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.
"The risk level notifications are most valuable. We get to know what kind of intrusion or attack is there, and we can fix a problem on time."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors."
"Defender for Office 365 has helped eliminate having to look at multiple dashboards and that is the aspect I like most about it. It is simpler, effective, and convenient. The users like the process efficiency."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"The most valuable feature of Avanan is its effectiveness. When scanning incoming emails for threats it can in an automated fashion, quarantine suspicious attachments."
"The threat detection tools enable us to ascertain malware and phishing messages across the email network infrastructure."
"The program has reduced the dangers related to phishing, malware, ransomware, and other vulnerabilities."
"It is simple to deploy this platform and interact with the set features."
"This technology is one of Check Point's acquisitions, and it is currently a powerful tool that provides all the protection that is not found in other tools."
"The customizable rules allow you to change aspects."
"Easy to use for non-technical users."
"Email encryption enhances end to end security of any data before it passes through the networking system."
"The product is a fairly complete and centralized solution accessible through the Infinity Portal."
"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."
"Encryption of emails enhances safe communication that ransomware attacks cannot compromise."
"Its total protection has been the greatest aspect since it completely protects all the mail from the cloud."
"The solution helps to block spam emails."
"The setup is very easy. I haven't faced any complexity with the setup of the solution."
"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."
"The feature I find to be most valuable is very much the zero-touch provisioning. I was able to be up, operational, and 100 percent functional in less than a half an hour."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"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 Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"The company should focus on adding threats that the solution is currently unable to detect."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"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."
"Microsoft security solutions work as expected. They are constantly updating the solutions to make them better. At the same time, the changes can impact a customer's environment, and we need to adjust settings. Sometimes we aren't aware of the changes, and nothing is pushed from the backend automatically."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"The system could be designed to give corporate emails first priority due to demands."
"The overall user interface is not attractive. It needs some improvement."
"Familiarization with performance for new teams may take a long time."
"It should reduce the amount of time needed for thorough scanning."
"It should also offer a quick backup in case any email is wrongly quarantined or deleted to ensure no data loss."
"It is very difficult to find the required documentation."
"In Avanan, the email channel is one of the channels where data leakage happens, and they need to consider it from a DLP perspective."
"The unified dashboard that it displays needs some improvements in terms of the KPIs that they have."
"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."
"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."
"I would love it if they would do some work on the Postgres definition on the back-end."
"Some files are not scanned thoroughly due to occasional network failures."
"Some undefined threats can bypass the security system when there is a networking failure in the organization."
"The solution fails to support hybrid deployments."
"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."
"There could be more automation features included for it."
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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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