Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade Reviews

My primary use case is to mitigate any spoofing or phishing attempts related to the intake of emails and outbound email. I use a DLP solution to prevent data loss and ensure that users are not sending out emails with sensitive information, like PII, Social Security numbers, credit card details, and similar items.

The most valuable feature for me is real-time detection and remediation. Additionally, there are low levels of false positives, so not many emails are wrongly flagged as spam or phishing. 

The false positive ratio is favorable, and I haven't encountered many false negatives, just a few. Real-time detection and remediation with spam and phishing emails significantly benefits my work by reinforcing security posture.

Regarding Checkpoint, I would suggest an easier interface to understand. With time and practice, users can get a better understanding, however, onboarding someone new can be challenging. The interface is a bit overwhelming with information overload for someone new to it. 

I have used the solution for about two years.

I haven't had any issues. The stability is great.

In regards to adding additional licenses per mailbox, it is fairly easy. The scalability is excellent because it provides real-time licenses for the mailboxes I want to scan. If I remove a mailbox, it also removes it from the licenses. Overall, the scalability is good.

I haven't used it much, but when I have, I would rate it as a nine out of ten.

When I started at this company, the product was already implemented. We also use Defender for email security, providing two layers of security. This gives us a defense-in-depth concept for email security, benefiting from the integration between Checkpoint and Microsoft. 

In the past, I have used Proofpoint and Barracuda, but not as extensively as Checkpoint. Therefore, I can't discuss Proofpoint and Barracuda in detail.

I didn't set it up myself. Someone else did, however, from what I see, it's probably around an eight out of ten. The API integration isn't too challenging.

The setup cost is a little expensive, so I would rate it around a five out of ten.

Overall, the product rating is nine out of ten.

We have implemented Check Point for all our network traffic and security needs. For network traffic, we currently use on-prem solutions. Our services and servers are solely in our data centers. Our main goal is to secure our data center. This applies to all our services, whether it's email, network, or application security. All applications are thoroughly examined with our security test license. Above all, our system is set up so that the first package entering our network encounters our Check Point devices. These devices ensure that, according to our maintained policy, the package is either cleanly routed to the servers or blocked by Check Point.

The policies and port blocking are the most valuable features. We have a significant amount of spam emails passing through our network. Before this, we had a Tipping Point solution.

We previously implemented the Tipping Point solution, but it didn't work effectively in our environment. That's why we replaced Tipping Point with Cisco Check Point.

Mobile solutions should be added to Check Point because business email is also used by users on mobile devices. And that solution, I cannot process by Check Point Firewalls. 

We have been using this solution for six months. 

It is a stable solution. We implemented the solution in HA. This is because the solution is highly available and can withstand hardware failures and software upgrades.

Once the solution is implemented, there is no need for any further downtime for the Check Point server. Because once we change any policy, we can break the High Availability (HA) session and define the new policy on the Check Point Security Gateway (SGW) in isolation. This allows us to test the new policy without affecting the production traffic. Once the new policy is tested and active, we can then activate it on the HA pair and bring the HA session back up. This process ensures that we can make changes to the policy without any interruption to the user experience.

It is a really stable solution. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. We have deployed it in our organization with over 800 users and 96+ servers. The servers are running multiple operating systems, including Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, AIX, and Linux.

I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten.

We raised a request with Check Point technical support during the implementation. If any issues persist during the downtime period, we will get support from Check Point's second-level support. However, we didn't need to use the technical backup support in the end. Our plan was to have a bulletproof plan and an expert plan, so we didn't have any incidents or problems.

Whenever we required support, they were available for us.

Positive

We previously used Symantec as our email security solution, but we had many complaints about its slowness. We also used Tipping Point, but we had to upgrade it biweekly and their customer support was not very good. That's why we are replacing both of those solutions with Check Point.

I'm working in IT since 1998. So in my entire career, I've worked with lots of devices and lots of data centers. So, the initial setup of Check Point was not difficult for me.

In the past, security features were most effectively used when everything was on separate hardware. But now, with virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN), we have to be more aware of security and take more responsibility to secure our entire environment.

