We performed a comparison between AppRiver Email Security and Barracuda Email Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is the integration. It's a single console, so we don't have to switch around between multiple products. Another valuable feature is the ease of operations and maintenance."
"The product's scalability is good."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"Defender for Office 365 has helped eliminate having to look at multiple dashboards and that is the aspect I like most about it. It is simpler, effective, and convenient. The users like the process efficiency."
"The initial setup was easy."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"It's easy to use and user-friendly. Users can also easily release spam emails."
"They are very easy to use."
"The solution helps us to block some blacklisted emails."
"This solution has helped to significantly reduce the amount of junk email that we receive."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Eliminating inbox clutter creates an opportunity to be more productive instead of wasting time manually sorting through spam."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway has a good feature of email spooling, which acts as a first line of security."
"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."
"The link protection and anti-phishing features are great."
"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 company should focus on adding threats that the solution is currently unable to detect."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"Microsoft security solutions work as expected. They are constantly updating the solutions to make them better. At the same time, the changes can impact a customer's environment, and we need to adjust settings. Sometimes we aren't aware of the changes, and nothing is pushed from the backend automatically."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"Microsoft wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should improve the troubleshooting tools. It's unclear whether the device is blocked at the firewall level or at the device itself. The granularity needed for troubleshooting is currently lacking. From my perspective, Microsoft should address this issue to benefit many users who likely share the same sentiment."
"We noticed that from time to time, Microsoft's stability does have problems. Sometimes the service goes up and down. Sometimes they change without prior notice."
"Configuration requires going to a lot of places rather than just accessing one tab."
"It needs to make sure that the application is up to date with new attacks. They should also send us the demo or introductions for their new incoming features."
"Email security checks contain a small number of false positives."
"The reporting can be improved."
"Its integration with other solutions can be improved. There should be integration for telemetry information, system information, and other types of information with other solutions. Barracuda currently doesn't have that. Barracuda has its own platform. Its integration with firewalls is quite good, and it communicates really well with firewalls, but I have not seen any other integration. Based on what I know, it does have an API at the backend, but I have not used it."
"The solution could improve by adding DomainKeys (DKIM) functionality. This is something that is essentially required nowadays for outbound security. They do not have it on their on-premise solution appliance but they have alternate arrangements for their cloud solution."
"The initial setup can be a little bit complex."
"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."
"The dashboard's UI could be improved to make changes to the blocklist."
"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."
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AppRiver Email Security is ranked 23rd in Email Security with 2 reviews while Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews. AppRiver Email Security is rated 9.0, while Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppRiver Email Security writes "Pricing that is competitive, excellent technical support, and email security". On the other hand, 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". AppRiver Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Avanan, Proofpoint Email Protection, IRONSCALES and Abnormal Security, whereas Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email, Proofpoint Email Protection and Trend Micro Email Security. See our AppRiver Email Security vs. Barracuda Email Security Gateway report.
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