Harmony Email & Collaboration

We use Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for our clients, and we have also implemented the solution in our company for testing.

I have more experience with CloudGuard, and we need reviews for CloudGuard WAF  and CloudGuard Network Security. If I deal with any of them, we can discuss any that I have better experience with.

I work with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, but not in a wide sense. A couple of cases were in previous years.

I have dealt with Check Point Harmony for approximately two to three years, as we implement it into customer environments.

I work with Check Point as a reseller, often.

Clients can use Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for specific purposes when the infrastructure has cloud products such as Office 365  or other cloud services, including Microsoft or AWS  products, especially when the mail service is built on the Google platform. In these cases, we use CloudGuard and mail collaboration.

I think the biggest advantage of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, or Harmony in general, is the AI models implemented in this solution. The second advantage is the pricing, which is very affordable. The third advantage is that it is really rated highly in Gartner or Forrester statistic quadrants. It is a well-known solution, and for me, it is easier to sell to customers because the solution is clear, well-known, and really works.

The automated incident response feature is helpful for security strategy, but in its default form, it is very seldom implemented because it requires specific adjustments based on customer needs and specific infrastructure. In big infrastructures, automatic response is good, but it needs some adjustments.

The AI-powered threat intelligence feature works effectively for blocking email threats. I explored this question and have to say that it definitely works; the threat intelligence is well-developed in this vendor with a great threat database. There is very quick communication with this cloud, and the database updates every day, resulting in a really good collection since the sources of this cloud are quite diverse, including Google and Trend Micro.

Inspection technology helps to safeguard shared files in my collaboration environment; I think it is well-built.

The tool for phishing attack mitigation is well-built, but I do not have specific numbers or metrics to estimate its effectiveness.

A more intuitive interface would be an area for improvement. I would like the agents to perform better; sometimes, they are too heavy for endpoints, and they affect performance.

I have been in this domain for about four years, and I have worked with Check Point Harmony for about three years.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is stable and reliable, with no observed glitches or downtime.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is easy to scale; scaling is great.

I do not work directly with Check Point support, but I have seen that my engineer has had some issues.

I find Check Point deployment and installation to be straightforward, probably because we have qualified engineers. For us, it is easy, and we do not have problems with deployment. Check Point supports different third-party tools for deployment such as Intune , and it works quickly. We have more problems with deployment in Fortinet or Sophos.

In the whole picture, Check Point is quite a complete solution as it has EDR and smart CM. Compared to Fortinet or Trend Micro, I think Check Point has a clearer product line, making it easier for the end user to understand what they want and choose.

In general, the pricing policy of the vendor is affordable for the Ukrainian market now. I think a couple of years ago, about four or five years ago, the pricing was not as good, and the market was smaller than now. The current pricing helps businesses. I would rate this review as nine out of ten.

My main use case for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is email security, specifically for phishing and malicious emails.

A quick specific example of how I use it for email security is that it has done an excellent job at stopping malicious emails and phishing emails; it has helped us stop some sophisticated attacks.

A specific incident where Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration helped us prevent a sophisticated attack involved being targeted by a Russian ransomware gang that compromised a partner's email; they were sending emails to our staff, and not only did Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration stop it, it gave us visibility into the attack and let us know we were under attack.

The best features Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration offers include stopping phishing attacks, keeping marketing emails and junk emails, as well as malicious emails out of our users' inboxes, which frees up time for our security team to focus on other issues.

When I mention that Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration frees up time for our security team, it has significantly changed our workflow because we don't worry about phishing or malicious emails; previously, we would spend several hours a day or multiple hours a week dealing with phishing emails.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has positively impacted our organization by keeping us safe, out of the news, and preventing us from having to be reactive to malicious phishing emails, allowing us to be proactive with the product instead.

Since using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, we have seen an amazing reduction in malicious emails; it is rare that we get a true phishing email that gets through, and very few do.

I think Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is excellent for what it does; it keeps us safe, and we don't worry about phishing and malicious emails, so I'm not quite sure what they could do better, honestly.

I chose nine because I'm not quite sure anything is a ten; I don't really know how to answer that, but the ten leaves room for improvement.

I have been using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for about eight to nine years.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is very stable.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration definitely scales; our organization has around 40,000 to 35,000 mailboxes.

The customer support for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has been excellent; they have been very proactive in adding new features and helping with any issues.

We previously used Microsoft G3, but it missed way too many phishing emails and malicious emails, so we had to add another layer to block what Microsoft was missing.

The advice I would give to others looking into using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is that they need to look at it; the setup is super simple, and it works directly inline on O365; you can run it alongside any other platform you currently have, and it will tell you what you are missing, so I would say you absolutely must look at it.

I have definitely seen a return on investment since using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration because it does an amazing job at catching malicious emails without us having to do anything and without any input from our team.

My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it was smooth, easy, and affordable.

We did evaluate other options before choosing Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, but I don't remember what they were since it was a long time ago.

I would add that it has been very effective in our team not having to spend time chasing reported phishing attacks; we hardly see users report receiving malicious emails, and Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration does an amazing job at stopping the emails from reaching the users.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is deployed in our organization in the cloud; I would say it's in the public cloud, but I am not sure if it's public or private. We use a private cloud provider.

I would say that their built-in AI does a fantastic job at stopping new threats, which is another strong feature of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration.

I gave this review a rating of nine.