So, in my opinion, the more experience you have in this field, the more valuable your knowledge will be. In addition to IT, I also have experience with SAP. We implemented SAP in our environment in 2008, and I was a core member of the team that looked after technical services and databases. So, I have experience in both IT and SAP.

We did not deploy it directly. We first took a Proof of Concept (POC) from our authorized vendor. The vendor used our environment to test the product on our on-premises hardware.

Once the Proof of Concept (POC) is satisfactory, we will get approval from our management. Once management gives us approval, we will submit a downtime request to management. Once we receive the downtime approval, we will initiate a plan of action.
The plan of action will define the work tasks for each respective person, as well as technical and functional roles. This is because once the implementation is complete, the functionality of the application must be confirmed.

We will build a team and make sure that the entire team is available during the downtime. Each and every person should perform their assigned activities.

It's priced in the moderate range. If you need 100% security, then you'll have to pay a premium price. But Check Point is a good product for the price.

Check Point is a very easy solution to implement. Once you've installed it, you can simply click on a button to configure it for your network. You can also change the settings for each field as needed.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. It's a great solution, but the only improvement I would like to see is a mobile app upgrades.

My main use case for Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade includes phishing protection, ransomware protection, and spam protection.

The solution helps with compliance and integrates nicely with suite 365.

The best features that Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade offers include a very complete administrative interface, which stands out as better than others.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade has positively impacted my organization by filtering a lot more spam and phishing attempts.

There is room for improvement with Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade, particularly with the interface, which is not new people friendly; however, users will learn it, and it's not an issue.

More documentation for Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade would be helpful to help new users get started more easily.

I have been using Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade for less than a year on our tenant.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is very stable and reliable for me; I have no issues with downtime.

The scalability of Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is very nice; I did not need to reach out to customer support.

Before Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade, I used Libra Esva, and it was not easy.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is not user-friendly the first time you use it. You will understand that it's very complete and has a lot of features to manage. It's less simple than other vendors, but it's complete.

My advice to others looking into using Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is to not be intimidated by the initial difficulty, as you will learn. I rate this solution 9 out of 10.

Check Point's Anti-Spam and Email Security Blade software began to be used to protect the company's email systems since it was of utmost importance to protect all the company's communications. Often a large number of emails are sent and received every day that contain sensitive information about our clients and we needed to have a protection barrier. We also needed to filter all those emails that were potentially dangerous, in addition to providing an analysis to detect threats in time. 

Our company needed a tool that would provide us with an advanced security solution that would provide us with improvements in spam filtering efficiency, blocking unwanted emails, and reducing these emails. With this, we intend to protect against security threats from phishing attacks and have a more robust infrastructure. We are also able to achieve compliance. 

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is very good for the security of emails. In addition to that, it has several very good features that form an excellent tool.

There are two key features that are most important for the organization. One is the filtering of spam and the blocking of unwanted emails so that all of our employees are focused and receive emails without any malware. 

Another feature is its compliance with regulations which helps us to have safety standards.

Like any technological tool, it must always be at the forefront of the competition and this tool must make improvements in the accuracy of spam detection since it sometimes generates false messages. The ease of use with the user interface could be better as it is very static. A more current interface, on the other hand, could improve performance, and reduce possible latency.

It should also improve integration with other security products on the market since this will make it much easier to have a fairly hybrid environment.

I have used the tool for two years.

What we use in our company from Check Point is not software. We use a box from Check Point, and in that box, we have Check Point Firewall with all those features, like antivirus, web security, etc. It has all the software, so it's not a single software on our systems.

We use Check Point products, which have been good so far. I think the solution has reached the end-of-life stage because we are facing CPU usage issues. There is a need to change something in the solution to make it stronger.

We are a financial institution that requires a certain level of security, so we use Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is quite reliable. The solution had stayed reliable up until recently when we applied new updates while having a high memory usage which ultimately affected our network traffic. So far, the solution has been good.

The solution's technical support is an area with shortcomings that need to be improved for the better.

I have four years of experience with Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade. I need to confirm the version of the solution I use.

It is a very stable solution.

