Check Point Harmony Browse vs. Webroot Endpoint Protection

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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The software tends to do a good job of basic protection but is not the best for larger clients and is not as powerful as some others offered on the market today. The support is not the best either, have had a hard time getting assistance in the past trying to resolve issues.

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

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• Webroot Endpoint Protection works very well at blocking threats quickly and can undo changes if a file turns out to be harmful, which has helped us in the past.
• It runs quietly in the background without slowing down endpoints, even during scans, which is great.
• You can manage all your devices from one online dashboard, making it easy to set rules and see security alerts. One pane of glass is always great.

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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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• It was missing detections. We found a better product that detects more malware.
• Deploying the endpoint agents was easy, but deploying Web Threat Shield was not and users could disable that functionality.
• When you deactivated old endpoints, they were put in an "inactive" category. You could not then delete the "inactive" endpoints. For someone who likes to keep things clean, this was annoying.
• I found the rollout of endpoint agent updates to be rather slow.

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It has proven successful so far in our environment for controlling malware/virus outbreaks.

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It does what it needs to do but we have noticed that malware is sort of uncommon and we have started to switch to other solutions of combating malware and suspicious activity such as using products like ThreatLocker and Field Effect, combined with things like malware bytes to perform scans when needed.

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Support has been reliable up to this point. A request can easily be generated via the console and support responding in a reasonable time. We have not had any major issues other than the basic agents not communicating with the console and the like.

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I had some difficulties with remote users. I ended up needing to open a remote tech support session and finish the process. Other than a few speed bumps, I was impressed with the engineering of the install. Because of time differences, I was done installing in two days. The cost, per license, could be less.

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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.

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We would consider Webroot in the top 5 when you factor in ease of use, level of protection, and cost. Probably not as comprehensive as other end-point security solutions but the proper level of functionality and support for our needs. Question what impact the acquisition by OpenText is having on future development and support. OpenText also acquire Carbonite for back-up support.

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.

Incentivized

• It saves us time and money in the fact that it runs and we never really have to worry about that part of IT. IT just runs
• Being able to centrally manage the clients is another plus because of being able to reach it virtually anywhere.
• Very simple quick installs. Gives us time to do other things.

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