Check Point Harmony Mobile Reviews

The primary use case is to enable access to any corporate application hosted on-premises or in the cloud using a mobile device with single sign-on (SSO) capabilities.

It provides IT admins capabilities for granting access to corporate applications or data on mobile devices and should be able to securely monitor and manage the mobile devices that access sensitive business data. It includes storing essential information about mobile devices, deciding which apps can be present on the devices, and locating devices.

This product should be able to remove corporate applications and data on enrolled devices remotely, known as an enterprise wipe, in case a device is stolen, lost, or if the user leaves the organization.

Corporate data should be securely stored on mobile devices and the user should not be able to share data from corporate apps/data to personal storage.

Internal applications, data, and folders are published on enrolled mobile devices in a secure way without publishing any of the resources over the internet.

A separate workspace is created on the enrolled mobile, which partitions corporate data from personal data. Policies can restrict users from copying any app/data from corporate to personal storage and vise versa. 

Users are able to login to corporate applications using single sign-on.

DLP policy prevents data leakage issues, which cannot be prevented if applications are published directly without any MDM solution.

Enterprise wipe gives us the capability to remove applications and data from enrolled devices remotely in cases where one is lost, stolen, or for any other reason. 

Organizations can prevent device enrollment in cases where a device is rooted/jailbroken.

Enrollment is based on the user name and the admin needs to create an enrollment policy. The enrollment email goes to users who are entitled to enrollment via Capsule. Each user needs to manually click and add the Token, which is sent via email and used for providing and restricting access.

Licenses are taken from Check Point for the number of users who need to be enrolled via Capsule. 

No additional hardware or setup is required for Capsule configuration, as it can be enabled on the same security gateway. This reduces any additional hardware cost, as well as for setup and connectivity.

Configuration is straightforward and can be controlled on the same NGFW as Capsule. This is used for providing access to users.

Reporting is quite complicated once more users are enrolled and they need disparate access. It needs to be maintained separately, which adds work for the admin and can lead to errors.

Enrollment emails are sent for each device, which means that when a user needs to change devices or enroll more than one, admins need to generate and send additional tokens.

The product does not provide deep capabilities for sharing specific data to users or groups separately, nor does it provide visibility as to whether a user has access to the data or not.

For example:

• HR sharing certain learning videos or documents to a group of users. The solution does not provide reports as to whether these have been accessed by the user or not.
  
• It does not provide a solution in the case where a device is being shared by multiple users
• A site where one iPad is being shared between five users is a problem. Each user has their own access to the device but this solution does not have the capabilities of providing each user with specific access to data or applications.

We are not using Check Point Harmony Mobile for now.

This product is stable, just like any other Check Point solution.

It can be scaled by adding more security gateways and enabling the license. It is done in the same manner as a Check Point firewall.

The technical support is excellent.

We used this solution and then moved to a different one.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The process involves getting a license from Check Point and enabling a module/blade on the security gateway. After this, start on the configuration (Published data, which needs to be made available on the endpoint to access).

Our in-house team completed the deployment with OEM support.

Using this firewall improves productivity and availability for enrolled endpoints. Published data can be accessed anytime on a mobile device.

Check Point provides a separate license in cases where organizations want to use this only on mobile devices, or laptops/desktops. Check Point Total includes both mobile devices and endpoints. 

Setup can be done on the existing security gateway or it can be done on a dedicated security gateway where there are a large number of users.

Checkpoint provides five user licenses by default.

The organization should be clear on the requirements. If it is only for publishing a few web apps, URLs, email, or for a few shared drives, then the solution works absolutely fine. However, it is not a full-fledged MDM solution like VMware AirWatch/Citrix/Blackberry and more.

These solutions all provide more MDM capabilities than Capsule.

We have implemented Check Point Harmony Mobile due to the numerous phishing attacks that our users were suffering, both by email and by fake text messages, pretending to be the Post Office, Amazon, banks, etc...

With this product, we have tried to avoid this type of attack and therefore have our business environment more secure.

Currently, we have users in various territorial locations and we were looking for a solution that would allow us to secure their mobile devices with a minimum level of intrusiveness in the terminals. The solution should be for both Android and iOS.

