We compared Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: 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. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection offers seamless integration with Windows, a central alert console, and real-time monitoring of suspicious URLs.
Room for Improvement: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration could improve integration with Exchange and other SaaS clouds while enhancing its threat clouds and AI engines. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection could offer more training and enhance its security features. Users also requested better encryption, gray email management, and integration with non-Microsoft platforms.
Service and Support: Check Point has earned mixed reviews for its customer service. Some customers appreciate the technical support provided, while others are dissatisfied with response times. While some users found Microsoft support to be helpful and responsive, others experienced slower response times.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement. Users had varied experiences setting up Microsoft Exchange Online Protection, ranging from easy to difficult. It may necessitate dedicated personnel for maintenance.
Pricing: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is a cost-effective option. It offers competitive prices and is suitable for small to medium-sized organizations. Some users said Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is expensive, but others considered it reasonable.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection has proven to be a profitable investment.
Comparison Results: 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 Exchange Online Protection is praised for its seamless integration with Windows and useful features like URL holding and threat management. At the same time, users say it could improve in areas such as pricing, documentation, and security features.
"Threat Explorer is an invaluable tool for me, and it plays a crucial role in helping me discern the origins of various email campaigns, pinpointing where they emanate from, and identifying the individuals within our organization who are affected."
"At the moment we are satisfied with this product. It's a stable, scalable, and resilient solution for us."
"Defender is a SaaS platform, so it offers more flexibility. Managing the permissions is easier. The solution's automated detection and response features are scalable."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable feature is protection against malicious links, fishing, and impersonation. You can train people to be aware of these threats, but they're not always careful. When they're using their phones between meetings, they click on a link, and it's game over."
"It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"It is fast and quite effective in terms of preventing any security incidents."
"It is very intuitive. It is a point and click type of deal."
"The API is its most valuable feature. On the API side, relative to the rest of the market, Check Point is decades ahead of its competitors."
"In my opinion, it's one of the best products. It does protect other things like Slack and Salesforce, which are more about communication."
"As a comprehensive solution, Check Point offers a very granular and best-in-class experience."
"The program has a nice interface and it is easy to use."
"Its characteristics are adapted to the most modern threats."
"The product's environment is easy to work and comprehensive."
"The initial setup of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection was easy."
"It is easy to configure, easy to use, easy to add exclusions, easy to track, and easy to add anything else if you want."
"The scalability is pretty good; it does what it is supposed to do."
"The initial setup is just a standard process."
"The solution uses artificial intelligence and machine learning, so you don't need train it to detect something. The detection and response times are short. It's an excellent product."
"What I like most about Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is its integration with Windows, so we have one central view for all alerts and incidents."
"The threat management feature includes policies and alerts that are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of administration. Other solutions require complex administration, but Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is easier."
"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"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."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"The certification training for Defender for 365 needs to be deeper and incorporate Sentinel. I took all the security courses except one, and Sentinel isn't included."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"Some undefined threats can bypass the security system when there is a networking failure in the organization."
"Stability has been a pain point. I was going back and forth with my product engineer and project manager for a couple of months. I had the product in a demonstration mode and wasn't satisfied with the results initially. After a few alterations and a few revisions later, it is fine."
"Its guides are not great."
"Check Point has to continue refining the intelligence engine to minimize the number of false positives."
"We are unable to export the reports from the dashboard, and if it is possible to do then it is not intuitive."
"Check Point's technical support is very much of a low level, especially with respect to other vendors and OEMs."
"A phishing simulator would be helpful as a user training module."
"Check Point needs to address the pricing segment for SMEs."
"It wasn't easy or intuitive enough for me to start using it. So, the reason was that the solution changed."
"The product could be more stable. Microsoft products could be more stable because sometimes, even though they are updating some things, we cannot find those updates."
"If a company wants to put in line back-to-back anti-spam solutions, they need to work on that part because Microsoft recommends either you use EOP as a front line or you don't use it."
"The reporting needs a little bit of improvement."
"The security compliance features need to be improved. Sometimes, a client's mailbox becomes full because of retained information and not because of mail. I would like to see improvement in block rules as well."
"Microsoft has some training portals, but more could be developed."
"I think the implementation could be more streamlined."
"The solution needs to improve its backup."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 49 reviews while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 3rd in Email Security with 34 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration writes "Has a user-friendly dashboard, a great anti-phishing algorithm, and sandboxing for testing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) writes "An effective email security solution that provides DLP, Safe Attachment, and Safe Links". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email and IRONSCALES, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail, Mimecast Email Security and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) report.
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