We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Mimecast Email Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Office 365 Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"We now have a secondary backup of Office 365 that's much easier to retrieve compared to Microsoft. If someone deletes something in Office 365, we can get it back within Office 365, but it's difficult. Barracuda is much easier. There is a lot less management needed using Barracuda. The management becomes much easier for Office 365 and it's no longer on-prem, so there are fewer hours managing on-prem devices, servers, and things of that nature. We don't have network appliances anymore for the backup of our information."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"The best feature of Barracuda Email Protection is that it provides protection for Microsoft 365."
"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Essentials are it's a trusted name and is rated very high on review sites. It blocks high percentages of spam and junk email and it's in the cloud. They have hardware appliances, but this is in the cloud. The solution is very effective at blocking malware and blocking spam and this is what we are looking for. There's not a whole lot of complexity, you want a solution that is very good at blocking out all of the unwanted emails."
"In the current environment that the world is in, everyone is trying to hack everyone else, so Project+ definitely helps a lot there."
"Due to our specialized use case, that HIPAA dictionary really comes in handy."
"What I like about the integration is that it is directly into Microsoft 365, users can use their Microsoft 365 credentials to log into the portal and access their mail."
"The product is good. To date, we have not faced any challenges."
"The solution's performance is good."
"The interface of this solution is very easy to navigate and user-friendly. There is no delivery in email and other communications, making it reliable. The configuration is relatively easy."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Email security is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The customer service and support could be improved if the support were available directly in Europe. Currently, the support is often managed from India, so we sometimes need to wait due to the time zone difference. It would be quicker and better if the support were provided by European staff."
"The solution's reporting mechanism is a little poor and could be improved."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"The product must enable bulk user management."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"I'd like to have better support from the product in the future."
"The reaction time between a new threat being identified and Mimecast picking it up needs to be narrowed a bit."
"They should improve the cookies management feature."
"The filtering needs more flexibility."
"The feature that should be included is to remove the block on the encrypted files."
"Many of our users complain that the system is blocking too many attachments. It's a good practice from a security perspective, but our users think Mimecast is doing too much. It might be something we'll have to adjust."
"External security features need improvement."
"Lately, Mimecast's outbound mail servers have been regularly blocklisted by spam filters. That didn't happen a few years back, but it seems to be a more frequent problem these days. When a server is blocklisted, it means all of my outgoing mail ends up in the recipient's junk mail. That affects my reputation and business confidence."
Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 4th in Office 365 Protection with 14 reviews while Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Office 365 Protection with 25 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Mimecast Email Security is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda Email Protection writes "Set-it-and-forget-it type of product that doesn't require a lot of management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". Barracuda Email Protection is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, TitanHQ SpamTitan, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance, whereas Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Abnormal Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and IRONSCALES. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Mimecast Email Security report.
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