It's expensive right now if someone plans to scale up. One needs to pay a lot to get bigger scalability. The scalability of the solution can be very difficult.

We currently have 40 users in our company using the solution.

I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

I joined my current company after the setup phase.

The solution is deployed on-premises.

The worth of the solution depends on one's needs.

The solution is expensive.

I rate the pricing as an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

We have to make yearly payments towards the licensing cost. The additional cost in excess of the licensing cost is done for the support.

We evaluated solutions like Sophos and Juniper in our company.

I recommend those planning to use the solution to check their number of users, the solutions you need, along with the products or services you specifically need to run some other solutions.

The solution is difficult to scale up.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

The tool was implemented due to the fact that the company, which I audited, had low-security protocols in the areas of electronic mail. It was suggested to use a tool that would help them reduce the gap in the vulnerabilities that they present. A study was made of the needs and requirements in order to search for the best alternative in the market. Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade provides the right features to fight against spam, phishing, and other malicious threats transmitted by email. In addition, the blade software could also provide functionality such as encryption and data loss prevention.

Once the tool was installed and configured with all the characteristics and requirements requested, it provided us with many valuable aspects to help the company improve its security gap. Since the initiation of protection against spam and phishing, it has helped to reduce the number of unwanted messages. We were able to improve security through blade software, and by providing us with features such as encryption and data loss prevention, we raised our compliance score with regulations and industry standards.

Overall, Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade helped us improve security.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade has several very valuable features, such as:

• Advanced Spam Filtering to identify and block unwanted email messages.
• Phishing protection to block malicious email messages.
• Encryption and data loss prevention to protect email communications.
• Compliance to help comply with various regulations and standards.

All these functions and others that the tool offers are very valuable in order to protect your email system against any external or internal malicious attacks.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade must make some improvements in its software. Check Point must also improve in some administrative parts and support.

In the software, they should improve:

• False positives to help prevent blocking of legitimate emails.
• An easy interface. Right now, the UI is hard to navigate or understand.
• AI-based threat detection could be enhanced to improve security.

Prices must be improved since it is not within the reach of many companies. They must also improve technical support, which is not very efficient in resolving cases.

it was implemented three years ago.

It has excellent stability and has not presented errors since it was implemented.

It has excellent scalability and functionality, we have not presented any failures.

They need to improve support and their SLA.

Positive

There was no solution before we implemented this product. 

The installation and configuration of the tool were very simple since it is a very interactive wizard that guides you in the configuration part. We did find it a bit complex since we did not have much experience with the product beforehand.

The implementation was done together with the vendor since a degree of experience is needed in the tool. The engineer who helped us was very well prepared.

You should always make an investment in something that will be profitable in the long run. The returns are very good.

The cost is competitive in the market. If we can balance that with each one of the tools on offer, the investment for Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection is good.

Various options were evaluated, including Sophos, Fortinet, Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, OPNSense, and Cisco NGFW.

It is important to carry out a study of the requirements that the company needs before acquiring a tool

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade helps us to gain great email security. It is one of the most secure and affordable solutions for mail server security systems and helps with compliance and security management to ensure no data loss or no data theft from the email server under any circumstance. 

It is one of the most high-demand security solutions in the market, with high-level accuracy and a quality assurance system. Their security software is sone of the best in the market, with numerous features for high-end usability.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is the best available security solution for identifying and detecting potential threats and brings the cost of security management expenses down for the organization. 

It is one of the best security software for businesses and organizations and helps in the potential blocking and restriction of any malware attacks or ransomware entry into the system.

The user-identified IP addresses are thoroughly checked for any malware content and ensure no lapse.

The scanning and checking of SMTP and POP3 traffic is not always 100%. The directional scanning left some of the incoming mail unchecked quite often, which carries a higher malware risk. It needs to be improved to bring the efficacy to 100%. Still, it is one of the best solutions in the market for creating a risk-free and virus and malware-free environment where we can do our business activities freely without any tension.

The software is one of the most cost-effective solutions. However, now the competition is coming up with extremely low-end costing models, which is attracting us more than ever. It is high time that they should redefine the cost strategy and models from a new lens so that we can attract and retain more new and existing customers.

