Comprehensive Security Made Easy with Harmony – Excellent Support and Seamless Integration
What do you like best about the product?
Harmony scans email attachments and shared files using threat emulation and sandboxing, catching unknown malware that traditional tools might miss.Security teams can manage email, collaboration, and endpoint protection from a single dashboard—simplifying operations and improving visibility. HEC includes DLP-style functionality for emails + collaboration tools,inspecting attachments, content, subject/body for sensitive data and preventing inappropriate sharing.Easy to implement and customer support is so great.
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislike as of now. We like the solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Stronger Security Posture With real-time threat detection and prevention, our organization experiences fewer successful attacks and reduced exposure to risk.Harmony helps meet data protection standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 by enforcing access controls and preventing data leaks.The centralized dashboard allows IT teams to monitor threats, enforce policies, and respond to incidents across all communication channels from one place.
Comprehensive AI-Powered Protection for Email and Collaboration Apps
What do you like best about the product?
Harmony Email & Collaboration uses AI and real-time link analysis to detect and block phishing attempts before they reach the inbox.The system continuously monitors for suspicious activity, helping organizations respond quickly to potential breaches.Unlike many email-only security tools, HEC extends protection to collaboration apps like Teams, Slack, and OneDrive, which are increasingly common attack vectors.It leverages ThreatCloud intelligence, which continuously updates with the latest global threat data — strengthening protection in real time. Easy to implement and support is so great.
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislike as of now this solution. Product is so great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By using threat emulation and sandboxing, it identifies and neutralizes unknown threats that traditional antivirus tools might miss.Organizations experience fewer successful phishing attempts and malware infections, leading to safer communication.Granular policy settings help meet regulatory requirements and protect sensitive data.he platform gives dashboards, traceability, incident logging, unified quarantine and integrations which can speed up investigations.
Effective AI Email Security, but Google Integration Lags Behind Microsoft
What do you like best about the product?
Avanan Cloud Email Security is an API-based solution tailored for cloud email gateways like Microsoft and Google Workspace. By leveraging an API, it enables smooth and straightforward implementation. Its AI-driven detection model proves effective at spotting phishing emails, BECs, spam, and various other threats, which significantly helps reduce the risk of email attacks in an efficient way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Avana Cloud Email Security is an API-based solution that delivers email protection by connecting directly with cloud email gateways like Microsoft and Google. However, it's worth mentioning that when Avana is used with Google, some features present in the Microsoft integration are not available. But Avana is one of the best product in it's segment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Avana Cloud Email Security has been effective in reducing the delivery of spam emails to user mailboxes by quarantining true positive messages. It assists in blocking bulk emails and phishing attempts, which helps to decrease both spam and potential attacks targeting users.
Effortless Email Security with Minor Filtering Hiccups
What do you like best about the product?
I'm delighted with Harmony Email and Collaboration, which has been a great support since its implementation. It has made a huge difference in how we handle email security without adding extra steps or slowing anything down. It quietly filters out threats and builds trust in the tool, especially with so many people working remotely and sharing files across different platforms. It simply works and allows us to focus on getting things done instead of worrying about phishing or data breaches.
What do you dislike about the product?
One small thing I don't like about Harmony Email and Collaboration is that sometimes the filtering is too strict and blocks important emails, forcing me to spend time checking the quarantine or changing the settings, but overall, these are minor inconveniences compared to the level of protection it offers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us mitigate the daily risk of phishing and email attacks, especially with a team that works from different locations and relies on cloud-based tools and shared documents. We also achieve secure communication without disrupting our workflow, allowing people to collaborate freely and access resources without worrying about hidden threats or data leaks. The protection is very comprehensive, allowing security personnel to focus on other tasks with the confidence that Check Point provides.
User-Friendly Email Security with Excellent Microsoft Support, Some Gaps for Google Workspace
What do you like best about the product?
Check Point Avanan Cloud Email Security is straightforward to deploy thanks to its API integration. The Avanan dashboard is very user-friendly and easy to navigate, making it simple for email administrators to create or modify policies as needed. It includes all the essential modules, such as phishing detection, business email compromise detection, spam detection, real-time external URL detection, sandboxing, and more to mitigate modern day threads. As an administrator, you will find that you need to visit the dashboard less frequently compared to other solutions on the market.
What do you dislike about the product?
Check Point Avanan Cloud Email Security offers API-only integration, supporting just online email platforms like Microsoft and Google Workspace. While the integration with Microsoft through API works seamlessly and provides the full set of features, the experience with Google Workspace API integration is somewhat more challenging and lacks certain features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point Avana Cloud Email Security is effective in mitigating modern threats that target the email channel, which remains a major attack surface for attackers. Taking into account its full set of features and functionality, it also helps reduce spam emails. Additionally, the email digest feature allows users to release quarantined emails without needing to raise a concern.
