Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade Reviews

In our company, we use Office 365 to run the office, including email and some security tools from Microsoft. The tools did not satisfy us, so we decided to use Check Point technology. It gave us protection against spam, ransomware, and phishing, among other modern threats that travel through the email of collaborators.

In the end, the implementation through the Check Point blade is simple and easy to manage. 

We are really pleased with this tool that facilitated the management of these behaviors and problems that it generated for end users and the company itself.

Thanks to this tool acquired through The Check Point blade, we can have a layer of protection with the manufacturer for our email products. We can regulate and eliminate in a great way the threats that can enter through email.

The company, in turn, has managed to considerably lower the spam received, which also saturated the company's mailboxes a lot. It is a great tool that is easy to implement and with great considerations to be able to put it in the company.

Email filtering. The software can filter incoming emails to identify and block spam and other unwanted messages.

Malware detection. The software can detect and block malware attachments and links in emails. This is important for preventing malware infections and other security threats.

DLP features can help prevent sensitive information from being leaked via email. This may involve scanning emails for specific types of content or attachments and then either blocking or encrypting those emails.

Support is really an area that needs to be improved, as they currently take a very long time to resolve cases, which is not acceptable.

The support language is only English. They could expand other languages to expand more easily and help the client in a better way.

Regarding cost management, they are only accessible through a partner. This makes it more difficult to find pricing and do budgeting.

In terms of the ease of documentation, sometimes it is a bit difficult to find the correct information about the product.                   

We have used this solution for email protection in our company for quite some time with excellent results.

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great for all tickets.

Previously, Microsoft technology was used, however, we did not like it.

We moved to Check Point.

Regarding its license issues and costs, it seems reasonable to me.

We always do field and theoretical evaluations to verify the best options for similar products.

The primary use cases for Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade are anti-spam, anti-malware, anti-phishing, content filtering and threat prevention. 

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade helps my organization by enhancing email security, increasing productivity, improving compliance, reducing IT support costs, and improving threat visibility.

Features like real-time threat detection and prevention, advanced threat intelligence, sandboxing, data loss prevention, and its user-friendly management console make it a very good solution.

The solution could be improved by reducing false positives, optimizing performance, improving the user interface, and integrating with other security solutions.

I've used the solution for two years.

The stability is good.

The scalability is good.

Technical support is okay.

Positive

No, I didn't use any different solution.

The initial setup was good.

Our internal team managed the initial setup process. 

The ROI has been okay.

I didn't evaluate any other product.

The primary use cases of this solution include spam filtering, malware protection, phishing prevention, data loss prevention, email continuity, and threat intelligence.

This solution helped us reduce spam, enhance security, improve compliance, and increase user satisfaction and cost efficiency.

The most valuable features of the solution include advanced threat detection, real-time threat intelligence, data loss prevention, email continuity, a user-friendly interface, detailed reporting and analytics.

User experience can be improved. 

Performance can be improved in terms of speed, reliability, and scalability. 

The solution can also be improved in terms of features and customer support.

I have been using the solution for the past two years.

The stability is good.

The scalability is good.

Technical support should be improved.

Positive

No, I did not use a different solution. 

The initial setup was good.

We implemented the solution via an in-house team.

The ROI is good.

The licensing and pricing can be improved.

No, I did not evaluate other options.

Our customers used this product for internet security, anti-virus, and remote browsing. We are system integrators and worked with Check Point as managed service providers up until a few months ago. I'm a senior security specialist.

This solution is very efficient. 

If you face any configuration problems, you have to involve the Check Point team so they can verify their software.

Until recently, we were integrators of this solution for five years. 

The stability is generally good if there are no power-related issues. 

The scalability is very good. 

The customer support is excellent - if you're facing any problems, you can write to the Check Point team and you'll receive an immediate reply. 

The setup of this solution is complex because it has the concept of software blade instead of appliance which is something that only CheckPoint can identify. Deployment generally takes about a week and requires an engineer.   

Palo Alto is very expensive compared to other solutions. 

If you're a software company, I recommend this solution and rate it nine out of 10. 

It has helped us to avoid large amounts of spam, which consumed space in our online exchange. 

With this, we also avoid expenses and also protect our users.

Protection policies were easy to implement to protect us from existing threats.

This tool is very good. It can be included through the anti-spam blade in our Check Point Gateway and is an easy implementation. The product helped us avoid threats from non-permitted domains and control domains with IPs reported as fraudulent or as threats.       

Check Point solutions are very good. It's a fairly old solution. However, that has been updated over time to become one of the best manufacturers of security solutions.

Check Point Anti Spam is a very interesting and good tool. It has helped us a lot against modern threats, spam, and domains that are marked as threats. In this way, we have improved business security,

The solution has also been modernized in Harmony. However, this solution is included in our Gateway and makes it easier to use.

It's improved against email attacks greatly.

This tool provides several quite interesting features:

1- Ease of Implementation through Check Point Security Management makes it so that it can be implemented through your blade.

2- The blocking policies are very effective. You can provide denial policies by IPs or even by reputation.

