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.
"Based on domain and URL reputation, it will allow traffic to flow."
"The fact that we can share documents without emailing them and still be confident they will go through the corresponding scrutiny is great."
"The first most remarkable thing is the integration with the Office 365 solution, which is easy, fast, and totally transparent for the user."
"Encryption of emails enhances safe communication that ransomware attacks cannot compromise."
"The product is reliable and sturdy."
"The main benefit is that hackers can't steal information."
"The anti-phishing feature is the solution's best feature."
"We have managed to have an impressive reduction in phishing that used to enter our system before applying Check Point."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"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 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."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"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."
"They could help us be integrating features with solutions from third parties."
"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."
"Some undefined threats can bypass the security system when there is a networking failure in the organization."
"I have learned enough to make the product stable. However, the stability has some challenges."
"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."
"The left-hand feature can be made more granular for the implementation of the policy."
"Other vendor support teams go after fixing the issue the moment that they join the remote session. The problem that I have faced with Check Point support is that they share the case number with me, then it takes at least two days for them to join a remote session with us, even though we have asked for this timeframe to change. Even though we have already explained the problems that we are facing or the business pain points in our network on the call or email, we have to repeat the problem statements again in the console. It can take four or five days to resolve the issue from the moment they understand the problem. This includes the time to teach their R&D or internal team whatever the issue is. I have faced timeframes as long as seven to 10 days for fixing some issues."
"From time to time, the system's administrators notice the increase in the false-positive alerts being reported by CloudGuard SaaS."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"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 solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"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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