More and more customized security features on a low-cost model should be incorporated to enhance the affordability and acceptability of the security solution in the market. 

It is one of the most cost-effective and affordable solutions, yet needs a few customsations and quick security scanning features. It should not take much time and can create a strengthened and secure ecosystem for all of us. 

The scanning rate of potential threat points and endpoints should be made faster and more accurate.

I've used the solution for over one year now.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable.

Technical support has been good so far.

Positive

We have been using Check Point Security solutions for quite some time now. Before that, we used a local customized security solution from one of our affiliated vendors. It was a bit expensive and ranked low on accuracy and efficacy. We switched to Check Point after that.

The initial setup is easy and not complicated at all.

The solution is implemented through a vendor team only.

The ROI is great.  We are at almost 70%

I can strongly recommend Check Point Security solutions due to their high credibility and high-cost efficiency. It is a high-performing security software that is good for blocking and restricting spamming and illegal content points and sources.

The Check Point is easy to install and quite easy to deploy. The pricing is also very low-end and can be brought down further low.

Set-up costs are not complicated at all. The licensing/renewal agreement would not cost too much either, as it is quite handy to use, and due to its simplicity, we have been using it for quite a long time now.

We tried a lot of the free trial services for the local security solutions coupled with a few leading ones like McAfee, Trend security, and ESET Protect.

This is a must-have solution for all sizes of businesses and professionals. It is quite a good security software for all of us in the current scenario of unprecedented malware and ransomware risks.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is the best fit and a good universal solution for all businesses and IT companies to secure their system and servers from all kinds of endpoints and malware. 

It helps in identifying and blocking foreign spam mail permanently. It can block unauthorized entry into the system and servers. No data is lost due to spamming as the all-around system protection is done nicely by Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade. 

All of our IT and operations verticals are using the software for quite some time now.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade has boosted the productivity of all departments and verticals by ensuring 360-degree compliance on the security aspect of systems and servers. 

Our IT systems and email servers are secured throughout by end-to-end protection from the Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade. This is an out-of-the-box solution with high-level performance. 

It is a highly cost-effective solution for all kinds of small, marginal, and medium enterprises. 

This is a cost-effective solution for the security of email servers.

Blocking the accurately identified spammers and source points has been effective.

Blocking the spammers through IP addresses and identifying sender/source points ensure there is no false detection. All the identified spammers are correct in almost 99% of cases.

SMTP and POP3 traffic is completely checked for any unauthorized entry and blockage of any suspicious entrant to secure the system instantly.

Following the Anti Spam Policy of the organization in the most accurate and legitimate manner possible without any slips.

The high-end protection of email servers from any advanced foreign agents and malware is not 100% there currently. They could improve on technically sound features to ensure complete and all-around protection of email servers from potential ransomware and unauthorized endpoints. 

The software should be made more mature and scalable so that it becomes a one size fits all kind of software for all organizations and businesses. It should be scalable for all kinds of changing environments.

I've used the solution for a year now.

The solution offers high stability.

The solution is quite scalable.

We've had a great experience with technical support.

Positive

We did not use a different solution. 

The setup is easy, and no complexity was involved.

The solution is implemented through the vendor team only.

The ROI is almost 90%.

Pricing is significantly low and quite affordable for all kinds of users and professional organizations. The pricing is dynamic yet quite low compared to fellow competitors. Licensing is easy to take up and run. They offer easy renewal as well.

We looked at McAfee and Trend Security.

It's a must-have solution for businesses to secure their email servers in the most comprehensive manner. 

The Check Point Anti Spam and Email Security software blade is a one-stop solution for the restriction and blocking of endpoints and other software threats and completely blocks their entry into the system.

It is the most widely used and has numerous functionalities and utilities. It permanently blocks the potential threat source and multiple kinds of spam mail and messages.

It is integrated into our IT system throughout and blocks over 90% of potential spam, malware attacks, and phishing attempts.

It helped in doing a high level of scanning of SMTP and POP3 traffic. It also blocks the email from unknown mail senders and checks the authenticity before every mail sending activity. 

