We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and AWS GuardDuty based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is notable for its seamless API-based integration, advanced data leak prevention, and comprehensive monitoring system. AWS GuardDuty provides a unified platform for data gathering and advanced threat identification. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration could enhance its integration with Exchange and other SaaS solutions. Users say AWS GuardDuty could provide a mobile version and improve dashboard analytics.
Service and Support: Some reviewers praised Check Point's technical support, but others were dissatisfied with the response time. AWS GuardDuty receives acclaim for its prompt and efficient customer support, despite occasional concerns about phone service wait times.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration had a straightforward initial setup. Users appreciated the support staff's helpful guidance during complex integrations. AWS GuardDuty is considered easy to set up, but it could become more complex depending on the architecture and integrations.
Pricing: The license of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is inexpensive and manageable, with a simplified process for renewals and licensing. AWS GuardDuty uses a pay-as-you-go model, and the cost depends on the data usage.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration provides valuable features and support for cloud functionalities, resulting in a solid ROI compared to other options. Estimated user ROI ranges from 15% to 80%. AWS GuardDuty enhances overall security posture, building customer trust and creating potential business opportunities.
Comparison Results: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is preferred over AWS GuardDuty. Users appreciate its simple setup process, API-based integration, advanced data leak prevention capabilities, user-friendly interface, and comprehensive monitoring. AWS GuardDuty lacks a mobile version, and users want more dashboard analytics.
"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."
"With anomaly detection, active threat monitoring, and set correlation, GuardDuty alerts me to any unusual user behavior or traffic patterns right away, which is great for staying on top of potential security risks."
"What I like most about Amazon GuardDuty is that you can monitor your AWS accounts across, but you don't have to pay the additional cost. You can get all your CloudTrail VPC flow logs and DNS logs all in one, and then you get the monitoring with that. A lot of times, if you had a separate tool on-premise, you would have to set up your DNS logs, so usually, Amazon GuardDuty helps with all your additional networking requirements, so I utilize it for continuous monitoring because you can't detect anything if you're not monitoring, and the solution fills that gap. If you don't do anything else first, you can deploy your firewall, and then you've got your Route 53 DNS and DNSSEC, but then Amazon GuardDuty fills that, and then you have audit requirements in AU that says, "Hey, what are your additional logs?", so you can just say, "Hey, we utilize Amazon GuardDuty." You're getting your CloudTrail, your VPC flow logs, and all your DNS logs, and those are your additional logs right there, so the solution meets a lot of requirements. Now, everything comes with a cost, but I also like that the solution also provides threat response and remediation. It's a pretty good product. I've just used it more for log analysis and that's where the value is at, the niche value. Once you do threat detection, it goes into a lot of other integrations you need to implement, so threat detection is only good as the integration, as the user that knows the tools itself, and the architecture and how it's all set up and the rules that you set within that."
"We use the tool for threat detection. AWS includes AI features as well. AWS GuardDuty gives us reports."
"It kinda just gives us another layer of security. So it does provide some sort of comfort that we do have something that is monitoring for abnormal behavior."
"The out-of-band malware detection from the EBS volumes. It's really cool. No agents or anything needed, it automatically finds and correlates based on malware."
"The solution will detect abnormalities in the AWS workload and alert us so that we can monitor and take action."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The setup is very easy. I haven't faced any complexity with the setup of the solution."
"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."
"Its analysis or emulation in the review of each file using the cloud and Check Point helps make each interaction via email more secure."
"The first most remarkable thing is the integration with the Office 365 solution, which is easy, fast, and totally transparent for the user."
"It is very intuitive. It is a point and click type of deal."
"Based on domain and URL reputation, it will allow traffic to flow."
"We are able to protect sensitive business data and maintain regulatory compliance with advanced data leak prevention (DLP)."
"Improvement-wise, Amazon GuardDuty should have an overall dashboard analytics function so we could see what's in the current environment, and then in addition to that, provide best practices and recommendations, particularly to provide some type of observability, and then figure out the login side of it, based on our current environment, in terms of what we're not monitoring and what we should monitor. The solution should also give us a sample code configuration to implement that added feature or feature request. What I'd like to see in the next release of Amazon GuardDuty are more security analytics, reporting, and monitoring. They should provide recommendations and additional options that answer questions such as "Hey, what can we see in our environment?", "What should we implement within the environment?", What's recommended?" We know that cost will always be associated with that, but Amazon GuardDuty should show us the increased costs or decreased costs if we implement it or don't implement it, and that would be a good feature request, particularly with all products within AWS, just for cloud products in general because there are times features are implemented, but once they're deployed, they don't tell you about costs that would be generated along with those features. After features are deployed, there should a summary of the costs that would be generated, and projected based on current usage, so they would give us the option to figure out how long we're going to use those features and the option to keep those on or turn those off. If more services were like that, a lot more people would use those on the cloud."
"AWS GuardDuty needs to be more customer-oriented."
"Cost changes. It's very expensive. If you turn on every feature, it's more than most commercial vendors. For smaller orgs, that doesn't make sense."
"One improvement I would suggest for AWS GuardDuty is the ability to assign findings to specific users or groups, facilitating better communication and follow-up actions."
"For the next release, they could provide IPS features as well."
"An improvement would be to have a mobile version where remote workers can log in and monitor and fix issues."
"I work in a bank, and it would be good if AWS GuardDuty could be integrated with other monitoring and detection tools we use."
"AWS GuardDuty sometimes shows false positives and should have better detection accuracy."
"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."
"We still get some false positives. There are times when legitimate stuff gets flagged and it could be that somebody is expecting a very important email but they don't end up getting it. On the flip side, when we alert Check Point about stuff like this, it is corrected, so they are improving. That's a plus."
"From time to time, the system's administrators notice the increase in the false-positive alerts being reported by CloudGuard SaaS."
"Support can be a bit quicker in helping the customer."
"After updates, the internet connection fails, and I have to restart my desktop to resume initial functionalities."
"The integration with Gsuite could be improved, especially when reporting the amount of emails it manages to filter."
"There are sometimes leakages of viruses when the system is experiencing network failures."
"We have used technical support, but their response time is very slow. It needs to be improved."
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AWS GuardDuty is ranked 4th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 19 reviews while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 8th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 47 reviews. AWS GuardDuty is rated 8.2, while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AWS GuardDuty writes "A stellar threat-detection service that has helped bolster security against malicious threats". 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". AWS GuardDuty is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Wiz and Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP, whereas Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security and Cisco Secure Email. See our AWS GuardDuty vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration report.
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