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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration
Secure the front door. Email is where most attacks arrive — Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration secures M365/Google email AND collaboration apps — API-based, inside the platform, catching the phishing, BEC and internal threats gateways miss.
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration secures the tools your workforce lives in all day — email (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace) and the collaboration apps like Teams, Slack, OneDrive and SharePoint — against phishing, business email compromise (BEC), malware, ransomware and data loss. Email remains the number-one attack vector: the vast majority of cyberattacks start with a phishing email or a malicious attachment, because it's the easiest way to reach a human and trick them. And as work shifted into collaboration platforms, those became targets too — attackers now use Teams and Slack messages, and shared files, to spread threats. Harmony Email & Collaboration (built on the technology from Check Point's Avanan acquisition) takes an API-based, inline approach: it connects directly to your cloud email and collaboration suites via API, so it sits inside the platform and can catch threats that a traditional gateway (which only sees mail at the perimeter) misses — including internal-to-internal attacks and account-takeover activity. It uses AI to detect the subtle signals of phishing and BEC (which often has no malicious payload, just social engineering), sandboxes attachments and links, prevents data leaks (DLP), and remediates threats — even after delivery. It's part of Check Point's Harmony suite and Infinity Platform. Check Point protects 100,000+ organisations globally. TechBag scopes, PoCs and quotes it in INR/GST.
The Check Point platform family
This page covers Harmony Email & Collaboration — email & SaaS security. The rest of the platform:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Harmony Email & Collaboration — email & SaaS security
- Vendor
- Check Point (founded 1993 · Tel Aviv · via Avanan)
- The category
- Email & Collaboration Security
- Secures
- M365/Google email + Teams, Slack, OneDrive, SharePoint
- Stops
- Phishing, BEC, malware, ransomware, data loss
- The approach
- API-based & inline — inside the platform, not just the gateway
- The edge
- Catches internal & post-delivery threats a gateway misses
- Part of
- Harmony suite / Infinity Platform
- Deployment
- API connection (M365/Google) — minutes, no MX change
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand email security before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is email & collab security?
Securing email + collaboration apps (Teams, Slack, files) against phishing, BEC, malware and data loss.
API-based — inside the platform.
Unprotected inbox vs AI email security — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Unprotected / signature email | Harmony Email & Collaboration (Check Point) |
|---|---|---|
| The vantage point | Perimeter gateway | Inside the platform (API) |
| Internal phishing | Invisible | Caught |
| Account takeover | Missed | Detected |
| After delivery | Too late | Pull it from inboxes |
| BEC / impersonation | Slips through | AI reads intent |
| Collaboration apps | Unprotected gap | Teams, Slack, files secured |
| Deployment | MX change, disruptive | API, minutes, no disruption |
| The estate | Email silo | Correlated (Infinity) |
Email is still the #1 attack vector — and gateways miss internal and payload-less attacks. Secure it from inside the platform, plus collaboration. Part of Harmony & Infinity.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
API Connection
Connects to Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace via API and sits inside the platform — seeing all mail (including internal-to-internal) and collaboration activity, not just perimeter traffic.
AI Threat Detection
AI analyses hundreds of signals — sender, language, intent, context — to catch phishing and BEC, including payload-less social-engineering attacks a gateway can't see.
Sandboxing & Sanitisation
Sandboxes attachments and rewrites/detonates links (Threat Emulation & Extraction) to catch zero-day malware and malicious URLs before a user is harmed.
Collaboration Security
Extends the same protection to collaboration apps — Teams, Slack, OneDrive, SharePoint — where attackers now share malicious files and messages.
DLP & Remediation
Prevents sensitive data leaking via email/collab (DLP), and remediates threats automatically — including pulling a malicious email back after delivery.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Detect, protect, prove.
Harmony Email & Collaboration secures the #1 attack vector from inside the platform — email and collaboration, part of the portfolio, and paired with the human firewall.
AI Anti-Phishing
AI analyses sender, language, intent and context to catch phishing — including the sophisticated, targeted attacks that get past basic filters.
BEC & Impersonation Defence
Catches business email compromise and impersonation — the payload-less social-engineering attacks (fake CEO, fake supplier) that gateways miss.
Internal-Threat Detection
Because it's inside the platform (API-based), it sees internal-to-internal email and account-takeover activity a perimeter gateway can't — catching lateral attacks.
