We compared Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration and Mimecast Email Security 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. Mimecast Email Security is appreciated for its efficient archiving capabilities and effective protection against targeted threats. Its seamless integration with Microsoft 365 also earned high marks.
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. Mimecast Email Security should focus on improving its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and ease of setup.
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. Mimecast's customer service elicits varied opinions, with some customers expressing satisfaction with its responsiveness and effectiveness, while others perceive it as unsatisfactory.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement. Users had mixed experiences with Mimecast Email Security's setup. Some users found it fast and uncomplicated, while others found it moderately complex.
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. Mimecast Email Security is generally seen as costly, and some users struggle to justify the expense. It’s perceived as more expensive than competing solutions.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options. It is challenging to measure the return on investment for Mimecast Email Security.
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. Mimecast is commended for its archiving and targeted threat protection capabilities. On the other hand, Mimecast faces challenges with its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and high pricing.
"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."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple."
"Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"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."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the phishing protection it offers."
"Being able to mass quarantine and remove emails from end users' mailboxes has become extremely important to us as we have grown in size."
"Its characteristics are adapted to the most modern threats."
"The product's environment is easy to work and comprehensive."
"It helped us to bring security compliance and ensure system robustness throughout."
"It is the collaboration between users inside the company. It is a big advantage with Check Point to be able to work together on the same document."
"For Threat Prevention, I was impressed with this feature and the solution's effectiveness. It has been very good."
"We need the phishing detection and email quarantine. Once an email is considered malicious, it stays in the quarantine where we can interrogate it. We can check out why it was quarantined and see if it should be delivered to the individual."
"URL inspection works pretty well."
"What I like about the integration is that it is directly into Microsoft 365, users can use their Microsoft 365 credentials to log into the portal and access their mail."
"The solution is pretty straightforward to use and easy to set up."
"We like the content filtering and secure messaging features."
"In the current environment that the world is in, everyone is trying to hack everyone else, so Project+ definitely helps a lot there."
"Its administration console is very easy to use. The administration console is absolutely important because you interact with the platform through it."
"The solution's performance is good."
"The piece that is most valuable from the Mimecast standpoint will be the sandboxing feature."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types."
"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."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"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."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"Check Point Infinity Portal sometimes feels a bit slow, and there are performance issues that should be easy to fix."
"There is always room for improvement and growth."
"Check Point's technical support is very much of a low level, especially with respect to other vendors and OEMs."
"It would be good to have the option to export the respective record data from dashboards or logs to .csv or other files."
"Some undefined threats can bypass the security system when there is a networking failure in the organization."
"The product's pricing needs improvement."
"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."
"We understand that false positives are always there, but sometimes the notifications are more than expected."
"Many of our users complain that the system is blocking too many attachments. It's a good practice from a security perspective, but our users think Mimecast is doing too much. It might be something we'll have to adjust."
"From an administrative point of view, Mimecast is a little bit cumbersome and difficult. It's not something that the end-user can easily find navigate themselves."
"The filtering needs more flexibility."
"The platform's cost-effectiveness could be improved."
"Lately, Mimecast's outbound mail servers have been regularly blocklisted by spam filters. That didn't happen a few years back, but it seems to be a more frequent problem these days. When a server is blocklisted, it means all of my outgoing mail ends up in the recipient's junk mail. That affects my reputation and business confidence."
"The feature that should be included is to remove the block on the encrypted files."
"The price could be better, it should be reduced."
"I'd like to have better support from the product in the future."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 49 reviews while Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 25 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.6, while Mimecast Email Security is rated 8.0. 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 Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Cisco Secure Email, Barracuda Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud, whereas Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Abnormal Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email, Darktrace and Fortinet FortiMail. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Mimecast Email Security report.
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