With the Check Point Harmony Mobile solution, we have been able to protect users' mobile terminals, both Android and iOS, from the various attacks they suffered. This has achieved a higher level of security on these devices and prevents access to user data or sensitive information accessible from mobile phones.

With this Check Point product, we can apply similar security policies that the company's desktops or laptops have to mobile phones. Both iOS and Android to be able to use them safely.

Check Point Harmony Mobile helps employees' mobile devices avoid running malicious applications and attacks on their network or operating system.

The Check Point SandBlast Mobile solution supports Android and iOS operating systems and allows for integration with Mobile Device Management (MDM).

It has APIs to carry out operations in applications that connect to mobile terminals and performs the tasks that are specified. For example, avoid activating Wi-Fi or installing applications.

When mobile devices are configured, two profiles are created for each of them. There is the personal profile and the professional profile, which means that different security policies can be applied to each profile.

Check Point SandBlast Mobile solution is not a Mobile Device Management (MDM), it only takes care of device security. It should have the main functions of Mobile Device Management (MDM), such as automating tasks, automatic updates of applications, etc...

Compatibility with other Mobile Device Management (MDM) products on the market should be improved, ensuring correct operation between SandBlast Mobile and MDM.

Another aspect to take into account is the increased load on old terminals, causing them to work slowly.

It is a fairly stable solution, although you have to take into account the increased load that it causes in older mobiles.

It is an easily scalable solution because it allows for integration with any mobile management solution (MDM / UEM).

Our experience with customer service / technical support has been very good. They respond quickly and offer us their help in everything we need.

We did not have any solutions for mobile devices and after reviewing some, we chose Check Point Harmony Mobile.

The initial setup was relatively easy, with no issues to review.

The implementation was done with a vendor team and their level of knowledge is very high.

We currently do not have any ROI forecast. We will see this as the incidents on mobile devices decrease.

Regarding the cost of licenses, each device consumes one, even if it has both professional and personal profiles.

We have been evaluating other solutions, such as Palo Alto Networks and Broadcom (Symantec).

My advice is that before installing, a complete analysis of the requirements should be carried out. This should be done in order to correctly define user groups and the respective policies from the beginning. This will help to avoid individual policies.

We are deploying the solution on all corporate mobiles. We began the deployment with the most critical users for the business and we are expanding according to our needs. We have an organization differentiated by countries and we monitor the incidents reported from our SIEM.

The main objective is to have a security mechanism in these devices that prevents users from falling into attempts to steal credentials, infection by malware, etc.

With this tool, we consider that the systems are protected and so far, we have already been able to stop a good number of attacks.

Before having this tool, our users were exposed to any type of infection on corporate mobile devices and tablets. With the incorporation of Check Point Harmony Mobile technology, we have minimized these risks and both users and administrators feel calmer.

We also know that any incident that occurs is sent to our SIEM, which is monitored 24x7x365 by a security services company, which, if necessary, will act immediately to solve the incident detected.

All of this adds great value to the company in terms of security.

The best thing about the product is that it is transparent and does not impact the users. After analyzing the battery consumption and resource load, we found that it is practically negligible.

On some occasions, we have had to contact the user to solve a problem with the system. It is quite simple, which facilitates the resolution of problems.

Based on the fact that we do not have an MDM system, the deployment of the solution has been a bit difficult. The deployment in the Android system is very simple but in the case of iOS, it is more complicated so the users require attention from our CAU.

We have been using Check Point Harmony Mobile for more than a year.

The solution is very stable and in the time we have been using it, we have not had significant problems.

There is no problem in terms of the scalability of the solution, as it is only necessary to acquire a greater number of licenses.

The support has attended to us quickly and efficiently in the few cases that we have needed it. It seems that this is the usual case for Check Point support.

Not having an MDM is somewhat more complex as it cannot automate, and in the iOS environment, it is more complex than in Android.

We carry out the deployment of the solution with our own internal teams supported by the CAU.

The quality, price, and support ratio are very good.

At the moment, we have not detected a specific need for new features within our environment. With the last update, the possibility of analyzing applications developed by us or even requesting an analysis of an application already published in stores was incorporated, which is a great improvement. It is good, for example, to anticipate possible problems with third-party applications, as well as for checking the security status of our applications.

