Check Point Harmony Endpoint Reviews

When it comes to Check Point Harmony Endpoint, I have not dealt with any of our company's clients yet since I am still in the discovery phase.

The most valuable features of the solution are web protection and threat prevention.

A little change in the product's user interface is required since it is one of the areas where the product has certain shortcomings. Sometimes the product's page doesn't load at all, and sometimes it does. The position of the tabs and the other stuff on the product page needs to change a little bit.

I think the product's deployment process is much quicker in Mac devices, and it takes a bit more steps for Windows and the area, which needs a bit of improvement so that some balance is created when it comes to the steps in the deployment phase.

Considering last year, the pace at which the technical support team is progressing is a bit slow, making it an area where improvements are required.

I have been using Check Point Harmony Endpoint for a year. My company has a partnership with Check Point Harmony Endpoint.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

My company mostly caters to the needs of small companies where the solution is used.

I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

I rate the product's initial setup phase a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is an easy setup process.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

The solution can be deployed in around ten minutes.

I recently started to look for the prices of other products in the market and found out that Check Point Harmony Endpoint is cheaper than most of the other available solutions in my country. Price-wise, the product is affordable. There are no additional costs apart from the licensing charges that are attached to the product.

Check Point Harmony Endpoint is a really good endpoint security solution because it comes as a full package. With the solution, there are not many additional costs for add-on features, especially when compared to the costs of the add-ons offered by other solutions in the market.

I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

I work as a consultant for a company where the solution is needed as an EDR solution. After my company made comparisons between a few companies, we felt Check Point Harmony Endpoint won, considering the pricing model that it offered in the market. The company that uses the product wants to set up a big business for some local authorities with the help of the EDR functionalities provided by Check Point Harmony Endpoint, which is why Check Point is also trying to push its product into the market.

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the EDR functionalities it provides to users, as it does its work properly.

The tool is not too intuitive if you want to monitor and see the results to investigate in a layer. It's not easy to investigate an incident that you find in the company. Users often face trouble when downloading files, so it is very slow in terms of how it works. The tool is not very supportive of all the versions when it comes to the part of loading hash codes, so it may support SHA-1 but not SHA-256, meaning it doesn't support all the formats. Calling the support team for the solution doesn't help.

The support team of the solution lacks etiquette. The technical team of the product told our company that we need to get Check Point products through an official vendor only. Technical support for the solution is an area with issues where improvements are needed.

I have been using Check Point Harmony Endpoint for two years. I work as a consultant for a company where the solution is used.

It is not a stable solution because if users find a problem with it, they have to disable the product.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

It is easy to use the scalability feature of the product since users just need to acquire more licenses.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

The product is used mostly by small-sized businesses.

I rate the technical support a four out of ten.

Neutral

CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Cynet, and Fortinet FortiGate are a few of the solutions that I have worked with in the past. Among all the solutions that I have used to date, CrowdStrike is the best.

I rate the product's initial setup phase a seven out of ten on a scale of one to ten. Compared to Check Point Harmony Endpoint, the deployment process of CrowdStrike was much easier.

Compared to Check Point Harmony Endpoint, the deployment process of CrowdStrike was much easier as it could be deployed in hundreds of locations in two hours. Check Point Harmony Endpoint's deployment process takes a week to be completed. Check Point Harmony Endpoint's deployment process takes time since there are many troubles, as my company has to meet with the client to conduct certain checks, owing to which it cannot be deployed through a central management process.

The number of people required to take care of Check Point Harmony Endpoint's deployment process depends on the organization's size. One good engineer is enough to take care of the product's deployment process. Having ten engineers without knowing the product or issue cannot help a user deal with the tool's deployment area, and it is usually the same for each product deployed in any company.

I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high.

The problem with the product is that Check Point tries to push it to the market. FortiGate, a firewall solution I purchased for the first time around twelve years ago, was very cheap because Fortinet had to push the product into the market. Users can get it for good prices only during the beginning phase of the tool.

Our company has to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the solution. There are no additional charges attached to the product apart from the licensing costs attached to the solution.

The maintenance of the product is difficult since it is something to be done online.

To those who plan to use the solution of the future, I would say that they get the support involved in the contract before purchasing the product.

I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.

I am using this product to prevent any kind of advanced threats. It keeps monitoring in the backend and does not hamper my ongoing work at all. it also secures my web browsing and has forensics access along with a sandbox to emulate and extract too. 

Before using this product, we had tried multiple others yet were not satisfied with the performance and dashboard reports. Check Point products allow us constant filtering and protect us from any kind of threats. 

It has been used for a banking environment and helps us to secure our end computing where USB blocking and even disk encryption and so many features have been bundled together. 

Securing our data was critical. It helps a lot and gives control to end users while they connect through the VPN. Secure VPN connectivity is important. It helps us to avoid any kind of risk when users are at home. 

It helped us a lot during the first phase of the Covid lockdown, which revealed the benefits of this product. 

I loved almost all the features.

