SOFTCAT PLC

Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration

Harmony Email and Collaboration (HEC) is an inline API based email security solution. HEC combines AI/ML, threat intelligence and sandboxing to protect businesses from all variants of email based attacks. HEC also protects collaboration applications from phishing attacks, malware and data loss.

Features

• Credential theft prevention and corporate password reuse protection

Benefits

• GDPR compliant, assures users’ browsing history remains private

£50 a user

• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  ODS

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

329125504691695

Contact

Charles Harrison
01628 403403
psitq@softcat.com

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
• What software services is the service an extension to: HEC integrates with all other aspects of the Check Point portfolio. As a standalone it augments existing security tools from O365 and Google Workspace
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: Not applicable
• System requirements: Our customers must be using cloud email

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Severity 1: Response time 30 minutes. Check Point and Customer commit necessary resources around clock for Resolution, workaround or reduce severity of issue.; Severity 2: Response time 2 hours. Check Point and Customer commit full-time resources during normal business hours for Resolution, workaround or reduce severity of issue and alternative resources during non-Standard Business Hours.; Severity 3: Response time 4 hours. Check Point and Customer commit full-time resources during normal business hours for Resolution, workaround or reduce severity of issue.; Severity 4: Response time 4 hours. Check Point and Customer provide resources during normal business hours for Resolution.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Web chat
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web chat support is accessible: Our service is B2B and currently is not tested according to EN 301 549 accessibility standards.
• Web chat accessibility testing: Our service is B2B and currently is not tested according to EN 301 549 accessibility standards.
• Onsite support: No
• Support levels: Type; Collaborative Enterprise Support: local partner experts backed by Check Point. ; Direct Enterprise Support: direct support from the Check Point experts.; ; Levels; Standard - 5 x 9 Business Day, get advanced access to our large, self-service knowledge base and a committed 30-minute response time to issues with level one severity.; Premium – 7 x 24 Every Day, enjoy all the benefits of Standard Collaborative Support, plus real-time 24×7 Global support.; Elite – 7 x 24 Every Day, receive comprehensive support plus the possibility of having an engineer on-site for critical SW issues.; Diamond – 7 x 24 Every Day, extend your Premium/Elite Support with personalised support, in-depth resources and consulting.; ; PRO - optional support add-on. When a severe issue is detected, a Check Point PRO expert proactively contacts you to help resolve the issue and prevent service downtime. Check Point PRO also provides you with a comprehensive report, delivering an overview of your overall security, diagnostics and actionable insights.; ; Please speak with your chosen partner to discuss your support requirements and get the level your organisations needs.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Users are guided through the onboarding process and can receive training either virtually or onsite. There are user guides available for both the HEC service and the Infinity Portal.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: HTML
• End-of-contract data extraction: All data that exists in HEC is a copy of data that exists within O365. Data will be purged in line with the retention periods set on the account (default is 180 days for unsafe emails, 14 days for safe emails)
• End-of-contract process: At the end of the contract you can opt to extend the contract for a further period, or you can disable your HEC account. As there is no data to extract you will work with support and customer success to determine when the contract should finish to plan the migration away from the platform.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: HEC is provisioned from the Check Point Infinity Portal which is accessed through a web browser. This is a single dashboard where all aspects of the service are accessed from.
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: Our service is B2B and currently is not tested according to EN 301 549 accessibility standards.
• Accessibility testing: Our service is B2B and currently is not tested according to EN 301 549 accessibility standards.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: HEC requires an API connection in order to carry out it's protection. The service uses this API connection to retrospectively pull out emails from a users inbox either automatically or manually.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Customisation within HEC is available across policy creation and reporting. Policies can be customised to apply rules to individual users/groups of users, the workflows when phishing or malware is identified and the thresholds for these policies being configured. Reporting can be customised to show data specific to certain users or types of attacks. RBAC is used to control which users can customise the platform.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Each customer has their own partitioned tenant on AWS. HEC's AWS agreement allows for elastic expansion to ensure all customers have the required processing power and bandwidth for the solution to remain optimal regardless of the demand placed on it.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Number of users, throughput and attacks that have bypassed other email security solutions being used.
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller (no extras)
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
• Data sanitisation process: No
• Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Emails and reports can be exported through drop down options within the dashboard.
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats: PDF
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats:
  • PST
  • EML