In any case, we trust that in the next versions that Check Point publishes, useful functionalities will appear.

We use SandBlast Mobile, integrated with our MDM for automatic deployment of solutions on our devices. This is for our corporate mobile devices, and also for BYOD (Bring your own device) cases. This works well for the users that want access to our corporate repositories for accessing information.

SandBlast is always monitoring their activity including the applications that are installed or they are trying to install, not allowing apps that are not 100% trusted, receiving logging alerts, etc., to take care of our devices and avoid their comprise. 

SandBlast Is providing a real security approach, not only AV like other vendor solutions.

Continuously, we are monitoring the apps and rate them, obtain reports, etc., to see the security posture of the devices and apply compliance policies. This prevents users from installing fake applications or non-approved software.

It also monitors all of the user navigation inside the phone, controlling non-permitted connections like fake Wi-Fi, etc. It also manages the enterprise e-mail in a secure way to avoid unauthorized access from the mobile device.

I really like the application scanning feature that scans all of the installed applications, and not only what appears in the Add or Remove Apps section, and then reports the results in the console.

The performance of this solution is absolutely impressive, especially in terms of battery consumption. It has less consumption than I was expecting

It is a very stable solution that integrates well with the most standard MDM solutions in the current market.

It offers good support for Apple devices and multiple Android versions, which is quite important if you have a disparate set of devices.

There are more features for Android devices than Apple, but, think is more related to the Apple API than Check Point.

Some configuration options inside the management console are a little confusing because the interface is not always user-friendly.

Some policies that can cause problems on the devices, like remediation, cannot be implemented by the administrator and are required to be done by Check Point. This is inconvenient because in some cases, we need a remediation policy immediately and we cannot wait for Check Point to implement it.

We have been using Check Point Harmony Mobile for approximately two years.

It is a stable solution and we have experienced no problems with our mobile devices.

SandBlast can scale without any kind of problems.

We have had no problems with the support to this point.

We did not use another similar solution prior to this one.

The initial setup is very easy. The cloud solution is easy to deploy and integrate with our MDM.

This was implemented directly by Check Point Professional Services. The team is very experienced with the solution.

This is a very expensive product.

We also evaluated an Intel security solution.

In summary, this is a very good solution that works as expected, although it is very expensive.

We are a technology services company and our clients and employees are working from across the world. We have Check Point as a perimeter Firewall device in all our offices and all the devices are with R80.30 with the latest hotfix. 

During this Covid-19 pandemic, we have enabled Check Point Remote access for our employees, so that they can access the office resources from their mobile device, home desktop, or laptop.

Now, they are able to access our resources from their own machine or remote devices and we can say that our employees are doing work from anywhere. 

We have the Check Point perimeter firewall, which is in a cluster.

Our internal resources or applications we have published over SSL VPN and we have enabled remote desktop for those users who are working from home. This means that they are able to access our local applications and remote desktop.

This is also clientless, so users/employees can work from their mobile devices as well.

We also make sure that proper security is in place as well.

In Check Point Mobile access, we are using the SSL VPN for our onsite/work from home users/employees, and in this scenario, we have to secure our organization as well as our users.

In this SSL VPN, multifactor authentication (MFA) is one of the very good and valuable features for us. We have applied MFA so that no one can bypass this security and the users/employees can access their resources very easily, securely, and seamlessly. This feature is the most valuable for Remote Access. 

We can say that this is a very good solution but Check Point has to reduce the cost. The cost is huge compared to other products, and it seems this solution is only for companies with a large budget.

If Check Point can reduce the cost with all of the required security software blades then this product can be used by companies with a medium level of budget, as well.

We are using Check Point Mobile Access from April 2020.

This is a stable product.

This solution is scalable. We have 300+ users.

The technical support is good.

We did not use another similar solution prior to this one.

The initial setup is very easy and straightforward.

We had assistance from the vendor team.

This is a very good solution for WFX.

In the time that we have been using this product, we can say that there have been no major challenges or issues that we have faced. All of our clients' and employees' feedback is very positive and they are very satisfied with this solution.

They are accessing the company resources seamlessly, and we are also planning to better secure our clients. We are evaluating this feature with remote access, and it is effective.

