We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"The risk level notifications are most valuable. We get to know what kind of intrusion or attack is there, and we can fix a problem on time."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"Machine Learning and AI for email security have helped all the organization's members to guard their information against insecure exposure."
"The API is its most valuable feature. On the API side, relative to the rest of the market, Check Point is decades ahead of its competitors."
"I can count the number of endpoints, emails, and collaborations being used in the environment."
"The product's environment is easy to work and comprehensive."
"Based on domain and URL reputation, it will allow traffic to flow."
"The first most remarkable thing is the integration with the Office 365 solution, which is easy, fast, and totally transparent for the user."
"The anti-phishing feature is the solution's best feature."
"The product is reliable and sturdy."
"This solution is easy to use."
"It's very easy to deploy and configure."
"The features and functionalities are much better than Microsoft's in-built Defender plan."
"On ease of use, it rates very high. It's something that I was able to get into without really looking at any documentation. I wanted to see what it felt like before I started looking at any documentation on how to use it, and it was very easy to use. It works very smoothly. The user experience is very intuitive. They did an amazing job on that."
"I would say it's very comprehensive, with multiple antivirus OEMs, virus encrypt features, encryption, and more."
"The ability to see east-west traffic is its most valuable feature. Traditionally, email defense focuses on north-south, inbound-outbound, egress-ingress traffic. With Cisco Secure Email Cloud Mailbox, it's able to quickly identify, track, tag, and categorize emails that are internal. That can typically give us visibility into if there's an internal compromised account (for example). Someone can then use that internal compromised account to email additional accounts with either malicious software or links, but internal within that Office tenant. Effectively, that email message never leaves the tenant. Any of the mail gateways really do not have any method or way of seeing this traffic since it's not leaving the environment."
"Secure Email Threat Defense's scalability is good."
"Cisco has a threat mechanism called cloud-based Talos, where all the threats are inbuilt."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 must improve the overall management style, including the GUI. It also needs to change the filters so that it is easy to whitelist and blacklist data."
"We noticed that from time to time, Microsoft's stability does have problems. Sometimes the service goes up and down. Sometimes they change without prior notice."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"There are sometimes leakages of viruses when the system is experiencing network failures."
"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)."
"We have used technical support, but their response time is very slow. It needs to be improved."
"I would love it if they would do some work on the Postgres definition on the back-end."
"Check Point's technical support is very much of a low level, especially with respect to other vendors and OEMs."
"They must provide security to more email service providers."
"They could help us be integrating features with solutions from third parties."
"The next release should focus more on email categorization and provide options for unlocking blocked safe emails."
"Customers will benefit greatly from monthly billing because the majority of customers today use the cloud, be it Office 365, or Google Cloud."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The tool gives false positives and it needs to be more accurate. I would like to see AI as a new feature."
"We encounter issues while searching for missing emails."
"From a technical point of view, Cisco is far behind in terms of cybersecurity, and it has to improve very much."
"Cisco Secure Email Cloud Mailbox can improve by adding advanced phishing, then the solution would become the best in the market. However, this could increase the price even more. Additionally, if CES with domain protection could be added it would be an even better solution."
"This solution could be improved by integration with Sandbox."
"There is still room for improvement in terms of integrations with other Cisco tools and non-Cisco tools. There is also some room for improvement needed in terms of the reporting."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 49 reviews while Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense is ranked 16th in Email Security with 11 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.6, while Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration writes "Has a user-friendly dashboard, a great anti-phishing algorithm, and sandboxing for testing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense writes "Easy to deploy and configure with excellent support". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email and Barracuda Email Protection, whereas Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Kiteworks, Abnormal Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Armorblox. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense report.
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