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: HEC is backed by a 99.993% SLA. Depending on the level of service affected, service credits are available.
• Approach to resilience: This information is available on request.
• Outage reporting: The status of all Check Point services can be found at status.checkpoint.com. Customers can subscribe to email alerts or configure an API to programmatically access various elements of the service status page.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: RBAC is used to restrict access to the platform and certain parts of the platform from the user side.; ; Check Point support functions will only have access to confidential data if specifically granted by the customer. This access is granted from the dashboard.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Standards Institution of Israel https://www.sii.org.il/en/
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 3/1/2022
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: All aspects of HEC are covered under ISO27001
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • SOC 2 Type 2 for 2022
  • SOC 2 Type 2 in progress proof for 2023
  • ISO 27001-27018 in progress proof for 2023
  • ISO 27001-27017 in progress proof for 2023
  • ISO 27001-27036 in progress proof for 2023
  • CloudGuard PCI-DSS Level 1 Service Provider 2022-2023
  • Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials plus accreditation

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards:
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
• Other security governance standards: SOC2 Type II
• Information security policies and processes: Please see Check Point's full information security policy at: https://www.checkpoint.com/privacy/security/

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: HEC development utilizes the Continuous ; Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodology. CI/CD principles include the following steps: plan, code, build, test, release, deploy, operate and monitor.
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: Check Point performs monthly vulnerability scans and employs a centrally managed configuration management system, including infrastructure-as-code systems through which predefined configurations are enforced on its servers, as well as the desired patch levels of the various software components.; There is an internal procedure that defines the Patch management process and employees are trained in the corporate security policy.; In addition to the ongoing patch management processes, Check Point performs security monitoring from three main channels:; 1.Internal Security Research (vulnerability scanners, penetration test, company’s Incident response team and researchers, etc.); 2.External sources (threat intelligence, US-CERT, publications, vendors updates, etc.); 3.Anonymous notifications
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Check Point monitors the production environment with several tools such as grafana ,sumologic and implements a continuous monitoring strategy.; Check Point plans to mandate ongoing security control assessments to be completed in accordance with the FedRAMP continuous monitoring strategy and respond to security related vulnerabilities and issues generated by security assessment and monitoring activities by either fixing, remediating or implementing mitigating controls to reduce the overall risk.; The Check Point CISO team plans to use information obtained from continuous monitoring and ongoing assessments of Check Point for FedRAMP reports the security state of the system via vulnerability scan results
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: In the event of a security incident, Check Point’s security team is responsible for investigating and responding. Check Point has clear risk and damage assessment procedures to define the SLA required to solve any security incident. Check Point’s Information Security Manager, and other managers, will coordinate security response including containment, investigation, infrastructure securing, reporting, closure and follow up. Check Point will respond using the appropriate management and technical resources in order to promptly restore operations impacted by any incident. Check Point will adhere to applicable laws and industry standards in this process, including following any required notifications.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  Softcat are dedicated to reducing our environmental impact and actively promoting sustainability. Our commitment to sustainability is a core aspect of our business strategy, driving us to innovate and lead in the creation of a more sustainable future for our company and the communities we serve. This commitment is embedded in our policies, operating procedures, and training programs.; ; We are proud to be the first FTSE 250 company to be awarded 5-star status in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. ; ; We aim to achieve a Carbon Net-Zero Value Circle by 2040 by prioritising renewable energy, reducing natural resource use, minimising waste, and safeguarding biodiversity in compliance with environmental legislation.; ; At Softcat, we have taken significant steps towards securing renewable energy across our organisation, reducing our scope 1 & 2 emissions. We had the target of using 100% Renewable Energy across all our locations by 2024. We successfully delivered against this target ~2 years early.; ; In May 2023 we took delivery of 15 electric vehicles, replacing all existing fossil-fuelled company cars used by employees for business means. The implementation of the EV pool fleet will see a saving of over 80 tons of CO2e per year. A huge impact on our Net Zero targets.

