We compared Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Perception Point Advanced Email Security 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. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is known for its ability to identify impersonation attacks and exceptional scanning capabilities.
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. Perception Point Advanced Email Security could improve content analysis and the ability to detect BEC attacks.
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. Perception Point's customer service is highly regarded for being responsive, attentive, and interactive.
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. Some users find Perception Point’s setup process to be straightforward and easy, while others have encountered hurdles.
Pricing: Users say Barracuda Email Security Gateway is competitively priced. Perception Point Advanced Email Security offers affordable pricing that accommodates all budgets and delivers satisfactory value.
ROI: Barracuda Email Security Gateway benefits users by minimizing business disruptions and reducing costs. Perception Point Advanced Email Security excels in its ability to detect threats effectively, resulting in significant time and cost savings by preventing downtime and the need for extensive cleanup.
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. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is praised for its ability to detect and prevent impersonation attacks and great customer support. The solution could improve in detecting BEC attacks and providing user-friendly configuration options.
"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."
"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 can scale."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the complete capabilities it provides. Additionally, the phishing security and sandbox features are effective."
"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."
"The link protection and anti-phishing features are great."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway has a good feature of email spooling, which acts as a first line of security."
"Customer support is the solution's strongest point."
"The solution’s effectiveness when it comes to detection is very good. It has a very good mechanism. It scans our emails. It identifies any threat or phishing attempts and phishing campaigns as well as any bad reputation, servers, or links, then it blocks them. This is what I find to be very good about this system."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the ones that are related to finding impersonation attacks and detecting attempts to steal credentials. In scenarios where attackers get you to follow URLs to a malicious site that looks similar to a good site, and then ask for the user credentials to try to steal them, it is very useful."
"The solution’s effectiveness when it comes to detection is very good. It is stopping malicious emails and tagging emails noted as spam. So, we are able to disseminate those emails, get what we need, and block clearly malicious emails. It saves us a lot of valuable time. It keeps our users safe, e.g., the majority of emails that they would have gotten in the past don't even make it into their inbox."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the speed of scanning emails."
"We can use it to perform detection and analysis of emails. For any malicious content found in emails, it gives in-depth analysis reports to end users. If you log into the console, you can see in-depth detection and how it happens."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The Perception Point Incident Response team acts as an extension of our SOC team. This is very important for us. This is a benefit provided for their main product of scanning our emails. If Perception Point can give me IR, this is really good versus other products that do not provide this kind of service. Perception Point's service is great. They are very professional. That reduces the time that my internal SOC has to deal with my internal IT person. They just send an email to the IR team at Perception Point, who continues the investigation and blocks any emails, if necessary. This is very good because it can reduce a lot of time and effort from my team. It is like an extension of my SOC, but external."
"It has modules to detect malware and that is a strong point. It has a very nice way of showing you, directly in the product, a lot of details about certain pieces of malware. It goes very deep and even shows you the assembly code. It also does detonations on files and shows you the results in different operating systems. That is very useful."
"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."
"Barracuda could improve its log and export options like PDF and HDML. It can also bring in more detailing in their console so that it could be better. Some new features should be expanded and made accessible for better protection."
"The reports are standard, and it would be nice to be able to customize them."
"This product can always be made more secure."
"Barracuda should have a sandbox feature in the appliances."
"Barracuda isn't catching everything. We're still getting quite a few phishing emails, so we're looking for something else."
"Barracuda has shown difficulty in providing us with the solutions we sought."
"Barracuda's spam database isn't on par with its competitors. Users complain about the spam email they're receiving, and we report the issue. Barracuda said they are going to update their system to block the malicious email we received, but we're still getting the same spam. The signatures are not in their database. They need to update their spam signatures because spam is bypassing Barracuda."
"The only thing that can be improved in Perception Point is the in-depth analysis and attribution to cyberattack groups."
"Coming from products in the Microsoft stack, Perception Point doesn't really give you, as an admin, a lot of options to make changes yourself. It's more on their side to make changes in the back end. That's something they could improve on in the future."
"In terms of architecture, and I know that they're going to improve this, the solution needs to be much more redundant. There was an outage a month ago in AWS, and that basically stopped the service for two or three hours. Although in two years, this was the first time that something like that happened, our expectation from a company like Perception Point is that it should work with either a multi-cloud or multi-region architecture, to improve the resilience."
"There is still room for improvement with BEC. There is more work to be done by Perception Point on machine learning and neuro language as well. BEC is very difficult if you don't have a computer language looking into the content of the email and trying to make a determination through that. With BEC you often don't have an attachment or a URL."
"This is an option to preview an email in their console, and that could be improved. If you open the preview, then it auto scrolls. Therefore, it is hard to look at the email when it is going to the next page or scrolling. It should not have the auto-scroll."
"They just don't do a good job of promoting themselves. They seem like a typical busy IT company who is just working on fixing problems and making technology better. However, they are not fantastic at marketing themselves to existing partners, which is not a bad thing. It is just something for improvement."
"Perception Point Advanced Email Security should make available more use cases."
"Its websites for analysis need to be a bit more approachable for people who are less technical. Technically, it is a fire-and-forget solution. So, you want to be able to implement this solution for a lot of companies who don't have security operation teams (SOCs) behind them. You need to have something where a secretary can jump onto this console and release whatever she needs to release. Therefore, it needs to be written in a very specific non-technical language."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Perception Point Advanced Email Security is ranked 14th in Email Security with 21 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Perception Point Advanced Email Security is rated 9.0. 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 Perception Point Advanced Email Security writes "Incident Response team answers immediately and fine-tunes system to continually improve detection". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email and Proofpoint Email Protection, whereas Perception Point Advanced Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Proofpoint Email Protection, IRONSCALES and Fortinet FortiMail. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Perception Point Advanced Email Security report.
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