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.
"The product safeguards user mail for gateway defense, data protection, business continuity, AI-based inbox defense, and automated threat detection and incident response."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the complete capabilities it provides. Additionally, the phishing security and sandbox features are effective."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the ATP."
"The link protection and anti-phishing features are great."
"It not only tackles spam effectively but also incorporates advanced features like ATP and active features which ensures a comprehensive and adaptable email security solution tailored to their heterogeneous environment."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway has a good feature of email spooling, which acts as a first line of security."
"It is an excellent, intelligent solution that provides maximum security from email attacks."
"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."
"In my opinion, it's one of the best products. It does protect other things like Slack and Salesforce, which are more about communication."
"It is fast and quite effective in terms of preventing any security incidents."
"It is fast and has a very simple, easy integration."
"Getting reports and finding threats in the console is easy."
"The product's environment is easy to work and comprehensive."
"It helped us to bring security compliance and ensure system robustness throughout."
"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."
"We still have critical threats coming into our environment and delivered to our users. When we compare it with other solutions, these other solutions can already detect those threats."
"Some customers experience issues with integration."
"We would like to have a local support center in India so that they are operating in the same time zone and speak the same language."
"We are using the tool’s 400 model which does not offer accurate spam detection. We have also had performance issues with the tool."
"The DMARC security is somewhat weak and could be strengthened."
"Spam is not always detected, and it should be more automated. We have seen that some emails are allowed by these emails, which are then stopped by Microsoft."
"The reporting can be improved."
"There are some times when legit emails are trapped on Barracuda and we are unable to get that information unless we actually log on to the network to find out."
"The left-hand feature can be made more granular for the implementation of the policy."
"Stability has been a pain point. I was going back and forth with my product engineer and project manager for a couple of months. I had the product in a demonstration mode and wasn't satisfied with the results initially. After a few alterations and a few revisions later, it is fine."
"I would love it if they would do some work on the Postgres definition on the back-end."
"After updates, the internet connection fails, and I have to restart my desktop to resume initial functionalities."
"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)."
"The next release should focus more on email categorization and provide options for unlocking blocked safe emails."
"They could help us be integrating features with solutions from third parties."
"It's not fully integrated with Google Workspace, and the statistics don't update in real-time."
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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 Sophos Email, 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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