  Tackling economic inequality

  As a value-add reseller, Softcat outsources the products, services, and solutions through our extensive network of partners, to best suit the needs of our broad client base. We always consider and promote SMEs and local providers where appropriate, particularly for the products and services we offer via the G Cloud framework.; ; We remain dedicated to improving employability and educational awareness across schools, colleges, and universities to help break down the barriers to joining technology organisations.; ; We work collaboratively with many schools that are close in proximity to our offices, to ensure we are actively supporting the community as well as schools from lower socio-economic backgrounds. ; ; We visit the schools to talk about the IT sector and the roles in our organisation, as well as promoting work-experience opportunities during the summer. In particular, we actively encourage students from diverse backgrounds to engage in work experience to appreciate the roles available in our sector.; ; For ambitious school and college leavers, a Softcat Apprenticeship is a great first step into the world of work, with 94% of our apprentices offered a permanent position at Softcat post apprenticeships, which goes to show the amazing opportunity available with us.; ; We were ranked 1st in IT & Consultancy, and 10th overall in by RateMyApprenticeship.com - Best 100 Apprenticeship Employers 2023-2024 list.; ; Softcat now also offer 12 month paid internships to University students looking to complete a year in industry as part of their undergraduate studies.

  Equal opportunity

  Our approach to diversity and inclusion is introduced first during our induction training, as part of our Softcat values, outlining responsibility to uphold our principles. This message is reinforced by our process and policies, networks, Allyship Training and Inclusion Awareness campaigns.; ; Softcat supports diversity and inclusion through various networks including:; - Supporting Women in Business (SWIB); - The Ethnic and Cultural Network; - The Pride Network; - The Family Network; - The Empowering Disability and Neurodiversity Network (EDN); - The Faith at Work Network; - Armed Forces & Veterans Network; These networks aim to create a supportive and inclusive work environment for all employees, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or family commitments.; ; Our allyship programme, Stronger Together, is a mixture of event and workshop-based training available to all staff. Programme topics include, bias, power, privilege, and being a greater ally. ; ; Inclusion Awareness campaigns include race, disability, sexual orientation, gender, faith, and caring responsibilities. These sessions highlight and celebrate minority groups, through panel sessions, Q&A sessions and training, providing an opportunity to discuss and understand ways to be more inclusive. ; ; Our efforts to improve diversity and inclusion have been incredibly successful. Since 2020, the number of female employees below management level has increased to 35%, and the number of ethnic minority employees rose to 17%.

  Wellbeing

  At Softcat, all employees are provided with access to our multidimensional wellbeing programme which includes flexible work arrangements, free nutritious breakfast, mental health support, employee benefits scheme, health and wellbeing week activities, and online workshops.; ; Giving back to the community is an innate part of who we are as a company. All Softcat employees are therefore given two volunteer days per year to support a charitable or community cause. ; ; Each of our 10 regional offices also support local charities through fundraising, donations and events. For example, our Manchester office has raised over £30,000 for the WeLoveMCR charity. This funding has supported young, disadvantaged Manchester citizens in gaining qualifications to broaden their work opportunities and supporting local groups in delivering indispensable services that enable community cohesion.

Pricing

• Price: £50 a user
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Free trial includes all functionality as described in the service functionality for a limited time period of 30 days for up to 500 seats.
• Link to free trial: Please contact to discuss beginning a free trial.

Service documents

• Pricing document

  ODS

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at psitq@softcat.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.