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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration pros and cons

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PROS

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration provides robust email security, blocking phishing, malware, and ransomware threats effectively.
Its sandboxing feature offers a secure environment to open links, enhancing safety from cyber threats.
The API and advanced phishing protection are considered decades ahead, providing proactive threat detection and prevention.
AI capabilities enhance threat identification, ensuring better protection of shared files in collaborative environments.
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration ensures a significant decrease in phishing emails and data breaches.

CONS

There are difficulties with stability and users experience issues during implementation.
Technical support response times are slow, leading to delays in resolving issues.
There are recurring false positives, and users have to whitelist certain domains.
Integration with various email domains and cloud applications is currently limited.
Additional support for more stringent security policies and measures is needed.
 

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration Pros review quotes

it_user694761 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner with 51-200 employees
Jul 12, 2018
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.
NetworkSc612 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Feb 12, 2019
The main benefit is that hackers can't steal information.
KM
Global Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Feb 12, 2019
The automated rule cleanups and automated policy installs have improved my customers' organizations.
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SN
Security Specialist at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Feb 12, 2019
Check Point adds value with east-west protection in the data center.
Technoloc685 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Security Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 2, 2019
It seems quite scalable. We don't anticipate any scaling issues. We have it deployed in the cloud.
JG
Owner at Giliam Network & System Solutions
Apr 23, 2020
The program has a nice interface and it is easy to use.
reviewer1354488 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Firewall and Security at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 21, 2020
The feature I find to be most valuable is very much the zero-touch provisioning. I was able to be up, operational, and 100 percent functional in less than a half an hour.
reviewer1395567 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 28, 2020
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.
OP
Senior Network/Security Engineer at Skywind Group
Sep 26, 2020
As with most of the other Check Point products, the CloudGuard SaaS has the advanced visibility of the events and alerts.
DU
CISO at IMC Companies
Nov 1, 2020
It is very intuitive. It is a point and click type of deal.
 

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration Cons review quotes

it_user694761 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner with 51-200 employees
Jul 12, 2018
There is too much functionality, which makes it difficult to use. More guidance for users would be helpful.
NetworkSc612 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Feb 12, 2019
We have used technical support, but their response time is very slow. It needs to be improved.
KM
Global Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Feb 12, 2019
I have learned enough to make the product stable. However, the stability has some challenges.
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SN
Security Specialist at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Feb 12, 2019
There is always room for improvement and growth.
Technoloc685 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Security Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 2, 2019
Stability has been a pain point. I was going back and forth with my product engineer and project manager for a couple of months. I had the product in a demonstration mode and wasn't satisfied with the results initially. After a few alterations and a few revisions later, it is fine.
JG
Owner at Giliam Network & System Solutions
Apr 23, 2020
At this time, the two-factor authentication does not work for Active Directory.
reviewer1354488 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Firewall and Security at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 21, 2020
if a phishing email were to get through and bypass the product — which very few do — it would be nice if, when a user clicked on that phishing email, they got a second-chance opportunity, a chance to double-check that they really wanted to proceed to that website.
reviewer1395567 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 28, 2020
We still get some false positives. There are times when legitimate stuff gets flagged and it could be that somebody is expecting a very important email but they don't end up getting it. On the flip side, when we alert Check Point about stuff like this, it is corrected, so they are improving. That's a plus.
OP
Senior Network/Security Engineer at Skywind Group
Sep 26, 2020
From time to time, the system's administrators notice the increase in the false-positive alerts being reported by CloudGuard SaaS.
DU
CISO at IMC Companies
Nov 1, 2020
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.