Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade Reviews

The primary use cases for Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade are anti-spam, anti-malware, anti-phishing, content filtering and threat prevention. 

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade helps my organization by enhancing email security, increasing productivity, improving compliance, reducing IT support costs, and improving threat visibility.

Features like real-time threat detection and prevention, advanced threat intelligence, sandboxing, data loss prevention, and its user-friendly management console make it a very good solution.

The solution could be improved by reducing false positives, optimizing performance, improving the user interface, and integrating with other security solutions.

I've used the solution for two years.

The stability is good.

The scalability is good.

Technical support is okay.

Positive

No, I didn't use any different solution.

The initial setup was good.

Our internal team managed the initial setup process. 

The ROI has been okay.

I didn't evaluate any other product.

The primary use cases of this solution include spam filtering, malware protection, phishing prevention, data loss prevention, email continuity, and threat intelligence.

This solution helped us reduce spam, enhance security, improve compliance, and increase user satisfaction and cost efficiency.

The most valuable features of the solution include advanced threat detection, real-time threat intelligence, data loss prevention, email continuity, a user-friendly interface, detailed reporting and analytics.

User experience can be improved. 

Performance can be improved in terms of speed, reliability, and scalability. 

The solution can also be improved in terms of features and customer support.

I have been using the solution for the past two years.

The stability is good.

The scalability is good.

Technical support should be improved.

Positive

No, I did not use a different solution. 

The initial setup was good.

We implemented the solution via an in-house team.

The ROI is good.

The licensing and pricing can be improved.

No, I did not evaluate other options.

One of the standout features of the product is a significant reduction in false positives, achieved through the implementation of artificial intelligence for detecting malware, phishing attempts, and spam emails.

We have been using Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade for two years now.

The solution is utilized around the clock as a primary parameter for filtering incoming and outgoing emails.

I would rate the initial setup process a nine out of ten.

We took help from a third-party partner to assist in deploying the solution. Around two executives were required to work on it. 

I rate the product pricing a seven out of ten.

We considered various products in the market but ultimately chose Check Point due to its reputation and ease of implementation.

The solution leverages artificial intelligence to learn email flow patterns, reduce false positives, and identify trustworthy emails based on correspondence frequency and block lists.

While the initial implementation costs increased, we consider it a valuable investment as it has enhanced productivity and provided better security for our organization.

I would recommend this solution, especially for medium to large companies seeking a stable and user-friendly email security management system.

I rate it a nine out of ten. 

What we use in our company from Check Point is not software. We use a box from Check Point, and in that box, we have Check Point Firewall with all those features, like antivirus, web security, etc. It has all the software, so it's not a single software on our systems.

We use Check Point products, which have been good so far. I think the solution has reached the end-of-life stage because we are facing CPU usage issues. There is a need to change something in the solution to make it stronger.

We are a financial institution that requires a certain level of security, so we use Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is quite reliable. The solution had stayed reliable up until recently when we applied new updates while having a high memory usage which ultimately affected our network traffic. So far, the solution has been good.

The solution's technical support is an area with shortcomings that need to be improved for the better.

I have four years of experience with Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade. I need to confirm the version of the solution I use.

It is a very stable solution.

It's expensive right now if someone plans to scale up. One needs to pay a lot to get bigger scalability. The scalability of the solution can be very difficult.

We currently have 40 users in our company using the solution.

I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

I joined my current company after the setup phase.

The solution is deployed on-premises.

The worth of the solution depends on one's needs.

The solution is expensive.

I rate the pricing as an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

We have to make yearly payments towards the licensing cost. The additional cost in excess of the licensing cost is done for the support.

We evaluated solutions like Sophos and Juniper in our company.

I recommend those planning to use the solution to check their number of users, the solutions you need, along with the products or services you specifically need to run some other solutions.

The solution is difficult to scale up.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Our need was to be able to provide greater security to business e-mail, avoid possible threats and completely reduce vulnerabilities within our perimeter, realizing that we could use our checkpoint gateway and security management to, through the anti-spam and email security blade, provide business users an additional layer of security do not hesitate to purchase this modern security tool, part of the family of checkpoint tools.

In this way, checkpoint has improved perimeter security by avoiding spam emails within our infrastructure.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade has helped us considerably to improve the company's email experience because due to its technology, monitoring and manufacturer features we have been able to reduce if not completely almost completely the intrusion of spam and spam. other threats that can be uploaded via email.

Thanks also to its anti-spam policies where we can block from a domain, an email subject or any header any type of spam in the company, also thanks to its alerts we can be completely updated about what is happening around our infrastructure.

It also has a large database that is continuously validated to find IPs cataloged with a spam reputation to avoid being able to accept this type of email or domain.

With checkpoint blade anti-spam and email security software we have found great features that helped us protect our infrastructure and email, such as:

-Anti spam policies controlled by reputation, domain, ips, which generated greater control and complete reduction of spam in the company.

-Blade integration with our gateway system.

-Complete administration from checkpoint security management server.

- Easy handling and intuitive administration.

It really is easy, powerful and safe for our company, we liked what it gave us.

We have been using Blade for at least two years. We have managed to improve the security experience of our business email.

We have had no problems with the performance of the firewalls.

It performs quite well in cluster solutions or VSS provisioned in Azure.

Previously we used security functions of Microsoft 365, however we wanted to modernize ourselves with a robust tool, which had prestige in addition to centralizing our security environments, for which we preferred to use checkpoint.

The solutions are excellent, expensive but worth it, you could verify some POC to be able to verify it in a test environment, and verify if it adjusts to the needs of your company.

