Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration Reviews

My main use case for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is to address email threats. It has been effective for our organization by stopping many different kinds of threats, including phishing attacks and ransomware attacks. I am impressed by its AI capabilities because different AI capabilities are incorporated in Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration. It has been very effective for us, especially when an attacker tries to use AI in their email attack. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has been effective in stopping those kinds of alerts and giving us insights about what is happening in an email alert. The AI features in email security within Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration have been particularly effective for us.

Regarding specific incidents where Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration's AI features stopped threats, we receive notifications whenever there is a new alert through email to the admin. Whenever there is an alert, we go to the dashboard to check what kind of alerts it has and proceed with the investigation. The system has a very nice dashboard with a clear layout when investigating incidents, showing email profiles and attack types. In the relationship section, it shows different AI indicators that confirm why a threat was stopped and what AI features are at play, indicating AI threats evident in the email. This helps us during investigations as it is easy to see different indicators and decide whether a threat requires quarantine or whether it's a true positive or false positive.

The first standout feature is that it's an API-based email security solution. It took us hardly half a day to get it deployed and set up, compared to other email securities such as Barracuda Email Security which takes days to fully deploy due to inbound and outbound connector setup requirements. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was protecting our incoming, outgoing, and internal emails within half a day of deployment. Another impressive feature is that it offers API-based inline protection, unlike Trend Micro Email Security which wasn't inline, meaning emails would first go to the inbox before being removed if threats were found.

The incorporated AI capabilities are particularly notable, functioning as AI versus AI. It has protected us from various threats and has a nice dashboard that shows if anything is missed by MS 365. For instance, last week we received an email flagged as safe by Microsoft, but Check Point flagged it. Upon investigation, we found it had a malicious attachment, and Check Point provided a full report highlighting the malicious indicators.

The positive impact includes a clear reduction in threats and improved detection capabilities. The dashboard is impressive, neat, and clean, showing all information about threats on the initial landing page. The analytics are very good, particularly the ability to identify real source IPs, which was a distinguishing factor from Trend Micro.

The URL emulation and real-time on-click protection are impressive features. When we receive a malicious document, it can sanitize the document by removing malicious elements while maintaining benign content. The user-to-admin interaction feature for managing quarantined emails is also noteworthy. We utilize analytics to generate reports, helping us pinpoint types of threats and their origin, which has been instrumental in implementing targeted training programs.

We were using Google Email earlier and wanted to move from Google to Microsoft. Knowing the vulnerability issues with Microsoft, we wanted a strong email security management system on top of Microsoft 365.

We aimed to enhance the server security perimeter due to previous vulnerabilities with Microsoft, ensuring a strong email security management system.

The main use case for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is addressing numerous issues my customer faced with phishing emails and malware that was pushed into their system. They were using Microsoft Defender as a standard security for their email services, so they wanted to implement a more focused solution for Email Security.

When Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was chosen, the specific features that stood out to my customer were the integration of solutions with Office 365 as email service wherein Check Point excelled. They have a very tight integration with Microsoft Office 365.

The customer ended up purchasing just the email component initially. The comprehensive and unified protection across users, devices and applications under various parameters is entirely a USP for Check Point Solution. Apart from the standard security such as email security, endpoint security, browser security, mobility security and the enhanced visibility of the solution in a single pane of glass through a unified portal, these are the basic features. What stood out was where the solution excels in providing customer reports of users sending mails to non-domain email addresses, which was showcased during POC.

Reporting on users sending emails to non-domain email addresses helped the customer because they were unable to stop emails going to non-domain due to their business requirements. They had many vendors using non-domain specific Email IDs such as gmail.com or hotmail.com, which they couldn't block. Instead of blocking, they wanted to monitor people sending emails to non-domain email aliases. There had been cases of data breaches where customer users were sending IP data to users outside the organization. The customer wanted intervention, and if they couldn't block this practice, they wanted something that could be monitored by the IT team.

They formed a group of three people wherein all emails sent to non-domain specific email addresses were reported weekly, later changing to daily reports. This allowed them to clearly pinpoint how many users were sending out emails and identify clear offenders of sending print emails, even after being advised not to.

The measurable reduction in risky email behavior improved once users realized there was a system in place. During POC, they discovered some malware that was pushed to their system to check the solution's efficacy. These files passed through Defender but were caught by Check Point Solution, demonstrating the efficiency of Check Point Harmony Email Security.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has positively impacted my customer's organization overall because once the system was implemented, there was a proper reduction in the number of data breaches and phishing emails.

I use Check Point Harmony as a security using one solution for both mobile and app development. If we use email security like Office 365, Microsoft Office 365, or G-Suite, we can protect all incoming emails from Microsoft Exchange and stop spam mail with all kinds of security check policies with Check Point Harmony.

It's very effective as a solution to prevent mobile app threats. It has a mobile MDX, mobile detection, and response session.

As a comprehensive solution, Check Point offers a very granular and best-in-class experience. Compared to competitors like Fortinet, Trend Micro, Palo Alto, and Cisco, Check Point provides a superior solution according to both the MITRE and Gartner frameworks.

For example, in a recent attack simulation, Check Point only allowed ten malicious emails through, while Fortinet allowed 1500 and Cisco allowed 1800. Check Point's email attack ratio is nearly 0.10%, while others range from 1% to 3%. This demonstrates Check Point's superior email filtering capabilities.

Check Point's email cleaning ratio is 99.9%, significantly higher than the 98%, 95%, or 93% of its competitors.

Moreover, Check Point Harmony Email incorporates AI technology within its security features.

Harmony Email & Collaboration (HEC) provides full protection and addresses zero-day files. It's the best solution available, as others don't offer protection against zero-day attacks and rely on signature-based solutions. HEC is truly the best option.

Usually, the customer is on Office 365, and the main selling point for us is that approximately 95 percent of customers do not have the E5 license from Microsoft, which is the highest tier. As a result, they lack advanced email protection. Therefore, using a third-party solution is more cost-effective than upgrading to an E5 license, and it also offers greater sophistication. This solution can cover not only Office 365 but also other platforms. Furthermore, it carries the reputable brand name Check Point and is well-known in the security industry.

The centralized management dashboard is easy to use. We usually sell advanced packets that include sandboxing for attachments, which is highly critical to most customers. The solution has a very effective anti-phishing algorithm that detects a significantly higher number of phishing emails compared to the default Microsoft solution. Additionally, it is user-friendly. When customers need to make exceptions to the policy, they find it quite easy to navigate the dashboard. However, what customers mostly care about are the anti-phishing and sandboxing features.

We have 4,000 users globally, dispersed all over the world including at our manufacturing locations. The CloudGuard SaaS solution is protecting our Office 365 email environment as well as our Office 365 OneDrive environment from malware and other malicious content. Our CloudGuard Connect instance is protecting our remote plants and acting as a cloud-based firewall enforcement point that is 100 percent managed in the cloud as opposed to on-prem.

Prior to deploying the product, we were getting daily phishing attacks which were directly impacting our business. We had data exfiltration. I can't remember the exact number of incidents we had, but since deploying the product we are now catching approximately 500 phishing attacks a day, attacks that are no longer negatively impacting the organization.

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.

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.

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.

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.