Check Point Harmony Mobile Reviews

After the pandemic, most organizations started working remotely and accessed corporate data from their mobile devices. This increased the risk of breaches from mobile attack surfaces. This product covers all mobile security subjects such as application security, network security, file security, and OS/Device protection. 

You can cover all attack vectors with Harmony Mobile. It is a good add on top of MDM solutions. Harmony Movie can detect jailbreaking and rooting techniques. Also, it can protect you from the latest phishing and zero-day phishing attacks.

If organizations distribute mobile devices to their employees and care about user privacy and experience, they should definitely consider how they can secure the devices. Harmony Mobile is the answer to all the things I have mentioned so far. 

It helps employees become aware of mobile security risks with detailed real-time notifications. It has given detailed visibility for threats and created awareness for improvements. The dashboard is very easy to use and deployment is quite easy for mobile devices.

First of all cloud-based management is easy to use and you never deal with software upgrades. If you want to use another product from Check Point you can still use the same management console. 

This product is difficult to explain if people are not mature enough for mobile security. Sometimes people think if they use MDM solutions they also cover mobile security, however, the fact is not like that. 

Mobile security needs effort from the admins because it is a continuous process. You can block infected devices from accessing corporate data.

If you want a customized feature, it is generally rejected or takes too much time to integrate. 

If you face a problem on your console, only R&D from the support team can check the backend of the product. Sometimes this causes delays in solution time. 

The errors should be more visible to admin users. 

If you are responsible for regulations such as keeping your corporate important data in your country, this scenario is also possible with this product but sometimes it creates problems with viewing encrypted data.

I have been giving technical support to this product for more than five years. 

It should have 100% uptime for the product and is very minimal for false positives. So far it has been a smooth experience.

Scalability is very easy. You can start small and increase after a while. 

Customer service is generally good, however, sometimes if the problem is related to the backend, it can take some time to fix it.

Neutral

Check Point Harmony is the first solution we used.

If you are using all products as cloud, implementations are very easy. However, if you want to use on-premise for regulation purposes, the implementation becomes a little complex. You need to install a connector on your environment to encrypt the data in the cloud.

We generally provide installation support for customers. There is no need for a vendor team. 

It is always worth it if you do not want to face a breach and lose prestige.

You can start small if you want and then increase the license count. Also, most of the time organization needs to change every year so scalability is important.

After trying Check Point Harmony, we did not need to try something else.

All staff were told we had to use it on work devices - yet were allowed to use it on our personal devices also if we were interested in doing so. I accepted the offer and since doing so I have been able to depend on it to prevent me from accessing malicious Wi-Fi spots when someone pretending to be the carrier's Wi-Fi on the underground nearly had me connecting. 

It has warned me about and blocked malicious apps, which was more useful when I was on an Android device, however, it still flagged Apple apps for me also - which was a surprise to me as I had assumed these were vetted and controlled by the Apple App Store. 

Ultimately I feel better having this. I know I can be more laid back about connecting and using apps. The odd time it flags something, it isn't obtrusive - it just lets me know why. 

It has meant that the entire fleet of mobile phones is secure from malicious network connections and that users can freely download apps (within reason) without there being any cause for concern with data loss, malware, theft, and so forth. 

We're able to be an organization that allows users to make the most of their phones, and therefore get more done since everyone can be flexible knowing they're protected. 

Management can see all devices on one panel and easily highlight any devices under threat.

The threatening app feature was super useful when I was on Android. There are so many copies on various app stores; it felt like the Wild West for me, and Harmony was able to help me feel comfortable that if I made a mistake, I wasn't going to hand over the keys to the kingdom. 

On the Apple App Store, it also surprised me by showing me apps that were malicious in ways that weren't flagged by Apple. I was able to report these and be more aware. I also like that when I want to use Wi-Fi in places, I can search for the official network; there's always a concern that it might be a spoofed network. Using this, I can quickly get an alert if things seem bad and I won't be able to accept or send data through that network if it isn't safe.

I would love to see what other features they can add in the future. I would quite like to be able to block ads on my phone by blocking known inbound ad websites and services. 

I honestly am surprised that they have not simply gone to the mobile phone firms that build these devices, to have the solution installed at source and baked into the OS. It feels like the kind of business proposal that would benefit all parties except the scammers and criminals out there. 

A personal use license for my family would also be a handy thing. If you could go into the app store and buy it, then manage from home, that would be ideal. It seems like you need to have management to be able to do that - which is obstructive. 

