Real-Time Phishing Defense Strengthens Cloud Email Response
What is our primary use case?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration protects our cloud-based email and cloud collaboration platforms, primarily Microsoft 365, from phishing, malware, and account takeover attempts.
I use Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration to protect against phishing or account takeover attempts by having a user receive an email that appeared to be a Microsoft 365 login alert with a convincing subject line and branding. However, Harmony flagged it immediately due to a suspicious sender domain and a malicious link embedded in the message.
What is most valuable?
One aspect that stands out in my day-to-day use of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is how seamlessly it integrates into our existing workflows without disrupting users.
The best feature of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is advanced threat prevention because Click-Time Prevention rewrites URLs and scans them when clicked, blocking access to malicious sites even if the email appears legitimate.
URL scanning and Click-Time Protection in Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration have been critical in our environment, especially as phishing attacks become more sophisticated.
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration integrates smoothly with Microsoft 365 via API, so there is no need for agents or complex setup.
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration has positively impacted my organization, resulting in faster incident response with real-time alerts and detailed threat insights, enabling our team to act quickly when something suspicious is flagged.
After deploying Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, my organization reported a significant reduction in phishing incidents and faster response times to email-based threats.
What needs improvement?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration could be improved by making the experience easier.
While the dashboard of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is powerful, a cleaner layout or customizable views would help users focus on the most relevant alerts and metrics without digging through layers.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is very stable for our organization and is a great tool.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is a tool with scalability and other great features.
How are customer service and support?
I have not interacted with customer support for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, but I know that in other tools, Check Point customer support is great and very collaborative about any issues or problems.
What was our ROI?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration saves time, saves money, and provides more security.
There are significant savings with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration in terms of money saved and time saved.
What other advice do I have?
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is deployed in my organization in the public cloud.
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is a very complete tool for the next generation of our security. I rate this product an eight out of ten.
Excellent Threat Detection, But Too Many False Positives
What do you like best about the product?
Highly Accurate Threat Detection
Inline Email Protection
What do you dislike about the product?
Frequent False Positives
Limited Third-Party Integrations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Advanced Phishing and Malware Attacks
Harmony Makes Email Safer and Smarter
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Harmony Email & Collaboration is how intuitive and accessible it is.
The web access is smooth and reliable, and the Infinity Portal makes navigation and management surprisingly easy even for non technical users.
Harmony Email itself feels thoughtfully designed: setting up policies is straightforward, and the interface doesn’t overwhelm you with complexity. It just works, and that’s what makes it stand out.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike most about Harmony Email & Collaboration is the cost it can feel a bit steep, especially for smaller teams.
While the platform itself is solid, the pricing might make you think twice. Also, the official documentation could be more intuitive. Sometimes I find myself digging around or needing to ask support for things that should be easier to find or explain.
It’s not a dealbreaker, but definitely an area that could improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Harmony Email & Collaboration helps us stay protected without making things complicated.
It keeps phishing and malicious emails out of our inboxes, which gives us peace of mind. We don’t have to constantly second guess what’s safe to open.
What I really appreciate is how easy it is to set up policies that actually fit our needs no tech headaches, no endless tweaking. It’s made email security feel like less of a chore and more like something that quietly works in the background.
One of the best-in-class email security solution.
What do you like best about the product?
1. API integration is very much simple and easy.
2. Additionally, it provides the 0365 details in Checkpoint console which helps in tracing the complete email flow.
3.Show IT feature is very much helpful in identifying other security loopholes in the environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
1.Limited third-party email integration via API integration.
2.Sometimes we are receiving more False positive alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides complete protection for email gateways and reducing the risks which are incurred. Requires less management interference as it using AI mechanism for the prevention of suspicious activities and reporting.
Deep email analyses with Harmony Email & Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Harmony Email provides advanced filtering, threat detection and unmatched security in the email workspace. I like the web interface in Check Point Infinity Platform that lets me see quarentined emails in Check Point and Microsoft 365 outlook, also there are many filtering options to find emails.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a delay between sending and receiving emails (especially with lots of files) but it's still very fast and usable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Filters phishing emails, scans files and text in emails, opens all links through Check Point firewall. Overall it's a set and forget implementation.
Easiest Email Security Gateway to Deploy over cloud with Shadow IT feature
What do you like best about the product?
Best feature I like about Avanan Cloud Email Security is its inline feature where it blocks the mail before it goes to the mailbox.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is only cloud based and it can only be integrated with Office365 or Google Suite.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped in blocking the spam mail and user will be notified about the attachment have been scanned by threat cloud AI
Effective Protection, Slightly Complex Setup
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best is how well it catches phishing emails that other filters sometimes miss. It gives clear info on why something was flagged, which really helps build trust in the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike is that the interface can be a bit clunky, some settings are buried, and it takes a while to get used to where everything is.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It’s helping block phishing, spam, and malicious emails before they reach our users. That’s saved us a lot of time dealing with threats manually and reduced the risk of someone clicking on something they shouldn’t.
Powerful email management with Harmony Email & Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
The email scanning and filtering is seamless. Once configured the only intervention you might need to do is when you receive an alert.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Web portal has a lot of options which is overwhelming sometimes, but overall there is little to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Harmony Email & Collaboration does advanced threat protection and phishing detection. The emails are all analyzed and only go to the destination mailbox if the contents of the email are all proven to be secure. There are many policy configurations, which keep our company and users secure.
Powerful System with Modern Technology
What do you like best about the product?
The system is easy to implement into Office365 and Google Workspace using the provided wizards for each SaaS app. Just provide admin approval and off it goes making the necessary changes.
It offers a wealth of customizable protection options that allow for fine grained protection for various users and groups depending on your needs.
Simplified management of accounts for customers, quick and easy switching between accounts without re-loging.
What do you dislike about the product?
No way to centralize or copy configurations between clients. Once you find a nice baseline you need to manually update it on each client. This does cause for lots of work as there are many settings that can be applied.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Harmony Email and Collaboration is solving modern day email, chat, and file based attacks for our organization. It uses modern day approaches to detect and prevent modern day attacks that use non-traditional methods of getting to a user. Harmony is able to integrate with not just email, but chats, and file sharing to monitor, detect, and protect many possible vectors. This has helped our organization protect against increasingly common attacks that target critical business systems in the hopes of stealing authentication tokens and credentials to gain access to environments.
Seamless Email filtering with Harmony Email & Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
I like that all links in emails are automatically analysed by Checkpoint and provide powerful filtering and phishing prevention.
What do you dislike about the product?
The licensing cost is a bit expensive. The UI in the portal is not great and is confusing to navigate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's preventing mostly phishing emails but the file analysing feature is also very thorough. At our company the users don't notice that it's even there, which is a big plus.
