We compared Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration and Proofpoint Email 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. Users describe Proofpoint Email Protection as a convenient all-in-one solution that offers effective defense against phishing attempts.
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. Proofpoint Email Protection could make its interface clearer and simplify admin management.
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. Proofpoint Email Protection’s customer service is described as responsive, professional, and knowledgeable. However, there are some concerns about availability.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement. Proofpoint Email Protection can be set up in a relatively short amount of time. Some users found it simple, while others mentioned that it requires technical skills.
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. The opinions on the cost of Proofpoint Email Protection vary, with some users finding it costly while others find it reasonable.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options. Proofpoint Email Protection stands out with its robust phishing signature file, surpassing competitors in threat detection.
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. Proofpoint Email Protection provides effective email protection and strong threat-detection features. However, it needs to simplify its user interface and administration.
"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."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"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."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"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."
"This DLP is very useful, as it gives our users additional protection."
"I can count the number of endpoints, emails, and collaborations being used in the environment."
"We have managed to have an impressive reduction in phishing that used to enter our system before applying Check Point."
"Check Point adds value with east-west protection in the data center."
"We need the phishing detection and email quarantine. Once an email is considered malicious, it stays in the quarantine where we can interrogate it. We can check out why it was quarantined and see if it should be delivered to the individual."
"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."
"Its total protection has been the greatest aspect since it completely protects all the mail from the cloud."
"The dashboard provides information to investigate more about malicious activity and blocked emails."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"Its anti-phishing functionality is the most valuable. Certainly, the biggest problem I have is phishing."
"I like all the features with Proofpoint, such as how it filters the spam and marketing mail, lost reality mail, blocks phishing attacks, blocks malicious attachments, and stops phishing links. Also it can defend against the business email compromise impersonation technique. It is a complete solution for all email attacks. It filters for the bad, malicious attachments. If there is any executable file, it can be deleted. It is a good, complete solution."
"The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"A one-stop shop for email protection"
"URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection."
"The setup was easy."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"The certification training for Defender for 365 needs to be deeper and incorporate Sentinel. I took all the security courses except one, and Sentinel isn't included."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"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 security solutions work as expected. They are constantly updating the solutions to make them better. At the same time, the changes can impact a customer's environment, and we need to adjust settings. Sometimes we aren't aware of the changes, and nothing is pushed from the backend automatically."
"They have moved features from one console to another. Things have been moved around in the interface and it takes me time to find where certain features are."
"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."
"We are unable to export the reports from the dashboard, and if it is possible to do then it is not intuitive."
"Its guides are not great."
"The NAVEX metrics that I have been using on the CloudGuard dashboard cannot be exported. If they were to add report exporting capabilities on each of metric objects on the dashboard, that would be awesome."
"It's not fully integrated with Google Workspace, and the statistics don't update in real-time."
"Check Point Infinity Portal sometimes feels a bit slow, and there are performance issues that should be easy to fix."
"They must provide security to more email service providers."
"The integration with Gsuite could be improved, especially when reporting the amount of emails it manages to filter."
"The left-hand feature can be made more granular for the implementation of the policy."
"The reporting section could be enhanced. I like some reports but if they could allow us to create custom reports with more flexibility it would enhance the reports more."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"The solution could lower its price."
"The solution's server console and cluster dashboard have been the same for four years so need to be upgraded."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"Pricing for the platform could still be cheaper."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 47 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. 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 Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and Fortra's Agari. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Proofpoint Email Protection report.
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