I have had Harmony installed on my personal phone for around four to five years now and I love it. At first, I didn't think it would be useful, however, it has highlighted and prevented so many threatening situations for me over the years and I feel confident that having it has been a benefit to me. 

The app is extremely stable and unobtrusive. It takes up very little space, and I have noticed no battery impediments at all. 

The solution is extremely easily scaled. You mail all members of staff and ask them to scan the hyperlink in the email, the app sets itself up and shows on your management dashboard. If you have 500 phones, and your dashboard says you only have 490 people installed, you can quickly see who hasn't and then remind them. 

The support on this is very simple since the app itself is elegantly simple. It receives regular updates, and your support partner can access the development team to request features or fixes easily. 

Positive

No, I did not use a different solution. This was the first time I had considered security for my phone.

The initial setup is extremely straightforward. We received an email saying to scan a QR code to install and set up the app. We input the login details provided, and we were done. From the company perspective, they had to log into the management suite, set the rules they wanted to activate, and send the emails. 

It was very brief and fast to set up, and extremely quick to review and ensure compliance was universal. As soon as threats were found they were flagged. Users could not use any malicious apps or networks. The devices are protected immediately. 

The vendor team was our own in-house team and they delivered this extremely swiftly. That said, any team could handle the process, to be honest.

It has meant that I have not lost data or had my phone damaged by malicious apps and network connections so I feel that my ROI has easily been worth two to three phones. For the business, it means peace knowing that all members of staff are secure and cannot accidentally break their phones, damage the company's reputation, and lose customer data, which is a huge ROI for such a small cost per user. 

This is a very low-cost solution, however, it is always important to make sure you are talking to an elite partner to get the best pricing, and that you talk through your needs and have them review the features and how they benefit you as if your needs are more or less extensive than first thought you may be able to make an alternative purchase that gets you what you need most. 

My employer evaluates all solutions available on the market before deciding which one to use. Outside of the likes of MobileIron, I am not sure. 

We require a tool that could control and monitor mobile devices, which was one of the primary factors in our decision to adopt Check Point Harmony Mobile. With this tool, we had that capability. We were able to shut down a security hole that was harming our company. The user can connect to the company and access corporate data via this technology, enabling them to adhere to a more secure standard. With the help of the Harmony Mobile panel, each mobile has implemented policies that govern access. It is used by us to control mobile connections. It is a cloud-based solution that is installed on Check Point's cloud.

Prior to having this solution, our users were vulnerable to infections of any kind on tablets and mobile devices used for business. We have reduced these dangers by utilizing Harmony Mobile's security, which helps both the user and the administrator. With the help of Check Point Harmony, mobile users also have the same level of protection as the business's computers and laptops do and users are also secure to use on both iOS and Android. Observe Point Mobile devices used by employees are protected from dangerous software and attacks on their network or operating system.

Check Point's Sandblast Mobile solution integrates with Mobile Device Management and supports Android and iOS operating systems. Two profiles are created for each mobile device when it is configured. There are two types of profiles - personal and professional - and various security guidelines can be applied to each. 

Real-time scanning is only one of the amazing capabilities offered by this tool. 

The simple navigation offered by the graphical user interface is excellent. 

We value the centralization it brings about.

The tool is excellent for security purposes, and it gives a lot of information. That said, there needs to be some improvement in everything related to administration and assistance. 

The ability to integrate local and cloud technologies to create a hybrid scenario would be an upgrade. 

Making this tool compatible with Google MDM is one of the enhancements that must be made. 

The increased load on an outdated terminal, which slows them down, is another item to consider. 

It would be preferable if they could incorporate application vulnerability management.

I use the solution in my company so that whoever the mobile users are and those who use the corporate applications, we can secure communication from the corporate application to the outside network. My company uses Check Point Harmony Mobile through the browser to secure our applications, as well as to secure the communication between customers and other users.

The most effective features of the product stem from its ability to deal with areas like data security and application security while also being useful to users who use mobiles in roaming mode and those who use a personal mobile phone with corporate applications in it.

At times, when configuring policies, the tool takes some time to apply the policy. If I configure a new policy and apply it to the management console, it may take time. The product should work on policy enforcement so that users can quickly enforce the policies within a fraction of a second.

I have been using Check Point Harmony Mobile for three years.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. Some customers of the tool face some issues in their environment with respect to policy enforcement.

