Item: Check Point Harmony Email & Office
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Check Point Harmony Email & Office

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The product help us is solving the big problems like phishing and spam and other email based cyber threats. Additionally also resolving the problem of malicious links, malware attachments and business email compromise. Risk of email based threats are now a days increasing rapidly that can lead to risk of data breach via email which can be protect by checkpoint Harmony Email.

Pros and Cons

Pros

AI driven security engines, machine learning and sandboxing to analyze URLs and attachments in real time.
Header inspection, domain similarity checks and identity profiling to detect BEC attacks, CEO frauds, and domain spoofing.
Inline URL rewriting to protect user from clicking the malicious URLs

Cons

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

Return on Investment

Good BEC and impersonation protection helped the organization in preventing fraud payment request.
Lowered the risk of account takeover
Limited granular policy customizations

Usability

Strong security capabilities with a generally good and stable user experience. The platform integrates well with Microsoft 365 and most of core features.

Alternatives Considered

Sophos Email, Proofpoint Email Protection and Barracuda Email Protection

However other products are also advance but are more complex to manage. But threat detection of checkpoint has offer more dept detections and forensic capabilities in every scenarios.

Key Insights

Do you think Check Point Harmony Email & Office delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Check Point Harmony Email & Office's feature set?

Yes

Did Check Point Harmony Email & Office live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Check Point Harmony Email & Office go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Check Point Harmony Email & Office again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Sophos Firewall, FortiMail, Fortinet FortiGate, CrowdStrike Falcon, Zscaler Internet Access

Likelihood to Recommend

The product is well suited in the scenarios where the organization is using Mircosoft O365 as it can easily integrate with not only O365 but the other saas application like teams, sharepoint, and onedrive. The product is not appropriate for the organization which require granular policy customizations which can become tough for the product as of now.

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Comprehensive Email Security with strong detection and manageable complexity