We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and SonicWall Email Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is not resource-intensive."
"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."
"Defender is a SaaS platform, so it offers more flexibility. Managing the permissions is easier. The solution's automated detection and response features are scalable."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"Threat Explorer is one of the features that I very much like because it is a real-time report that allows you to identify, analyze, and trace security attacks."
"The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"It is the collaboration between users inside the company. It is a big advantage with Check Point to be able to work together on the same document."
"In my opinion, it's one of the best products. It does protect other things like Slack and Salesforce, which are more about communication."
"The setup is very easy. I haven't faced any complexity with the setup of the solution."
"Check Point adds value with east-west protection in the data center."
"It is fast and has a very simple, easy integration."
"Encryption of emails enhances safe communication that ransomware attacks cannot compromise."
"This DLP is very useful, as it gives our users additional protection."
"It fully protects colleagues from visiting insecure sites and browsing in unhealthy environments."
"The product is easy to manage in terms of configurations."
"The most valuable features are the anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-virus, and anti-spoofing."
"Setup was easy. It took about 30 minutes."
"According to our customers, the product's most valuable feature is the ability to detect spam and reduce phishing emails."
"This solution provides very good email security that protects us against spamming and malware."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The anti-spam aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall Email Security is the blocking of emails using keywords. If there are any particular keywords in the subject, that we want to block from receiving from a particular person we can do it. Additionally, the blocking of emails is easy. we can release that one and we can block some of the keywords also like that."
"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."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"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 GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"We noticed that from time to time, Microsoft's stability does have problems. Sometimes the service goes up and down. Sometimes they change without prior notice."
"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."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"The company should focus on adding threats that the solution is currently unable to detect."
"The left-hand feature can be made more granular for the implementation of the policy."
"A signature-based filter could improve the solution's AI model for spam email."
"At this time, the two-factor authentication does not work for Active Directory."
"The implementation could definitely be better."
"From time to time, the system's administrators notice the increase in the false-positive alerts being reported by CloudGuard SaaS."
"Check Point Infinity Portal sometimes feels a bit slow, and there are performance issues that should be easy to fix."
"Support can be a bit quicker in helping the customer."
"We understand that false positives are always there, but sometimes the notifications are more than expected."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"SonicWall Email Security could improve by making the file blocking and the release feature easier to use"
"The technical support from the company is not always very good at solving issues, but they offer access to a good community of users where problems are easily solved."
"A lot of spoofed emails are still coming to the end-user, so the configuration for this option needs to be improved."
"Updates could be released more frequently."
"The platform's control panel needs enhancement."
"They need well-trained partners in Nigeria."
"There could be definition updates included in the subscription."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 49 reviews while SonicWall Email Security is ranked 19th in Email Security with 12 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.6, while SonicWall 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 SonicWall Email Security writes "Effective threat prevention, reliable, and beneficial keyword blocking". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email and Barracuda Email Protection, whereas SonicWall Email Security is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Sophos Email, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Avanan. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. SonicWall Email Security report.
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