We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The security protection is the best and it's GUI is user-friendly."
"It is very simple to whitelist addresses."
"It's easy to use. The configuration and web interface are user-friendly."
"With the cloud service, one of the nice things about Barracuda is the quarantine service. It gives the ability for our users to go in and check what has been quarantined, and then connect with our IT staff to release anything that should be fine so that we can test it before we release."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway has features like identify the spam source, rules to avoid some specific spams and then reschedule. And there are some other features like the email continuity, the email server and gateway site, which can relay the mail kit. The solution is user-friendly.These kind of features are the most valuable."
"Barracuda is good at keeping the garbage from reaching your inbox."
"Its backups are valuable."
"The solution is scalable."
"Content disarming and analysis are essential features in our email security setup"
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to setup rules and destinations. It also helps to monitor suspicious items."
"If there is a problem somewhere Fortinet can act on it immediately. That is very important."
"FortiMail Cloud is very fast."
"The encryption features are most valuable to us."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool."
"The most valuable features are filtering and sandboxing."
"The scanners with FortiMail are valuable."
"Two improvements that are needed include an enhancement in the proxy feature, as well as the ability to more fully automate patches and updates."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's the only feature that is required."
"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."
"We had an incident where we didn't want to receive any emails or spam from a certain site and email address. We selected the mail ID, and we send it to Barracuda for analysis to see if it's spam or something like that. As of now, we haven't gotten any update or notification as to what happened with it."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"The deep scanning feature needs to be improved."
"The spam filtering is a little too aggressive. You can not get granular enough to back off on what is considered spam and what is not."
"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."
"I can't see the feedback to the FortiMail gateway."
"The product could be improved by extending reporting tools and adding options for notification."
"The dashboard could use improvement."
"The downside of this solution is that it is difficult to implement policies on FortiMail."
"I would like to see more advanced sandbox features, where you can actually download to a machine where you can test."
"The setup of the rules can be improved. I think it should be simplified and would be the best improvement in the system."
"This ease of use and user-friendliness is something we believe could be improved in FortiMail."
"This solution is slow and it should be made faster."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 9th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 18 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2. 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 Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". 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 Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Amazon WorkMail. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud report.
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