One reason we use it is that we didn't really have any control on the mobile side. We do have Google MDM, but we didn't have a solution like the one Check Point offers to protect mobile devices. Even with Google MDM, there is not much we can do without having something that can enforce security on the endpoint. So there was a gap and that security gap was our main use case.

The mobile space was pretty new to us. We had no control over it. Given the COVID situation and worked-from-home, we immediately embarked on this project to roll out this initiative. It was part of our strategic decision because when the government implemented work-from-home, only essential staff were supposed to come to work. We had to report every stage at which we reduced the number of staff on premises, because we're state-owned and our CEO reports to the minister. The solution improved things significantly in that context. We were able to give a proper accounting of our security assets and not have that gap where mobile devices are concerned. And we're able to offer a lot more security.

A lot of the users are using banking apps and didn't really have any assurance that they were protected. Also, with the pandemic there were a lot more cyber security attacks. We were sending out updates on what was happening, as part of our security awareness. It helped build some confidence within the staff in terms of what we were doing for our security campaign. Overall, it helped us account for all assets and protect them properly.

We like the URL content filtering, that is one of the most valuable features. 

It also enables us to see where privacy is a concern, apps that are leaking privacy. Having an idea of how these apps are being protected offers some level of security to the device and back into our corporate network.

The protection provided by the solution for all three threat vectors, application, network, and device, is pretty okay the way they're doing it. Their solution does not work the traditional way that endpoints used to be protected using local resources, when it's doing its scan. Sandblast is comparing the app to the app store and that is a very good feature. It's not resource-intensive. In terms of the networking, it does a pretty okay job. From the device side, we're able to see that backend information, including the app information, into the portal itself. 

It's also very easy to deploy and easy to manage.

When it comes to applications and network specifically, the solution's comprehensiveness and accuracy is pretty good. For applications, it has features pertaining to things like GDPR compliance. It is not leaking an end-user's personal information. There are some good features there. The only way we are able to see a user being identified is if there is a threat. Then that user comes up in that report, but that's only for those incidents. It's a very small minority. But it does a very good job in terms of breadth of protection.

The dashboard is pretty okay in terms of how you go in and you create your policies. And it comes with a very comprehensive policy. You have checkboxes or radio buttons to select the additional features. That's very intuitive. They just recently added some new features to their dashboard as well. It's pretty straightforward when it comes to where you: 

• look for the threats, versus the administration aspect of it 
• how do you drill down, the analytics
• if there are any events, how you go all the way down. 

I find the dashboard is pretty intuitive and simple, compared to how Check Point has been deploying the SmartConsole.

And when it comes to blocking attempted attacks it's also pretty intuitive and simple. Suppose we see an app that has a particular threat. We're able to select and apply policies or rules on that particular app or device, and that can prevent the threat from propagating. We can quarantine it and address the issue. It's pretty simple in being able to manage threats, from a mobile perspective.

This is the first time we have ventured into protection of mobile devices. We have had many years where staff didn't have any restrictions on a mobile device. Since the migration from the BlackBerry Bell solution that we had back then, there has been a gap. Nobody was able to protect Android as well as iOS devices. And given that we were going into that space, we did not go in with the ability to do any serious lockdown or removal of apps. Mobile threat defense is not supported fully for Google MDM, so we're not using it within the Google MDM. It was supposed to be supported as of this month. We don't have Google MDM being supported by the solution as of yet.

It is a feature requirement, but they wrote me saying it was supposed to have been rolled out at the end of the second quarter of 2020, which would have been in the last month. We should have had something coming back from them so I wrote them last week, asking them where we are in terms of this roadmap. They are aware that it is something that I need.

My objective is to be able to have the MDM integration and to have some level of control over the asset itself.

Also, the one thing I don't see with it is that when I'm doing a scan on my network I'm not seeing my SSI ID showing up. I don't know if that means there's a bug or something we need to work out. But it's still giving me a good report in terms of the network scan and the device protection.

Another thing I would really like to see is a unified console where I don't have to use multiple devices or multiple consoles to manage my Check Point solutions. I am thinking of a unified console that could be linked back with some of the other solutions that we already have from Check Point, like CloudGuard. For all of the on-prem firewalls that we have, there would be one console, as opposed to these multiple consoles, and we would be able to link on-prem and cloud solutions to create that hybrid scenario. I haven't seen that feature yet.

