The main use case for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is to protect incoming and outgoing emails. We use Microsoft Office 365 as the platform, integrating it with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration. Our client environment uses Outlook, and we wanted to set up email security directly after Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office performs the first layer of inspection, and then Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration inspects anything Office 365 missed. If an email contains anything malicious, it is not delivered to the end user, providing DLP capabilities for sensitive data as well.
Harmony Email & Collaboration (Avanan)
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Boosting email protection with checkpoint harmony email and collaboration.
What do you like best about the product?
What I like about Harmony email and collaboration is its use of AI and ML to proactively detect and block threats.The integration with checkpoints Threatcloud also strengths real-time threat intelligence, providing an added layer of security to our organization. In addition to that its inline API based deployment makes implementation quick and seamless without disrupting email workflow.
What do you dislike about the product?
For me HEC lacks granular reporting and analytics. It offers basic reporting functionality, more detailed , customizable reports and advanced analytics would be great to get deep insights into email security. Also, I would love to see email continuity feature in HEC.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Harmony email and collaboration is solving several critical problems for our email security. It effectively blocks phishing attacks, malicious attachments, impersonation attemps using adcanced AI and ML models. This has significantly reduced the number of security breaches in our rmail communications.Addiitonaly we are greatly benefiting with its integration with ThreatCloud as it enhanced real time threat intellligence ensuring we are always protected against the latest threats.It provided peace of minds knowing our email communication is secure and upto date with latest threat intelligence.
AI-driven email protection secures data and prevents threats with seamless integration
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The best feature is that it is completely AI-powered, enabling behavior analysis of email traffic. When integrating Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration with an email provider like Microsoft Office 365, the system learns the patterns of past communications. This AI behavior analysis helps identify legitimate emails and potential threats. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration can also scan password-protected and zip folders, a limitation in other solutions. The DLP feature allows organizations to track, inspect, and prevent sensitive data leaks from outgoing emails. Additionally, the system is easy to deploy, often within one or two days. Features for administrators and users allow control over spam mails, and the sandboxing feature scans new attachments and links for zero-day attacks. These unique features make Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration stand out.
What needs improvement?
A noted limitation is that integration is currently limited to Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite. Additional support for other vendors would allow access to multiple clients. Updates based on AI and reduced administrative overhead by adding or bulk adding new users, along with graphical enhancements to the GUI, would also be beneficial.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for more than one year. Initially, I attended Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration's OEM training session and later delivered the POC for one of the clients while testing all the use cases related to email security and completing several projects.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
The deployment of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was straightforward. It is easy to deploy and integrate with the environment, typically taking one or two days to set up email security.
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?
Scalability is limited, being only integrated with Microsoft Office 365 and G Suite at present.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Initially, the organization was using only the Microsoft 365 default email security, which is limited. We wanted a dedicated email security solution, and Check Point had features like DLP, sandboxing, and easy integrations that competitors lacked, leading us to choose it.
How was the initial setup?
The setup process is straightforward and easy to deploy within one or two days.
What was our ROI?
Implementing Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has helped to reduce false positive phishing mails and prevent threats from emails, saving the organization time and maintaining business continuity by preventing downtime and enabling employees to focus on their tasks.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing is a bit expensive, but it is worth it considering the features that Check Point provides.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend learning the product thoroughly to maximize its use, such as analyzing links in a virtual environment before clicking them. These small measures make a big difference. Administrators should explore the product deeply to use all its features effectively. I rate Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration a 10 because of its unique features, high catch rate, and ease of deployment and integration.
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What do you like best about the product?
Avanan for advanced email filtering to protect against malware and malicious emails. Customers appreciate its effectiveness, particularly for email attachments. Improvement areas include expanding DLP integrations. Previously, our customers used a Microsoft tool but faced phishing issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Noting to dislike as we are using this production
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In Avanan, the email channel is one of the channels where data leakage happens, and they need to consider it from a DLP perspective.
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What do you like best about the product?
The best thing is how Harmony provides real-time threat prevention across email and collaboration apps without much performance impact. Its reporting and visibility into email threats are also really strong compared to other solutions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Though the security features are excellent, the platform could benefit from more intuitive configuration options and enhanced reporting flexibility.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us catch phishing and malware attacks before they hit our users, keeps our email and collaboration tools secure, and saves us from spending tons of time cleaning up after incidents.
Secures email communication with advanced sanitization features
What is our primary use case?
I use Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration to protect email security. It is used as an email secure gateway to protect and scan emails.
What is most valuable?
