We compared Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration and Proofpoint Email 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. Users describe Proofpoint Email Protection as a convenient all-in-one solution that offers effective defense against phishing attempts.
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. Proofpoint Email Protection could make its interface clearer and simplify admin management.
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. Proofpoint Email Protection’s customer service is described as responsive, professional, and knowledgeable. However, there are some concerns about availability.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement. Proofpoint Email Protection can be set up in a relatively short amount of time. Some users found it simple, while others mentioned that it requires technical skills.
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. The opinions on the cost of Proofpoint Email Protection vary, with some users finding it costly while others find it reasonable.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options. Proofpoint Email Protection stands out with its robust phishing signature file, surpassing competitors in threat detection.
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. Proofpoint Email Protection provides effective email protection and strong threat-detection features. However, it needs to simplify its user interface and administration.
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"Our customers are satisfied with Defender for 365 because Microsoft products are easy to use and customize to meet the client's needs. Everything is in one place, so we can adjust policies as needed for phishing, DLP, ATP, or any other security features that our clients want to apply."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"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."
"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 basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"The product offers good and easy integration capabilities with other products."
"In my opinion, it's one of the best products. It does protect other things like Slack and Salesforce, which are more about communication."
"The main benefit is that hackers can't steal information."
"The ease of management and intuitive administration are excellent."
"Data loss and data leakage prevention are well deployed which helps businesses to scale and expand effortlessly without any trouble."
"Email security has improved since we deployed this platform."
"Its characteristics are adapted to the most modern threats."
"This DLP is very useful, as it gives our users additional protection."
"The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"The stability is very good."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"The solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"The setup was easy."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the dashboards and their visibility, easy configuration, and artificial intelligence. Additionally, the reports are very important and helpful."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a good product, and its most beneficial feature is the Threat Response Auto-Pull. I also like that it's an integrated email security solution."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"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 product must provide better malware detection."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"There is too much functionality, which makes it difficult to use. More guidance for users would be helpful."
"Check Point could improve its marketing strategy."
"I would love it if they would do some work on the Postgres definition on the back-end."
"The integration with Gsuite could be improved, especially when reporting the amount of emails it manages to filter."
"From time to time, the system's administrators notice the increase in the false-positive alerts being reported by CloudGuard SaaS."
"A signature-based filter could improve the solution's AI model for spam email."
"The next release should focus more on email categorization and provide options for unlocking blocked safe emails."
"Although it has good characteristics, it should improve the graphical interface and the latency that it sometimes presents."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"The accessibility of Proofpoint Email Protection, particularly access to product trials, could be improved. It's hard to get a trial for Proofpoint Email Protection, and many customers prefer not just to do the POC or demo but try the product out."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"Integration and filtering out who you want and don't want to have integrated ID could be improved."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"You only receive one model in Proofpoint Email Protection and the other ones you have to purchase at a high price. There should be more available with the solution and additional models should be less expensive."
"We'd like to have the ability to create more customized reports."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 49 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.6, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. 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 Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email and Barracuda Email Security Gateway, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and Fortra's Agari. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Proofpoint Email Protection report.
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