I would also like to see support for other SIEM solutions such as Splunk.

We started with Check Point SandBlast Mobile just when the pandemic lockdown started here in Trinidad, which was in early March, so it's been about six months. During that period of time, when the pandemic kicked in, and remote work and work from home and BYOD were a big concern, that is when we migrated to the SandBlast Mobile platform.

We haven't had any challenges due to somebody complaining of the app crashing. I also have it on my phone and it hasn't crashed. I haven't had a challenge where it prevented me from doing anything. In fact, I was running SandBlast Mobile alongside ZoneAlarm, the free version. I had ZoneAlarm installed about six months prior to installing the SandBlast Mobile agent and both of them worked alongside each other. I never had a problem. I eventually removed the free version and I use the corporate solution.

We haven't really explored the MDM integration yet, nor the other use cases we can use it for. At this moment, we're just looking to protect the mobile handset. There's not much of a use case in terms of how we can scale it. We're still under our license limitation so we're pretty okay with it so far.

From the last report about number of users, we rolled out to about 300 endpoints and we still had about 90 handsets that had not accepted the install. We continue to add more every month to that list. The users include executives and senior managers from the various technology groups, as well as users outside of technology in finance, sales, and marketing. We have had staff from every one of those areas install the solution.

We're 2,400 staff in total and we have only purchased about 350 licenses. We plan to roll this out in phases to the other staff. The challenge that we're having internally is differentiating issued handsets. Initially, we were told to roll this out to everybody, but after some discussions we decided we didn't want to go that hard with the users. So the users that have it installed will run it for about a year and then we can then roll it out to the others. That way, the others will see that the users haven't really had any challenges or any concerns with privacy, or that it slowed down the phone in any way. So we do plan to extend SandBlast to the other staff that don't have it.

Also, being a telecom company, our GM for mobile has been looking at a business model where we would lease phones to our subscribers. In that scenario we would have the solution provisioned and the security installed, given that this is our handset and, at the end of the lease, we would want to recoup some level of monetary value from it. So we would protect it with the assurance that there would be no data privacy concerns. That is still in discussion.

I haven't had many issues where I have had to contact tech support. I have a very good relationship with the territory manager, and I have met and have a very good relationship with the security engineer assigned to this region.

The tech support and help that I have gotten so far is pretty good. I haven't had any challenges.

We had the BlackBerry Bell solution, but nothing to protect Android and iOS. We had purchased AirWatch from VMware, but AirWatch is not the same as a Check Point's mobile threat defense solution. AirWatch was more of an MDM.

We were kind of forced into the solution with the pandemic scenario. We were in the process of writing a few position papers; there were a few reports that the government had requested from the CEO. So we got a little bit of pressure when COVID kicked in. We had to rush. We were very happy when Check Point reached out to us and said, "You can use our ZoneAlarm free for 90 days and you can deploy it to your customers, your subscribers, and to your family members, during this period of time," owing to the relationship that we had. When we got that, the CTO said, "Well, let's just invest in the Sandblast solution." That's how we ended up transitioning into this and deploying it.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. There were a couple of ways to handle the roll-out. We could send an email with a barcode for the users to install it and there was also an option to send an SMS. They could then install it and it was pretty straightforward.

Prior to that, we sent out a communication explaining that this was what we were embarking on, that it was an executive security initiative. We still had a few calls from users because it was a new area and people were very concerned. We had to keep reassuring the users that we were not spying on them, that we were just protecting the company assets. We explained that it was no different from a laptop or a workstation that the company issued. We had to continually reassure them that it wasn't an issue of privacy. In fact, we told the employees that apps were leaking privacy information and this would turn that off and prevent it from happening.

Initially, there were a lot of concerns about privacy with users saying, "This thing is going to spy on us." But we did not roll it out to every employee's handset. We rolled it out to the company-issued handsets. We took that approach and, at a later date, based on how we run this solution and how we get it to "soak in," we'll move to the other area. But there were a lot of concerns. 

We didn't find any complexity around the installation of the solution on end-user mobile devices. Without the MDM integration, we were not able to force the install and the user still had the option not to install, and if it was installed they still had the option to remove it. But it was straightforward. There weren't any complexities.