3- Monitoring what happens in the perimeter helps verify the tool's behavior in the face of threats, in addition to improving some current vulnerabilities to debug better as we spend time with the tool.

It is an easy-to-use, very good tool.

The tool is modernized by Check Point Harmony anti-spam. They can also modernize the tool through their blade.

At the Check Point support level, it has a great slope since the support language is only in English. Service hours are sometimes difficult to find an agent in Latin American hours, so a support case may take longer to resolve than expected.

The cost is high when putting through Check Point Blade in your Gateway.

The documentation is not so easy to validate. Some new users in the Check Point environment have a hard time. Therefore, the guides should be more intuitive.

We currently have a Check Point Gateway administrator through the Check Point Infinity Portal, with the Smart Cloud, where we were able to easily add the anti-spam blade, used for a while with excellent results.

We used email security and anti-spam tools from Microsoft. However, we prefer to have all security solutions centralized.

The cost depends on the license that is acquired. Sometimes adding the license later is somewhat high.

I recommend getting a good  Check Point vendor so they can help you with the requirements and costs as they are not that easy to find.

We have tested and validated other solutions such as those of Microsoft. However, it is more suited to what is sought in these solutions with  Check Point.

The tool is very good. However, they must validate if it meets expectations. There are already more modern tools that do the same at the Check Point level.

We use the solution for perimeter safety and to protect emails. Initially, we activated Check Point to offer greater protection against spam and attacks so that our users are safe as our organization is attacked often.

We managed to give users a non-invasive tool so that they are protected. The solution protects us as long as we are not executing large workloads. It's simple to administer. It's helped our organization detect problems faster when analyzing events, and it is very efficient - even when implementing new functions or configurations within the established policies. 

It has provided us with an easy way to avoid invasive mail. When users are constantly receiving advertising attacks, it helps to offer verification of the domains from each of those alerts and to have filtering without the need to get directly to the user. It provides users with less noise when receiving emails. They do not get unnecessary emails and spam has largely stopped. 

Today, we have several solutions that give us added value in the catalog of services. While we often take advantage of Check Point's cloud part, including Infinity or Harmony, I would like to see products that directly deal with mobile or native environments or other operating systems that we have within the organization. 

I've used the solution for three years.

Our organization had the need for an efficient way to solve problems surrounding mail, as there are constant places or niches for attackers to strike. We were looking for a solution that could collaborate and integrate in a stealthy and minimally invasive way to protect each of our collaborators and work groups. We had the opportunity to use this solution to assist us with security.

Check Point Anti Spam and Email Security has given some of the most value to each one of the collaborators of our organization. Once it is installed, it is not invasive. It has not unnecessarily blocked or prevented the normal operation of the users. The product is easy to deploy, quick to configure, and gives added value to each of our users, our accounts, and our organization. It ensures we are protected at all times. It is one of the best solutions we can have in our organization.

One of the most outstanding characteristics it has given to our organization and each of our collaborators is that it is not very invasive. The installation has been easy for us and has given us better service than the last generation. It is no longer like the old applications where we had to install user-by-user. The functionality is better. You can place it on your computers, and it is faster when deploying and protecting each one of our accounts. It's helped us avoid a great number of attacks.

What I would like to see in the future are new features that can be implemented in this solution. Many would love to have this solution and be able to manage it from any device, including native applications or applications that can be installed on devices such as Android or iOS. We'd like to gradually adopt portability and teleworking capabilities so users can really be anywhere with administrators able to help and give value to our users inside or outside the organization.

I've used the solution for about two years.

It is one of the most stable solutions. It is worth emphasizing that one of my common uses is to have it established in one of the solutions that are in a cluster, and this gives double stability. 

The solution is quite scalable. It will depend a lot on the capabilities of the SOAP where I have that function enabled. It's fast and simple to scale if I need more computing power.

I had the need for specialized support in Spanish. However, there are only specialists in the English-speaking language, and that has, in some cases, limited support. It's an issue when it is carried out by a third party or a different technician who does not have the capacity or the fluency to speak fluently in English. It is worth emphasizing that the best experts have always given us the most concern in Spanish.

We are using 5400, 6700 and 6900 versions of the hardware in our company. We have approximately 1,600 users.

I find the Next-Gen firewall with SandBlast technology the most valuable feature. It is good for stopping attacks.

In terms of anti-spam and email, the pattern that they use to filter the emails could be improved. There are too many normal emails being considered spam. There should be an option to learn the different patterns specific to the organization where it is being deployed.

I have been working with this product for more than three years.

The product is stable.

The product is scalable.

Technical support by Check Point is good.

We previously used a third-party product that was hosted in the cloud.

The initial setup is a bit complex. Training the IT admins how to use, understand, and configure Check Point Anti-Spam and Email is a bit complex.

We have four people in-house for maintenance of the solution.

The pricing of Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security is reasonable.

Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security is a good product. For a bigger organization, they should consider that the pattern for determining spam does need to be more developed or enhanced.

I would rate this product a 7 out of 10.