Malware & Sandboxing
Sandboxes attachments (Threat Emulation) to catch zero-day malware, and Threat Extraction delivers a clean file instantly — no wait, no infection.
Malicious-URL Protection
Rewrites and inspects links, checking them at click-time against ThreatCloud AI — stopping the phishing and malware URLs delivered in email and chat.
Collaboration-App Security
Extends protection to Teams, Slack, OneDrive and SharePoint — scanning shared files and messages for the threats attackers now spread through collaboration.
Data Loss Prevention
Prevents sensitive data leaking through email and collaboration — controlling and blocking the outbound data-loss channel these tools represent.
Post-Delivery Remediation
Because it's API-based, it can remediate a threat AFTER delivery — pulling a malicious email out of every inbox it reached the moment it's identified.
Email Encryption
Encrypt sensitive outbound email — protecting confidential communications and meeting compliance for regulated data.
Minutes to Deploy
Connects via API to M365/Google in minutes — no MX record change, no mail-flow disruption, no rip-and-replace of your existing setup.
Threat Visibility & Reporting
Clear dashboards on phishing, BEC, malware and data-loss events across email and collaboration — the visibility for security teams and reporting.
Harmony & Infinity
Part of the Harmony suite and Infinity Platform — email/collab security sharing ThreatCloud AI intelligence with endpoint, network and cloud security.
Watch Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration in action
The overview, getting started, and protecting M365 email.
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration
The email & collaboration security overview.
Harmony Email & Collaboration: Block Spam and Phishing
Blocking phishing and spam.
Harmony Email & Collaboration: Detect Zero-Day Malware
Catching zero-day malware.
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Here’s what genuinely sets Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration apart.
Email is the number-one attack vector — still
Despite years of investment, email remains the single most common way cyberattacks begin. The vast majority of attacks — phishing, business email compromise, malware and ransomware delivery, credential theft — start with an email, for a simple reason: email is the easiest way to reach a human being directly and trick them into clicking, opening or replying. It bypasses technical defences by targeting the person. A single employee clicking one convincing phishing link or opening one malicious attachment can lead to a full breach. This makes email security not optional but foundational: it's protecting the primary entry point attackers use. And the threat has evolved — modern email attacks are increasingly sophisticated (highly-targeted spear-phishing, convincing impersonation) and often payload-less (BEC attacks with no malicious link or attachment at all, just social engineering to trick someone into wiring money or sharing credentials), which basic filters and even traditional gateways struggle to catch. Harmony Email & Collaboration exists to protect this critical, constantly-attacked front door with AI that can catch the modern, subtle attacks — and to extend that protection to the collaboration tools that have become the next target.
API-based beats the gateway — it sees what perimeter security can't
Harmony Email & Collaboration's defining architectural advantage is that it's API-based and inline, connecting directly inside your cloud email and collaboration suites (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace) rather than sitting only at the perimeter like a traditional Secure Email Gateway (SEG). This matters enormously. A traditional gateway inspects mail as it arrives from outside, which means it's blind to several critical things: internal-to-internal email (an attacker who has compromised one employee's account then phishing colleagues — the gateway never sees this because it never leaves the organisation); account-takeover activity; and anything that happens after initial delivery. By sitting inside the platform via API, Harmony sees all of this — every email including internal ones, all collaboration activity, and the full context — so it catches internal phishing, lateral movement and account-takeover attacks that a perimeter gateway structurally cannot. It also enables post-delivery remediation: if a threat is identified after emails have already been delivered, Harmony can automatically pull those malicious emails out of every inbox they reached — something a gateway, having already passed the mail on, cannot do. This API-based, inside-the-platform approach (from Check Point's Avanan acquisition) is widely regarded as a superior model for cloud email security, and it's a core reason Harmony catches threats others miss.
AI catches the sophisticated, payload-less attacks
The hardest email threats to stop are the sophisticated, targeted ones — and especially business email compromise (BEC), which often carries no malicious payload at all. A BEC attack might be a plain-text email that appears to come from the CEO asking the finance team to urgently wire money, or from a known supplier providing 'updated' bank details. There's no malicious link or attachment for a traditional filter to catch — it's pure social engineering, exploiting trust and urgency, and it's one of the most financially damaging attack types (BEC losses run into billions). Catching these requires understanding intent and context, not just scanning for known-bad indicators. Harmony Email & Collaboration uses AI that analyses hundreds of signals — the sender's real identity and history, the language and tone, the nature of the request, contextual anomalies (is this how this person normally communicates? is this request unusual?) — to detect the subtle signs of phishing, impersonation and BEC that have no technical payload. This AI-driven, context-aware detection is essential for modern email security, because the most dangerous attacks are precisely the ones designed to look legitimate and evade signature- and rule-based defences. It's a key part of what makes Harmony effective against today's threats rather than just yesterday's.
