Check Point Harmony Browse vs. McAfee SmartFilter (Discontinued)

Check Point Harmony Browse is particularly well suited for protecting against the various zero-day attack vectors, which is what it is designed to do. It offers very good protection against users visiting phishing sites, malware sites, downloading or opening ransomware, and just generally providing the safety net required in a corporate environment against users visiting potentially harmful websites.

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SmartFilter is well suited anywhere URL filtering is needed.

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• Protection from phishing.
• protection from malware.
• protection from ransomware.
• General protection against zero-day attack vectors.

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• SmartFilter has a mature URL database.
• Management of product is easy. Rules can be applied by AD group membership.
• Customizable block pages

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• When inspecting traffic there can be a some performance degradation.
• We have had a few instances of protections interfering with legitimate traffic. Worth the trade-off though.

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• None come to mind.

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We were already in the Check Point ecosystem and therefore did not look into alternatives like CrowdStrike or Kaspersky. Looking back, Check Point stacks up very nicely with the competitors on the market in terms of features, but I can't speak to actual real work performance having not used the others.

Incentivized

• Improved security posture overall with reduced risk.
• Relatively low cost and easy implementation easily recouped by allowing us to shift resources to other priorities and away from manual monitoring tasks.
• Peace of mind for our users knowing they have a safety net in place.

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• It has positively impacted our environment by reducing amount of time staff spend surfing the Internet while at work.

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