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Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs CylanceOPTICS comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point Harmony Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
8th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (8th)
CylanceOPTICS
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
37th
Average Rating
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Check Point Harmony Endpoint is 3.7%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CylanceOPTICS is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
 

Featured Reviews

Rakesh Jadhav - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 31, 2023
Easy to set up with helpful support and great flexibility
This solution can provide you with robust endpoint security and has the ability to give deep-level forensics because of EDR capability.  The solution can offer you value-added features with the EPP-EDR platform to ensure complaint and posture management, category-based web access, disk encryption…
LA
Jan 22, 2024
Enables the isolation and inoculation of infected machines, offering a practical solution for dealing with threats and preventing their spread within the environment
I'm getting more familiar with SolarWinds, but it's more of a monitoring tool. I also use SentinelOne. CylanceOPTICS and SentinelOne Singularity are both Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions, but they differ in their technical approaches. CylanceOPTICS is similar to SentinelOne's singularity, but it's a different pro. It's almost the same thing, but you can list artifacts and look at other correlation points within the actual, like AV. It communicates within all the agents; they communicate together to make this, like, big picture of, like, timelines and extrapolation of, like, anti-malware information. So, you could find all the threats in your environment. But it's very similar to SentinelOne. It's using a different methodology, like deep machine learning for antivirus. And it's a component of the protection, but it's more geared towards, like, SIEM, right, where it collects information. And then you can upload packages where, let's say, you get a solution for a virus. That's moving laterally. You can upload the solution to a product; let's say that the product, for whatever reason, lost capability and can't communicate on the network, but the virus can. Then, you can isolate the product and upload the packages. And then, with the packages, it's not upgrading the software. It's, like, the solution to the AV. Then, once you inoculate the AV using CylanceOPTICS, you can move from one machine that has been isolated to another that has been isolated. You get me in the environment. So CylanceOPTICS allows you to do something like that.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Its ease of use is the most valuable feature. We had existing endpoints and it was an easy upgrade process. The interface board is also easy to use."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Harmony Endpoint is able to detect, monitor, block, and mitigate attacks on the endpoint and it builds and maintains relevant logs for later inspection."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with CheckPoint's firewalls. You can have one port, and follow the logs from both Endpoint and firewall security."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Check Point Endpoint Security helps us ensure device control and security. It helps us make sure users can access only the network resources they should be accessing and keep malware to a minimum."
"We are able to manage all our endpoints from a single cloud console."
"The solution has good threat intelligence features."
"CylanceOPTICS is pretty stable."
"It automatically blocks the threats, helping us investigate if they harm the environment."
"It is a bit early in our evaluation process to give proper feedback, although so far, the overall feedback is good."
"CylanceOPTICS is easy to use."
"You can use the solution to query certain things."
"Cylance is not a signature-based protection solution and instead works proactively using AI and ML models to patrol for malicious behavior."
"The initial setup was fairly straightforward. To get a large health care organization sorted, we had to create exemptions because some of the scripts and some of the automations were broken."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. I would give it a close ten as possible because, like SentinelOne, I've seen incompatibility. Whereas Cylance, I've seen none."
 

Cons

"From an improvement perspective, the major challenge we've faced with Harmony is the support."
"We would like to make the documentation for more modern solutions like the Harmony family easier to find."
"There are a number of features behind paywalls which can be frustrating when you are already paying a premium."
"Specifically, there are gaps when it comes to security."
"The price of the product could be more friendly."
"Enhanced behavioral analytics would provide a deeper understanding of endpoint activities, fortifying our defenses against sophisticated cyber adversaries."
"Customization of UI should be a little better in terms of application UI and messages that are displayed when something is blocked or non-compliant."
"Off the top of my head, I can't think of a way it has improved my organization."
"CylanceOPTICS could benefit from more granular control in the timeline-building process. Ideally, users would be able to drill deeper into the analysis rather than have the machine dictate the direction."
"Too many false positives are reported."
"It takes more time to investigate or dig up and understand what's going on."
"The tools are ineffective. It flags a lot of things. To give you an example, it detected Google Chrome and blocked the user's access to it. That it mistook for malicious, which turned out to be a false positive."
"The technical support could be improved although it's probably better than you get with a lot of the other traditional antivirus solutions"
"One minor issue that somebody mentioned was that they didn't like their management console."
"The detection component is something that they have to work on."
"The product's initial setup process could be easy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Check Point Harmony Endpoint's pricing is more competitive than any other vendor."
"Check Point Harmony Endpoint is an expensive solution. My company's clients pay INR 1,000 for each user of the product, while Check Point also provides an option to pay INR 2,300 for three years."
"One of the key factors that made us go with this solution was the pricing. On the licensing part, there was an initial complementary set of licenses offered in the initial onboarding package, either 15 or 20. Then, we had some complementary licenses in the initial purchase of the package. That was pretty useful."
"There are three different licensing models including basic, advanced, and complete, and it needs to be selected according to the endpoint."
"We pay roughly 80,000 Swedish krona per year. When it comes to the firewall, it's roughly 150,000 Swedish krona yearly. There's also maintenance, of course, which is roughly 10,000 krona per month."
"The licensing cost for Check Point is $3 USD or $4 USD per end-user."
"We implement this solution with a yearly subscription and there are no extra costs."
"The price is good."
"The pricing for CylanceOPTICS is very good; I would rate it around a nine on a scale of one to ten, with ten being the lowest. It's one of the most affordable options I've seen."
"CylanceOPTICS is probably priced equal to other EDRs in the market."
"I would rate the pricing a three out of five."
"We pay for the number of endpoints we have and that is about it. On a monthly basis, the licensing cost is $55 per user."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Healthcare Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Check Point Harmony Endpoint?
It scans all the endpoints in your cloud and on-premises for vulnerabilities, threats, and malware attacks.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point Harmony Endpoint?
The pricing is okay. It is in the enterprise range. It is not middle range. It is not so costly, but it is an enterprise.
What needs improvement with Check Point Harmony Endpoint?
The only drawback is the integration process. For example, I want to integrate with my source platform. It took some time. That's the only concern regarding the integrations. Check Point Harmony En...
What do you like most about Blackberry Optics?
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. I would give it a close ten as possible because, like SentinelOne, I've seen incompatibility. Whereas Cylance, I've seen none.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Blackberry Optics?
CylanceOPTICS is probably priced equal to other EDRs in the market. Price-wise, considering what it has to offer, you could probably get a better product.
What needs improvement with Blackberry Optics?
The solution's contextual analysis is sometimes not very clear compared to some modern EDRs like CrowdStrike. Compared to other EDR tools, CylanceOPTICS lacks some information. It takes more time t...
 

Also Known As

Check Point Endpoint Security, Endpoint Security, Check Point SandBlast Agent
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Boston Properties, Independence Care System, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), Courtagen Life Sciences, Carmel Partners
Cerdant, Washoe County School District
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