We compared Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration and Mimecast Email Security 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. Mimecast Email Security is appreciated for its efficient archiving capabilities and effective protection against targeted threats. Its seamless integration with Microsoft 365 also earned high marks.
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. Mimecast Email Security should focus on improving its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and ease of setup.
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. Mimecast's customer service elicits varied opinions, with some customers expressing satisfaction with its responsiveness and effectiveness, while others perceive it as unsatisfactory.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement. Users had mixed experiences with Mimecast Email Security's setup. Some users found it fast and uncomplicated, while others found it moderately complex.
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. Mimecast Email Security is generally seen as costly, and some users struggle to justify the expense. It’s perceived as more expensive than competing solutions.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options. It is challenging to measure the return on investment for Mimecast Email Security.
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. Mimecast is commended for its archiving and targeted threat protection capabilities. On the other hand, Mimecast faces challenges with its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and high pricing.
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"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."
"It provides visibility of events, what's going on with the environment, what we're missing with our other solution, and the user behavior."
"Its total protection has been the greatest aspect since it completely protects all the mail from the cloud."
"The main benefit is that hackers can't steal information."
"The anti-phishing feature is the solution's best feature."
"As with most of the other Check Point products, the CloudGuard SaaS has the advanced visibility of the events and alerts."
"Getting reports and finding threats in the console is easy."
"It is very intuitive. It is a point and click type of deal."
"The piece that is most valuable from the Mimecast standpoint will be the sandboxing feature."
"The product's most valuable features are impersonation protection and phishing countermeasures."
"Email security is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The interface of this solution is very easy to navigate and user-friendly. There is no delivery in email and other communications, making it reliable. The configuration is relatively easy."
"It's really quite user-friendly. In terms of technical superiority and the product itself, there are no complaints. It is really cutting edge."
"It offers an easy initial setup."
"It does a good job for us, and its admin console is easy to use."
"URL inspection works pretty well."
"The XDR dashboard has room 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."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"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."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. It depends on the architecture, but we would like to make it more scalable for both data centers."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"At this time, the two-factor authentication does not work for Active Directory."
"I would like Check Point to extend its coverage to include more cloud applications."
"We still get some false positives. There are times when legitimate stuff gets flagged and it could be that somebody is expecting a very important email but they don't end up getting it. On the flip side, when we alert Check Point about stuff like this, it is corrected, so they are improving. That's a plus."
"The business team should be further expanded, and more peer feedback should be made available publicly to have better and complete visibility of the application globally."
"I would love it if they would do some work on the Postgres definition on the back-end."
"There are sometimes leakages of viruses when the system is experiencing network failures."
"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."
"The implementation could definitely be better."
"The reaction time between a new threat being identified and Mimecast picking it up needs to be narrowed a bit."
"As a user, the user interface of the management console could be upgraded, for example."
"They should improve the cookies management feature."
"We have subscribed to an archival service, and yet, when we have to get our data out, we have to pay a fee to get our own data. They charge an extraction fee."
"The solution should include more AI features instead of Mimecast's more general static configuration tooling."
"Its pricing can be improved. It is a bit expensive."
"The solution is complex and not easy to use."
"Their support should be improved. They are notorious for sending you to knowledge-based articles rather than actually talking to you, but that is, unfortunately, kind of becoming a trend with everything. In terms of features, I haven't had any complaints. However, I don't like the fact they moved to a paid training subscription model. They used to have a lot of free webinars for training, but they have started to charge for them in the past year."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 47 reviews while Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 23 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8, while Mimecast Email Security is rated 7.8. 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 Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Cisco Secure Email, Barracuda Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud, whereas Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Abnormal Security, Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and Darktrace. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Mimecast Email Security report.
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