SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

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

• Phishing prevention
• Malware prevention
• Business email compromise prevention
• Collaboration application security
• Suspicious mailbox activity detection
• Shadow IT
• URL and Attachment Sandboxing
• QR Code attack prevention
• DMARC record management
• Email archiving

Benefits

• Allows SOC teams to triage emails more quickly
• Reduces the number of malicious emails reaching the inbox
• Increases end user productivity
• Secures email inboxes across all devices
• Consolidates quarantine functions to facilitate easier management
• Deployment takes 7 clicks and 30 seconds
• Policies allow for both simple and granular controls
• End user notification and actions relieves workload on SOC teams
• Single dashboard consolidates all relevant information into one place
• Reduces the risk of a breach

£63.93 a user a year

• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

939091764097376

Contact

Katie Smith
0845 58 27001
info@sapphire.net

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: N/A
• System requirements: Our customers must be using cloud email

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: " Standard Support Customers have an SLA of 4h for Severity 2,3,4 Questions and 30 Minutes for Severity 1 Questions. ; Premium support customers have an SLA of 4h for sev 3-4, 2h for sev 2, and 30 mins for sev 1. ; Elite support customers have an SLA for 4h for Sev 3-4, 30 mins for Sev 1-2. "
• 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: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: "1. Check Point Standard Support: SLA 9x5 Buisness Day. Response Time Severity 1: 30 Minutes, Severity 2,3,4 4 Hours. ; ; 2. Check Point Premium Support: SLA 7 x 24 Every Day. Response Time Severity 1: 30 Minutes, Severity 2,2 Hours and Severity 3 & 4 4 Hours.; ; 3.Check Point Elite Support: SLA 7 x 24 Every Day. On Site Engineer for Critcal SRs Response Time Severity 1: 30 Minutes, Severity 2 30 minutes and Severity 3 & 4 4 Hours.; ; we can provide a TAM at a cost from Professional services and any support tickets that arise associated to the platform will be dealt by engineers skilled on the platform. ; ; The cost of support is often done on a percentage basis, per total license cost of entire purchase.; ; Standard is free and allows customer to file support tickets with Check Point. Premium Support is priced at 7% the total Subscription price and Elite is priced at 10%."
• 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 providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Harmony Email & Collaboration - HEC

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• 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:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
• 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: 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 programatically 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 once a year
• 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: Institute of Quality & Control
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 07.06.2023
• 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 2021
  • SOC 2 Type 2 in progress proof for 2022
  • ISO 27001-27017 in progress proof for 2022
  • ISO 27001-27018 in progress proof for 2022
  • ISO 27001-27036 in progress proof for 2022
  • CloudGuard PCI-DSS Level 1 Service Provider 2021-2022

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, operateand 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.; 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.); 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 tool 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
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  We make sure that we recycle where we can and take appropriate modes of transport to get to clients. Our offices in Darlington and Glasgow are easily accessible by public transport meaning that many of our colleagues go to an office by these means. For other colleagues, we offer remote working, and colleagues are able to attend an office when they need We are pricing our services to encourage customers to prefer remote access and remote working where possible. One of Sapphire staff is undertaking a part time PHD studying the carbon consequences of cyber crime and it’s mitigation which is inclusive of Sapphire customers and partners.

  Covid-19 recovery

  We have encouraged our staff back to office working especially in the SOC which runs 24*7 shift patterns. We have recently engaged in local communities by hiring space in local charity buildings for company meetings as in house face to face meetings. We have performed pro-bono work with charities to check their security status and help them move onwards from Covid in the face of increased cyber attacks on charities.

  Equal opportunity

  We have an Equal Opportunities policy which everyone in Sapphire adheres to. We are currently at 29% of females in our organisation, a number that has grown over the last few months. Our recruitment processes allow us to interview the best people for the roles we have available, and we insist on 50:50 short-lists for all roles. We value the views of others and see as a strength our openness to challenge. We employ military reservists, and are supportive of their overseas deployment commitments on behalf of HM Government. Recently we have signed documentation to join the NCSC Cyber First scheme to help young people especially women and girls to join the ranks of cyber professionals. We also mentor young people who are keen to move into cyber at some stage in their career.

  Wellbeing

  We take the wellbeing of our colleagues seriously; we offer an Employee Assistance Programme, have health cover, a pension scheme and Life Cover. We also provide opportunities for colleagues to Give Back to local projects/schemes and they can use a day a year to do this.

Pricing

• Price: £63.93 a user a year
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: 7 Day trial full service without any blocking. This will just show you what you're currently not seeing. Please speak with your Reseller or Check Point Directly to initiate a trial .

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• 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 info@sapphire.net. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.