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.
"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 product has automated protection powered by AI/ML, which is now far more powerful than before. It uses AI/ML in its detection algorithm, providing fast and quick results."
"The correlation back end is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"One of the advantages of cloud services is the ability to use them on demand. There's minimal installation involved; you can check the latest offerings and make new deployments while dismantling the previous ones. This approach keeps you ahead of potential services, showcasing the agility of AWS."
"Since our environment is cloud based and accessible from the internet, we like the ability to check where the user has logged in from and what kind of API calls that user is doing."
"The most valuable features are the single system for data collection and the alert mechanisms."
"We use the tool for threat detection. AWS includes AI features as well. AWS GuardDuty gives us reports."
"As with most of the other Check Point products, the CloudGuard SaaS has the advanced visibility of the events and alerts."
"The product's environment is easy to work and comprehensive."
"It is fast and has a very simple, easy integration."
"The setup is very easy. I haven't faced any complexity with the setup of the solution."
"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."
"Machine Learning and AI for email security have helped all the organization's members to guard their information against insecure exposure."
"The first most remarkable thing is the integration with the Office 365 solution, which is easy, fast, and totally transparent for the user."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the phishing protection it offers."
"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."
"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."
"It would be great if the solution had some automation capabilities."
"Some of the pain points in Amazon GuardDuty was the cost. When compared to some of the other services, depending on how many we had to monitor, if we had a huge range of accounts, as our accounts increased, we had a cost factor that came into play. Sometimes there were issues, for example, with findings that came up, we wanted to add notes and there were issues back then where notes couldn't be entered properly. If we wanted to leave a note such as "Okay, we have assessed this and this is how we feel", or "This is a false positive", Amazon GuardDuty wasn't allowing us to do that. Even with the suppression of certain findings, there was some issue that we had faced at one time. Those were some of the pain points of the solution."
"While sending the alerts to the email, they are not being patched. we have to do the patching and mapping manually. If GuardDuty could include a feature to do this automatically, it will make our job easier. That is something I believe can be improved."
"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."
"It is evolving, and at the moment, I will just need it on a larger scale. Then, it will satisfy my demand, initially."
"Its guides are not great."
"They must provide security to more email service providers."
"We are unable to export the reports from the dashboard, and if it is possible to do then it is not intuitive."
"Although it has good characteristics, it should improve the graphical interface and the latency that it sometimes presents."
"The implementation could definitely be better."
"There are sometimes leakages of viruses when the system is experiencing network failures."
"The product's pricing needs improvement."
"The solution fails to support hybrid deployments."
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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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