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Samrawit T.

IT Logistics Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/26/2025

"Granular Control Meets Seamless Integration: A Deep Dive into Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point Email Security?

What I like best about Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security is its ability to deliver multi-layered protection—combining IP reputation filtering, pattern-based spam detection, and real-time antivirus scanning—while integrating seamlessly into existing Check Point gateways. This ensures high accuracy in threat prevention with minimal impact on performance or administrative overhead, making it a powerful yet efficient solution for enterprise email security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Email Security?

What I find frustrating about Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security is that while it’s powerful under the hood, the interface can feel clunky and unintuitive—especially when you're trying to make quick policy tweaks or troubleshoot missed spam. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Email Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security takes a big weight off my shoulders by filtering out phishing attempts, malware-laced attachments, and endless spam before they ever reach the inbox—so I spend less time chasing false positives or cleaning up after threats, and more time focusing on strategic tasks that actually move the needle for my clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/25/2025

"Powerful System with Modern Technology"

5/5

What do you like best about Check Point Email Security?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Email Security?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Email Security 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/30/2025

"User-Friendly Email Security with Excellent Microsoft Support, Some Gaps for Google Workspace"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point Email Security?

Check Point Avanan Cloud Email Security is straightforward to deploy thanks to its API integration. The Avanan dashboard is very user-friendly and easy to navigate, making it simple for email administrators to create or modify policies as needed. It includes all the essential modules, such as phishing detection, business email compromise detection, spam detection, real-time external URL detection, sandboxing, and more to mitigate modern day threads. As an administrator, you will find that you need to visit the dashboard less frequently compared to other solutions on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Email Security?

Check Point Avanan Cloud Email Security offers API-only integration, supporting just online email platforms like Microsoft and Google Workspace. While the integration with Microsoft through API works seamlessly and provides the full set of features, the experience with Google Workspace API integration is somewhat more challenging and lacks certain features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Email Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Check Point Avana Cloud Email Security is effective in mitigating modern threats that target the email channel, which remains a major attack surface for attackers. Taking into account its full set of features and functionality, it also helps reduce spam emails. Additionally, the email digest feature allows users to release quarantined emails without needing to raise a concern. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Svetlin S.

IT auditor

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/28/2025

"Harmony Email & Collaboration: Strong Security, But Not Flawless"

4/5

What do you like best about Check Point Email Security?

Harmony Email & Collaboration is relatively easy to use and blocks well different kind of threats -phishing, malware, ransomware. It can be easily implemented and integrated with Microsoft 365 easily. It has strong security without disrupting email flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Email Security?

Some of the downsides are that Harmony Email & Collaboration gives frequent false positives. Also, the customer support is slow in getting your request done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Email Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Harmony Email & Collaboration detects phishing and spoofing attacks. It also enforces custom policies to stop sensitive information from being shared inappropriately. It also uses behavioural analysis to identify and block unauthorized access attempts. MFA can also be set to add an extra layer of security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Raja G.

Assistant Technical Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/13/2025

"Effective Threat Prevention with Smooth Setup"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point Email Security?

I appreciate the smooth setup process of Avanan Cloud Email Security, which made it easy for us to get started. The high level of threat detection is valuable, as it provides scores for malicious emails and efficiently integrates with Office 365. This seamless API integration ensures robust protection by scanning emails through sandboxing, significantly reducing our spam and phishing threats. The tool's policy estimation features are excellent, allowing for effective threat management. Overall, the confidence it provides in securing our organization makes it a worthwhile investment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Email Security?

I dislike that the tool gives false positives, which requires continuous fine-tuning to improve its accuracy and achieve true positives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Devraj K.

Network & Security Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/17/2025

"Efficient AI-Powered Email Management, but Limited to Cloud and Major Platforms"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point Email Security?

The need of human intervention is greatly reduced as the build in AI function has help alot. It is very easy to onboard and it analyszes all the past mail to verify which domain to be whitelisted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Email Security?

It is only available for cloud and also more specific towards MS365 and Google Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Manish T.

Network & Security Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/16/2025

"Effortless Email Security with Top-Notch Features"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point Email Security?

I find Avanan Cloud Email Security incredibly easy to use. The setup process was straightforward, requiring just a few clicks. I'm also impressed with its in-line feature, which effectively blocks threats before they reach the inbox. Furthermore, its cloud-based nature eliminates the need for infrastructure worries and gives me better control over email security. Its competitive pricing and recognition in Gartner make it an attractive option for cloud-based email security solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Email Security?

I dislike that the Avanan Cloud Email Security does not have an on-premises option. This limitation can be a significant drawback for instances when an organization requires an on-premise email security gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nasseer q.

Pre Post Sales Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/5/2025

"Boosting email protection with checkpoint harmony email and collaboration."

5/5

What do you like best about Check Point Email Security?

What I like about Harmony email and collaboration is its use of AI and ML to proactively detect and block threats.The integration with checkpoints Threatcloud also strengths real-time threat intelligence, providing an added layer of security to our organization. In addition to that its inline API based deployment makes implementation quick and seamless without disrupting email workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Email Security?

For me HEC lacks granular reporting and analytics. It offers basic reporting functionality, more detailed , customizable reports and advanced analytics would be great to get deep insights into email security. Also, I would love to see email continuity feature in HEC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Email Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Harmony email and collaboration is solving several critical problems for our email security. It effectively blocks phishing attacks, malicious attachments, impersonation attemps using adcanced AI and ML models. This has significantly reduced the number of security breaches in our rmail communications.Addiitonaly we are greatly benefiting with its integration with ThreatCloud as it enhanced real time threat intellligence ensuring we are always protected against the latest threats.It provided peace of minds knowing our email communication is secure and upto date with latest threat intelligence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Eoin F.

Operations Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/29/2025

"Complex setup but simple to use in production"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point Email Security?

Easy to navigate interface with the most relevant alerts summarised at the top of your homepage. We use the tool multiple times a day for reviewing security events and detecting potential issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Email Security?

Setup was a buggy mess and had to be redone multiple times. Still don't have legacy scanning for Google Drive and missing phishing testing for Google workspace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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jeevan j.

IT admin

Defense & Space

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/9/2025

"Secure and Spam-Free Inbox and peace of Mind for Email Safety"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Check Point Email Security?

I like that Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security keeps my inbox safe and clean. It blocks spam, phishing, and malicious emails automatically. It saves my team time and prevents unsafe emails from reaching us, so we don’t have to worry about email threats or data being stolen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Check Point Email Security?

Nothing is there to tell about the negative with the check point for now all going good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Check Point Email Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security solves the problem of unwanted spam, phishing, and malicious emails. Before, unsafe emails could reach our inboxes and cause risks. Now, it automatically blocks these threats, keeps our email clean, saves time, protects data, and ensures safe and reliable communication for the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.