We compared Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Barracuda Email Security Gateway’s stand-out features include sandboxing, diverse customization options, and a cloud environment. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration offers exceptional integration through APIs, advanced protection against data leaks, and the ability to detect complex social engineering attacks.
Room for Improvement: Barracuda Email Security Gateway users say the solution should add DomainKeys functionality, enhance anti-phishing measures, and introduce the ability to add multiple domains. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration could improve integration with Exchange and other SaaS clouds while enhancing its threat clouds and AI engines.
Service and Support: Customers have praised the customer service of Barracuda Email Security Gateway for its professionalism, responsiveness, and availability, rating it as good and reliable. Check Point has earned mixed reviews for its customer service. Some customers appreciate the technical support provided, while others are dissatisfied with response times.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Barracuda Email Security Gateway is described as simple and intuitive, requiring a few hours or a day to complete. Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement.
Pricing: Users say Barracuda Email Security Gateway is competitively priced. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is a cost-effective option. It offers competitive prices and is suitable for small to medium-sized organizations.
ROI: Barracuda Email Security Gateway benefits users by minimizing business disruptions and reducing costs. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options.
Comparison Results: Barracuda offers a wide range of capabilities, customizable options, and excellent customer support. Suggestions for improvement are more prevalent for Barracuda, including better pricing, automation, and user interface. Opinions on pricing vary for both products, with some users considering Barracuda to be more affordable. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is an effective solution for blocking malicious attachments and detecting social engineering attacks. However, there is room for improvement in terms of integration and support, reducing false positives, and enhancing response times.
"This product is powerful and quite simple to use."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway has a good feature of email spooling, which acts as a first line of security."
"The performance is good."
"The anti-spamming, anti-fishing features are great."
"The link protection and anti-phishing features are great."
"The feature that sets Barracuda apart from other solutions is the Office 365 cloud-to-cloud backup."
"It is lightweight, and we can filter all of our inbound and outbound emails. We have controls for rate control, quarantine, and tagging. We can see whether an email is a spam email or a phishing email."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the cloud ATP functionality not available on the on-premise version. Most of the zero-day attacks can be mitigated with ATP. Additionally, the reporting functionality is good."
"Check Point's technical support is very good."
"The product's environment is easy to work and comprehensive."
"We have managed to have an impressive reduction in phishing that used to enter our system before applying Check Point."
"The fact that we can share documents without emailing them and still be confident they will go through the corresponding scrutiny is great."
"This product enhances faster and more secure sharing of information among colleagues from different departments."
"Email security has improved since we deployed this platform."
"Its total protection has been the greatest aspect since it completely protects all the mail from the cloud."
"The product is a fairly complete and centralized solution accessible through the Infinity Portal."
"The UI could be a little cleaner and require less clicking around in different modules. They give the illusion of a single pane of glass, but as you click around to different products, you're actually being transferred into a different system."
"I have noticed that it takes a little time to get familiar with after deploying and some tweaks need to be done as things come up."
"This product can always be made more secure."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway should add auto-remediation to improve the solution. Additionally, there are times when we have false positives and our general emails get locked, we have mentioned this to Barracuda."
"Barracuda should have a sandbox feature in the appliances."
"The downsides of the solution stem from the fact that it is an expensive product, and one may see too many false positives when using it, making them both areas where improvements are required."
"Two improvements that are needed include an enhancement in the proxy feature, as well as the ability to more fully automate patches and updates."
"There are limited administration controls that should be improved."
"The NAVEX metrics that I have been using on the CloudGuard dashboard cannot be exported. If they were to add report exporting capabilities on each of metric objects on the dashboard, that would be awesome."
"There could be more automation features included for it."
"if a phishing email were to get through and bypass the product — which very few do — it would be nice if, when a user clicked on that phishing email, they got a second-chance opportunity, a chance to double-check that they really wanted to proceed to that website."
"The product's pricing needs improvement."
"They should consider a module that allows the customizing of reports so we can generate executive information for the client (to explain in simple language the general security situation in the SaaS environment)."
"Check Point's technical support is very much of a low level, especially with respect to other vendors and OEMs."
"It's not fully integrated with Google Workspace, and the statistics don't update in real-time."
"From time to time, the system's administrators notice the increase in the false-positive alerts being reported by CloudGuard SaaS."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 49 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Barracuda Email Security Gateway writes "Robust email protection with advanced features such as effective spam filtering, virus and malware defense, phishing protection and high scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration writes "Has a user-friendly dashboard, a great anti-phishing algorithm, and sandboxing for testing". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email and Mimecast Email Security, whereas Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security and Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration report.
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