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)."This solution has helped to significantly reduce the amount of junk email that we receive."
"All features it provides on the cloud environment are very, very useful, including the antivirus that is enabled on it."
"This appliance has helped in that we now eliminate the thousands of scams, spam, and malware emails that are destined for our users."
"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 most valuable feature is the Antispam services, which are the basic services of spam device"
"The security protection is the best and it's GUI is user-friendly."
"One advantage is its immediate deployment capability. So the fast speed to deploy is a big plus point."
"It is an excellent, intelligent solution that provides maximum security from email attacks."
"A stable solution."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"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."
"I am not aware of the licensing costs."
"Barracuda should have a sandbox feature in the appliances."
"The pricing is a little bit high, and it is causing the company to rethink renewal. If they could lower the pricing, that would be ideal."
"The UI could be a little cleaner and require less clicking around in different modules. They give the illusion of a single pane of glass, but as you click around to different products, you're actually being transferred into a different system."
"Barracuda should add an option where it can add multiple domains, such as abc.com, bbc.com, and cbc.com. Therefore, this domains' emails will be allowed and other domains' emails will not be relayed through Barracuda Email Security Gateway. Whereas, if you allow the IP address, then any of the domain's emails will be relayed through Barracuda Email Security Gateway. That is the drawback that I have observed. So, Barracuda should work on this."
"Spam is not always detected, and it should be more automated. We have seen that some emails are allowed by these emails, which are then stopped by Microsoft."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
"Malware needs improvement."
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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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