We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and Microsoft Defender for Cloud based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration outperforms Microsoft Defender for Cloud among our reviewers. Check Point Harmony seamlessly integrates with different platforms and services, offers advanced data leak prevention features, and provides comprehensive monitoring. Microsoft Defender for Cloud received mixed reviews for its customer service, support, setup process, and licensing experience.
"Its characteristics are adapted to the most modern threats."
"The automated rule cleanups and automated policy installs have improved my customers' organizations."
"The solution has a very effective anti-phishing algorithm that detects a significantly higher number of phishing emails compared to the default Microsoft solution."
"Email security has improved since we deployed this platform."
"As with most of the other Check Point products, the CloudGuard SaaS has the advanced visibility of the events and alerts."
"The solution helps to block spam emails."
"In my opinion, it's one of the best products. It does protect other things like Slack and Salesforce, which are more about communication."
"I can count the number of endpoints, emails, and collaborations being used in the environment."
"Microsoft Defender has a lot of features including regulatory compliance and attaching workbooks but the most valuable is the recommendations it provides for each and every resource when we open Microsoft Defender."
"When we started out, our secure score was pretty low. We adopted some of the recommendations that Security Center set out and we were able to make good progress on improving it. It had been in the low thirties and is now in the upper eighties."
"It takes very little effort to integrate it. It also gives very good visibility into what exactly is happening."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the remote workforce capabilities and the general experience of the remote workforce."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the insights, meaning the remediation suggestions, as well as the incident alerts."
"We can create alerts that trigger if there is any malicious activity happening in the workflow and these alerts can be retrieved using the query language."
"The security policy is the most valuable feature for us. We can go into the environment settings and attach any globally recognized framework like ISO or any benchmark."
"It is very intuitive when it comes to policy administration, alerts and notifications, and ease of setting up roles at different hierarchies. It has also been good in terms of the network technology maps. It provides a good overview, but it also depends on the complexity of your network."
"They could help us be integrating features with solutions from third parties."
"A phishing simulator would be helpful as a user training module."
"Check Point has to continue refining the intelligence engine to minimize the number of false positives."
"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."
"At this time, the two-factor authentication does not work for Active Directory."
"The product's pricing needs improvement."
"Check Point's technical support is very much of a low level, especially with respect to other vendors and OEMs."
"Its guides are not great."
"The documentation and implementation guides could be improved."
"Azure's system could be more on point like AWS support. For example, if I have an issue with AWS, I create a support ticket, then I get a call or a message. With Azure support, you raise a ticket, and somebody calls back depending on their availability and the priority, which might not align with your business priority."
"No possibility to write or edit any capability."
"The product was a bit complex to set up earlier, however, it is a bit streamlined now."
"The solution's portal is very easy to use, but there's one key component that is missing when it comes to managing policies. For example, if I've onboarded my server and I need to specify antivirus policies, there's no option to do that on the portal. I will have to go to Intune to deploy them. That is one main aspect that is missing and it's worrisome."
"If a customer is already using Okta as an SSO in its entire environment, they will want to continue with it. But Security Center doesn't understand that and keeps making recommendations. It would help if it let us resolve a recommendation, even if it is not implemented."
"When you work with it, the only problem that we're struggling with is that we have 21 different subscriptions we're trying to apply security to. It's impossible to keep everything organized."
"From a compliance standpoint, they can include some more metrics and some specific compliances such as GDPR."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 9th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 47 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Cloud is ranked 3rd in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 46 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Defender for Cloud 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 Microsoft Defender for Cloud writes "Provides multi-cloud capability, is plug-and-play, and improves our security posture". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email and Barracuda Email Protection, whereas Microsoft Defender for Cloud is most compared with AWS GuardDuty, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender XDR, Wiz and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud report.
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