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 very stable solution."
"It is an excellent, intelligent solution that provides maximum security from email attacks."
"The performance is good."
"One advantage is its immediate deployment capability. So the fast speed to deploy is a big plus point."
"Eliminating inbox clutter creates an opportunity to be more productive instead of wasting time manually sorting through spam."
"The product safeguards user mail for gateway defense, data protection, business continuity, AI-based inbox defense, and automated threat detection and incident response."
"This solution has helped to significantly reduce the amount of junk email that we receive."
"We have found some of the valuable features to be how easy the solution is to configure, the graphic support, and the intuitive dashboard."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"A stable solution."
"Some customers experience issues with integration."
"Two improvements that are needed include an enhancement in the proxy feature, as well as the ability to more fully automate patches and updates."
"There are some times when legit emails are trapped on Barracuda and we are unable to get that information unless we actually log on to the network to find out."
"The dashboard's UI could be improved to make changes to the blocklist."
"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 solution should include an improvised anti-phishing feature, since it blocks certain genuine emails."
"Barracuda should have a sandbox feature in the appliances."
"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."
"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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