We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and AWS GuardDuty based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is notable for its seamless API-based integration, advanced data leak prevention, and comprehensive monitoring system. AWS GuardDuty provides a unified platform for data gathering and advanced threat identification. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration could enhance its integration with Exchange and other SaaS solutions. Users say AWS GuardDuty could provide a mobile version and improve dashboard analytics.
Service and Support: Some reviewers praised Check Point's technical support, but others were dissatisfied with the response time. AWS GuardDuty receives acclaim for its prompt and efficient customer support, despite occasional concerns about phone service wait times.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration had a straightforward initial setup. Users appreciated the support staff's helpful guidance during complex integrations. AWS GuardDuty is considered easy to set up, but it could become more complex depending on the architecture and integrations.
Pricing: The license of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is inexpensive and manageable, with a simplified process for renewals and licensing. AWS GuardDuty uses a pay-as-you-go model, and the cost depends on the data usage.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration provides valuable features and support for cloud functionalities, resulting in a solid ROI compared to other options. Estimated user ROI ranges from 15% to 80%. AWS GuardDuty enhances overall security posture, building customer trust and creating potential business opportunities.
Comparison Results: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is preferred over AWS GuardDuty. Users appreciate its simple setup process, API-based integration, advanced data leak prevention capabilities, user-friendly interface, and comprehensive monitoring. AWS GuardDuty lacks a mobile version, and users want more dashboard analytics.
"Deployment is great, and we didn't face any big challenges."
"With anomaly detection, active threat monitoring, and set correlation, GuardDuty alerts me to any unusual user behavior or traffic patterns right away, which is great for staying on top of potential security risks."
"Since our environment is cloud based and accessible from the internet, we like the ability to check where the user has logged in from and what kind of API calls that user is doing."
"One of the advantages of cloud services is the ability to use them on demand. There's minimal installation involved; you can check the latest offerings and make new deployments while dismantling the previous ones. This approach keeps you ahead of potential services, showcasing the agility of AWS."
"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution will detect abnormalities in the AWS workload and alert us so that we can monitor and take action."
"The correlation back end is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Encryption of emails enhances safe communication that ransomware attacks cannot compromise."
"Getting reports and finding threats in the console is easy."
"I like the fact that having granular information about the potential threats is received in email."
"This DLP is very useful, as it gives our users additional protection."
"The product offers good and easy integration capabilities with other products."
"The automated rule cleanups and automated policy installs have improved my customers' organizations."
"Data loss and data leakage prevention are well deployed which helps businesses to scale and expand effortlessly without any trouble."
"It fully protects colleagues from visiting insecure sites and browsing in unhealthy environments."
"Some of the pain points in Amazon GuardDuty was the cost. When compared to some of the other services, depending on how many we had to monitor, if we had a huge range of accounts, as our accounts increased, we had a cost factor that came into play. Sometimes there were issues, for example, with findings that came up, we wanted to add notes and there were issues back then where notes couldn't be entered properly. If we wanted to leave a note such as "Okay, we have assessed this and this is how we feel", or "This is a false positive", Amazon GuardDuty wasn't allowing us to do that. Even with the suppression of certain findings, there was some issue that we had faced at one time. Those were some of the pain points of the solution."
"The solution has to be integrated with new services that AWS adds like QuickSight, Managed Airflow, AppFlow and MWAA."
"Improvement-wise, Amazon GuardDuty should have an overall dashboard analytics function so we could see what's in the current environment, and then in addition to that, provide best practices and recommendations, particularly to provide some type of observability, and then figure out the login side of it, based on our current environment, in terms of what we're not monitoring and what we should monitor. The solution should also give us a sample code configuration to implement that added feature or feature request. What I'd like to see in the next release of Amazon GuardDuty are more security analytics, reporting, and monitoring. They should provide recommendations and additional options that answer questions such as "Hey, what can we see in our environment?", "What should we implement within the environment?", What's recommended?" We know that cost will always be associated with that, but Amazon GuardDuty should show us the increased costs or decreased costs if we implement it or don't implement it, and that would be a good feature request, particularly with all products within AWS, just for cloud products in general because there are times features are implemented, but once they're deployed, they don't tell you about costs that would be generated along with those features. After features are deployed, there should a summary of the costs that would be generated, and projected based on current usage, so they would give us the option to figure out how long we're going to use those features and the option to keep those on or turn those off. If more services were like that, a lot more people would use those on the cloud."
"I work in a bank, and it would be good if AWS GuardDuty could be integrated with other monitoring and detection tools we use."
"For me, I would say just the presentation of findings, like the dashboards and other stuff, could be improved a bit."
"There is currently no consolidated dashboard for AWS GuardDuty. It would be helpful if they could provide a dashboard based on severity levels (high, medium, low) and offer insights account-wise, especially for users utilizing automation structures."
"Cost changes. It's very expensive. If you turn on every feature, it's more than most commercial vendors. For smaller orgs, that doesn't make sense."
"Amazon GuardDuty could be better enriched in threat intelligence data."
"Since the portal to the management and administration entry sometimes has performance problems and takes a long time to respond to what has arrived, the handling of the tool is difficult."
"From time to time, the system's administrators notice the increase in the false-positive alerts being reported by CloudGuard SaaS."
"We have used technical support, but their response time is very slow. It needs to be improved."
"Although it has good characteristics, it should improve the graphical interface and the latency that it sometimes presents."
"I would love it if they would do some work on the Postgres definition on the back-end."
"The NAVEX metrics that I have been using on the CloudGuard dashboard cannot be exported. If they were to add report exporting capabilities on each of metric objects on the dashboard, that would be awesome."
"They should consider a module that allows the customizing of reports so we can generate executive information for the client (to explain in simple language the general security situation in the SaaS environment)."
"The integration with Gsuite could be improved, especially when reporting the amount of emails it manages to filter."
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AWS GuardDuty is ranked 4th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 19 reviews while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 8th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 47 reviews. AWS GuardDuty is rated 8.2, while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AWS GuardDuty writes "A stellar threat-detection service that has helped bolster security against malicious threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration writes "Has a user-friendly dashboard, a great anti-phishing algorithm, and sandboxing for testing". AWS GuardDuty is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Wiz and Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP, whereas Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security and Cisco Secure Email. See our AWS GuardDuty vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration report.
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