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Check Point Harmony Mobile vs McAfee MVISION Mobile comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Check Point Harmony Mobile
Ranking in Mobile Threat Defense
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
McAfee MVISION Mobile
Ranking in Mobile Threat Defense
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Mobile Threat Defense category, the mindshare of Check Point Harmony Mobile is 17.2%, down from 19.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of McAfee MVISION Mobile is 4.9%, down from 11.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Anuraj Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides good threat detection and prevention, but it lacks MDM capabilities present in other MDM products
Check Point Harmony Mobile is not so attractive and provides security only for mobile devices. Customers can use Check Point Harmony Mobile to secure their mobile devices, such as Android or Mac smartphones. However, it has less capability than an MDM (Mobile device management). Check Point Harmony Mobile has a good advantage in terms of security posture and security threat detection and prevention. Check Point Harmony Mobile will help prevent 99% of attacks on mobile devices. It is easy to manage Check Point Harmony Mobile. People bring their own devices and connect them to all the other unwanted networks. This causes traffic to flow to these devices from any network source, such as Wi-Fi, LAN, or other public networks. Deploying Check Point Harmony Mobile can ensure the endpoint is sanitized and clean for use at home and the workplace. Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.
reviewer1066482 - PeerSpot reviewer
A market leader that integrates nicely with other McAfee security products and is quite stable
We are just customers and end-users. We are using the most up-to-date version available at this time. I'd advise potential new users that the key thing is to clearly understand what your requirements are and what your use cases are, and both your business requirements, your technical requirements, and your regulatory requirements. It's important to understand all of those. A company needs to clearly understand all the use cases it needs to manage and make sure they do the appropriate due diligence to find a product that can achieve all those requirements and handle all those use cases. It was an extensive process for us. We did about four to six months of paper-based due diligence - not even a field trial - to make that we were picking the right product. We leveraged a lot of outside vendor-neutral sources like Gartner. So far, I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The easy navigation of the admin portal is a welcome change to how some other admin portals are not very user-friendly."
"The anti-phishing and scanning of SMS are the most valuable aspects of the solution. Sometimes we will get some SMS and they will try to redirect you to malicious links. If you have SandBlast Mobile, it helps you prevent clicking on those malicious links."
"The simple navigation offered by the graphical user interface is excellent."
"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, and then reports the results in the console."
"Harmony Mobile is a unified security solution for user devices and internet connections. It protects devices from sophisticated attacks, including malware, and implements Zero Trust Access for comprehensive security."
"We have applied MFA so that no one can bypass this security and the users/employees can access their resources very easily, securely, and seamlessly."
"It is a scalable solution. Up to three hundred users are using the solution. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten."
"Harmony Mobile's most valuable feature is the variety of capabilities in the platform, including allowing you to track device status."
"The product is one of the market leaders, according to Gartner, on mobile protection."
 

Cons

"The errors should be more visible to admin users."
"There are certain shortcomings in the integration capabilities that a product offers."
"I would like to see management and remote administration functions in the same portal."
"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."
"It would be super helpful if there were more details around the risks that were found on our mobile devices."
"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."
"For SandBlast Mobile, the only thing that is lacking is that it wasn't available for all types of users. However, Check Point has since fixed this, with ZoneAlarm."
"While it's great, there's always room for improvement. Adding capabilities for automatic deployment in an enterprise environment would be useful."
"The one thing that I know that they're working on, that's not quite there in the product, is the artificial intelligence aspect."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Check Point pricing is better than Symantec."
"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee for each device, which is cheap."
"Its cost depends upon the number of users."
"Choosing the correct set of licenses is essential because, without the additional software blade licenses, the Check Point gateways are just a stateful firewall."
"We didn't actually purchase the software. It was given to us by Check Point. We are using it as a test bed for possible future customers."
"Check Point Harmony Mobile's pricing is good."
"Check Point provides a separate license in cases where organizations want to use this only on mobile devices, or laptops/desktops."
"We pay between 300 and 600 Rupees per year, around seven dollars per month."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
28%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
University
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Check Point Harmony Mobile?
The most valuable features of the solution are threat emulation, threat extraction, URL detection, antimalware, antivirus, and IPS.
What needs improvement with Check Point Harmony Mobile?
The solution should improve passive scanning and provide regular updates. Also, during business hours, users should not experience any slowdown on their devices.
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Also Known As

Check Point Mobile Access, Check Point SandBlast Mobile
McAfee MDP, MVISION Mobile
 

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Sample Customers

Samsung Research America, Mississippi Office of the Secretary of State
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