Avanan vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Office

What it says, it provides. It has the Data leak prevention that is the major help while we have to deal with lot of clients at a time. It has the Secure Click that checks any embedded hyperlink so that when we work on emails we don't have to worry about the hidden security threats inside a email.

Well-suited for small or medium businesses running on Microsoft 365 or Google Business Suite to provide an additional layer of security and filtering for email.

• The dashboard for Avanan makes all of the most important information easy to digest.
• Alerting - specifically, the Geo-Location alerts allow us to see if a user has possibly been compromised.
• The End-User Email Quarantine experience gives users the ability to request emails be released, which trains them to better spot legitimate emails.

Incentivized

• It scan the emails and attachments based on policy so no any email goes without scan
• QR code based attack will also block by Check Point Harmony Email & Office
• As per architecture of email security email scanned by the solution is twice.

Incentivized

• I only ever had one complaint, we had a few hiccups during the setup process. We have now been a customer for two years and have had no further issues. It is likely that the setup pain points have now been resolved as well. Overall the product does what it claims while providing a very intuitive interface.

Incentivized

• Many active content or macros detection in pdfs, MS office file should need to improve
• DLP of checkpoint harmony Emails should add more advance regex system
• Folder option needed to add in quarantine options.
• Password protected file detection also need improvement

Incentivized

Cost, need to make sure the cost is competitive for how many users are using email protection as we move users to MS Teams and don't rely so much on full access to email accounts (both sending and receiving internal and external).

Incentivized

The end-users love not having their inboxes fill up with extra useless emails. As an administrator, it is simple to implement and maintain. The ability to put something into test mode before going live makes our life a lot easier and less stressful. Avanan has many different components to make your life easier.

Incentivized

Check Point Harmony Email & Office has had a positive impact on our business by significantly reducing phishing and email-based security incidents. It also has helped prevent data breaches, saved time for IT teams, reduced user risk and improved overall security posture & resulting in better productivity and strong return on investment.

Incentivized

Always been available as needed.

Incentivized

It's not all the time, on occasion the platform can delay email by seven to ten minutes.

Incentivized

Support has always been there for me, they take on suggestions and product improvements quite seriously. I've spoken to techs and you can tell that they care about the product and the service in which they deliver. Avanan support is always responsive in everything I throw them and in most cases they don't tell me how to build out a widget or custom query, they actually do it for me and send it to me.

Incentivized

There was no in person training.

Incentivized

Takes a lot to get a 10 out of 10.

Incentivized

Ensure system administration and exchange admin are up to speed on Avanan

Incentivized

Avanan has a one-click solution, which subscribers or clients use to deploy a new security update. Further, Avanan has the protection of any cloud application, which means, it bypasses any security threat and maintain the set safety processes. Finally, data leakage is a shield that Avanan has deployed, a very smooth process in the firm.

Incentivized

Checkpoint had the best mix of capabilities for the price and didn't require MX record changes. Abnormal Security wouldn't even return my inquiries. Greathorn is a good product but requires a lot of up keep that I don't have the bandwidth for.

Incentivized

It does what they claim and then some.

Incentivized

• Improved risk mitigation by providing additional layer protection for M365.
• Easy to setup and configure. No expert knowledge required and no downtime required.
• Customizable license count. No need to buy the same number of mailbox users if you really don't want to protect some unused mailboxes.

Incentivized

• Difficult to know or measure how many scams our users would have fallen for without it.
• Has saved our users time not having to wade through promotional emails and obvious spam/scam emails.