Collaboration apps are the new attack surface
As work moved into collaboration platforms — Microsoft Teams, Slack, OneDrive, SharePoint — these tools became a new attack surface that email-only security leaves exposed. Attackers now use Teams and Slack messages to send phishing links and social-engineering lures (often more trusted than email because they're internal channels), and shared files in OneDrive and SharePoint to distribute malware. Organisations that secured email but left their collaboration suites unprotected have a significant gap, because their people now do a large share of their communication and file-sharing in these apps. Harmony Email & Collaboration closes this gap by extending the same AI-driven protection to the collaboration platforms: scanning messages and shared files in Teams, Slack, OneDrive and SharePoint for phishing, malware and data loss, just as it does for email. This unified protection across email AND collaboration — from one solution, with one console and shared intelligence — reflects the reality of how modern work happens, and it's increasingly essential as collaboration tools carry more of the communication and file-sharing that attackers target. Securing only email while ignoring collaboration is like locking the front door and leaving the side door open.
Deploys in minutes, correlated on Infinity
A practical strength of the API-based approach is that Harmony Email & Collaboration deploys in minutes rather than as a disruptive project. Because it connects to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace via API, there's no need to change your MX records, re-route mail flow, or rip and replace your existing setup — you authorise the API connection and it's protecting your email and collaboration, without touching mail delivery or risking disruption. This is far simpler and lower-risk than deploying a traditional gateway, which requires re-pointing your mail flow. And because Harmony Email & Collaboration is part of Check Point's Harmony suite and the broader Infinity Platform, it shares ThreatCloud AI threat intelligence and management with the rest of your Check Point security — endpoint (Harmony Endpoint), network (Quantum) and cloud (CloudGuard). This correlation matters because attacks span domains: a phishing email that compromises an endpoint that reaches out across the network is one attack chain, and when your email, endpoint, network and cloud security share intelligence, you can see and stop the whole chain rather than each tool seeing only its slice. Fast, non-disruptive deployment plus consolidated, correlated defence make Harmony both easy to adopt and more effective than a standalone email-security silo. TechBag scopes it and its fit with your broader Check Point estate.
The honest scope
Harmony Email & Collaboration is a strong, modern email-and-collaboration security solution whose defining strengths are its API-based inside-the-platform approach (catching internal, account-takeover and post-delivery threats gateways miss), AI-driven BEC/phishing detection, collaboration-app coverage, and Infinity consolidation. The honest framing: cloud email security is competitive. Abnormal Security and Mimecast (hub live on TechBag) are strong specialists (Abnormal is a noted AI/behavioural leader; Mimecast is a long-standing email-security leader), Proofpoint is a major enterprise player, and Microsoft's own Defender for Office 365 is deeply integrated and cost-effective for M365/E5 estates. For the very deepest email-only specialisation, the pure-plays may lead on specific axes. Harmony's edge is the API-based model, strong BEC detection, collaboration coverage and — distinctively — consolidation with your endpoint, network and cloud security on Infinity. TechBag scopes Harmony Email & Collaboration vs Mimecast, Abnormal and Defender for Office 365 for your email estate and consolidation goals, honestly.
The numbers behind the platform
What your email-security journey looks like
Email/collab scoping
Your email (M365/Google), your collaboration apps, your worst threats (phishing, BEC), and your current email security. TechBag scopes it free.
Connect via API
Harmony connected to M365/Google via API in minutes — no MX change; AI detection and sandboxing live across email and collaboration.
Tune & extend
BEC/phishing detection tuned; DLP and encryption configured; collaboration-app protection (Teams, Slack, files) and post-delivery remediation on.
Front door secured
Email and collaboration protected against the #1 attack vector, internal and post-delivery threats caught, correlated on Infinity. TechBag models it in INR/GST.
Trusted across regulated industries in 100+ countries
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“The API approach caught internal phishing our gateway never saw — a compromised account phishing colleagues. That whole class of attack was invisible before.”
