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Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs Cisco Secure Endpoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
8.2
Check Point Harmony Endpoint boosts ROI by enhancing security, reducing costs, and improving efficiency and protection, with recognized cost savings.
Sentiment score
7.4
Cisco Secure Endpoint enhances productivity and reduces costs by streamlining threat detection, integrating tools, and minimizing manual intervention.
I have seen a return on investment with Check Point Harmony Endpoint, as it has saved money and time due to the minimum disruption of production hours, which allows users to focus on their main tasks and desired targets, avoiding downtime and contributing to business growth.
The product is affordable and provides excellent coverage and protection across multiple platforms.
The earlier EDR devices we used were more time-consuming, and deploying that particular agent on all devices took time, but the centralized management console has significantly reduced both time consumption and the extra manual efforts required.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.7
Check Point Harmony Endpoint's customer service is highly rated, responsive, and professional, though improvements in response speed are suggested.
Sentiment score
6.1
Cisco Secure Endpoint support is praised for responsiveness and expertise, providing quick issue resolution and valuable user guidance.
The customer support for Check Point Harmony Endpoint is quite good; they are ready to help us.
I would rate the customer support for Check Point Harmony Endpoint an eight on a scale of 1 to 10.
Only email support is available, leading to delays in getting assistance.
Cisco has good technical support, especially considering these are newer solutions compared to traditional routing and switching products.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.8
Check Point Harmony Endpoint offers scalable, cloud-based security with easy expansion, centralized management, and minor deployment challenges.
Sentiment score
8.4
Cisco Secure Endpoint is scalable, integrates with SecureX for efficient management, and supports diverse industries without extra resources.
The scalability of Check Point Harmony Endpoint is effective, as it manages behaviors, process trees, and analysis in a centralized way.
Allowing us to add more users or endpoints for protection as our organization grows without any issues.
Check Point Harmony Endpoint scales well and meets the growing needs of our organization.
Cisco Secure Endpoint is definitely scalable.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Check Point Harmony Endpoint is stable and reliable, though occasionally exhibits bugs and uninstall issues, particularly in low-resource settings.
Sentiment score
6.5
Cisco Secure Endpoint is highly stable, reliable, and trusted for performance, earning high ratings from users in various enterprises.
Check Point Harmony Endpoint is stable for our organization size of 1,000 to 10,000 members.
The stability of the tool is high, as I have not experienced any downtime.
We have not encountered any problems.
 

Room For Improvement

Check Point Harmony Endpoint needs better integration, improved user experience, enhanced support, and competitive pricing for broader compatibility.
Cisco Secure Endpoint requires better integration, reporting, and UI enhancements, alongside improved pricing, AI capabilities, and IoT support.
The integration challenges with Check Point Harmony Endpoint involve needing support with other third-party applications that I wish it worked with more seamlessly.
Better technical support would enhance the product's competitiveness.
High resource consumption, requiring high-performance PCs on our endpoint site.
The forensic capabilities need enhancement, especially for deep forensic data collection.
 

Setup Cost

Check Point Harmony Endpoint provides flexible, subscription-based licensing with robust security, low setup costs, and optional negotiated pricing.
Cisco Secure Endpoint offers competitive and flexible pricing with value-rich features, despite some complexity in licensing.
It is not expensive and provides comprehensive coverage.
Pricing is a bit expensive but justified by the product’s features, capabilities, and scalability.
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been all good with Check Point Harmony Endpoint.
Cisco is aggressive in pricing, making it competitive and sometimes even cheaper than other good products like CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, or SentinelOne.
 

