We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway 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)."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."
"This appliance has helped in that we now eliminate the thousands of scams, spam, and malware emails that are destined for our users."
"The solution helps us to block some blacklisted emails."
"The spam filtering, in particular, is very important for us. We have a large volume of emails each month, something like 200,000, and Barracuda filters about 85 percent of the spam, malware, and phishing that comes in. It prevents our users from receiving this content on their computers."
"It can effectively combat phishing attacks, block spam, provide confirmation, and ensure operational manageability with a strong focus on product stability."
"Customer support is the solution's strongest point."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the ATP."
"The link protection and anti-phishing features are great."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"A stable solution."
"The reporting can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"I would like to have better integration with third-party archival vendors to facilitate moving data in and out."
"There are limited administration controls that should be improved."
"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."
"Some customers experience issues with integration."
"The technical support is not available globally 24/7 and this is the biggest problem with the product."
"My customers were sending OPT bulk emails and Barracuda Email Security Gateway was not able to handle it. We have to go with another different solution, such FortiMail for the task. We are implementing these combinations of the Barracuda and FortiGate, for email security. The FortiGate FortiMail security gateway we use to send only the bulk email, not for receiving emails."
"Malware needs improvement."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is ranked 38th in Email Security. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway 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 Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway writes "Facilitates creation of your own content-filtering policies with relative ease". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Proofpoint Email Protection and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Mimecast Email Security and Cisco Secure Email.
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