We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and Lacework 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 recognized for its seamless API-based integration, strong defense against social engineering attacks, and intuitive user interface. Lacework receives high praise for its advanced anomaly detection powered by machine learning, and extensive compliance capabilities. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration could offer better integration with Microsoft Exchange and other SaaS solutions. Lacework could improve its visibility, IAM security control, and data governance. It should also focus on integration with systems like Slack and Datadog while enhancing its threat-hunting and remediation.
Service and Support: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration users are generally happy with the solution's technical support provided, but some users complained about the response times and lack of support in multiple languages. Lacework's customer service is praised for its promptness, proactive assistance, and efficient problem-solving.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is simple and user-friendly, with support staff providing helpful guidance. Lacework's setup can take a few weeks and requires familiarity with containers or assistance from a DevOps team.
Pricing: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is considered affordable and competitive. Essential features are offered without extra charges. Lacework charges are based on the number of resources, and there are no added fees.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has consistently delivered positive returns on investment. Reviewers gave ROIs ranging from 15% to 80%. Lacework yields an ROI by reducing the time and effort needed for monitoring.
Comparison Results: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration offers comprehensive protection and efficient integration, making it the favored choice over Lacework. Users like Check Point Harmony's simple setup process and the helpful guidance provided by support staff. It also stands out for its seamless API-based integration and advanced protection against social engineering attacks. Lacework could benefit from improvements in visibility, compliance metrics, and alert setup.
"The stuff that it's picking up and blocking and stopping from coming into our environment has been fantastic."
"Data loss and data leakage prevention are well deployed which helps businesses to scale and expand effortlessly without any trouble."
"It is fast and quite effective in terms of preventing any security incidents."
"Machine Learning and AI for email security have helped all the organization's members to guard their information against insecure exposure."
"The setup is very easy. I haven't faced any complexity with the setup of the solution."
"Check Point's technical support is very good."
"The first most remarkable thing is the integration with the Office 365 solution, which is easy, fast, and totally transparent for the user."
"The feature I find to be most valuable is very much the zero-touch provisioning. I was able to be up, operational, and 100 percent functional in less than a half an hour."
"Polygraph compliance is a valuable feature. In our perspective, it delivers significant benefits. The clarity it offers, along with the ability to identify and address misconfigurations, is invaluable. When such issues arise, we promptly acknowledge and take action, effectively collaborating with our teams and the responsible parties for those assets. This enables us to promptly manage problems as soon as they arise."
"There are many valuable features that I use in my daily work. The first are alerts and the event dossier that it generates, based on the severity. That is very insightful and helps me to have a security cap in our infrastructure. The second thing I like is the agent-based vulnerability management, which is the most accurate information."
"The most valuable feature is Lacework's ability to distill all the security and audit logs. I recommend it to my customers. Normally, when I consult for other customers that are getting into the cloud, we use native security tools. It's more of a rule-based engine."
"The most valuable feature, from a compliance perspective, is the ability to use Lacework as a platform for multiple compliance standards. We have to meet multiple standards like PCI, SOC 2, CIS, and whatever else is out there. The ability to have reports generated, per security standard, is one of the best features for me."
"The compliance reports are definitely most valuable because they save time and are accurate. So, instead of relying on a human going through and checking or providing me with a report, I could just log into Lacework and see for myself."
"Lacework is helping a lot in reducing the noise of the alerts. Usually, whenever you have a tool in place, you have a lot of noise in terms of alerts, but the time for an engineer to look into those alerts is limited. Lacework is helping us to consolidate the information that we are getting from the agents and other sources. We are able to focus only on the things that matter, which is the most valuable thing for us. It saves time, and for investigations, we have the right context to take action."
"For the most part, out-of-the-box, it tells you right away about the things you need to work on. I like the fact that it prioritizes alerts based on severity, so that you can focus your efforts on anything that would be critical/high first, moderate second, and work your way down, trying to continue to improve your security posture."
"The most valuable aspects are identifying vulnerabilities—things that are out there that we aren't aware of—as well as finding what path of access attackers could use, and being able to see open SSL or S3 buckets and the like."
"I have learned enough to make the product stable. However, the stability has some challenges."
"Although it has good characteristics, it should improve the graphical interface and the latency that it sometimes presents."
"The next release should focus more on email categorization and provide options for unlocking blocked safe emails."
"It would be good to have the option to export the respective record data from dashboards or logs to .csv or other files."
"A phishing simulator would be helpful as a user training module."
"After updates, the internet connection fails, and I have to restart my desktop to resume initial functionalities."
"They could continue to offer more stringent security policy measures for threat point management."
"Support can be a bit quicker in helping the customer."
"A feature that I have requested from them is the ability to sort alerts and policies based on a security framework. Right now, when you go into alerts, you have hundreds and hundreds of them that you have to manually pick. It would be useful to have categories for CIS Benchmark or SOC 2 and be able to display all the alerts and policies for one security framework."
"Lacework has not reduced the number of alerts we get. We've actually had to add resources as a result of using it because the application requires a lot of people to understand it to get the value out of it properly."
"Lacework lacks remediation features, but I believe they're working on that. They're focused on the reporting aspect, but other features need to improve. They're also adding some compliance features, so it's not worth saying they need to get better at it."
"The configuration and setup of alerts should be easier. They should make it easier to integrate with systems like Slack and Datadog. I didn't spend too much time on it, but to me, it wasn't as simple as the alerting that I've seen on other systems."
"Its integrations with third-party SIEMs can be better. That is one of the things that we discussed with them."
"There are a couple of the difficulties we encounter in the realm of cybersecurity, or security as a whole, that relate to potentially limited clarity. Having the capacity to perceive the configuration aspect and having the ability to contribute to it holds substantial advantages, in my view. It ranks high, primarily due to its role in guaranteeing compliance and the potential to uncover vulnerabilities, which could infiltrate the system and introduce potential risks. I had been exploring a specific feature that captured my interest. However, just yesterday, I participated in a product update session that announced the imminent arrival of this feature. The feature involves real-time alerting. This was something I had been anticipating, and it seems that this capability is now being integrated, possibly as part of threat intelligence. While anomaly events consistently and promptly appear in the console, certain alerts tend to experience delays before being displayed. Yet, with the recent product update, this issue is expected to be resolved. Currently, a comprehensive view of all policies is available within the console. However, I want a more tailored display of my compliance posture, focusing specifically on policies relevant to me. For instance, if I'm not subject to HIPAA regulations, I'd prefer not to see the HIPAA compliance details. It's worth noting that even with this request, there exists a filtering mechanism to control the type of compliance information visible. This flexibility provides a workaround to my preference, which is why it's challenging for me to definitively state my exact request."
"Visibility is lacking, and both compliance-related metrics and IAM security control could be improved."
"I would like to see a remote access assistance feature. And the threat-hunting platform could be better."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 8th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 47 reviews while Lacework is ranked 10th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 9 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8, while Lacework is rated 8.8. 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 Lacework writes "Makes us aware of vulnerabilities and provides a lot of data but it's not easily understood at first look". 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, whereas Lacework is most compared with Wiz, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Snyk and Orca Security. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Lacework report.
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