“Post-delivery remediation is a lifesaver — a malicious email got through and Harmony pulled it out of every inbox the moment it was identified. A gateway can't do that.”
“It catches BEC — the payload-less CEO-fraud and supplier-invoice scams that have no link or attachment. The AI reads intent, not just indicators. That's where the money-loss attacks live.”
“Extending protection to Teams and SharePoint closed a real gap — our people share as much in collaboration as email now, and attackers had noticed.”
“Deployed in minutes via API — no MX change, no mail-flow disruption. Far simpler and lower-risk than the gateway migration we dreaded.”
“Sandboxing with Threat Extraction gives users a clean file instantly while the original is detonated. Zero-day protection without the productivity hit.”
“Having email share ThreatCloud intelligence with our endpoint and network security meant we tracked attack chains across domains. Correlated, not siloed.”
“The email-only specialists are strong too — but for API-based coverage, collaboration security and consolidation with our Check Point stack, Harmony won.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the email security market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Email-Security Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
API-based email + collab security, Infinity-consolidated. This page's product.
Detection × Portfolio Integration
The grid nobody publishes — how strong the email detection is vs how integrated with the wider security portfolio.
API model + collab + Infinity consolidation.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Harmony Email vs the email-security field
The email-security leaders and native options — honest lanes; the edge is the API-based model (internal & post-delivery), AI BEC detection, collaboration coverage and Infinity consolidation.
| Dimension | Harmony Email | Mimecast | Abnormal | Defender for O365 | Basic filtering |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standing & approach | API-based + Infinity | Email-security leader | AI/behavioural leader | Microsoft-native | The gap |
| API-based (internal/post-delivery) | Yes — Avanan model | Gateway + API | Yes | Native (in M365) | No |
| BEC / AI detection | Strong AI | Strong | The reference | Good | Weak |
| Collaboration + consolidation | Collab + Infinity | Some collab | Email-focused | Full MS suite | None |
| Best fit | API-based email + collaboration security, consolidated with net/endpoint/cloud | Deep email-security leader | Best-in-class behavioural AI email | All-in on Microsoft E5 | Nobody serious about email |
Which email-security approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Harmony Email if…
- ✓You want API-based security that catches internal & post-delivery threats
- ✓Strong AI BEC/phishing detection matters
- ✓You need to secure collaboration apps (Teams, Slack, files) too
- ✓You want email/collab consolidated with your Check Point stack (Infinity)
Choose Mimecast if…
- ✓You want a deep, long-standing email-security leader (hub live)
Choose Abnormal if…
- ✓You want best-in-class behavioural-AI email security specialist
Choose Defender for O365 if…
- ✓You're all-in on Microsoft E5 and want the native option
Basic filtering if…
- ✓Never — basic filters miss the phishing and BEC that cause breaches
What do email threats cost you?
Drag the sliders (count users; IT-hour cost as loaded incident rate). Estimates assume ~1.5 hours per user per year handling email threats that reach the inbox without AI filtering, with ~70% removed by stopping the mass at the gateway — the avoided-breach value (most attacks start here) is the larger, unpriced win. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Harmony Email & Collaboration prices per mailbox/user per month (SaaS, API-connected). Quote-based via the channel — TechBag scopes it for your email and collaboration estate and quotes it in INR/GST.
Harmony Email & Collab
Best for the #1 vector
- API-based email + collaboration
- AI anti-phishing & BEC detection
- Post-delivery remediation
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
+ Harmony / Infinity
Best for consolidation
- Correlated with endpoint, net & cloud
- Shared ThreatCloud AI intelligence
- TechBag scopes the mix
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The 8 questions to ask every vendor
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Confirm the API-based model catches internal-to-internal phishing and account-takeover a gateway misses.
Test post-delivery remediation — pulling a malicious email from every inbox after it's identified.
PoC AI BEC/impersonation detection on payload-less attacks (fake CEO, fake supplier) — where the money-loss lives.
Verify protection extends to Teams, Slack, OneDrive and SharePoint — the new attack surface.
Test attachment sandboxing and Threat Extraction (clean file delivered instantly) on zero-day malware.
Confirm minutes-to-deploy via API — no MX change, no mail-flow disruption.
Scope Infinity correlation — email sharing intelligence with your endpoint, net and cloud security.
Compare Harmony Email vs Mimecast (hub live), Abnormal and Defender for O365 for YOUR estate.
Questions buyers ask
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