Has strengthened email protection by blocking PII leaks and detecting unauthorized tool usage
What is our primary use case?
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.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for about a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is very stable, and we have not received any complaints to date.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
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.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has been awesome, providing prompt responses from the support team.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
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.
What was our ROI?
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.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The setup cost for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was minimal since the vendor set it up for us.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated Barracuda before choosing Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration.
What other advice do I have?
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.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Deep email analyses with Harmony Email & Collaboration
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.
Powerful email management with Harmony Email & Collaboration
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.
Powerful System with Modern Technology
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.
Seamless Email filtering with Harmony Email & Collaboration
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.
Easy way to protect your email and collaboration suite
What do you like best about the product?
The easiest way to protect your email and collaboration suite!
Harmony Email & Collaboration suite ensure that you mail is protected with the highest standard and with a strong integration with office365 for every aspect!
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't found any downsides using Harmony Email & Collaboration suite
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protect your cloud suite with only few easy step to implement it
Phishing emails significantly drop with effective filtering features
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is stopping phishing attacks and spam coming into our users in our organization.
I don't have anything else to add about my main use case or any other ways I use Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration.
What is most valuable?
The best features Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration offers are definitely the phishing filtering.
The phishing filtering feature is valuable for me because it stops most of the phishing emails before they hit the users' inboxes, ensuring that users don't see the infected or phishing emails. It's really good at its job, so it stops at least 99% of the emails that come into our organization.
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has positively impacted my organization as it has definitely cut down on the amount of phishing emails that are being delivered to users' inboxes.
We have seen a drastic number of reductions of successful phishing attacks, with metrics showing it stops about 99% of the attempted emails before they hit the user's inbox.
What needs improvement?
I don't think Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration needs improvement; it just does what it's supposed to do.
I don't want to add more about the needed improvements.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has been very stable for me; I haven't noticed any downtime at all, and even if there's downtime, it fails open, so it won't impact emails.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration's scalability is good, as you pay per user, so it scales automatically as the organization grows.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate the customer support a four, maximum, because I have had to reach out to them, and it wasn't great. I ended up with a technician that didn't actually know how to resolve the issue and was just doing basic level one troubleshooting, so it was very time-consuming to work with them.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used Microsoft Defender before Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, but we switched because it was very time-consuming to tune properly, and also, most of the emails were delivered to users' inboxes and then removed afterwards.
How was the initial setup?
My advice for others looking into using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is that it's very easy to set up. I think the setup was done in 30 minutes, so if you decide to go for it, there's not much consideration to be done, actually.
What was our ROI?
I have definitely seen a return on investment, as there are fewer incidents after deploying this software. We have gone from three to four successful phishing attacks every year to a maximum of one.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is that it's licensed per user, and the price is fair. The pricing is very good and easy.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate other options before choosing Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration.
What other advice do I have?
I can give a specific example of how Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has helped me stop phishing or spam. We bought this product because Microsoft Defender let through phishing attempts, and one of our users clicked that one. So we looked for a vendor to assist us with additional filtering on our incoming emails. Since we implemented Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, it's been great. It stops most, if not all, of the phishing attacks against us.
I would rate Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration a 10 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Review of Harmony Email & Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Exceptional at what it does, it can easily detect any issue
Does not impact the machine performances
What do you dislike about the product?
Not very easy to learn for the first time
A bit expensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Catching any malware/phishing/spam
Robust phishing protection boosts security awareness
What is our primary use case?
We use Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration mainly for phishing protection. All we do is check and verify if there is any quarantine and refine our policies.
Every single day is a use case for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, because being a company makes you vulnerable to phishing. There are many phishing campaigns going to every single domain, and our domain is included. We avoid our employees receiving those emails and making mistakes that they shouldn't make.
What is most valuable?
I'm not too versed on specific features of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, but everything, including the context and the understanding that the product has to declare if something is trustworthy, works effectively.
The quarantine side of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is very helpful. I appreciate the easy way to search for emails and do filters, and the overview where you can see possibilities of some email accounts being compromised.
With Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, we improve our security by omitting many phishing emails from being received. Our workers are more aware because they can see a recap of emails that are quarantined and they can contest. When they contest the decision, we get an email and then we check.
What needs improvement?
Nothing comes to my mind for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration. Everything works effectively.
Everything is fine with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration in terms of small changes or extra features.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration on and off for a year, barely logging in because the main activity I do is just check emails.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I'm not sure about Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration's scalability.
How are customer service and support?
We only reached out to customer support of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration once, but it was informational.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution.
Before choosing Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, we used Microsoft 365, but it's integrated together and helps the product to shine even more.
What other advice do I have?
I would suggest always to do a Proof of Concept with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and see for yourself if it works. It works best with Microsoft Defender, such as the 365 Defender for emails. I rate Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Harmony Email is a solid product when implemented together with Office 365 Security
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use interface to add more rules, verify possible accounts compomised.
Great filtering to search for emails.
Quarantine works correctly most of the time based on the trust values configured.
Product works best when implemented with 365 Security and can cover it's flaws.
Customer support is great and barely needed since problems do not usually occur.
Unbiased when analyzing emails coming from any domain (included internal and checkpoint's)
What do you dislike about the product?
Blocks certain emails that have nothing suspicious based on the context values.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prevent phising emails and campaigns, security the end user and decreasing risks