Prevention Before the Inbox: Reading the Microsoft Defender Benchmark Report in Context
Check Point, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Check Point rebuts Microsoft's Defender email benchmark, arguing it ignores pre-delivery threat prevention.
Check Point's Michael Hansen critiques Microsoft's Defender for Office 365 benchmark report for misrepresenting Check Point Email Security's effectiveness.
He explains that Microsoft's metrics count only post-delivery API remediation actions, while Check Point's architecture emphasizes pre-delivery threat prevention that stops malicious mail before it reaches the inbox, a distinction the benchmark overlooks.
Hansen points to Gartner's Critical Capabilities report, which ranked Check Point first for Core Email Protection, as independent evidence contradicting Microsoft's framing. The article urges buyers to evaluate email security on prevention rather than post-delivery cleanup metrics.