Harmony Email & Collaboration

At the moment, most solutions I have been working on are cloud-based, so I do not know if it will be in any of the solutions being reviewed.

Based on what I usually used Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for, it is an edge boarding solution to prevent spam, viruses, and other kinds of intrusions from gaining access from the internet to services that are published on the internet. It also protects internal networks, ensuring only the services that are supposed to be talking to each other do so, and provides VPN access for people who are working remotely. On the Harmony side, it was mainly email filters. After we organized it with the consulting company and set the first rules, after one week the system seemed to have learned the company's pattern. So at that time, we managed to achieve a reduction of almost eighty to ninety percent on spam and false emails, which was very good at the time. Later on, once Harmony also integrated with OneDrive, we were also able to stop viruses and files from getting infected inside the OneDrive services as well.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has had a significant impact on phishing attack mitigation. It reduced phishing attacks quite a bit. One of the other preventative measures we implemented was teaching people how to detect those kinds of emails, and we were able to reduce phishing incidents quite a bit because the system was detecting most of the phishing emails that we were receiving. However, we still needed to ensure that on both sides, both the system and the user were able to detect those kinds of emails so they do not fall into traps.

The most valuable features of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration include the artificial intelligence, which even before artificial intelligence was popular, was very good because once we programmed the first rules, it learned automatically the patterns of trusted and untrusted emails. It was much easier to manage false positives and spam and those kinds of emails. As I mentioned before, it reduced eighty percent of spam and false emails. Overall, for applying whitelists and rules on it, it was pretty easy because it also integrated quite well with Microsoft's own security systems, especially in the case of Microsoft 365, so we would not have one system onboarding the other; they would work very well together.

I think artificial intelligence-powered threat intelligence in Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration acts pretty well on the preventive side, which allows us to be more proactive in terms of what domains are trustworthy and which ones are not. We had another case where initially it was blocking a lot of emails from China, but once we were able to filter out which domains were trustworthy, the system learned that those emails were trustworthy and would not tag them as suspicious. I thought it was pretty proactive once certain users get new emails from new domains they have never received before, where the first email does not characterize as suspicious but is monitored to ensure we are aware that this user is now receiving emails from this domain. If the patterns or the attachments inside the email show us to be untrustworthy, then it characterizes it as a suspicious email or, in the worst-case scenario, as spam or phishing email.

Robust inspection technologies in Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration have helped me safeguard shared files in my collaborative environment. They make us much more aware of the files that are coming in and out, and we have following rules to ensure that they meet the standards as well.

I think Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration could improve or enhance integration with other systems. I know at the moment it works pretty well with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Perhaps in the future, there might be solutions as well that work with on-premise email solutions. Also, in Brazil, if I am not mistaken, at the moment, there are still only servers in the US and Europe, so it would be nice if Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration had services in Latin America as well.

I have been working with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for the past five years.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was very stable and reliable for me.

I do not remember any outages or limitations with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration.

I evaluate that Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was quite scalable. We started with one hundred users when we began using the solution. When I left the project, they were getting close to two hundred fifty users. It is quite scalable, but we just have to be aware of the licensing costs accordingly. Otherwise, as a cloud solution, we do not have to worry too much about resources other than paying for the necessary licensing.

I mostly communicated with the consultants representing Check Point rather than with their technical support. I only communicated with them mostly about the firewall side, not Harmony, for most things. After everything was set up and in production, my communication was mainly for improvements and questions about new functionalities that were introduced later.

I did not have such serious issues that required me to reach out to technical support or customer support for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration. The one time was when a user was looking for some emails that were not arriving. When we checked on Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, we discovered the issue was on the Microsoft side, which was blocking the email. However, since Harmony integrates well with the security services of Microsoft, we can unblock those emails directly from Harmony.

Before Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, we used to use the built-in tools that Exchange on-premise had.

We decided to switch from the previous solution to Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration because we needed to improve the way we reacted to emails. Since the company relies heavily on emails for both internal and external communication, we needed to ensure we had a good and viable solution that allowed us to concentrate on other problems as well.

The initial setup process for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was pretty easy to set up on the Microsoft side, both for the proof of concept and for the production environment.

I participated in the initial setup of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration.

Nothing offhand comes to mind regarding challenges or complexities during the setup process. We followed the instructions in the manual and from the consultants, and everything went smoothly.

I have definitely seen a return on investment with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration. On the administrative side, both my team and I used to spend much less time troubleshooting phishing, malware, and other email-related issues because of that solution. We gained much more time to address other issues beyond troubleshooting.

So far, the pricing for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is good for what it does. There is always room for improvements, but I think it is a fair price.

Other than Check Point, I did not evaluate other options or vendors extensively. I played a little bit with Acronis, which has a similar solution, but I had only done tests with it. They are mainly a backup solution but have also expanded into other services. Comparing Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration to Acronis, Acronis still has a couple of improvements to do, but Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration works pretty well on the detection of emails.

