We compared Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration and Mimecast Email Security 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. Mimecast Email Security is appreciated for its efficient archiving capabilities and effective protection against targeted threats. Its seamless integration with Microsoft 365 also earned high marks.
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. Mimecast Email Security should focus on improving its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and ease of setup.
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. Mimecast's customer service elicits varied opinions, with some customers expressing satisfaction with its responsiveness and effectiveness, while others perceive it as unsatisfactory.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement. Users had mixed experiences with Mimecast Email Security's setup. Some users found it fast and uncomplicated, while others found it moderately complex.
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. Mimecast Email Security is generally seen as costly, and some users struggle to justify the expense. It’s perceived as more expensive than competing solutions.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options. It is challenging to measure the return on investment for Mimecast Email Security.
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. Mimecast is commended for its archiving and targeted threat protection capabilities. On the other hand, Mimecast faces challenges with its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and high pricing.
"Microsoft Defender has a feature to protect each and every attachment. Even if it's an encrypted attachment, it will check for any potential threats."
"The risk level notifications are most valuable. We get to know what kind of intrusion or attack is there, and we can fix a problem on time."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"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."
"Threat Explorer is one of the features that I very much like because it is a real-time report that allows you to identify, analyze, and trace security attacks."
"Check Point's technical support is very good."
"It fully protects colleagues from visiting insecure sites and browsing in unhealthy environments."
"It is fast and quite effective in terms of preventing any security incidents."
"I can count the number of endpoints, emails, and collaborations being used in the environment."
"Machine Learning and AI for email security have helped all the organization's members to guard their information against insecure exposure."
"It helped us to bring security compliance and ensure system robustness throughout."
"Its analysis or emulation in the review of each file using the cloud and Check Point helps make each interaction via email more secure."
"Encryption of emails enhances safe communication that ransomware attacks cannot compromise."
"The product's most valuable features are impersonation protection and phishing countermeasures."
"Mimecast certainly helped my customers reduce phishing emails."
"The solution is pretty straightforward to use and easy to set up."
"Its administration console is very easy to use. The administration console is absolutely important because you interact with the platform through it."
"What I like about the integration is that it is directly into Microsoft 365, users can use their Microsoft 365 credentials to log into the portal and access their mail."
"It's really quite user-friendly. In terms of technical superiority and the product itself, there are no complaints. It is really cutting edge."
"The interface of this solution is very easy to navigate and user-friendly. There is no delivery in email and other communications, making it reliable. The configuration is relatively easy."
"It offers an easy initial setup."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could improve by giving customers information on techniques to prevent threats. For example, information about best practices on how to protect their own devices against hackers and scammers, such as educational information or training. This would help others have a better understanding of cyber security. Additionally, there can be more security features added."
"Several simulation options are available within 365, and the phishing simulation could be better."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should improve the troubleshooting tools. It's unclear whether the device is blocked at the firewall level or at the device itself. The granularity needed for troubleshooting is currently lacking. From my perspective, Microsoft should address this issue to benefit many users who likely share the same sentiment."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"Some files are not scanned thoroughly due to occasional network failures."
"A phishing simulator would be helpful as a user training module."
"The left-hand feature can be made more granular for the implementation of the policy."
"After updates, the internet connection fails, and I have to restart my desktop to resume initial functionalities."
"I would love it if they would do some work on the Postgres definition on the back-end."
"Harmony Email & Collaboration could be improved by making the whitelist available on the website and application level."
"They should consider a module that allows the customizing of reports so we can generate executive information for the client (to explain in simple language the general security situation in the SaaS environment)."
"The business team should be further expanded, and more peer feedback should be made available publicly to have better and complete visibility of the application globally."
"They could provide a unified licensing model, including all the security features."
"While it's quick and easy, the initial setup could be more user-friendly."
"The attachment scanning feature doesn't work properly."
"The price could be better, it should be reduced."
"The solution should include more AI features instead of Mimecast's more general static configuration tooling."
"The solution is complex and not easy to use."
"Its pricing can be improved. It is a bit expensive."
"The feature that should be included is to remove the block on the encrypted files."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 47 reviews while Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 23 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8, while Mimecast Email Security is rated 7.8. 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 Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Cisco Secure Email, Barracuda Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud, whereas Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Abnormal Security, Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and Darktrace. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Mimecast Email Security report.
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