Valuable Features

Check Point Harmony Endpoint offers AI-driven threat prevention, easy integration, and scalability for robust, efficient security management.
Cisco Secure Endpoint provides advanced security features, cross-platform support, and ease of use with strong threat intelligence and support.
Check Point Harmony Endpoint protects our company by warning us against clicking any malicious links and prevents our hosts from becoming vulnerable to cyber attacks.
The AI-powered threat prevention in Check Point Harmony Endpoint helps us to detect and prevent sophisticated attacks, and its scalability means it can be deployed across various devices and environments, helping us daily.
The forensics and incident analysis features of Check Point Harmony Endpoint have helped us significantly while performing analysis over the EDR, allowing us to dig down into incidents, including the process involved and the files associated.
Cisco Secure Endpoint is very good in machine learning, which allows it to secure offline contents even if not connected to the internet.
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point Harmony Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
8th
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
8th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
117
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Cisco Secure Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
12th
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Cisco Security Portfolio (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Check Point Harmony Endpoint is 2.3%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco Secure Endpoint is 1.5%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Alejandro Flores. - PeerSpot reviewer
Good visibility with cloud centralized management and several layers of security
There are some "weak points" that have to be mentioned, including: 1) If the IT department is used to "cloning" endpoints (making images) you are going to have a hard time trying to install the product and you are going to end up reading a lot of Check Point documents. 2) If you are used to the granularity of roles features in Check Point Quantums products you are going to be a little bit disappointed. You can't set customized roles with customized read/write permissions. 3) You need a mature security team to manage this solution in order to get the most value from it.
Mark Broughton - PeerSpot reviewer
Tighter integration with Umbrella and Firepower gave us eye-opening information
We were using a third-party help desk. One of the ways that they were fixing problems was to delete the client and then add the client back if there was an issue where the client had stopped communicating. Any improvement in the client communicating back to the server would be good, particularly for machines that are offline for a couple of weeks. A lot of our guys were working on a rotation where the machine might be offline for that long. They were also terrible about rebooting their machines, so those network connections didn't necessarily get refreshed. So, anything that could improve that communication would be good. Also, an easier way to do deduplication of machines, or be alerted to the fact that there's more than one instance of a machine, would be useful. If you could say, "Okay, we've got these two machines. This one says it's not reporting and this one says it's been reporting. Obviously, somebody did a reinstall," it would help. That way you could get a more accurate device count, so you're not having an inflated number. Not that Cisco was going to come down on you and say, "Oh, you're using too many licenses," right away. But to have a much more accurate license usage count by being able to better dedupe the records would be good. I also sent over a couple of other ideas to our technical rep. A lot of that had to do with the reporting options. It would be really nice to be able to do a lot more in the reporting. You can't really drill down into the reports that are there. The reporting and the need for the documentation to be updated and current would be my two biggest areas of complaint. Also, there was one section when I was playing with the automation where it was asking for the endpoint type rather than the machine name. If I could have just put in the machine name, that would have been great. So there are some opportunities, when it comes to searching, to have more options. If I wanted to search, for example, by a Mac address because, for some reason, I thought there was a duplication and I didn't have the machine name, how could I pull it up with the Mac address? When you're getting to that level, you're really starting to get into the ticky tacky. I would definitely put the reporting and documentation way ahead of that.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
18%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Check Point Harmony Endpoint?
The platform's most valuable features are the ability to build API, which meets our business requirements, and the VPN client, which provides VPN access from a single client.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point Harmony Endpoint?
We purchased Check Point directly from Check Point. We are partners. We didn't purchase it from the AWS marketplace.
What needs improvement with Check Point Harmony Endpoint?
Check Point Harmony Endpoint poses a steep learning curve and has high resource consumption, requiring high-performance PCs on our endpoint site.
What do you like most about Cisco Secure Endpoint?
The product's initial setup phase was very simple.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Secure Endpoint?
Cisco is aggressive in pricing, making it competitive and sometimes even cheaper than other good products like CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, or SentinelOne.
What needs improvement with Cisco Secure Endpoint?
Cisco Secure Endpoint lacks features like DLP which other vendors offer. XDR is new, so integration capabilities with third-party tools need improvement. The forensic capabilities need enhancement,...
 

Also Known As

Check Point Endpoint Security, Endpoint Security, Check Point SandBlast Agent
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Boston Properties, Independence Care System, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), Courtagen Life Sciences, Carmel Partners
Heritage Bank, Mobile County Schools, NHL University, Thunder Bay Regional, Yokogawa Electric, Sam Houston State University, First Financial Bank
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