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.
"It is advantageous in terms of time-saving and cost reduction."
"We mostly use alerts. That has been pretty good. If we use the alert system from Amazon, it is much costlier to us, so we use PingSafe."
"It saves time, makes your environment more secure, and improves compliance. PingSafe helps with audits, ensuring that you are following best practices for cloud security. You don't need to be an expert to use it and improve your security."
"When creating cloud infrastructure, Cloud Native Security evaluates the cloud security parameters and how they will impact the organization's risk. It lets us know whether our security parameter conforms to international industry standards. It alerts us about anything that increases our risk, so we can address those vulnerabilities and prevent attacks."
"Cloud Native Security helps us discover vulnerabilities in a cloud environment like open ports that allow people to attack our environment. If someone unintentionally opens a port, we are exposed. Cloud Native Security alerts us so we can remediate the problem. We can also automate it so that Cloud Native Security will fix it."
"The real-time detection and response capabilities overall are great."
"The cloud misconfiguration is the most valuable feature."
"The remediation process is good."
"Its total protection has been the greatest aspect since it completely protects all the mail from the cloud."
"It seems quite scalable. We don't anticipate any scaling issues. We have it deployed in the cloud."
"It helped us to bring security compliance and ensure system robustness throughout."
"I like the fact that having granular information about the potential threats is received in email."
"The automated rule cleanups and automated policy installs have improved my customers' organizations."
"Check Point adds value with east-west protection in the data center."
"The solution helps to block spam emails."
"I appreciate the ease of deployment and the intuitive dashboard. Even someone with basic IT knowledge can easily understand the dashboard and identify potential threats."
"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."
"Threat protection is comprehensive and simple."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"Defender for Cloud is a plug-and-play solution that provides continuous posture management once enabled."
"The solution's robust security posture is the most valuable feature."
"Good compliance policies."
"DSPM is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"The cost has the potential for improvement."
"PingSafe can be improved by developing a comprehensive set of features that allow for automated workflows."
"In some cases, the rules are strictly enforced but do not align with real-world use cases."
"We are getting reports only in a predefined form. I would like to have customized reports so that I can see how many issues are open or closed today or in two weeks."
"PingSafe can improve by eliminating 100 percent of the false positives."
"Currently, we would have to export our vulnerability report to an .xlsx file, and review it in an Excel spreadsheet, and then we sort of compile a list from there. It would be cool if there was a way to actually toggle multiple applications for review and then see those file paths on multiple users rather than only one user at a time or only one application at a time."
"PingSafe's current documentation could be improved to better assist customers during the cluster onboarding process."
"PingSafe is an excellent CSPM tool, but the CWPP features need to improve, and there is a scope for more application security posture management features. There aren't many ASPM solutions on the market, and existing ones are costly. I would like to see PingSafe develop into a single pane of glass for ASPM, CSPM, and CWPP. Another feature I'd like to see is runtime protection."
"Some files are not scanned thoroughly due to occasional network failures."
"We understand that false positives are always there, but sometimes the notifications are more than expected."
"Harmony Email & Collaboration could be improved by making the whitelist available on the website and application level."
"There could be more automation features included for it."
"At this time, the two-factor authentication does not work for Active Directory."
"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."
"I have learned enough to make the product stable. However, the stability has some challenges."
"The integration with Gsuite could be improved, especially when reporting the amount of emails it manages to filter."
"As an analyst, there is no way to configure or create a playbook to automate the process of flagging suspicious domains."
"Microsoft Defender could be more centralized. For example, I still need to go to another console to do policy management."
"Pricing could be improved. There are limited options based on pricing for the government."
"Microsoft sources most of their threat intelligence internally, but I think they should open themselves up to bodies that provide feel intelligence to build a better engine. There may be threats out there that they don't report because their team is not doing anything on that and they don't have arrangements with another party that is involved in that research."
"Defender is occasionally unreliable. It isn't 100% efficient in terms of antivirus detection, but it isn't an issue most of the time. It's also somewhat difficult to train new security analysts to use Defender."
"The solution is quite complex. A lot of the different policies that actually get applied don't pertain to every client. If you need to have something open for a client application to work, then you get dinged for having a port open or having an older version of TLS available."
"The solution could improve by being more intuitive and easier to use requiring less technical knowledge."
"We would like to have better transparency as to how the security score is calculated because as it is now, it is difficult to understand."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 9th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 49 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 8.6, 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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