It helped us to achieve process compliance with over 90% effectiveness. Their in-built smart dashboard helps in round-the-clock checking of the progress done by software in restriction of mails and potential spam attacks on our IT system.

The spam detection rate by this software is highly realistic and does not provide any false positive cases, which is very high in the case of other security solutions

It offers a high detection rate of spam and spam mail.

There is complete restriction and entry blockage of potential threats.

It permanently blocks suspicious threats and sources to avoid future attacks.

There's a good trial period provided for complete testing and usage of functionalities by businesses.

There are extremely low false positives which is very rare today in alternative security solutions.

It blocks suspicious IP domains and addresses to restrict any unauthorized entry into our IT system.

It's a cheap alternative to its competitors and offers wide acceptability in the market by many.

There could be an extension of the trial period to 60 days. We felt that utilities and functionalities are numerous and can only be tested fully with the extension of the trial period.

It needs more and more robust features around spam restriction and stoppage of malware entry. It can be facilitated so that 100% efficiency can be achieved. 

There should be more and more inclusion of technical inputs and feedback from customers and business users. These should be regularly received and introduced so that we can stay relevant.

It's been close to six months now. My parent organization has introduced this solution to us.

The McAfee solution was used earlier.

We used their services due to a long term key association of theirs with us.

The Check Point solutions are highly dependable, and their setup costs and time involved are not costly. It is easy to operate and work with the high-grade functionalities and utilities 

Its licensing processing is easy and they have a highly professional team.

We looked into Trend Micro and other Amazon security solutions.

I'd advise others to try this solution. It's a must-have security software for the productive growth of the organization.

Our company works on the implementation of services in the cloud. We have a large number of employees inside and outside the country. The work from home modality was also added recently, and, for this reason, a solution was needed that would provide security in all aspects of electronic communication. That is why Checkpoint Anti-Spam and Email Security was implemented throughout the company. We wanted to be able to block spam and malware at the connection level and also be able to integrate it with cloud services with Azure and thus be able to have excellent data management.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade has improved the perimeter security of our company. Since its implementation it has complemented an essential part of the company's security. One of the features that we liked is the content-based Anti-spam capabilities. It can scan images or attachments. Another feature that it provides us with is the anti-spam block/allow list. This has allowed us to have great control in order to be able to block malicious emails that try to enter our employees' emails.

Of all the features that Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security Software Blade brings, all of them fulfill different functions. The one I liked the most is content-based anti-spam. It does a better job of recognizing spammers. It does reconnaissance against advanced forms of spam, including image-based and foreign-language spam, using pattern-based detection. From what I was reading, it has a proprietary algorithm to create unique, fingerprint-like signatures of email messages and practically uses AI.

I also like the flexible configuration set. Both the content-based anti-spam, IP, and text string databases are updated on a schedule, which can be adjusted in the sheet options. It is possible to create and use the custom block list for the anti-spam sheet in the policy that we have configured.

For the few years that I have been using Check Point, they have always presented new updates and tries to stay ahead with their tools making them more interactive with the user and not so complicated. They are always at the forefront with new features. It meets and covers all the necessary fields to protect an organization and must be at the forefront as hackers are always one step ahead. They need to continue to make the tool more robust to protect users from new threats.

A major area for improvement is within some of the heavily discounted software blade add-ons on top of the current Next Generation Threat Prevention and SandBlast and Next Generation Threat Prevention offerings.

The tool was implemented in 2020. Currently, I have been working with this solution for Three years..

During the two years of implementation in the organization, it has not presented any problem. Its stability is very good.

Its scalability is excellent. It is a super scalable product in security and very robust.

Regarding customer service, we have had both good and bad experiences I give them an eight on the support part, however, sometimes we are left wanting.

Positive

We only had Office 365 and wanted to make the security more robust.

The implementation was simple

The implementation was done in conjunction with internal collaborators and with support from Check Point. They were very helpful and very good at their job.

My return is to have made a single investment and to be able, with that investment, to maintain the privacy and security of the organization.

It is a very affordable tool to implement in an organization.

We looked into Fortinet and Microsoft.

You can use this solution without fear as it gives you security and confidence.