We compared Avanan and Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Avanan is highly praised for its customizability as well as its consistent advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning. 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.
Room for Improvement: Avanan can enhance its alert clearance speed, decrease false positives, and improve scanning and backup options. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration could improve integration with Exchange and other SaaS clouds while enhancing its threat clouds and AI engines.
Service and Support: Avanan's customer service is consistently commended for its exceptional quality, efficiency, and expertise. Check Point has earned mixed reviews for its customer service. Some customers appreciate the technical support provided, while others are dissatisfied with response times.
Ease of Deployment: Users like Avanan's trouble-free setup and easy updates. Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement.
Pricing: Avanan offers affordable, transparent SaaS-based pricing. Users find it cost-effective, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is a cost-effective option. It offers competitive prices and is suitable for small to medium-sized organizations.
ROI: Avanan has consistently provided positive results by enhancing email network security and contributing to revenue growth. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options.
Comparison Results: Avanan is praised for its ease of implementation, adaptability, and cost-effectiveness. Users say Avanan could improve by reducing false positives and providing better documentation. 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.
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."
"The initial setup was easy."
"It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable features are safe attachments and safe links."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"Email Attachment Protection detects any insecure files and quickly blocks them to prevent the spread of viruses to other secure documents."
"I highly recommend this solution to any prospective buyer."
"Spam protection is the most valuable feature."
"Email encryption enhances end to end security of any data before it passes through the networking system."
"The ease of installation and the AI capacity of the product are valuable."
"It can retract unsafe emails and remove them from the entire communication channel."
"Email inspection has saved many employees from spam attacks and viruses from unauthorized sources."
"This technology is one of Check Point's acquisitions, and it is currently a powerful tool that provides all the protection that is not found in other tools."
"The product's environment is easy to work and comprehensive."
"The automated rule cleanups and automated policy installs have improved my customers' organizations."
"Email security has improved since we deployed this platform."
"I appreciate the ease of deployment and the intuitive dashboard. Even someone with basic IT knowledge can easily understand the dashboard and identify potential threats."
"We need the phishing detection and email quarantine. Once an email is considered malicious, it stays in the quarantine where we can interrogate it. We can check out why it was quarantined and see if it should be delivered to the individual."
"The product is a fairly complete and centralized solution accessible through the Infinity Portal."
"It helped us to bring security compliance and ensure system robustness throughout."
"Based on domain and URL reputation, it will allow traffic to flow."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"In one of the reports I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help."
"About eight months ago, we started to measure the quantity of phishing and spam that we have been receiving, and it has been increasing a lot. That means that protection for our email is not as good as we were expecting."
"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"When sending bulky emails, the system slows down and takes a long time before it responds effectively to our requests."
"They should come up with a mobile application so that it can be more flexible."
"The system could be designed to give corporate emails first priority due to demands."
"In Avanan, the email channel is one of the channels where data leakage happens, and they need to consider it from a DLP perspective."
"The user experience must be improved."
"There are times when we have false positives."
"It should reduce the amount of time needed for thorough scanning."
"The system response in a slow computing device affects performance when sending and receiving emails."
"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."
"Check Point Infinity Portal sometimes feels a bit slow, and there are performance issues that should be easy to fix."
"The integration with Gsuite could be improved, especially when reporting the amount of emails it manages to filter."
"Check Point needs to address the pricing segment for SMEs."
"Cloud Guard would be a complete solution if Check Point added a comprehensive data loss solution that included capabilities such as bulk data transfer detection."
"We have used technical support, but their response time is very slow. It needs to be improved."
"They must provide security to more email service providers."
"We understand that false positives are always there, but sometimes the notifications are more than expected."
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Avanan is ranked 6th in Email Security with 21 reviews while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 49 reviews. Avanan is rated 9.2, while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Avanan writes "We've noticed a significant decline from people accidentally or intentionally clicking on things". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration writes "Has a user-friendly dashboard, a great anti-phishing algorithm, and sandboxing for testing". Avanan is most compared with IRONSCALES, Perception Point Advanced Email Security, Abnormal Security, Mimecast Email Security and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email, Barracuda Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud. See our Avanan vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration report.
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