Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade Reviews

Our company works on the implementation of services in the cloud. We have a large number of employees inside and outside the country. The work from home modality was also added recently, and, for this reason, a solution was needed that would provide security in all aspects of electronic communication. That is why Checkpoint Anti-Spam and Email Security was implemented throughout the company. We wanted to be able to block spam and malware at the connection level and also be able to integrate it with cloud services with Azure and thus be able to have excellent data management.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade has improved the perimeter security of our company. Since its implementation it has complemented an essential part of the company's security. One of the features that we liked is the content-based Anti-spam capabilities. It can scan images or attachments. Another feature that it provides us with is the anti-spam block/allow list. This has allowed us to have great control in order to be able to block malicious emails that try to enter our employees' emails.

Of all the features that Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security Software Blade brings, all of them fulfill different functions. The one I liked the most is content-based anti-spam. It does a better job of recognizing spammers. It does reconnaissance against advanced forms of spam, including image-based and foreign-language spam, using pattern-based detection. From what I was reading, it has a proprietary algorithm to create unique, fingerprint-like signatures of email messages and practically uses AI.

I also like the flexible configuration set. Both the content-based anti-spam, IP, and text string databases are updated on a schedule, which can be adjusted in the sheet options. It is possible to create and use the custom block list for the anti-spam sheet in the policy that we have configured.

For the few years that I have been using Check Point, they have always presented new updates and tries to stay ahead with their tools making them more interactive with the user and not so complicated. They are always at the forefront with new features. It meets and covers all the necessary fields to protect an organization and must be at the forefront as hackers are always one step ahead. They need to continue to make the tool more robust to protect users from new threats.

A major area for improvement is within some of the heavily discounted software blade add-ons on top of the current Next Generation Threat Prevention and SandBlast and Next Generation Threat Prevention offerings.

The tool was implemented in 2020. Currently, I have been working with this solution for Three years..

During the two years of implementation in the organization, it has not presented any problem. Its stability is very good.

Its scalability is excellent. It is a super scalable product in security and very robust.

Regarding customer service, we have had both good and bad experiences I give them an eight on the support part, however, sometimes we are left wanting.

Positive

We only had Office 365 and wanted to make the security more robust.

The implementation was simple

The implementation was done in conjunction with internal collaborators and with support from Check Point. They were very helpful and very good at their job.

My return is to have made a single investment and to be able, with that investment, to maintain the privacy and security of the organization.

It is a very affordable tool to implement in an organization.

We looked into Fortinet and Microsoft.

You can use this solution without fear as it gives you security and confidence.

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. 

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 basically use the solution for threat detection, spam, email blocking, and security against organized email phishing attacks as well as data security management. Nowadays, this has been a prime concern for organizations and working professionals.

These use cases of Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security software make it one of the prime products and is highly recommended. It is a must-have integrated product.

Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security software is a modern-day solution.

Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security served out to be highly productive for my organization. It's great for management and data security and generates innovation and growth.

Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security software is a modern-day solution for security management and data scrutiny.

In short, I highly recommend the product.

There are highly productive features, including threat detection, spam, email blocking, and security.

It's great against organized email phishing attacks and offers advanced 2FA authentication.

There is third-party integration possible. There are many other customized tools that can act as a booster to some already great services. 

It creates a healthy environment for mass adoption of Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security.

Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security is a highly organized tool with many benefits. However, they should upgrade support services and make a more user-friendly database. That would help with higher integration and adoption.

Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security software as a platform will catch the eyes of large organizations and MNCs as security concerns have risen significantly in recent years.

I have been integrating with this software since last year.

I haven't dealt with any other software.

The pricing is in the mid to high range. It's affordable and the setup is smooth.

I haven't evaluated any other solution. Some other colleagues already recommended it.

Just go for it.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is one of the valuable features that we have available in quantum equipment. It gave us that layer of protection and event solutions to safeguard the security of events and activities. In our network, it's analyzing everything that enters our network or leaves it.

Among the attacks that we had to avoid events by SMTP, POP, or DDoS, and additionally, protect ourselves from image or language attacks. We've been able to block regions by IP addresses or locations.

We currently have several regions blocked by blacklisted IP addresses or insecure domain senders, thus raising the level of protection that the institution has. We use this feature frequently due to our mail service, which is a hybrid service.

This solution helped us lock down and have our infrastructure easier to manage.

We've solved protection against buffer overflow that has caused our server to freeze or be slower when receiving or sending emails.

The anti-spam feature helps to verify the reputation of the databases in a reputational way. It manages to compare each request with a complete base of IP addresses. This layer eliminates around 70 percent of the attacks that enter through and are part of the most common attacks that our less expert users receive. We are now capable of differentiating this type of incident. This database is constantly updated to protect the equipment and thus validate if these addresses.

I would like this solution to be more integrated into other applications that Check Point has so that it could be managed quickly and safely from the Infinity Portal, thus being even more cloud-based in its management. Among the things that I would also like would be an application for cell phones where you can manage this type of event, if required, be it Android or iOS. It would thus be more disruptive by taking advantage of market demands and ensuring protection.

I've used the solution for two years.

The solution is easy to install and enable.

Its cost is quite high and its package is sold as an additional license.

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