We compared Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration offers exceptional integration through APIs, advanced protection against data leaks, and the ability to detect complex social engineering attacks. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection offers seamless integration with Windows, a central alert console, and real-time monitoring of suspicious URLs.
Room for Improvement: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration could improve integration with Exchange and other SaaS clouds while enhancing its threat clouds and AI engines. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection could offer more training and enhance its security features. Users also requested better encryption, gray email management, and integration with non-Microsoft platforms.
Service and Support: Check Point has earned mixed reviews for its customer service. Some customers appreciate the technical support provided, while others are dissatisfied with response times. While some users found Microsoft support to be helpful and responsive, others experienced slower response times.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement. Users had varied experiences setting up Microsoft Exchange Online Protection, ranging from easy to difficult. It may necessitate dedicated personnel for maintenance.
Pricing: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is a cost-effective option. It offers competitive prices and is suitable for small to medium-sized organizations. Some users said Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is expensive, but others considered it reasonable.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection has proven to be a profitable investment.
Comparison Results: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is an effective solution for blocking malicious attachments and detecting social engineering attacks. However, there is room for improvement in terms of integration and support, reducing false positives, and enhancing response times. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is praised for its seamless integration with Windows and useful features like URL holding and threat management. At the same time, users say it could improve in areas such as pricing, documentation, and security features.
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 helps people to work remotely. It is a secure solution. We don't need to use our company's computers or get VPN connections to the networks. I can control how they share screens and what they send to the devices. It keeps our organizations confidential and sensitive information safe."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"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."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable feature is the integration. It's a single console, so we don't have to switch around between multiple products. Another valuable feature is the ease of operations and maintenance."
"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"I can count the number of endpoints, emails, and collaborations being used in the environment."
"The product is a fairly complete and centralized solution accessible through the Infinity Portal."
"Check Point adds value with east-west protection in the data center."
"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."
"The solution has a very effective anti-phishing algorithm that detects a significantly higher number of phishing emails compared to the default Microsoft solution."
"The ease of management and intuitive administration are excellent."
"Getting reports and finding threats in the console is easy."
"The solution helps to block spam emails."
"We use the solution in all our environments. We use it for remedy tickets and give them updates. It was our main communication point."
"It's all running in the backend, so it doesn't affect the app functionality."
"The initial setup of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection was easy."
"It is easy to configure, easy to use, easy to add exclusions, easy to track, and easy to add anything else if you want."
"Online Protection's most valuable feature is its admin interface."
"The product protects against malware."
"We can migrate seamlessly without any disruptions to our operations."
"It provides security to both on-premises and Azure infrastructures."
"The only thing they should improve is the licensing model. They should stop changing it. A year ago, the five features I mentioned were included in one product. Now, three of them are bundled into one product, and you have to pay extra for the other two. I don't mind paying extra, but I don't want them to change it every year or every six months. I need to know what I'm looking at and not worry about it next year."
"In one of the reports I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help."
"Microsoft wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should improve the troubleshooting tools. It's unclear whether the device is blocked at the firewall level or at the device itself. The granularity needed for troubleshooting is currently lacking. From my perspective, Microsoft should address this issue to benefit many users who likely share the same sentiment."
"They could help us be integrating features with solutions from third parties."
"There is too much functionality, which makes it difficult to use. More guidance for users would be helpful."
"Check Point Infinity Portal sometimes feels a bit slow, and there are performance issues that should be easy to fix."
"They could continue to offer more stringent security policy measures for threat point management."
"There is always room for improvement and growth."
"The left-hand feature can be made more granular for the implementation of the policy."
"It would be nice to see them expand their collaboration capabilities to include other suites and integrate with lesser-known products."
"It would be good to have the option to export the respective record data from dashboards or logs to .csv or other files."
"If a company wants to put in line back-to-back anti-spam solutions, they need to work on that part because Microsoft recommends either you use EOP as a front line or you don't use it."
"Microsoft 365 Defender and EOP policies are stable with the proper license. However, with the basic policy, it's hard to say it's stable due to configuration limitations."
"Online Protection has an issue in that it doesn't provide an option to stop impersonation."
"The tool's classification for bulk email is cumbersome."
"They should specify the difference between Defender for Office 365 and Exchange Online Protection."
"We would like the solution to have more in-built intelligence in the way that it reviews potential security risks, rather than our team constantly having to update the policies."
"Having orchestration features added to Microsoft Exchange Online Protection, particularly automation and remediation, would be quite useful."
"The solution lacks to elaborate on its spam policies."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 47 reviews while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 4th in Email Security with 34 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) 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 Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) writes "An effective email security solution that provides DLP, Safe Attachment, and Safe Links". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email and Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Mimecast Email Security, Fortinet FortiMail and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) report.
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