Our deployment took about a month or a month-and-a-half. The problem we had wasn't with the roll-out, rather it was about our being able to separate company-issued handsets from the list. We went to the team that issues the handsets and they did not have accurate lists. The audit they had done was a month or two prior so we only had accuracy in the list up to a month or two before. The challenge wasn't about the solution itself.

We didn't use any third-party. We had a demo and we were shown how straightforward it was. It started off from that demo and moved straight into production. They gave us use of it for a period of time. We looked at it, played around with it, and that eventually became our production environment. It wasn't a scenario where we had to engage Professional Services.

Initially, there were about five people from our side involved in the deployment, but it ended up coming down to two to three people.

For maintenance of the solution I have three people who are all IT security specialists.

We have not yet seen any ROI because we still have a number of devices where it has not been installed. We haven't yet seen the big benefits of it.

We got a pretty good deal and the price is pretty decent compared to some of the other solutions.

Check Point has always been a little high on price. People will need to have a good relationship with their territory manager or their account manager and will need to negotiate a better price. 

Compared to some of its competitors who are very good in marketing, Check Point has been very lacking. Their price sometimes tends to be notably higher than its competitors, but the quality of the solution is the difference. However, people mostly go after the marketing. They see that side of it.

For this solution there is just the support. There were no other costs added on to it. It is a straightforward license: unit price by X number of units and the support that goes along with it. There wasn't any other cost for us.

We haven't really looked at any competitors. This type of solution was not something we were planning on doing within this financial year. SandBlast Mobile was not something that was on our radar. Owing to the scenario we were in with the COVID pandemic, the issue was how fast we could react to get to the solution onboard and how little paperwork would be involved. Given that we're a state-owned company, we have to comply with a lot of procurement policies and guidelines. If we don't have a vendor operating onsite, we are not able to leverage any solution from that vendor.

Check Point was already operating onsite; we had other solutions in use from them. Given that they offered a solution to us and had a relationship with our executives, that was what enabled us to fast-track things.

If we were to evaluate other products we would not have been able to roll this out in time. It would have had to go to an RFP, an evaluation process, and a purchase order. It would have been a good six- to nine-month process.

If you have the opportunity, explore competitors to see how their products work. Also, negotiate your price with Check Point as much as possible.

The things that stand out from my experience are the ease of the deployment and the education of the end-user regarding data privacy and those types of things.

We haven't had many cases of false positives. One that we saw was in the following scenario. Let's say we had an app that came up as a threat and we applied particular rules to quarantine it. After we applied the rules, it showed up on the handset as if the app no longer existed, whereas Sandblast was saying that it wasn't removing the app. It turns out it really wasn't removing it. It just removed the app from reporting within the rule itself. That was a little bit of a challenge in wrapping our heads around it. We worked with Check Point to iron out that issue. So that was a kind of false positive.

We had to do it a few times in order to understand that the app was not being removed. The solution claimed to be GDPR compliant and that it was not removing any information or apps from the end-user's handset. We had to check to make sure those features were in place.

Having the Check Point SandBlast Mobile application installed is mandatory for any smartphone or tablet PC provided to the employees by our company, and for any BYOD device if it is going to be connected to the corporate network. Currently, there are about 500 devices that are running on both Android and Apple devices. 

We decided not to self-host the management center, and onboarded the cloud management solution provided by the Check Point. This runs in their own datacenter, with the SLA provided.

Before implementing the Check Point SandBlast Mobile, we didn't have any mandatory security software being installed on the corporate mobile devices, and it was a huge security gap we needed to close ASAP because smartphones and tablets are connected to the office Wi-Fi networks on a daily basis, and to the corporate VPN resources occasionally (depending on the user's access level). 

The implementation of the Check Point SandBlast Mobile, as the centralized security solution for the mobile devices, improved the overall security of our network by providing the additional protecting layer on the user devices. 

The management overhead is minimal since there is a central management point, where all the policies are configured and then pushed to the smartphones and tablets when they are online.