If correct, every serious company should always be able to verify the existing options in the market, cisco, fortinet, microsoft among others.

We are using 5400, 6700 and 6900 versions of the hardware in our company. We have approximately 1,600 users.

I find the Next-Gen firewall with SandBlast technology the most valuable feature. It is good for stopping attacks.

In terms of anti-spam and email, the pattern that they use to filter the emails could be improved. There are too many normal emails being considered spam. There should be an option to learn the different patterns specific to the organization where it is being deployed.

I have been working with this product for more than three years.

The product is stable.

The product is scalable.

Technical support by Check Point is good.

We previously used a third-party product that was hosted in the cloud.

The initial setup is a bit complex. Training the IT admins how to use, understand, and configure Check Point Anti-Spam and Email is a bit complex.

We have four people in-house for maintenance of the solution.

The pricing of Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security is reasonable.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security is a good product. For a bigger organization, they should consider that the pattern for determining spam does need to be more developed or enhanced.

I would rate this product a 7 out of 10.

The primary use case is to protect the organization from any attacks generated via email. As most of the attacks in recent days are via email, the organization has to be equipped and ready to mitigate this type of attack at the perimeter level, before it has been delivered to the user's mailbox or an endpoint.

Basic anti-spam filters are not capable of protecting against the latest generation of attacks. Therefore, for protecting the organization against this sophisticated or targeted attack, we concluded that the next generation of email security solutions is a must. Ultimately, it should be able to protect against any attack that is sent via email. 

At first, it seemed like a good solution but it wasn't; we have the mail server on site.

After six months, the mail was in fits and starts and the Check Point infrastructure was not responding properly. We realized that we were under a strong spam attack and had to install another antispam product. We were lucky enough to be supported by the Check Point team of specialists, who helped us to identify and solve the problem.

In fact, even with analyzing the logs, it was not something that was evident at first sight

This product integrates well and is easy to manage.

It is certainly very beneficial for a small business and works best in combination with other Check Point blades, such as the Data Protection Blade that protects against data loss via email.

It is useful for having alerts on the e-mail traffic trends. 

This solution is ideal for a small business or if you have a mail server in the cloud and most of the spam is blocked by the provider. It is not good for large email flows. If you require or move to large mail flows, the solution needs to be changed. 

Determining areas for improvement is not a question that can be answered simply. 

We should separate the antispam engine into two parts; the first that breaks down mass spam, and the second for refinement.

It would be good to dedicate a separate core, at least for the first phase, so that it does not take away resources from the system. The ideal approach would be to enrich the product with more functions, however, this would likely also lead to an increase in cost.

It would be useful to have more logs and in aggregate mode, perhaps through a specific report, that can be more easily used for troubleshooting. 

I've used the solution for three months.

The primary use case is to protect the organization from any attack generated via email. As most of the attacks in recent days are via email, the organization has to be equipped and ready to mitigate this type of attack at the perimeter level, before it has been delivered to the user mailbox or endpoint.

Basic anti-spam filters are not capable of protecting against the latest generation of attacks. So, for protecting the organization against this sophisticated or targeted attack, we concluded that the next generation of Email Security solutions is a must. Ultimately, it should be able to protect against any attack that is sent via email.

This product prevents sophisticated attacks, such as:

• Phishing Email attacks such as impersonation, spear-phishing, and business email compromise
• Account Takeover protection, where the primary aim of an attacker is to steal user credentials
• Protection against malicious files, malicious attachments, and malware. The primary aim of this kind of email is to infect user machines and steal data, or injecting malicious code on a machine so that they can move laterally and infect other machines within the organization, or perform a ransomware attack 
  
• Protection against data leakage that can be caused by an aforementioned attack, which can result in financial loss or reputation damage to the organization 
  

This solution is hosted in an inline mode for the protection of inbound, outbound, and internal email communication. It does not require any change in MX entry on the DNS Server for routing traffic to the service provider for Email Security.

The complete solution can be hosted on-premises for environments where the organization has an on-premises email solution, and it will remain invisible to the attacker.

This solution can be integrated with SandBlast Technology provided by Check Point and its most effective solution is breach prevention. 

It can be extended to the cloud as well, for protecting cloud-hosted email.

The solution can be monitored on a single dashboard with actionable insights and reporting.

Our solution required multiple appliances, as a single appliance only supports up to 5,000 files. This means that depending upon the number of files that need to be processed, the number of appliances needs to be increased. Essentially, the number of appliances needs to be sized accordingly for complete protection. The increase in the number of appliances makes it difficult to manage in terms of physical connectivity and configuration.

The product performs only basic anti-spam capabilities, compared to CloudGuard SaaS, which provides more robust anti-spamming functionality than the on-premises solution. 

YARA rules can be added only using the CLI, rather than through the GUI, which makes it difficult for the administrator.

We are not using the Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade at this moment. 

This solution is stable.

This product is easily scalable and a number of devices can be added whenever it is required.

The support and our experience with the OEM were excellent.

Previously, we were using the email gateway along with an additional license to protect against email attacks on the same gateway.

Setting up the product is complex. In the case of a single appliance, it is simple. However, it becomes complex with several appliances.

The solution was implemented with our in-house team along with the OEM.

The setup is complex, as it is dependent on the number of files that need to be processed via the email security appliance.

The cost is competitive with other security products on the market. 

We evaluated similar solutions by Cisco & Trend Micro.

This solution should be designed to support all functionality, including use as an email gateway in case the functionality is required, as well as having a strong anti-spam module