The zero-day threat prevention is excellent. It gives us more confidence to have automated protection from unknown threats. 

It helps to secure our browsing. It can check if something is a genuine page or not. It also masks when we browse or enter our banking user ID and password. This gives us assurance that we are in a green and safe zone. 

I would like to see them add features where we can use this license for mobile browsers, too - as we had a container kind of product under MDM. This can give us more confidence that when on the go, a user still has full access to our important and crucial data. They should be fearless while accessing this through our VPN tunnel. 

Mobile handsets are now used for 40% of work to send mail or forward any kind of document. Securing users on mobile will give more confidence to users and higher authorities that will sometimes need to have access outside of the office for doing their financial or confidential transactions.

I've used the solution for more than four years.

After using this product last fours year I've never seen a single case where any devices have been affected. Even a lost device has not been a deal breaker. We have full control on end-user clients with the help of Check Point SandBlast. 

It is very easy to scale. There are so many testing opportunities and upgrades. The features also do not slow down the CPU. From a stability and manageability point of view, it's very impressive. 

Support can help us define and create policies on each and every use case. We also have the in-house expertise to provide support and handle the initial trouble shooting. 

Positive

We were using Symantec and Sophos. There was not 100% clarity on reports, and we had many challenges in terms of upgrading the features. 

When we switched to Check Point, we got a single dashboard to control end clients, DLP, and email security. Their collaboration and support team is also awesome. 

You can set up the policies very easily. You just post and restart your devices and everything is secure. Items can be managed under group policies. You can set up your own rules and policies easily. 

Initially, we had taken advantage of Check Point expertise. Now, an in-house team can handle everything. It is manageable on our side. 

If you talk about ROI, it's helped us to protect our end-user devices. We've also found the performance of laptops has increased in the past one and a half years. It offers good value for money. 

Securing data, peace of mind, great support, good reports, and third-party network audits have made Check Point good value for money. 

I had tried Palo Alto and Fortinet, however, we got value for money in Check Point. After a POC, we started with Check Point. 

There are so many useful examples a normal office could take advantage of. It's a great product for working from home or remote users. The Check Point team is also great and has served us by helping put in place the right kinds of products. 

We use Check Point on our 500 computers to protect them from viruses and malware. The network is a protected local area network with limited connectivity to the internet. Not all computers are connected to the internet; only users with the necessity to connect can access it. We also increase the protection from viruses/malware by disabling USB ports for mobile storage. With all the protection steps taken, we still see that antivirus is a must to have as standard computer protection.

With all security steps taken to protect the network, viruses and malware still appeared in the network. Check Point Harmony Endpoint (endpoint antivirus) has helped our organization by preventing further damage to the computers and the network by detecting and taking appropriate action (quarantine, clean, delete) to viruses and malware. 

By doing this, our organization's business can maintain its operational state without any significant disturbance, and that is the most important thing to achieve.

Some of the most valuable features from Check Point include:

1. Its ability to run real-time scans in the background and detect all the malware and viruses while taking action to clean the system from the threat.

2. On-premise centralized management, so the client can do signature updates locally and save the internet bandwidth.

3. The reporting feature where we can see and monitor what happened on our client computers. For example, which client has out-of-date signatures, which client is infected by what virus, et cetera. 

Some areas of improvement could be :

1. Making the user interface on the server more intuitive and user-friendly. 

2. Making it easier for the user to do tuning and configuration to the server or the client application. For example, to turn off notifications, the user should be able to do that with some clicks on the user interface instead of searching and reading about how to do it in the knowledge base first and then trying to do it.

3. Our application version is quite old, and Check Point already released a newer version for endpoint protection, which includes a cloud version. After doing some trials, we see that Check Point already made many improvements to the features and user interface.   

I've been using the solution for five years.

Tthis solution runs with good stability.

If we deploy it on-premise, we should see the server hardware requirement first and match it with the number of clients we want to handle.

Customer service gave good support when we needed it. For example, when we need support on renewing the license or when we need to upgrade the client version, they have a quick response time to deal with the problem.

Positive

We did use a different solution previously. We switched as we want to use the same brand for our NGFW and our endpoint protection.

The setup was quite straightforward. We installed the server first and then made the client installer. If you have an active directory on the network, you can install it with push installation. That said, we don't have it, so we needed to install the client by accessing the client directly.

We implemented the product together with the vendor and an in-house team. The vendor team has good knowledge when it comes to implementing the product.

At the time we purchased it, the licensing was separated into some modules. There were antivirus modules, data protection modules, and full modules if I'm not mistaken. You should make sure that the module you choose fits your requirement. 

We evaluated the ESET antivirus.

Check Point has released their new product on endpoint protection, which includes a cloud version. You could try it for free to see if this product matches your needs before purchasing it.

The primary use case of this solution is to protect our company's LAN network from malware and viruses.

We have configured and deployed the Checkpoint NGFW and this is the security feature of Check Point.

With the help of Check Point Antivirus, we keep our company's LAN and DC network safe from malware and viruses. With this solution, our network has not been affected to date.

