Check Point Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) Reviews

I'm using the solution on my laptop and desktop in the office.

The product’s ability to block phishing sites is valuable. It protects me from malware.

The product is a bit heavy on the machine. Sometimes, the product is very slow. When we connect an external hard disk, it takes the product quite some time to go through the files and allow us to access them.

I have been using the solution for more than six months.

I rate the tool’s stability a seven out of ten.

The tool is quite scalable. We have around eight users.

We have had a couple of issues for which we contacted the technical support team. It takes long for the team to respond. It takes some time before the initial point of contact, but after that, it is fine.

Neutral

The deployment is quite easy and fast. I rate the ease of deployment an eight out of ten. The solution is deployed on the cloud. The deployment took us an hour.

The product is neither cheap nor expensive. However, it is a bit more on the expensive side. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten.

People who want to use the solution must start with the minimal features possible and scale up slowly, depending on how it interacts with their system. Overall, I rate the tool a seven and a half out of ten.

Our customers use the solution to segment and secure traffic for internal and external users.

The solution works best for user security, implementation of multicast authentication, and zero trust access.

The solution could be more user-friendly for managing dashboard consoles.

We have been using the solution for nine years.

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution.

The solution's initial setup process is complex for a hybrid environment. We face difficulties in establishing a VPN tunnel between the servers of two branches. The virtual firewall protection makes it challenging to connect them. The time taken for deployment depends on the integration. In general, the process gets completed within four to five days.

Our developers work with customers' development teams while implementing the solution.

The cost of the solution's licenses depends on the particular use cases of the customers.

I rate the solution as an eight.

Even with our old anti-virus solution, users were able to download files and receive it through e-mail with no inspection or emulation. Also, they were able to use external pen drives or external HDs with no control of the data that was being transferred and where it was going to.

The internet navigation had no filter and even the traffic to porn websites or malicious websites was passing normally with no inspection.

If one of the machines were stolen or lost we did not have something to block access to the data inside the disk, sensitive information could have been lost.

Now that we use Harmony Connect, the files are inspected and we are sure that no malicious content is inside the company. Before installing Harmony Connect all the downloads were made by anyone with no check on that information.

Anyone could download something malicious and as we use shared folders with sensitive information one infected machine could go to any other server or user machine and cause a big data loss or machine infection.

Now, it very easily allows users on home office safe access. If they had any type of issue with the machine, the disk is already encrypted.

Emulation of files, control of USB connections, and full disk encryption are great features. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, we were not confident in having everybody working from home with an unsecured system where the user could, for example, copy all data from the computer to an external HD or Pendrive. if they did, we would not even know that it happened.

Now, after using the Harmony Connect Endpoint, we have full control of the actions that the user does with the company data and we can also monitor/block their access to the internet.

We have noticed that sometimes even performing just a few changes in the portal, the installation takes a long time to finish.

The access to the portal should be faster. It shouldn't crash a lot. We have a lot of crashes right now. 

We noticed that, for some days of the month, the portal would be down and not accessible depending on the time that we tested. Sometimes we performed some changes after work or at dawn to minimize the impact that it could cause to the users. However, sometimes the portal is not online as we expect it to be or we need to reload the page a few times before it works.

I would give it a score of eight out of ten due to the portal being slow.

I've been using the product for about six months.

The stability is not that good; sometimes the portal fails.

In terms of scalability, it's easy to increase the users/licenses in the environment.

Check Point support takes a long time to resolve issues.

Neutral

We previously used the Kaspersky antivirus.

The initial setup was not straightforward. 

We had a vendor assist with the implementation and we had a very good experience.

We have seen an ROI.

Usually, other products are cheaper than Check Point.

We evaluated all other antivirus/endpoint sollutions.