My main use case for Check Point Harmony Endpoint is that we wanted to have an EDR client that could run on our servers to act as an EDR.
I do not have anything else to add about my use case or why I needed it.
The best features Check Point Harmony Endpoint offers include fantastic forensic visibility along with a broad feature set that covers anti-malware, UBA, anti-phishing, and host-based firewalls, all centralized and easy to use through a cloud tenant.
The forensic visibility is valuable for my work because when an incident happens, it's very easy to see the forensic details and find out if it's a false positive or something that needs to be acted on.
Check Point Harmony Endpoint has impacted my organization positively by improving our security posture, but in the end, it didn't make the cut in the POC, so we went with another vendor.
During the time we used Check Point Harmony Endpoint, it improved our security posture, as we definitely got the visibility that we wanted, and it integrated well into the SIEM, so we got all the logs that we wanted.
I think Check Point Harmony Endpoint could be improved as I dislike the management interface because it's not intuitive, it lacks real-time reporting without configuring smart events, and it made administration less efficient.
The management interface felt unintuitive primarily due to the layout and navigation; you had to click around many different windows to find what you were looking for, and to resolve an incident, you needed to enter many windows.
I do not have anything else to add about the needed improvements or anything else that could make it easier for admins.
I have been using Check Point Harmony Endpoint during a POC that lasted one month.
Check Point Harmony Endpoint is stable, and it ended up being very stable with no downtime at all.
The scalability of Check Point Harmony Endpoint is very easy; it was deployed with GPOs and Ansible towards Linux servers, so it was very easy and scalable.
I previously used a different solution, which was CrowdStrike; we switched because it won the POC.
I have not seen a return on investment during my time with it, as it didn't make the cut in the POC.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point Harmony Endpoint was that it ended up being expensive to license, but the licensing itself was very straightforward.
Before choosing Check Point Harmony Endpoint, I evaluated other options including CrowdStrike and Defender for Servers.
My advice to others looking into using Check Point Harmony Endpoint is to definitely pay for tuning by Check Point professional services to get assistance with setting up correctly from the first time. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Check Point Harmony Endpoint an 8.