Excellent Threat Detection, But Too Many False Positives
What do you like best about the product?
Highly Accurate Threat Detection
Inline Email Protection
What do you dislike about the product?
Frequent False Positives
Limited Third-Party Integrations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Advanced Phishing and Malware Attacks
Has improved email protection by blocking phishing attempts and scanning QR codes in messages
What is our primary use case?
Mostly my use case is to secure all emails, whether it is inbound and outbound traffic. All emails must be scanned by Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, and then it should go to the user end or as outbound traffic to the SMTP servers. This is the main use case from our side. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration works as a mediator or protector for all emails in the network.
If one of the outbound emails comes via the email inbox and contains malicious codes or vulnerability, and the email directly goes to the users without protection, the user or organization may get impacted. As an email security solution, it acts as a mediator or protector between the outside and inside traffic, inside infra or outside infra.
When traffic comes from outbound to inbound, email security as a mediator or protector scans the entire email, which includes phishing mail, steganography email, and OCR, and gives the verdict if the mail is clean. If the mail is clean, then it is passed to the user. If the mail is not clean, it will remove the attachment or isolate the entire mail and generate an alert that this mail is in quarantine. Based on that, we categorize all emails. We have configured all policies in the Infinity Portal to handle this scanning process.
What is most valuable?
It helped our team by improving security on the email layer. An additional feature that has helped significantly is its connection with Microsoft Teams. All chats, files, and communication via Teams are scanned by the solution.
The best features of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration are the phishing mail detection and QR code-based mail scanning. The QR code blocking capability is particularly important. When an email arrives containing a QR code promising surprise prizes, non-IT users might scan these codes, which could contain malicious files or vulnerabilities. Many security solutions don't have the ability to block or scan QR codes, but Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration can scan these codes and quarantine them if they lack authenticity, providing an additional layer of security against QR code-based attacks.
What needs improvement?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration currently integrates with only a few email domains, such as Google, Gmail, Outlook, and Zimbra. In the future, it would be beneficial if Check Point offered more options to integrate with several other email domains. The solution should also be available as an on-premises option, as some organizations have restrictions over the internet.
After implementing Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, unwanted emails, malicious emails, phishing emails, and other types of threatening emails have declined by about 50 to 60%. Our goal is to achieve 100% protection over time. This improvement in security allows our IT team to focus on other security-related problems in the network.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for more than six to seven months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
How are customer service and support?
Best customer support from Check Point side is available anytime, anywhere.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were not using any kind of email security solution previously.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment was pretty good with simple one-step integration. The setup, licensing, and pricing are all favorable.
What was our ROI?
If systems are compromised, it may impact our entire organization through financial loss or asset loss. After installing Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, there has been significant ROI. Our organization has experienced substantial savings. Assets are now in a stable state with no loss of IT or financial assets, as no outside mails come without scanning. The solution has decreased expenses while providing excellent ROI.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We initially checked the email security solution from Check Point only. While we were aware of alternatives from Palo Alto and Sophos, we did not evaluate them.
What other advice do I have?
Go with security, not pricing. I rate Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration a ten out of ten.
A Trustworthy Solution for Email Safety
What do you like best about the product?
I have been using Avanan Cloud Email Security for some time, and what I like most is how it quietly protects my email without interrupting my daily work. From my personal experience, it effectively blocks phishing attempts, malicious attachments, and suspicious links before they even reach my inbox. This has given me a lot of peace of mind, especially knowing that potential threats are being handled automatically. I also appreciate how well it integrates with Microsoft 365 and Gmail. The setup was smooth, and I did not need to constantly switch between different tools to manage security.
What do you dislike about the product?
Avanan Cloud Email Security is very effective and reliable. It may take a little time to explore all its features, but once familiar, it makes managing email security effortless.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Avanan Cloud Email Security has been solving several critical problems for me and my team. It effectively blocks phishing emails, malicious attachments, and suspicious links before they even reach my inbox, which greatly reduces the risk of security breaches. Because of this, I no longer have to constantly worry about email threats, and it has made my daily workflow much smoother.
Harmony Makes Email Safer and Smarter
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Harmony Email & Collaboration is how intuitive and accessible it is.
The web access is smooth and reliable, and the Infinity Portal makes navigation and management surprisingly easy even for non technical users.
Harmony Email itself feels thoughtfully designed: setting up policies is straightforward, and the interface doesn’t overwhelm you with complexity. It just works, and that’s what makes it stand out.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike most about Harmony Email & Collaboration is the cost it can feel a bit steep, especially for smaller teams.
While the platform itself is solid, the pricing might make you think twice. Also, the official documentation could be more intuitive. Sometimes I find myself digging around or needing to ask support for things that should be easier to find or explain.
It’s not a dealbreaker, but definitely an area that could improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Harmony Email & Collaboration helps us stay protected without making things complicated.
It keeps phishing and malicious emails out of our inboxes, which gives us peace of mind. We don’t have to constantly second guess what’s safe to open.
What I really appreciate is how easy it is to set up policies that actually fit our needs no tech headaches, no endless tweaking. It’s made email security feel like less of a chore and more like something that quietly works in the background.
One of the best-in-class email security solution.
What do you like best about the product?
1. API integration is very much simple and easy.
2. Additionally, it provides the 0365 details in Checkpoint console which helps in tracing the complete email flow.
3.Show IT feature is very much helpful in identifying other security loopholes in the environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
1.Limited third-party email integration via API integration.
2.Sometimes we are receiving more False positive alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides complete protection for email gateways and reducing the risks which are incurred. Requires less management interference as it using AI mechanism for the prevention of suspicious activities and reporting.
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.
Easiest Email Security Gateway to Deploy over cloud with Shadow IT feature
What do you like best about the product?
Best feature I like about Avanan Cloud Email Security is its inline feature where it blocks the mail before it goes to the mailbox.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is only cloud based and it can only be integrated with Office365 or Google Suite.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped in blocking the spam mail and user will be notified about the attachment have been scanned by threat cloud AI
Effective Protection, Slightly Complex Setup
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best is how well it catches phishing emails that other filters sometimes miss. It gives clear info on why something was flagged, which really helps build trust in the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike is that the interface can be a bit clunky, some settings are buried, and it takes a while to get used to where everything is.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It’s helping block phishing, spam, and malicious emails before they reach our users. That’s saved us a lot of time dealing with threats manually and reduced the risk of someone clicking on something they shouldn’t.
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.
