Check Point Email Security
Secure the front door. Email is where most attacks arrive — Check Point Email Security (formerly 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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The Check Point platform family
This page covers Check Point Email Security — email & SaaS security. The rest of the platform:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Check Point Email Security — 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 cybersecurity 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 estate vs modern security — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Unprotected / signature email | Check Point Email Security |
|---|---|---|
| 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 stream of signals from cloud, endpoint and network — threats joined up once, not pursued screen by screen.
Twelve capabilities. Detect, protect, prove.
Check Point Email Security secures the #1 attack vector from inside the platform — email and collaboration, part of the Check Point portfolio.
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
API-based and inside the platform, it sees internal email and account-takeover activity a perimeter gateway cannot.
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 threats.
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 Email Security 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 Email Security apart.
Email is the number-one attack vector — still
Most attacks — phishing, BEC, malware and ransomware delivery, credential theft — begin with an email, because it reaches a person directly. Modern attacks are targeted and often payload-less, with no link or attachment, which basic filters miss. Harmony uses AI to catch them and extends protection to collaboration tools.
API-based beats the gateway — it sees what perimeter security can't
Harmony connects inside Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace via API rather than sitting at the perimeter like a gateway. It sees internal-to-internal email, account takeover and post-delivery activity a gateway cannot, and can pull a malicious email from every inbox after delivery. The model comes from Check Point’s Avanan acquisition.
AI catches the sophisticated, payload-less attacks
BEC often carries no payload: a plain email from the ‘CEO’ asking finance to wire money, or a supplier sharing new bank details. Harmony’s AI analyses hundreds of signals — sender identity and history, language, the request, deviations from normal behaviour — to catch phishing, impersonation and BEC that evade signatures.
Collaboration apps are the new attack surface
Attackers now send phishing lures through Teams and Slack, often trusted more than email, and spread malware via OneDrive and SharePoint files. Harmony extends the same AI protection to those platforms, scanning messages and shared files for phishing, malware and data loss, from one console with email.
Deploys in minutes, correlated on Infinity
Harmony connects to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace via API, with no MX change or mail re-routing, so it deploys in minutes. As part of Infinity it shares ThreatCloud AI intelligence with Harmony Endpoint, Quantum and CloudGuard, so a chain from phishing email to endpoint to network can be seen whole.
The honest scope
Harmony’s edge is its API model, strong BEC detection, collaboration coverage and Infinity consolidation. Abnormal Security leads on behavioural AI, Mimecast is long-standing, Proofpoint is a major enterprise player, and Defender for Office 365 is cost-effective for M365/E5 estates.
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, internal and post-delivery threats caught, correlated on Infinity. TechBag models INR/GST.
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 a compromised account phishing colleagues — internal phishing our gateway never saw.”
“A malicious email got through, and Harmony pulled it from every inbox once identified. A gateway can’t do that.”
“It catches payload-less BEC — CEO fraud and supplier-invoice scams with no link or attachment — by reading intent.”
“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.”
“Threat Extraction gives users a clean file instantly while the original is sandboxed. Zero-day protection, no delay.”
“Email shares ThreatCloud intelligence with our endpoint and network security, so we track attack chains across domains.”
“Email-only specialists are strong, but for API coverage, collaboration security and our Check Point stack, Harmony won.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and review-site grids score satisfaction, not fit for your estate. 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.
Email Detection × Platform Breadth
A chart vendors never print: how deep email-threat detection runs versus platform breadth.
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.
Check Point Email Security 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 | Check Point Email Security | 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 approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Check Point Email Security 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
Check Point Email Security is one of 36 email security products TechBag carries. The Email Security guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
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 your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Check Point Email Security 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.
Check Point Email Security
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
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
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The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
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 Check Point Email Security vs Mimecast (hub live), Abnormal and Defender for O365 for YOUR estate.
Questions buyers ask
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Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.