Harmony Email & Collaboration

We are currently using Check Point Harmony  Email & Collaboration for our primary email security gateway to scan all the vulnerabilities that come in the mail and to safeguard us from spam mails.

We are using Check Point Harmony  Email & Collaboration for our PII DLP  as well, ensuring that any PII information does not get leaked into the company, especially in the banking sector where a lot of PII information is shared, so it blocks all those PII information.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is deployed in our organization on a public cloud. We are using it specifically for SASE-based with integration into Office 365 .

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration not only blocks all the email but also provides separate threat graphs, and you can even create different flows to integrate with different Shadow IT.

The best features that Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration provides are its unique inline implementation method, its detection of Shadow IT software that most rest of the email security gateways don't consider, and its easy deployment in our environment which only takes a couple of clicks to integrate with MS 365, taking around two days to analyze all the emails sent and received from Microsoft 365.

The Shadow IT detection in Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is beneficial because many people in our organization use GitHub  and different kinds of software with their office email ID, which integrates directly with our email, allowing us to know what software is linked and if it is necessary for the company or the particular users; thus, we can eliminate certain risks associated with it.

The implementation of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has made identifying vulnerabilities very easy, as we can assign certain members to it, allowing the end-user client to decide if they want the files sent by just having the option to receive files while sending an alert to the administrator, which simplifies the admin's tasks.

The time saved with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is substantial because if a mail or file gets blocked, the administrator had to look into the account, but now the notification is sent to the end user, who can view the files themselves, saving time for both the administrators and end users, leading to enhanced efficiency.

Currently, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration only supports Google Suites and Office 365 , and I wish it would support other email vendors as well. I hope it could also provide on-prem solutions for those who prefer not to use cloud services for email security.

Since Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has AI integrated into it, it needs to be able to scan JPG files for pornography images, which it currently does not, as we receive many such emails that are bypassed by the system.

I have been using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for about a year.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is very stable, and we have not received any complaints to date.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration's scalability is good because you just purchase licenses according to the number of users, and I don't think we need to add any resources regarding the scale.

The customer support for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has been awesome, providing prompt responses from the support team.

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Previously, we used FortiGate email solutions, and we switched to Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration because we were purchasing Check Point Maestro solution with Quantum Security Gateways, and Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is listed in the leader quadrant in Gartner, which was a crucial reason for our choice.

We have not seen a return on investment yet because it has only been a year and we need to assess it over five years, but I can add that the troubleshooting needed for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is very minimal, requiring few resources as the policy has been fine-tuned.

The setup cost for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was minimal since the vendor set it up for us.

We evaluated Barracuda before choosing Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration.

The pricing for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was decent because we purchased it in a bundle with our gateways and Maestro solution, and the licensing process was also easier.

If you want to ensure strong security, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is the best solution because it integrates with Threat AI, which gathers telemetry from different platforms like Quantum Security Gateways, CloudGuard, WAF , and endpoints, ensuring everything is synced in less than five seconds; whenever a threat arises in any firewall or endpoint, it is communicated to the ThreatCloud and reflects across all devices.

On a scale of one to ten, I rate Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration a nine.

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What do you like best about the product?

Harmony Email provides advanced filtering, threat detection and unmatched security in the email workspace. I like the web interface in Check Point Infinity Platform that lets me see quarentined emails in Check Point and Microsoft 365 outlook, also there are many filtering options to find emails.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is a bit of a delay between sending and receiving emails (especially with lots of files) but it's still very fast and usable.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Filters phishing emails, scans files and text in emails, opens all links through Check Point firewall. Overall it's a set and forget implementation.

What do you like best about the product?

The email scanning and filtering is seamless. Once configured the only intervention you might need to do is when you receive an alert.

What do you dislike about the product?

The Web portal has a lot of options which is overwhelming sometimes, but overall there is little to dislike.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Harmony Email & Collaboration does advanced threat protection and phishing detection. The emails are all analyzed and only go to the destination mailbox if the contents of the email are all proven to be secure. There are many policy configurations, which keep our company and users secure.

What do you like best about the product?

The system is easy to implement into Office365 and Google Workspace using the provided wizards for each SaaS app. Just provide admin approval and off it goes making the necessary changes.

It offers a wealth of customizable protection options that allow for fine grained protection for various users and groups depending on your needs.

Simplified management of accounts for customers, quick and easy switching between accounts without re-loging.

What do you dislike about the product?

No way to centralize or copy configurations between clients. Once you find a nice baseline you need to manually update it on each client. This does cause for lots of work as there are many settings that can be applied.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Harmony Email and Collaboration is solving modern day email, chat, and file based attacks for our organization. It uses modern day approaches to detect and prevent modern day attacks that use non-traditional methods of getting to a user. Harmony is able to integrate with not just email, but chats, and file sharing to monitor, detect, and protect many possible vectors. This has helped our organization protect against increasingly common attacks that target critical business systems in the hopes of stealing authentication tokens and credentials to gain access to environments.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that all links in emails are automatically analysed by Checkpoint and provide powerful filtering and phishing prevention.

What do you dislike about the product?

The licensing cost is a bit expensive. The UI in the portal is not great and is confusing to navigate.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's preventing mostly phishing emails but the file analysing feature is also very thorough. At our company the users don't notice that it's even there, which is a big plus.