We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Mobile and Check Point Remote Access VPN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Check Point Software Technologies, Lookout, Zimperium and others in Mobile Threat Defense."The simple navigation offered by the graphical user interface is excellent."
"We have had a lot fewer attacks thanks to this solution."
"With Harmony Mobile, we have been able to provide additional security to our network."
"Harmony Mobile presents many innovative features."
"I really like the application scanning portion where it scans your current applications and any new applications that you add to the device to let you know if it is malicious."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"You can block infected devices from accessing corporate data."
"It doesn't allow you to activate some of the applications until your mobile is malware free. That way we come to know that the device secure and only then do we deploy the business application."
"Technical support has been excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless access."
"The solution is easy to install, centrally managed, and stable, with good technical support and a straightforward setup."
"Setup using the manuals was easy."
"One of the most outstanding features is the ability to deliver third-party services and achieve double authenticity with integrated identities."
"The IPSec VPN, Mobile Access, and Identity Awareness are three of the blades with which we have been working with since the pandemic. This has given us great mobility, making our network more dynamic."
"I found the MEP feature the most valuable. This has improved users' latency allowing the users to connect to the nearest Azure Check Point VM."
"It allows everyone to work from home. If no one could work from home, then we wouldn't have a company, especially now during COVID-19. It's mission-critical, especially since it's currently being used. If there is a problem with it, we would really be screwed. We would be hard-pressed because we would have to figure out what solution we're going to go with, how to deploy it, how long it would take to deploy it, and how we'd even get it on people's computers if we couldn't VPN to them. It would be near impossible to just change to a new VPN solution right now."
"The product does not provide deep capabilities for sharing specific data to users or groups separately, nor does it provide visibility as to whether a user has access to the data or not."
"It could expand the functionalities to, in addition to security functionality, incorporate Mobile Device Management (MDM) functionalities such as remote device management, administration of installed applications, etc."
"We don't have Google MDM being supported by the solution as of yet. It is a feature requirement... They are aware that it is something that I need. My objective is to be able to have the MDM integration and to have some level of control over the asset itself."
"The project point needs improvement."
"One thing that should be improved in the future of the ability to ensure that mobile devices are protected from connections in environments with unlimited connectivity."
"The feature set between the Android and Apple devices is not fully equal."
"It does the process in the background and it does a wonderful job but the methodologies don't pop up. They should make it more interactive."
"At times, when configuring policies, the tool takes some time to apply the policy."
"Some configurations, like idle timeout (the requirement came from multiple users), are not possible to configure directly from the Check Point management server."
"The main area for improvement is pricing. Another area could be integrating MFA authentication directly into the solution instead of using separate benchmark tools for implementation."
"In the case of URL translation of the VPN Web portal, the requests made from the front end to the back end weren't valid (due to the use of dynamic subdomains). In the case of host translations, the request was made to the same host, however, we cannot specify the ports, which, in our case, are used to redirect to different servers."
"For Linux machines, they don't have a full client to install. For the users that utilize Linux, there needs to be an equivalent."
"We are very happy with the Windows client. You log in with the VPN for the full client, you do the log in there. But for Linux machines, they don't have a full client to install. It is important because we have some users that use Linux and they don't have a specific application from Check Point to use. That is something that could be improved."
"When you want to deploy a new Check Point agent, it is really a pain in the butt. For example, Windows 10 now has updates almost every couple of months. It changes the versioning and things under the hood. These are things that I don't understand, because I'm not a Windows person. However, I know that the Check Point client is installed on the Windows machine, and if the Check Point client's not kept up-to-date, then it's functionality breaks. It has to be up-to-date with the Windows versions. Check Point has to update the client more often. Now, the problem is that the Check Point client is not easy to update on remote computers and it's not easy to deploy a new client."
"We encounter challenges for the product’s installation and troubleshooting processes compared to other VPN products."
"The Compliance software blade is available only for the Windows operating systems family, so no macOS security checks are implemented and performed."
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Check Point Harmony Mobile is ranked 1st in Mobile Threat Defense with 43 reviews while Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 4th in Remote Access with 60 reviews. Check Point Harmony Mobile is rated 8.8, while Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Mobile writes "Easy to implement, simple to maintain policies, and does not disrupt end-user functionality". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". Check Point Harmony Mobile is most compared with Lookout, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Fortinet FortiClient, VMware Workspace ONE and Zimperium, whereas Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Fortinet FortiClient, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and Symantec VIP Access Manager.
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