The sanitization feature of Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is valuable. The protection and scanning of emails are also appreciated, as they secure everything in the email spectrum.
What needs improvement?
The sanitization on the file needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration for two months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is highly stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability of Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration as nine out of ten, indicating high scalability.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support is of high quality, as the local team from Check Point is very helpful.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I used a couple of solutions before but cannot specify which ones. I switched to Check Point primarily due to good integration with Microsoft 365.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy.
What about the implementation team?
The deployment was done through an integrator.
What was our ROI?
I see a return on investment from the beginning because I removed two items.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is lower compared to what I used before.
What other advice do I have?
Knowing what you need from the solution is important because Check Point Harmony Email provides comprehensive protection for email security.
Overall, I would rate it ten out of ten.
Substantial spam filtering software
What do you like best about the product?
This is the suitable security suite that has cleaned the email sharing system in the organization. It blocks unwanted emails and files with malware attachments enhancing legitimate communication among peers. It has sustained healthy document sharing and stopped several phishing attacks.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not hard to set and integrate this platform with enterprise communication infrastructure. The cost and user policies complies with company regulations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security has enhanced secure employee collaboration. It detects malicious links and content from internet that can compromise network.
Top-notch email protection software
What do you like best about the product?
It detects spams and compromised messages and quickly blocks them before reaching email inbox. Cases of phishing attacks have vanished since I started using Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security. It has filtered out spams enhancing improved database transactions.
What do you dislike about the product?
The stable performance has enhanced email security and optimized database network operations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Powerful security suite in email collaboration have minimized malware attacks. It has assisted the organization to comply with global data protection regulations.
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What do you like best about the product?
The best thing is the threat emulation it performs and even file sandboxing, the customer support is also very simple and smooth.
What do you dislike about the product?
No downsides as such, maybe add more things into Protect plan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being in consulting , we handle with lot of sensitive client data , email is the most used channel to interact with clients and lot of data stays there, phishing mails has been a big problem and Avanan solution helps.
Offers good features like anti-spam, anti-phishing and more and easy integration
What is our primary use case?
The use cases include anti-spam and anti-phishing. We have Email Collaboration for the anti-spam solution and anti-phishing solution. It’s a very good platform because every day, we block about 1,000 to 5,000 batch emails with malware, spam, etc. So for our business, it’s very important to have this platform, this solution, because it helps us very well with all email.
What is most valuable?
I have only a few features, anti-spam, anti-phishing, and DLP for a use case. It’s a very good platform. I tried all the models, all the features in this platform, and it works very well.
What needs improvement?
The pricing could be improved, because when I first bought it, it was cheaper than it is now. And the first time, I had more features than the trial license. It’s more costly now, but I have fewer features.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for about four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
For the years we’ve worked with the product, we haven’t had downtime.
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Our company has around 2,000 users. It is in the retail industry.
I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
We can make a ticket directly to the Check Point pack. It’s a great function. We don’t wait for customer support because customer requires collaboration, and it’s truly the case.
If the customer doesn’t have a fixed mistake in the platform, they need to escalate to Check Point. But I can escalate directly to Check Point for any support or consultation. So it’s very good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I tried Cisco. I tried with Office 365. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is a great solution compared to these other companies because it’s more intuitive. I can see attacks in real-time.
The solution blocks all the malware and phishing emails. The percent of failures is maybe 1%. So 99% of phishing, spam, or malware is blocked with the Harmony solution.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is easy. It is because it’s in the cloud. So we need to integrate Harmony with Microsoft Office 365, and it works. Maybe in three minutes to one hour, it works very well. We needed to make policies and collaborate with users, but it was very easy.
The implementation and the resolution took one test.
What about the implementation team?
We had two people, the customer and me, and maybe another person, but three people maximum is enough for the deployment process.
Maintenance is from Check Point. So we don’t need to do anything. It’s a great platform for maintenance. Check Point notifies us, so we need to do maintenance on the platform, and we’re okay with that. We’re good. We don’t need to do anything on the platform.
We don’t need to do anything on the platform.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The cost is a little bit expensive.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend using this platform because it makes policies and email integrations with Office 365 very easy. You can integrate Microsoft Teams with Sharepoint and OneDrive, and you can protect these clouds.
Overall, I would rate it a ten out of ten.
Customer review
What do you like best about the product?
Integration with our current email setup and defends against malware and phishing scams.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity, Difficulties with Integration
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
prevent Business Email Compromise and block phishing, malware, data leakage, account takeover, and shadow IT across the enterprise
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