1. The solution has clients for both Android and Apple devices, so all of our employees' devices are protected.
2. The client allows us to detect the rooting/jailbreaking of the OS and prevents the connection of such devices to the corporate network VPN.
3. The client detects and prevents the various types of the phishing attacks, malicious sites in the browsers, and checks them with the help of the Check Point database (ThreatCloud).
4. The centralized management portal is rich in configuration options, monitoring, reporting capabilities.

1. Some of our employees reported slow performance of the application on the old Android devices (Android version 2.4 and less), but I think it is mostly connected with the poor hardware resources on the older devices.
   
2. The feature set between the Android and Apple devices is not fully equal. For example, with Android, it is possible to configure in the policy the file system tampering and keylogging and credential theft detection options. This is unavailable for the Apple devices. I don't think it is the fault of Check Point, but rather restrictions based on the different operating system capabilities. Nonetheless, I would like the policies to be more alike.

We have been using Check Point SandBlast Mobile for about two years.

The clients for both Android and Apple operating systems are stable and mature.

The solution is scalable. Now we manage about 500 devices and see no downgrade in the performance of centralized management.

We didn't have any support cases opened for Check Point SandBlast Mobile.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

The solution was implemented by the in-house team of security engineers and system administrators.

We decided to purchase the Check Point SandBlast Mobile after the demo with the vendor.

The solution is modern and easy to onboard.

Our company works in the area of developing and delivering online gambling platforms. The Check Point Next-Generation Firewalls are the core security solution we use for the protection of our DataCenter environment, located in Asia (Taiwan).

The environment has about 50 physical servers as virtualization hosts, and we have two HA Clusters that consist of 2x5400 hardware appliances, managed by an OpenServer Security Management Server on a Virtual Machine (KVM), all running on R80.10 with the latest JumboHotfix.

The Check Point Mobile Access software blade is one of the numerous blades activated on the NGFWs and serves for providing connectivity to the datacenter for the employees.

The Check Point Mobile Access is activated on the Check Point HA Clusters and protects our datacenter located in Taiwan. It is used to provide connectivity to the internal resource for our employees, thus Remote Access VPN services.

The blade is easy to enable and configure, and it provides great benefits with the help of the built-in SSL VPN Portal. Now, most of our employees don't even use any client software, but just the browsers on their devices, to access the applications published via the SSL VPN Portal.

The connection is stable and reliable, and the level of security and encryption is still high. We find this solution really useful and helpful.

The users in our company like that the VPN client is supported on the different platforms and operational systems, e.g. Android smartphones and tablets, Windows and MacOS PCs and laptops.

The most impressive thing is the SSL VPN Portal. With it, you don't even need any client software, just a browser is enough to connect. We have integrated the SSL VPN Portal with the Microsoft Exchange server, and this covers the needs of 95% of our users regarding remote access to the office.

The authentication is performed via integration with Active Directory, so the employees use the same credentials. It is super easy and everybody likes that.

I think that the pricing for the Check Point products should be reconsidered, as we found it to be quite expensive to purchase and to maintain. Maintenance requires that the licenses and the support services be prolonged regularly.

Alternatively, they should create some additional bundles of the software blades with significant discounts in addition to the current Next Generation Threat Prevention & SandBlast (NGTX) and Next Generation Threat Prevention (NGTP) offers.

We have also had several support cases opened for software issues, but none of them were connected with Check Point Mobile Access.

We have been using this product for about three years, starting in late 2017.

The Check Point Mobile Access software blade is stable.

The Check Point Mobile Access software blade scales well with the gateways we use, since it doesn't affect the overall performance much after activation.

We have had several support cases opened, but none of them were connected with the Check Point Mobile Access Software Blade. Some of the issues were resolved by installing the latest recommended JumoHotfix, whereas some required additional configuration at the OS kernel level.

The longest issue took about one month to be resolved, which we consider too long.

No, we didn't use any SSL VPN solutions before onboarding Check Point Mobile Access.

The setup was straightforward. The configuration was easy and understandable, and we relied heavily on built-in objects and groups.

Our deployment was completed by our in-house team. We have a Check Point Certified engineer working in the engineering team.

Choosing the correct set of licenses is essential because, without the additional software blade licenses, the Check Point gateways are just a stateful firewall.

No, we decided to stick to the Check Point Mobile Access after the demo with the vendor.