Outstanding Real-Time Email Security with Granular Insights
What do you like best about the product?
Check Point’s real-time threat intelligence engine (ThreatCloud) does an excellent job at blocking phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and zero-day email attacks. It analyzes links, attachments, and sender reputations dynamically, not just based on static signatures.The dashboard provides granular insights into email traffic, spam statistics, blocked messages, and phishing attempts, which helps security teams fine-tune policies and demonstrate compliance. Easy to implement and support is so great.
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislike as of now. Product is doing great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point’s solution uses AI/ML to analyze aspects of each email, including sender reputation, history, link/attachment behavior.The product uses an approach that analyses message characteristics (headers/envelopes) rather than relying solely on keyword matching, which gives higher accuracy.The solution supports email/attachment scanning, threat emulation/sandboxing, and other inspection.The centralised management + integrated threat intelligence means less manual overhead and better alignment with broader enterprise security infrastructure.
AI-Powered Security That Seamlessly Protects All Our Platforms
What do you like best about the product?
Uses AI-driven threat detection to identify and block sophisticated attacks before they reach users.Works smoothly with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other popular platforms, protecting not just email but also shared documents, calendars, and chat tools.Reduces IT overhead by automating many security tasks and providing clear visibility into system health. Easy to implement and easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislike as of now. Product is doing great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It filters out malicious and irrelevant messages, and prioritizes important communications.Harmony uses advanced threat prevention to block phishing, ransomware, and malware before they reach users.It offers easy-to-use policy controls and automation.It enforces data loss prevention (DLP) policies and helps meet regulatory requirements like GDPR and HIPAA.
Seamless Integration and Powerful AI Protection for Cloud Email
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Avanan Cloud Email Security is its seamless integration with cloud email platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. It deploys via API, which means there’s no disruption to mail flow and no complex configurations. Avanan’s AI-driven threat detection is highly effective in identifying phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and malware before they reach users’ inboxes. Additionally, its internal email protection and post-delivery remediation features provide strong, continuous protection against evolving email-based threats. It is very easy to implement.
What do you dislike about the product?
One drawback of Avanan Cloud Email Security is that its advanced threat analysis and quarantine features can sometimes lead to false positives, causing legitimate emails to be flagged.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Avanan Cloud Email Security effectively solves problems related to phishing, ransomware, and business email compromise by scanning emails before they reach the inbox. It also secures internal and outbound communication, preventing lateral attacks within the organization. By integrating natively with cloud email platforms, it eliminates the need for complex rerouting or MX record changes. This ensures faster deployment, better visibility, and minimal disruption to users. Overall, it significantly reduces the risk of data breaches and enhances confidence in email communication security.
Harmony Email & Collaboration: Strong Security, But Not Flawless
What do you like best about the product?
Harmony Email & Collaboration is relatively easy to use and blocks well different kind of threats -phishing, malware, ransomware. It can be easily implemented and integrated with Microsoft 365 easily. It has strong security without disrupting email flow.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the downsides are that Harmony Email & Collaboration gives frequent false positives. Also, the customer support is slow in getting your request done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Harmony Email & Collaboration detects phishing and spoofing attacks. It also enforces custom policies to stop sensitive information from being shared inappropriately. It also uses behavioural analysis to identify and block unauthorized access attempts. MFA can also be set to add an extra layer of security.
Security threats have been blocked early and email collaboration has become more confident and productive
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is to control security, specifically in securing email for my organization.
I need to control when malware, phishing, or ransomware is sent over email in my organization.
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has become a key part of how we collaborate securely; it's not just about blocking spam or phishing but actively protecting us from more advanced threats.
What is most valuable?
The best part of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is how quietly powerful it is, working in the background to keep threats out without disrupting how we work; that balance really stands out.
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has definitely helped our team feel more secure and confident; before we had it, phishing emails and impersonation attempts were a regular headache.
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration helps build trust across the team, as people feel more confident opening emails, clicking links, and collaborating knowing there's a strong layer of protection behind the scenes; that's huge for productivity.
Before Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, phishing and impersonation emails were regular issues, and since rolling it out, we have seen a big drop in those threats reaching users.
Our incident response time has improved by roughly 40%.
What needs improvement?
One aspect I wish were a bit smoother about Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is the user interface, especially when managing quarantined emails or reviewing threat reports.
Navigating between quarantine, threat logs, and policy settings sometimes feels clunky, requiring too many clicks to get to commonly used features.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration's scalability is good.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is great; it is faster and easier.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, I used Microsoft Security Portal.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment by saving time for the user support.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is great; the pricing is just great.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate any other options before choosing Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration.
What other advice do I have?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is deployed in my organization as a hybrid cloud solution.
We use Azure as our cloud provider with the hybrid cloud setup.
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is a great opportunity for securing your organization.
I would rate Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration a nine out of ten because I prefer support in some different languages, as currently, it's only in English.
