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    I haven't dealt so much with support but we are enjoying the tool!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    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.
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    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
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Allows us to investigate any strange api actions
    • Increases security
    • Audit trail of changes made in AWS
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    Check Point Software Technologies
    • For production environments it is worth the investment.
    • Getting to know how many assets you have helps with cost savings.
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    ScreenShots

    AWS CloudTrail Screenshots

    Screenshot of CloudTrail Insights: Identify and respond to unusual operational activity
•Unexpected spikes in resource provisioning
•Bursts of IAM management actions
•Gaps in periodic maintenance activity
•Automatic analysis of API calls and usage patterns
•Alerts when unusual activity is detected