We compared Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration offers exceptional integration through APIs, advanced protection against data leaks, and the ability to detect complex social engineering attacks. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection offers seamless integration with Windows, a central alert console, and real-time monitoring of suspicious URLs.
Room for Improvement: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration could improve integration with Exchange and other SaaS clouds while enhancing its threat clouds and AI engines. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection could offer more training and enhance its security features. Users also requested better encryption, gray email management, and integration with non-Microsoft platforms.
Service and Support: Check Point has earned mixed reviews for its customer service. Some customers appreciate the technical support provided, while others are dissatisfied with response times. While some users found Microsoft support to be helpful and responsive, others experienced slower response times.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement. Users had varied experiences setting up Microsoft Exchange Online Protection, ranging from easy to difficult. It may necessitate dedicated personnel for maintenance.
Pricing: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is a cost-effective option. It offers competitive prices and is suitable for small to medium-sized organizations. Some users said Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is expensive, but others considered it reasonable.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection has proven to be a profitable investment.
Comparison Results: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is an effective solution for blocking malicious attachments and detecting social engineering attacks. However, there is room for improvement in terms of integration and support, reducing false positives, and enhancing response times. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is praised for its seamless integration with Windows and useful features like URL holding and threat management. At the same time, users say it could improve in areas such as pricing, documentation, and security features.
"It also gives the vulnerability status according to the versions you have selected. Let's say you have Google Chrome. It mentions the versions it has, and it updates. Within two hours of an update, it is reflected in the dashboard. That's really nice to have."
"At the moment we are satisfied with this product. It's a stable, scalable, and resilient solution for us."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"Defender for 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based solution. The value of the cloud is that you aren't alone. Threat intelligence and analytics are shared in the cloud. We don't have to find the solution alone. If you face an unknown threat with traditional solutions like Trend Micro and Symantec, you need to open a case and send your information to them to analyze forensically and identify the source of the attack."
"Defender is a SaaS platform, so it offers more flexibility. Managing the permissions is easier. The solution's automated detection and response features are scalable."
"Threat Explorer is an invaluable tool for me, and it plays a crucial role in helping me discern the origins of various email campaigns, pinpointing where they emanate from, and identifying the individuals within our organization who are affected."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"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."
"The product's environment is easy to work and comprehensive."
"The most valuable features would be its ability to intercept phishing emails and emails laden with malware, viruses, false links, etc."
"Encryption of emails enhances safe communication that ransomware attacks cannot compromise."
"I can count the number of endpoints, emails, and collaborations being used in the environment."
"It is very intuitive. It is a point and click type of deal."
"Its total protection has been the greatest aspect since it completely protects all the mail from the cloud."
"For Threat Prevention, I was impressed with this feature and the solution's effectiveness. It has been very good."
"It provides security to both on-premises and Azure infrastructures."
"It has a really nice web-based administration console."
"It's all running in the backend, so it doesn't affect the app functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of administration. Other solutions require complex administration, but Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is easier."
"It is an easy solution."
"We use the solution to receive emails. We do not use the calendar function as our clients are slow adaptors to the latest features."
"You can use the product to create special accounts."
"The product's most valuable feature is third-party integrations."
"Several simulation options are available within 365, and the phishing simulation could be better."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"They have moved features from one console to another. Things have been moved around in the interface and it takes me time to find where certain features are."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"Microsoft wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization."
"Harmony Email & Collaboration could be improved by making the whitelist available on the website and application level."
"The product's pricing needs improvement."
"There are sometimes leakages of viruses when the system is experiencing network failures."
"The NAVEX metrics that I have been using on the CloudGuard dashboard cannot be exported. If they were to add report exporting capabilities on each of metric objects on the dashboard, that would be awesome."
"We are unable to export the reports from the dashboard, and if it is possible to do then it is not intuitive."
"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."
"It's not fully integrated with Google Workspace, and the statistics don't update in real-time."
"They could continue to offer more stringent security policy measures for threat point management."
"It doesn't protect against everything. We do need protection for, for example, endpoints."
"The management interface of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) could be intuitive."
"If a company wants to put in line back-to-back anti-spam solutions, they need to work on that part because Microsoft recommends either you use EOP as a front line or you don't use it."
"It wasn't easy or intuitive enough for me to start using it. So, the reason was that the solution changed."
"The solution needs to improve its backup."
"The price of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection could be reduced to make it more competitive."
"When you're using a Microsoft product solution, you can scale it, but if you're not, there are limitations."
"The solution must improve the user experience."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 47 reviews while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 4th in Email Security with 34 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is rated 8.2. 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 Exchange Online Protection (EOP) writes "An effective email security solution that provides DLP, Safe Attachment, and Safe Links". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email and Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Mimecast Email Security, Fortinet FortiMail and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) report.
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