We compared Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration and Fortinet FortiMail 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. Fortinet FortiMail is highly praised for its simplicity, intuitive interface, and smooth compatibility with other Fortinet products.
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. Fortinet FortiMail requires enhancements in integration, user management, and documentation.
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. Fortinet FortiMail is considered to have a moderate and fair setup cost, which is seen as reasonable.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement. The setup process for Fortinet FortiMail is described as relatively easy and can be completed within a few hours or up to 14 working days. It is flexible and can be tailored to specific needs, although it may require help from technical professionals.
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. Fortinet FortiMail is considered to have a moderate and fair setup cost, which is seen as reasonable.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options. Fortinet FortiMail provides enhanced email communication, decreased spam, stabilized collections, and altered expenses.
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. Fortinet FortiMail and Cisco Secure Email have distinct features and functionalities. Fortinet FortiMail is known for its simple setup, user-friendly interface, and effective email filtering. It can be customized and seamlessly integrated with other Fortinet products.
"The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"The initial setup was easy."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"Defender for 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based solution. The value of the cloud is that you aren't alone. Threat intelligence and analytics are shared in the cloud. We don't have to find the solution alone. If you face an unknown threat with traditional solutions like Trend Micro and Symantec, you need to open a case and send your information to them to analyze forensically and identify the source of the attack."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"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."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"The stuff that it's picking up and blocking and stopping from coming into our environment has been fantastic."
"Based on domain and URL reputation, it will allow traffic to flow."
"We have managed to have an impressive reduction in phishing that used to enter our system before applying Check Point."
"Its total protection has been the greatest aspect since it completely protects all the mail from the cloud."
"For Threat Prevention, I was impressed with this feature and the solution's effectiveness. It has been very good."
"The product's environment is easy to work and comprehensive."
"The dashboard provides information to investigate more about malicious activity and blocked emails."
"Its characteristics are adapted to the most modern threats."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Fortinet FortiMail's most valuable features are antispam, antivirus, database, and data loss prevention (DLP)."
"Fortinet’s support services are good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the spam filter."
"Fortinet FortiMail is easy to use and the detection rate is very good. You can customize content filters and profiles are done easily. Additionally, there is a sandbox integration feature that is good."
"The important feature is the application control, which makes administration much easier. It also has an intrusion prevention feature. There's also the wireless functionality, which works well with Huawei devices."
"The deployment is simple and once up and running it is easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the tool's ability to prevent phishing attacks."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"About eight months ago, we started to measure the quantity of phishing and spam that we have been receiving, and it has been increasing a lot. That means that protection for our email is not as good as we were expecting."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"Support can be a bit quicker in helping the customer."
"Its guides are not great."
"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)."
"The NAVEX metrics that I have been using on the CloudGuard dashboard cannot be exported. If they were to add report exporting capabilities on each of metric objects on the dashboard, that would be awesome."
"We understand that false positives are always there, but sometimes the notifications are more than expected."
"The business team should be further expanded, and more peer feedback should be made available publicly to have better and complete visibility of the application globally."
"We are unable to export the reports from the dashboard, and if it is possible to do then it is not intuitive."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiMail should allow more flexibility with the content rules."
"The solution could improve by making the UI more user-friendly and increasing spam and threat detection capabilities."
"It would be nice if we could manage the solution from the cloud so I could handle things off-site if necessary."
"The solution doesn't scale easily."
"Online support sometimes takes up to a week to get back to you."
"Fortinet FortiMail's technical support team has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"Fortinet FortiMail could improve general user management. There are no password policies for users."
"The sandboxing features are not well done in Fortinet FortiMail, making it an area of improvement."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 48 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 57 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6. 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 Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email and Proofpoint Email Protection, whereas Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and TitanHQ SpamTitan. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Fortinet FortiMail report.
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