I have not utilized the automated incident response feature.

I think we used Microsoft's own real-time URL reputation analysis. I do not remember if we ended up integrating Harmony or if it was part of the package or not, but I do not remember using it.

I was an administrator and I also helped integrate the solution.

I would rate this review as a nine out of ten overall.

I deal with firewalls, firewall switches, and FortiCloud . Regarding the web application firewall, FortiAppSec Cloud, I have worked on some projects for customers who have switches and firewalls and want to obtain the solution for the management console in the cloud.

I work with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Harmony Endpoint, and other products from Check Point and firewalls. I have been working with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for about five years.

I find the certification for Check Point products most valuable,. Some engineers on my team have obtained Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) and certification.

The automated incident response feature by Check Point CloudGuard  is a good product. I assess the effectiveness of AI-powered threat intelligence in blocking email threats as a really good addition for new product services because AI is something that most companies and technologies are now working with.

The way robust inspection technologies have helped safeguard shared files in my collaborative environment depends on the opportunity that the company has with the customer.

I have noticed a significant impact on phishing attack mitigation with Check Point CloudGuard . For us, I prefer Check Point before Palo Alto and before other brands because Check Point is most effective in attack mitigation and attack detection.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is currently working well, as it is able to detect risks before they occur, unlike Microsoft. We have been able to demonstrate to customers that Check Point can detect a risk that Microsoft overlooked.

I do not know what additional features I would like to see in the future to make the product even better because this is a good product.

I have been working with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for about five years.

I agree with the way that Check Point is working. I do not have ideas on how to improve it because this is the tool that makes the work and the job correctly.

Deployment is easy for the product.

I rate the technical support by Check Point as one out of ten because I did not use Check Point support as we had no problems when we deployed the solution. Once the solution was already in production, it worked properly and never failed. To be honest, I have never worked with Check Point support.

We have worked with other brands such as Fortinet, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks, as we are a partner company for several brands and specialize in networking and cybersecurity solutions. More than just selling products, we are consultants, so we recommend the brand that best suits our clients' needs. It's possible that someone visited our website looking for information about a specific product.

The integration with third-party solutions is straightforward. It is a product that can integrate with another product as well.

No, we haven't used other resellers or integrators, because we are a Checkpoint partner and integrator.

In our region here in Peru, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is not as popular as there are some alternatives which are better known.

I am not the person to say what cost Check Point has for their products. However, for partners like us, if we could get some discount or protect our project in front of another competition, that would be great.

I represent other brands including Check Point and Palo Alto. Several brands are represented by our company because we are more than just the sales boxes of products—we are a consulting company as well. Depending on the customer necessity, we can find a solution for that customer based on what they want, what they need, and the cost that they are able to spend.

For a small company, I do not think Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is the best fit because small companies are always looking for a cheaper product. However, for medium and larger companies, it is better.

We are working with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration not only for Harmony, but also for their SaaS solution, their CloudGuard solution, their next generation firewall solution, and their SD-WAN solution.

We started working with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, which is a very good solution for Microsoft Office 365  and Google Workspace  users. For their office business productivity suite, which includes products and solutions such as email, OneDrive, SharePoint , Slack, and Teams, this solution gives 100% protection. As far as Google Workspace  is concerned, it gives protection for Google email, Gmail, and Google Drive . Additionally, it provides protection for other services such as Box and Dropbox.

Deployment is very easy since it is API based and does not require any harsh configuration. The DMARC management and DMARC forensic is the best feature. Their security engine provides everything such as DLP  and encryption. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration provides almost 100% security for phishing emails. Their DMARC management is very standard compared with any other brand or any other email security provider.

The best thing is that on a single tenant I can manage multiple services such as Harmony Endpoint, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Harmony Browser, mobile security, EDR, XDR , which is endpoint security, and SaaS. All of these services have a single dashboard. When giving security to email, in Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, I do not need to change any MX record or any DNS entry changes. I simply add one text record for DMARC and no changes are needed in the MX record of that particular domain. This is very easy because Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is in the tenant of Microsoft Office 365  and Google Workspace only.

Check Point works on zero trust network technology. They are not only giving a feature of artificial intelligence but also machine learning summary. Machine learning summary is also given when they catch any kind of incidents such as phishing attacks, malware attacks, and ransomware attacks. They always provide real-time alerts for that.

Real-time URL analysis is provided for phishing links and all these things. It gives 100% output for that and shows the source from where the malicious URL comes from. Additionally, they always provide threat emulation. This means the simulation of what danger happens when I click that particular URL is also provided in their report.

It gives 100% protection to all BYOD devices. For example, one single Microsoft 365 account can be configured on different five devices. Many companies give email access to their employees on their mobile as well. In that case, if any malicious file is on the mobile and the employee would like to save it on OneDrive, due to this security, the user and administrator will get a real-time alert that this file is malicious and cannot be uploaded to OneDrive. This not only saves money but also saves time and prevents the organization from such cyber attacks.

