We performed a comparison between Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation and Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation users liked the platform's automated policy writing and the visibility it offers into application communication and network protocols. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has been praised for its API-based integration and comprehensive coverage of email and collaboration systems. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation product could enhance its labeling functionality and data security. Users also say it offers limited visibility and flexibility in on-prem environments. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration could benefit from better integration with other platforms and streamlined administrative functions.
Service and Support: Some users were pleased with Illumio support's quick response and round-the-clock services, while others reported unhelpful answers and delayed responses. Some Check Point customers said the support was prompt, and they appreciated the close collaboration with staff members. Other users raised concerns about long response times and the lack of Spanish-language support options.
Ease of Deployment: Some users said that the setup process for Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is time-consuming, taking around six months, with three months for testing and three months for deployment. It requires establishing a good baseline before enabling easy blocking and micro-segmenting. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has a straightforward setup. The system handles everything automatically, resulting in a quick and hassle-free deployment.
Pricing: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is considered a costly solution. Users of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration say the solution is reasonably priced and manageable. Check Point's pricing is competitive, providing necessary components without additional fees.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has consistently demonstrated a positive ROI. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation users have not given feedback on the platform's ROI.
Comparison Results: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is preferred by users over Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration. Illumio offers better visibility into application communication and network protocols, allowing users to block specific protocols and prevent attacks.
"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 solution has a very effective anti-phishing algorithm that detects a significantly higher number of phishing emails compared to the default Microsoft solution."
"Data loss and data leakage prevention are well deployed which helps businesses to scale and expand effortlessly without any trouble."
"It is fast and quite effective in terms of preventing any security incidents."
"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 main benefit is that hackers can't steal information."
"It is fast and has a very simple, easy integration."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the phishing protection it offers."
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"We have used technical support, but their response time is very slow. It needs to be improved."
"Check Point's technical support is very much of a low level, especially with respect to other vendors and OEMs."
"There could be more automation features included for it."
"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."
"There are a few areas for improvement. One is the occasional sluggishness or latency, which is likely due to the cloud-based nature of the solution. So, the performance can be better."
"A signature-based filter could improve the solution's AI model for spam email."
"The next release should focus more on email categorization and provide options for unlocking blocked safe emails."
"There is too much functionality, which makes it difficult to use. More guidance for users would be helpful."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 8th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 47 reviews while Illumio is ranked 14th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 8 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8, while Illumio 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 Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". 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 Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Illumio report.
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