We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and Lacework 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 recognized for its seamless API-based integration, strong defense against social engineering attacks, and intuitive user interface. Lacework receives high praise for its advanced anomaly detection powered by machine learning, and extensive compliance capabilities. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration could offer better integration with Microsoft Exchange and other SaaS solutions. Lacework could improve its visibility, IAM security control, and data governance. It should also focus on integration with systems like Slack and Datadog while enhancing its threat-hunting and remediation.
Service and Support: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration users are generally happy with the solution's technical support provided, but some users complained about the response times and lack of support in multiple languages. Lacework's customer service is praised for its promptness, proactive assistance, and efficient problem-solving.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is simple and user-friendly, with support staff providing helpful guidance. Lacework's setup can take a few weeks and requires familiarity with containers or assistance from a DevOps team.
Pricing: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is considered affordable and competitive. Essential features are offered without extra charges. Lacework charges are based on the number of resources, and there are no added fees.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has consistently delivered positive returns on investment. Reviewers gave ROIs ranging from 15% to 80%. Lacework yields an ROI by reducing the time and effort needed for monitoring.
Comparison Results: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration offers comprehensive protection and efficient integration, making it the favored choice over Lacework. Users like Check Point Harmony's simple setup process and the helpful guidance provided by support staff. It also stands out for its seamless API-based integration and advanced protection against social engineering attacks. Lacework could benefit from improvements in visibility, compliance metrics, and alert setup.
"It is very intuitive. It is a point and click type of deal."
"In my opinion, it's one of the best products. It does protect other things like Slack and Salesforce, which are more about communication."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the phishing protection it offers."
"Getting reports and finding threats in the console is easy."
"Its total protection has been the greatest aspect since it completely protects all the mail from the cloud."
"This DLP is very useful, as it gives our users additional protection."
"This product enhances faster and more secure sharing of information among colleagues from different departments."
"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."
"The most valuable feature, from a compliance perspective, is the ability to use Lacework as a platform for multiple compliance standards. We have to meet multiple standards like PCI, SOC 2, CIS, and whatever else is out there. The ability to have reports generated, per security standard, is one of the best features for me."
"The best feature, in my opinion, is the ease of use."
"The compliance reports are definitely most valuable because they save time and are accurate. So, instead of relying on a human going through and checking or providing me with a report, I could just log into Lacework and see for myself."
"The most valuable feature is Lacework's ability to distill all the security and audit logs. I recommend it to my customers. Normally, when I consult for other customers that are getting into the cloud, we use native security tools. It's more of a rule-based engine."
"Polygraph compliance is a valuable feature. In our perspective, it delivers significant benefits. The clarity it offers, along with the ability to identify and address misconfigurations, is invaluable. When such issues arise, we promptly acknowledge and take action, effectively collaborating with our teams and the responsible parties for those assets. This enables us to promptly manage problems as soon as they arise."
"For the most part, out-of-the-box, it tells you right away about the things you need to work on. I like the fact that it prioritizes alerts based on severity, so that you can focus your efforts on anything that would be critical/high first, moderate second, and work your way down, trying to continue to improve your security posture."
"There are many valuable features that I use in my daily work. The first are alerts and the event dossier that it generates, based on the severity. That is very insightful and helps me to have a security cap in our infrastructure. The second thing I like is the agent-based vulnerability management, which is the most accurate information."
"The most valuable aspects are identifying vulnerabilities—things that are out there that we aren't aware of—as well as finding what path of access attackers could use, and being able to see open SSL or S3 buckets and the like."
"It would be nice to see them expand their collaboration capabilities to include other suites and integrate with lesser-known products."
"They could improve Check Point support response times. Sometimes it takes days to resolve or even days to get a first response."
"The product's pricing needs improvement."
"Check Point has to continue refining the intelligence engine to minimize the number of false positives."
"The implementation could definitely be better."
"There is always room for improvement and growth."
"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."
"It's not fully integrated with Google Workspace, and the statistics don't update in real-time."
"A feature that I have requested from them is the ability to sort alerts and policies based on a security framework. Right now, when you go into alerts, you have hundreds and hundreds of them that you have to manually pick. It would be useful to have categories for CIS Benchmark or SOC 2 and be able to display all the alerts and policies for one security framework."
"Visibility is lacking, and both compliance-related metrics and IAM security control could be improved."
"I would like to see a remote access assistance feature. And the threat-hunting platform could be better."
"There are a couple of the difficulties we encounter in the realm of cybersecurity, or security as a whole, that relate to potentially limited clarity. Having the capacity to perceive the configuration aspect and having the ability to contribute to it holds substantial advantages, in my view. It ranks high, primarily due to its role in guaranteeing compliance and the potential to uncover vulnerabilities, which could infiltrate the system and introduce potential risks. I had been exploring a specific feature that captured my interest. However, just yesterday, I participated in a product update session that announced the imminent arrival of this feature. The feature involves real-time alerting. This was something I had been anticipating, and it seems that this capability is now being integrated, possibly as part of threat intelligence. While anomaly events consistently and promptly appear in the console, certain alerts tend to experience delays before being displayed. Yet, with the recent product update, this issue is expected to be resolved. Currently, a comprehensive view of all policies is available within the console. However, I want a more tailored display of my compliance posture, focusing specifically on policies relevant to me. For instance, if I'm not subject to HIPAA regulations, I'd prefer not to see the HIPAA compliance details. It's worth noting that even with this request, there exists a filtering mechanism to control the type of compliance information visible. This flexibility provides a workaround to my preference, which is why it's challenging for me to definitively state my exact request."
"The biggest thing I would like to see improved is for them to pursue and obtain a FedRAMP moderate authorization... I don't believe they have any immediate plans to get FedRAMP moderate authorized, which is a bit of a challenge for us because we can only use Lacework in our commercial environment."
"Lacework lacks remediation features, but I believe they're working on that. They're focused on the reporting aspect, but other features need to improve. They're also adding some compliance features, so it's not worth saying they need to get better at it."
"The configuration and setup of alerts should be easier. They should make it easier to integrate with systems like Slack and Datadog. I didn't spend too much time on it, but to me, it wasn't as simple as the alerting that I've seen on other systems."
"Lacework has not reduced the number of alerts we get. We've actually had to add resources as a result of using it because the application requires a lot of people to understand it to get the value out of it properly."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 8th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 47 reviews while Lacework is ranked 10th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 9 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8, while Lacework is rated 8.8. 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 Lacework writes "Makes us aware of vulnerabilities and provides a lot of data but it's not easily understood at first look". 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, whereas Lacework is most compared with Wiz, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Snyk and Orca Security. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Lacework report.
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