The most valuable feature of Check Point antivirus is that it scans every file type for malware and viruses.     

Also, it gets regular updates of newly found threat signatures which keeps it updated. 

As of now, there are not any lack of features. 

I have been using this security feature of Check Point for the last year.

The stability is excellent.

The scalability is good.

My experience with customer service and support has been excellent.

Positive

We have been using Check Point antivirus only. We just upgraded the Check Point NGFW model.

The initial setup was simple.

We implemented the solution through an in-house team.

In terms of cost, everything is perfect.

No, we haven't evaluated other options.

We use the solution for antivirus, device encryption, file encryption, and URL filtering.

The solution offers multiple features in one solution, along with data detection.

The agent side should be less. It impacts customers' asset performance because it will be more complex for the customers.

I have been using Check Point Antivirus for 6-8 months.

Check Point should provide some technical sessions on antivirus solutions. Then, it would be helpful to reach more customers in India.

I rate the solution’s stability a seven out of ten.

The solution is scalable. We have a few customers using this solution.

It is quite difficult to get a response from OEM. We are facing issues with all products except for email security, with the support team of the Check Point.

The initial setup is complex, depending on the number of assets. It takes less than half an hour for a single asset. We should set up everything after deploying and testing it. Symantec takes five to ten minutes after deploying to test everything. We use manual deployment.

The solution is helpful for a particular budget. We are getting the best solution that will cover all your parameters.

The product’s pricing is moderate.

Every feature provided by the antivirus software is good compared to other solutions. Sandboxing is helpful for customers while downloading and detecting malicious software.

1-2 persons are required for deployment, whereas the maintenance and monitoring need a team of three to five members.

I will recommend the solution. It's a very good solution compared to other antivirus capability servers. The sandboxing technology is helpful.

We have not integrated it with any other tool set. We integrated a Check Point to get the logs or connect the data.

Overall, I rate the solution an 8 out of 10.

We use Check Point Antivirus to secure our enterprise network. It protects our data servers from malware attacks. 

The tool comes with an in-built AI feature, which makes file management easier. It also secures the network from viruses, malware, and phishing attacks. 

Check Point Antivirus' performance could be faster. It needs to include app-based support to upload screenshots of issues. It needs to add timely and regular updates. The dashboards and reporting features need to offer more efficiency. 

I have been using the product for two years. 

The product is stable. I rate it a nine out of ten. 

Check Point Antivirus is scalable. You can add the 'n' number of servers at any time. My company has 1000 users. 

The tool's tech support is good. 

Positive

The tool's deployment is easy and takes two to three hours to complete. A single person can do deployment. The tool has a SmartConsole feature, which helps to deploy it efficiently without much processing. It is easy to maintain, and one person can handle the maintenance. 

Check Point Antivirus is the most economical solution. 

The product is an AI-based solution with the latest capabilities. It offers the most secure protection. I rate it an eight out of ten. 

Check Point Antivirus Blade is enabled on all of our HA clusters throughout the world. The primary use case for this product is to protect our end-users while working physically in the office or remotely. It monitors all traffic in and out of the organization to detect known threats such as malware. Functionality is limited without HTTPS inspection as the blade will just look at SRC/DST traffic rather than be able to do packet inspections on actual traffic. It is great that it is included in the base FW license.

Check Point Antivirus has improved our organization by being able to identify known threats and actively drop connections to ensure our users remain secure. It leverages the Bogus DNS endpoint from Check Point to redirect traffic destined for known threats and doesn't require a lot of admin overhead to configure or tune based on the organization's needs. An added bonus is Check Points "Threat Cloud" which all of its gateways talk to so that attacks that are detected in one customer's environment are updated and would be blocked automatically within another environment. 

Check Point Antivirus is easy to configure. We enable the blade in the SMS for the gateway and that's pretty much it. You can get into the nitty gritty and fine-tune some of the settings to fit your organization better than the default settings, however, personally, I have yet to do this and it is working as expected in my organization. It is also great that this is not an add-on license and is included with the low-tier licensing which helps to reduce the overall cost to the organization while increasing the value of the product.

Check Point Antivirus could be improved by having the gateway automatically run a packet capture on the traffic so that it can be easily uploaded to TAC in the event that there is a false positive or if the traffic is required for further investigation. I have had a few times where something was detected as being a false positive and TAC requested so much information that in all honesty, was not worth my time to collect as the URL being blocked was a simple webpage that, based on my analysis, the IP was previously being used for malicious intent and was now a legitimate business however was still being blocked by the blade.

I've used the solution for five years. 

We have not had any performance issues.

It is easy to scale and enable on SGs as long as they are managed by the same SMS.

Support has improved over the years.

Positive

No previous solution was utilized. This solution has been in place on the SGs since they were installed.

The setup is straightforward. It is enabled from the SMS and it works.

We managed the setup of the solution in-house.

The ROI is revealed by the fact that it protects end-users.

Check Point in general is moderately priced compared to competitors.

We evaluated Palo Alto and Fortigate.