It is a very easily scalable solution. 

My company deals with a very limited set of customers of the product. The tool's competitors have been very aggressive with the mobile browser part, especially the ones offering MDM solutions. Those who use firewall products from Check Point are very happy to acquire and use Check Point Harmony Mobile.

As and when required, the solution's technical support helps users with troubleshooting. The solution's technical support is good, and it responds quickly.

The product's initial setup phase is very straightforward.

For the product's deployment phase, you just need to install the agent to the end user and configure the policy on the cloud management console.

The solution's deployment phase is a one-day task.

In terms of ROI, the product helps secure your application, mobile, and data.

There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product. You can opt for a one-year, three-year, or five-year license. There is a separate team that handles the pricing part of the product, and depending on the customers or order quantity they handle, I believe that 60 or 70 percent discounts on the prices are offered. There are no additional costs attached to the product.

The tool helped prevent potential security threats whenever some users communicate from their mobile with someone outside our company since, at such a time, the product secures the communication as well as the data. With the tool, no confidential data goes outside from the inside of our company. Our company can block data leakage from mobile phones to the outside environment of our organization.

The threat detection and response capabilities of the tool benefit the company in scenarios where a user wants to send out some confidential data outside the company through the browser, which would not be possible If the organization uses Check Point Harmony Mobile. The tool shows how our company can secure the user, as well as how we can prevent data leakage from the inside to the outside of the organization.

The product provides users with ease of management. It is a simple tool that allows users to configure some of the policies for a user or a user-based group and apply them to the solution.

According to Gartner's website, the tool's stability and support as a security provider places it in the leader category.

The tool helps respond to emerging corporate threats, especially those who use corporate applications on their personal devices. If you want to secure your corporate applications, you have to adopt Check Point Harmony Mobile.

If you use corporate applications on your personal mobile device and you want to secure your applications and data, then you have to use Check Point Harmony Mobile.

I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

I like the product's ability to offer IPS protections for mobile security.

There are certain shortcomings in the integration capabilities that a product offers. In the future, I would like to see the product offer more integration features.

I have experience with Check Point Harmony Mobile. My company has a partnership with Check Point.

Considering that the product is easy to use, user-friendly, and offers complete protection, I rate the product's stability an eight out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

It is very easy for my company to get information from the product's support team. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

Positive

The product's deployment is easy. You only deploy the tool on the mobile device for the client or customer who wants to use it.

When I purchased the product for one of our company's clients, I realized that the price of the product was competitive.

I need to check with the clients in the industry who use Check Point Harmony Mobile and integrate it with other mobile management solutions. I simply managed the product and used it to protect and ensure that scanning processes were in progress while also checking the branch office security, reviewing CVEs, checking the implementation and interventions with the tool. The product offers ease of blocking. The solution also offers integration with Samsung, Microsoft, BlackBerry, and other solutions. The solution can be used for mobile protection and to protect applications.

The product is user-friendly for its customers. The solution also offers complete protection and simple management. The tool provides its users with the capacity to prevent malicious activities and phishing threats while also checking the mobile for malware or any other attacks on the device.

The solution is easy to deploy and to check for attacks in mobile devices.

The product's ability to adapt and offer security against the evolving threat landscape is good because it is easy for a user since there is only one application that they need to use.

I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.

Mobile security, on top of MDM, is the primary use case. Some clients use mobile device management, and we provide additional common security capabilities. This includes vendor locking, where the end solution restricts access to corporate resources based on app management. Check Point does this very well, without issues on mobile devices. There aren't many players in this space, so it's a good, stable solution. You get the results you expect, and it's very quick to set up (around 5 minutes).

While it's great, there's always room for improvement. Adding capabilities for automatic deployment in an enterprise environment would be useful. Also, the ability to see licenses per mobile device would be handy.

So, in future releases, the ability to see the environment and licensing per device would be good.

I have been working with this solution for three years. It's the best solution I have at the moment.

I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. 

It is a scalable solution. I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. We have enterprise-level customers. 

The solution doesn't require much support. 

I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

The management console is on the cloud. The deployment takes around five to ten minutes. 

For the deployment process, you basically create your account in the Harmony Mobile portal (Infiniti Portal on Check Point). 

Then, you configure the user and send them an email containing a QR code for app installation instructions. They download the app from the App Store or Play Store, scan the code, and it configures itself, appearing on the cloud portal. Very quick.

