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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point Harmony Email &...
Ranking in Email Security
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (5th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (8th)
Fortra's Clearswift Secure ...
Ranking in Email Security
41st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Email Security category, the mindshare of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is 4.8%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway is 1.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Email Security Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration4.8%
Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway1.0%
Other94.2%
Email Security
 

Featured Reviews

Nasseer Qureshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Email security effectively detects a wide range of threats and improves productivity
Since we have been using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for a year, we haven't encountered significant challenges. However, it would be beneficial if it could support other email security services beyond Microsoft and Google. Integration with other platforms would enhance its appeal since the features are commendable. While the analytics are commendable, they don't provide deep dive insights. They show the overall counts of malware, phishing, and business compromise emails, but there isn't a robust ability to dive deeper into those categories to see specifics. Analytics should allow us to explore which users received malware emails the most or trends among departments. Currently, we have to sift through manually, which is not ideal. A more profound analytical capability would elevate the tool to become the complete email security solution for any user.
PC
Stable, but malware needs improvement and customer support is poor
They need to improve the malware in the product. I am not satisfied with Clearswift because of the lack of customer support. The support is poor, the supplier takes a lot of time and it's expensive. We have some issues here when I contact the supplier, it takes a lot of time for them to get back to us but there's no solution. I am now looking at Symantec as a possible alternative.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"As with most of the other Check Point products, the CloudGuard SaaS has the advanced visibility of the events and alerts."
"The fact that we can share documents without emailing them and still be confident they will go through the corresponding scrutiny is great."
"Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration offers online support and has tight integration with Microsoft."
"It helped us to bring security compliance and ensure system robustness throughout."
"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."
"The stuff that it's picking up and blocking and stopping from coming into our environment has been fantastic."
"Based on domain and URL reputation, it will allow traffic to flow."
"A stable solution."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
 

Cons

"It would be good to have the option to export the respective record data from dashboards or logs to .csv or other files."
"From time to time, the system's administrators notice the increase in the false-positive alerts being reported by CloudGuard SaaS."
"The sanitization on the file needs improvement."
"While Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration offers useful analytics, there is potential for improvement in providing deeper insights."
"There is too much functionality, which makes it difficult to use. More guidance for users would be helpful."
"For tech people who want to dive deep into self-servicing capabilities, Check Point could improve in this area."
"There is a need for improvement in handling business email compromise."
"Stability has been a pain point. I was going back and forth with my product engineer and project manager for a couple of months. I had the product in a demonstration mode and wasn't satisfied with the results initially. After a few alterations and a few revisions later, it is fine."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
"Malware needs improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You can get CloudGuard as part of Infinity. When you do the solution through Infinity, it's a per user type of license cost."
"Due to its pricing, I would say that Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is more suitable for medium to enterprise organizations."
"Do a full feature evaluation (interactive) with a support person. That is what I did."
"The cost is similar to other competitors. It's not much higher."
"Being able to keep the phishing campaigns out of my company has been ROI for me."
"One of the nice features is that the licensing model is elastic, so if you go over your license count, you can add users during your billing cycle and true-up later."
"The pricing is expensive."
"The price is very good, based on what they deliver."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business45
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise29
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point Harmony Email & Office?
The setup cost for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was minimal since the vendor set it up for us.
What is your primary use case for Check Point Harmony Email & Office?
We are currently using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for our primary email security gateway to scan all the vulnerabilities that come in the mail and to safeguard us from spam mails...
What do you like most about Check Point Harmony Email & Office?
The product offers good and easy integration capabilities with other products.
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Also Known As

Check Point CloudGuard, Check Point CloudGuard SaaS , Check Point Harmony Email & Office
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Sample Customers

Helvetia, Denham Capital, Daymark Solutions, Neopharm Group
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