We compared Avanan and Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Avanan is highly praised for its customizability as well as its consistent advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration offers exceptional integration through APIs, advanced protection against data leaks, and the ability to detect complex social engineering attacks.
Room for Improvement: Avanan can enhance its alert clearance speed, decrease false positives, and improve scanning and backup options. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration could improve integration with Exchange and other SaaS clouds while enhancing its threat clouds and AI engines.
Service and Support: Avanan's customer service is consistently commended for its exceptional quality, efficiency, and expertise. Check Point has earned mixed reviews for its customer service. Some customers appreciate the technical support provided, while others are dissatisfied with response times.
Ease of Deployment: Users like Avanan's trouble-free setup and easy updates. Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement.
Pricing: Avanan offers affordable, transparent SaaS-based pricing. Users find it cost-effective, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is a cost-effective option. It offers competitive prices and is suitable for small to medium-sized organizations.
ROI: Avanan has consistently provided positive results by enhancing email network security and contributing to revenue growth. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options.
Comparison Results: Avanan is praised for its ease of implementation, adaptability, and cost-effectiveness. Users say Avanan could improve by reducing false positives and providing better documentation. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is an effective solution for blocking malicious attachments and detecting social engineering attacks. However, there is room for improvement in terms of integration and support, reducing false positives, and enhancing response times.
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"The product's scalability is good."
"Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"It is simple to deploy this platform and interact with the set features."
"I highly recommend this solution to any prospective buyer."
"It can detect corrupted files and filters out documents with viruses."
"I like Avanan's SmartDLP module. It's seamless, and the administrative overhead is low. We aren't a very sophisticated operation. We just want to reduce our exposure, so we find ThreatCloud helpful. Avanan's acquisition by Check Point was beneficial for them."
"It can retract unsafe emails and remove them from the entire communication channel."
"The program has reduced the dangers related to phishing, malware, ransomware, and other vulnerabilities."
"Spam protection is the most valuable feature."
"The customizable rules allow you to change aspects."
"This DLP is very useful, as it gives our users additional protection."
"The most valuable features would be its ability to intercept phishing emails and emails laden with malware, viruses, false links, etc."
"Data loss and data leakage prevention are well deployed which helps businesses to scale and expand effortlessly without any trouble."
"It is very intuitive. It is a point and click type of deal."
"It is fast and quite effective in terms of preventing any security incidents."
"The fact that we can share documents without emailing them and still be confident they will go through the corresponding scrutiny is great."
"Getting reports and finding threats in the console is easy."
"The product offers good and easy integration capabilities with other products."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could improve by giving customers information on techniques to prevent threats. For example, information about best practices on how to protect their own devices against hackers and scammers, such as educational information or training. This would help others have a better understanding of cyber security. Additionally, there can be more security features added."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"They have moved features from one console to another. Things have been moved around in the interface and it takes me time to find where certain features are."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. It depends on the architecture, but we would like to make it more scalable for both data centers."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should improve the troubleshooting tools. It's unclear whether the device is blocked at the firewall level or at the device itself. The granularity needed for troubleshooting is currently lacking. From my perspective, Microsoft should address this issue to benefit many users who likely share the same sentiment."
"We noticed that from time to time, Microsoft's stability does have problems. Sometimes the service goes up and down. Sometimes they change without prior notice."
"Microsoft sometimes has downtime, and we'll get several incidents coming in back to back. We have a huge backlog of notifications, many of which may be false positives. However, there might be serious alerts, so we can't risk dismissing all of them at once."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"They should come up with a mobile application so that it can be more flexible."
"Being cloud first and because we are in the movie business, we use a lot of Macintoshes. So, there is absolutely no reason for us to have Active Directory whatsoever. However, if you are using Office 365, you must have Active Directory in order to reset passwords. Even though we have a single sign-on provider, we must have Azure Active Directory for Office 365, which is really stupid. As a cloud application, you would think that I don't need Active Directory, which I don't need for anything else except Office 365. We have one server inside that space to help us manage Active Directory just for Office 365. This is a very sore point, but it is what it is."
"When sending bulky emails, the system slows down and takes a long time before it responds effectively to our requests."
"The user experience must be improved."
"It is very difficult to find the required documentation."
"Avanan doesn't cover certain tool segments."
"The system response in a slow computing device affects performance when sending and receiving emails."
"Familiarization with performance for new teams may take a long time."
"Cloud Guard would be a complete solution if Check Point added a comprehensive data loss solution that included capabilities such as bulk data transfer detection."
"I need to go to Check Point's admin portal if I want to see the license list and the details of the users of the tool, making it an area of concern where some ease of process should be provided from an improvement perspective."
"It would be nice to see them expand their collaboration capabilities to include other suites and integrate with lesser-known products."
"Check Point has to continue refining the intelligence engine to minimize the number of false positives."
"Check Point Infinity Portal sometimes feels a bit slow, and there are performance issues that should be easy to fix."
"The next release should focus more on email categorization and provide options for unlocking blocked safe emails."
"The solution fails to support hybrid deployments."
"They should consider a module that allows the customizing of reports so we can generate executive information for the client (to explain in simple language the general security situation in the SaaS environment)."
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Avanan is ranked 6th in Email Security with 21 reviews while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 49 reviews. Avanan is rated 9.2, while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Avanan writes "We've noticed a significant decline from people accidentally or intentionally clicking on things". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration writes "Has a user-friendly dashboard, a great anti-phishing algorithm, and sandboxing for testing". Avanan is most compared with IRONSCALES, Perception Point Advanced Email Security, Abnormal Security, Mimecast Email Security and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email, Barracuda Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud. See our Avanan vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration report.
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