The price is okay. Per user, it should be something like five or ten dollars. But, we usually get discounts that drive the cost down.

It's a very good mobile security solution for protecting phones. It works seamlessly with mobile devices and has good detection capabilities without interrupting your daily phone use. It gives you a lot of visibility into security aspects, including rating every application. 

On the cloud portal, you can see a security rating for every application on the phone and get low-level details of what that application has access to on your phone. Overall, it's a very good solution.

Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. 

We use Harmony Mobile to protect our workers' mobile devices. There are about 300 users, including everybody from executives to regular engineers. We plan to increase usage, but we are waiting on an executive decision. They'll decide whether to cut costs or increase use. 

We like Harmony's ability to encrypt transactions between mobile devices. All the user's transactions are encrypted. That's an excellent feature. We can detect, quarantine, and address any issues in the handset itself. 

Harmony has more support for Android OS as opposed to iOS. You need a third-party MDM solution to integrate with iOS. If you don't have an MDM, your app can't scan on an iOS device. The solution can scan everything on Android. It sees all your apps. 

We have had Harmony Mobile for about three years. We're both a customer and a partner. The partner is the enterprise division of our organization, and we are a customer, but we cannot purchase it ourselves. We have to go to a third party. Acquisition is more from the customer base, but my company also is a partner.

We haven't had any issues with Harmony crashing our system.

Deploying Harmony was straightforward.  You can deploy it using an MDM solution, but we didn't have one at the time. We deployed by email or SMS, and was relatively simple. 

We explored the MDM part with Google but ran into some issues because the feature required for this integration requires an enterprise license. We have three staff members responsible for implementing and managing the solution.  

The license was pretty reasonable. I don't have a figure right now, but I think it was somewhere between $10 and $30 per user. 

We evaluated VMware Workspace ONE, and VMware also had an MDM that we looked at at the time. Even the McAfee MVISION right now also comes with mobile device management as well.

I rate Check Point Harmony eight out of 10.

My advice for enterprises thinking about Harmony is to consider your device type. If your users are predominantly on Android, it's a good solution. If it's primarily iOS users, you might need to deploy an MDM before buying it. An MDM that covers both operating systems is a significant factor to consider. It will determine how easy it is to deploy it and how much control you have over the profiles.

We use SandBlast Mobile, integrated with our MDM for automatic deployment of solutions on our devices. This is for our corporate mobile devices, and also for BYOD (Bring your own device) cases. This works well for the users that want access to our corporate repositories for accessing information.

SandBlast is always monitoring their activity including the applications that are installed or they are trying to install, not allowing apps that are not 100% trusted, receiving logging alerts, etc., to take care of our devices and avoid their comprise. 

SandBlast Is providing a real security approach, not only AV like other vendor solutions.

Continuously, we are monitoring the apps and rate them, obtain reports, etc., to see the security posture of the devices and apply compliance policies. This prevents users from installing fake applications or non-approved software.

It also monitors all of the user navigation inside the phone, controlling non-permitted connections like fake Wi-Fi, etc. It also manages the enterprise e-mail in a secure way to avoid unauthorized access from the mobile device.

I really like the application scanning feature that scans all of the installed applications, and not only what appears in the Add or Remove Apps section, and then reports the results in the console.

The performance of this solution is absolutely impressive, especially in terms of battery consumption. It has less consumption than I was expecting

It is a very stable solution that integrates well with the most standard MDM solutions in the current market.

It offers good support for Apple devices and multiple Android versions, which is quite important if you have a disparate set of devices.

There are more features for Android devices than Apple, but, think is more related to the Apple API than Check Point.

Some configuration options inside the management console are a little confusing because the interface is not always user-friendly.

Some policies that can cause problems on the devices, like remediation, cannot be implemented by the administrator and are required to be done by Check Point. This is inconvenient because in some cases, we need a remediation policy immediately and we cannot wait for Check Point to implement it.

We have been using Check Point Harmony Mobile for approximately two years.

It is a stable solution and we have experienced no problems with our mobile devices.

SandBlast can scale without any kind of problems.

We have had no problems with the support to this point.

We did not use another similar solution prior to this one.

The initial setup is very easy. The cloud solution is easy to deploy and integrate with our MDM.

This was implemented directly by Check Point Professional Services. The team is very experienced with the solution.

This is a very expensive product.

We also evaluated an Intel security solution.

In summary, this is a very good solution that works as expected, although it is very expensive.