We compared Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration and Mimecast Email Security 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. Mimecast Email Security is appreciated for its efficient archiving capabilities and effective protection against targeted threats. Its seamless integration with Microsoft 365 also earned high marks.
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. Mimecast Email Security should focus on improving its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and ease of setup.
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. Mimecast's customer service elicits varied opinions, with some customers expressing satisfaction with its responsiveness and effectiveness, while others perceive it as unsatisfactory.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement. Users had mixed experiences with Mimecast Email Security's setup. Some users found it fast and uncomplicated, while others found it moderately complex.
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. Mimecast Email Security is generally seen as costly, and some users struggle to justify the expense. It’s perceived as more expensive than competing solutions.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options. It is challenging to measure the return on investment for Mimecast Email Security.
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. Mimecast is commended for its archiving and targeted threat protection capabilities. On the other hand, Mimecast faces challenges with its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and high pricing.
"At the moment we are satisfied with this product. It's a stable, scalable, and resilient solution for us."
"It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 helps people to work remotely. It is a secure solution. We don't need to use our company's computers or get VPN connections to the networks. I can control how they share screens and what they send to the devices. It keeps our organizations confidential and sensitive information safe."
"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"The ease of management and intuitive administration are excellent."
"We have managed to have an impressive reduction in phishing that used to enter our system before applying Check Point."
"Getting reports and finding threats in the console is easy."
"The first most remarkable thing is the integration with the Office 365 solution, which is easy, fast, and totally transparent for the user."
"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 solution has a very effective anti-phishing algorithm that detects a significantly higher number of phishing emails compared to the default Microsoft solution."
"We are able to protect sensitive business data and maintain regulatory compliance with advanced data leak prevention (DLP)."
"Check Point adds value with east-west protection in the data center."
"The solution is pretty straightforward to use and easy to set up."
"URL inspection works pretty well."
"Mimecast certainly helped my customers reduce phishing emails."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The piece that is most valuable from the Mimecast standpoint will be the sandboxing feature."
"The setup was easy."
"The solution offers good technical support."
"The integration is straightforward."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"In one of the reports I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. It depends on the architecture, but we would like to make it more scalable for both data centers."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"Since the portal to the management and administration entry sometimes has performance problems and takes a long time to respond to what has arrived, the handling of the tool is difficult."
"Some undefined threats can bypass the security system when there is a networking failure in the organization."
"It would be good to have the option to export the respective record data from dashboards or logs to .csv or other files."
"Support can be a bit quicker in helping the customer."
"A signature-based filter could improve the solution's AI model for spam email."
"There could be more automation features included for it."
"We are unable to export the reports from the dashboard, and if it is possible to do then it is not intuitive."
"We have used technical support, but their response time is very slow. It needs to be improved."
"The platform's cost-effectiveness could be improved."
"The solution should include more AI features instead of Mimecast's more general static configuration tooling."
"We have subscribed to an archival service, and yet, when we have to get our data out, we have to pay a fee to get our own data. They charge an extraction fee."
"They should improve the cookies management feature."
"The detection rates are an area for improvement."
"The solution is complex and not easy to use."
"From an administrative point of view, Mimecast is a little bit cumbersome and difficult. It's not something that the end-user can easily find navigate themselves."
"The installation is not so straightforward."
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 49 reviews while Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 25 reviews. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.6, while Mimecast Email Security is rated 8.0. 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 Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Cisco Secure Email, Barracuda Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud, whereas Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Abnormal Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and Darktrace. See our Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs. Mimecast Email Security report.
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