Check Point must develop one mobile app for iPhone users, Android phone users, and Windows phone users or at least for the administrator to see that dashboard on that particular app. This would be very helpful for administrators. Currently, every time we need to log in through a computer, we have to go through multi-factor authentication and all these things, which is time-consuming to log in to that portal. If they give such kind of facility, then it will be very helpful for an administrator to manage and maintain the things in a proper way.

We have been using this solution for the last three to four years.

Their support is very great. In cloud services, there is no RMA involved, which means no physical device is involved. The service is very up to date.

Cisco IronPort  technology is available. However, Cisco, Barracuda, and many other solutions are available in the market. The problem is that the customer has to migrate their MX record for a particular domain. The basic thing is that in their technology, you cannot scan internal mail. For example, if two people are part of one enterprise and are using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, the communication between them on the same domain is also scanned. However, when considering competitors such as Cisco, Barracuda, Sophos, and other players in the market such as OPSWAT, there is always a threat that internal mail is not scanned because email is hosted on a Microsoft server and the MX record is hosted on a third-party server. That is the problem. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration scans internal as well as external mail, which is why it is the better choice.

Setup is very simple since it is API based. I do not require anything. I just have to enter the credential of Microsoft tenant ID and password or Google super admin username and password and the process is very simple due to artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. It will implement automatically. If I have some knowledge, I can implement the policies and have custom policies as well. In DLP , they have given already many pre-configured policies for data loss prevention. Apart from that, if I would like to have my own policy, they also give that facility where I can put my own policy.

The best thing is that on a single tenant I can manage multiple services such as Harmony Endpoint, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Harmony Browser, mobile security, EDR, XDR , which is endpoint security, and SaaS. All of these services have a single dashboard.

Check Point offers three features in their solution. The basic package, advanced package, and complete package are available. The complete package comes with encryption and DLP, which is Data Loss Prevention. The price difference between the advanced package and complete package is almost double. They have already given choices regarding which package customers can sustain and according to that they can be provided. As for the price, Check Point always has flexible pricing. They never charge more and can work within any given budget. I give Check Point 10 out of 10 for pricing. My overall review rating for this solution is 10 out of 10.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is used at the OAuth API level for integration with Google Workspace  and Office 365 . It is intended for customers who have their environment set up in Office 365  or Google Workspace  and does not support any third-party email software.

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has a comprehensive analysis page for phishing emails, showing details such as SPF, DKIM, and the AI detection model. The solution also includes sandboxing for links and attachments and has an integrated VirusTotal  feature. The relationship between domains is detailed, offering valuable insights including risk analysis and communication history.

The automated incident response feature provides inline prevention by blocking emails before they reach the inbox. It is beneficial for security administrators as they can automate policies without daily manual inspections, leading to fewer false positives.

AI-powered threat intelligence effectively analyzes mail body to detect malicious intent, despite hackers employing new techniques that avoid conventional scans for attachments and links. The effectiveness is rated nine out of ten due to occasional false positives.

URL reputation analysis enhances threat prevention processes, being one of the top URL scanners available. It considers domain age as an indicator of potential malicious activity, alongside VirusTotal  and other integrations.

The inspection technologies are robust, safeguarding shared files and integrating with platforms like Teams to block malicious links.

Overall, the benefits of using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration include easing system administration tasks. Features such as banners provide end-users with concise email summaries, enhancing usability and security awareness.

Improved support is needed as current support is slow. Additionally, the AI engine could improve, particularly concerning text body attacks where false positives have been noted. Latency issues have also been experienced, with some cases taking fifteen to twenty seconds to process, while others take up to one or two minutes.

I have been working with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for almost one and a half years.

I find Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration to be quite stable.

In terms of scalability, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is easily scalable. As a cloud-based solution, it accommodates diverse user bases, from thirty thousand users to five hundred users, offering excellent scalability.

My experience with the initial setup and deployment process of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is that it is minimalized, completing in fifteen minutes. However, since it is AI-based, it requires one day to synchronize and learn all mailboxes before policy setup can begin.

In terms of ROI, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration effectively brings ROI to my clients. It suits both SMB and enterprise customers because it is an affordable solution that performs well, resulting in satisfied customers.

My experience with the pricing aspect, including setup cost and licensing cost of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, is that it is minimal. Compared to competitors, it remains competitive.

Apart from Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, I also work with other technologies, specifically Trend Micro. When comparing both, Check Point offers more detailed mail quarantine analysis, proving advantageous for system administrators.

From the features perspective of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, it only supports Google Workspace and Office 365 because of its API-based nature. An MX gateway option would enhance the solution.

My advice to other organizations considering Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration would be that it is a great tool. Use it fully but check for false positives initially until fully streamlined. I rate this solution nine out of ten.