We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, IRONSCALES and others in Secure Email Gateway (SEG)."The security protection is the best and it's GUI is user-friendly."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway is very simple to use."
"It can effectively combat phishing attacks, block spam, provide confirmation, and ensure operational manageability with a strong focus on product stability."
"It is a really good product with a lot of features. It is responsive, updated, and modern. It is easy to use and has an easy interface for non-IT users. Its dashboard is also quite fine. It is also quite flexible and has an API at the backend."
"There are plenty of features, such as sandboxing capabilities with zero threat protection. It has all the leading email security appliances compared to other solutions."
"The most important features of Barracuda Email Security Gateway are the simple and quick configuration, interactive console, and easy-to-understand logs."
"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."
"It is very simple to whitelist addresses."
"They do a better job of determining what's real and what's not than most of the other solutions we have tried, and it's been very painless to use."
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"Some of the phishing emails are not being blocked. Another problem is that we are not able to manage the date and time in our time zone."
"There's a bit of configuration work that's needed with the DNS service provider, but other than that, everything else should be very smooth."
"Some customers experience issues with integration."
"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 technical support is not available globally 24/7 and this is the biggest problem with the product."
"Barracuda has shown difficulty in providing us with the solutions we sought."
"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."
"False positives have given us issues."
"They have some areas that could be improved. For example, we also use this solution for email encryption, which was clunky and could be improved, but the email security itself has been excellent."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is ranked 13th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG). Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is rated 7.0. 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 Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix writes "Inexpensive, with good email security, but the technical support could be improved". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email and Trend Micro Email Security, whereas Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Proofpoint Email Protection and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP).
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