We compared Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration 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. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration offers exceptional integration through APIs, advanced protection against data leaks, and the ability to detect complex social engineering attacks.
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. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration could improve integration with Exchange and other SaaS clouds while enhancing its threat clouds and AI engines.
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. Check Point has earned mixed reviews for its customer service. Some customers appreciate the technical support provided, while others are dissatisfied with response times.
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. Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement.
Pricing: Users say Barracuda Email Security Gateway is competitively priced. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is a cost-effective option. It offers competitive prices and is suitable for small to medium-sized organizations.
ROI: Barracuda Email Security Gateway benefits users by minimizing business disruptions and reducing costs. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options.
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. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is an effective solution for blocking malicious attachments and detecting social engineering attacks. However, there is room for improvement in terms of integration and support, reducing false positives, and enhancing response times.
"It's easy to use. The configuration and web interface are user-friendly."
"We have found some of the valuable features to be how easy the solution is to configure, the graphic support, and the intuitive dashboard."
"It is very simple to whitelist addresses."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the ATP."
"Eliminating inbox clutter creates an opportunity to be more productive instead of wasting time manually sorting through spam."
"All features it provides on the cloud environment are very, very useful, including the antivirus that is enabled on it."
"The solution is scalable."
"I like Barracuda's cloud sandbox feature."
"As with most of the other Check Point products, the CloudGuard SaaS has the advanced visibility of the events and alerts."
"Its characteristics are adapted to the most modern threats."
"The feature I find to be most valuable is very much the zero-touch provisioning. I was able to be up, operational, and 100 percent functional in less than a half an hour."
"The product is a fairly complete and centralized solution accessible through the Infinity Portal."
"It helped us to bring security compliance and ensure system robustness throughout."
"Machine Learning and AI for email security have helped all the organization's members to guard their information against insecure exposure."
"We are able to protect sensitive business data and maintain regulatory compliance with advanced data leak prevention (DLP)."
"I appreciate the ease of deployment and the intuitive dashboard. Even someone with basic IT knowledge can easily understand the dashboard and identify potential threats."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway can improve reporting and anti-spam. The anti-spam engine is not working well. We are seeing a lot of problems where spam is going through the gateway. Additionally, access privilege should be given to the IT support, because they don't have a lot of privileges. We are forced to give our IT support administrative access in order to clear and deliver emails and this should not be happening."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway should include ATP in the next release."
"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."
"The initial setup can be a little bit complex."
"There is room for improvement in the management of multiple domains."
"I would like to have better integration with third-party archival vendors to facilitate moving data in and out."
"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."
"Some of the phishing emails are not being blocked. Another problem is that we are not able to manage the date and time in our time zone."
"Stability has been a pain point. I was going back and forth with my product engineer and project manager for a couple of months. I had the product in a demonstration mode and wasn't satisfied with the results initially. After a few alterations and a few revisions later, it is fine."
"Some files are not scanned thoroughly due to occasional network failures."
"Harmony Email & Collaboration could be improved by making the whitelist available on the website and application level."
"It's not fully integrated with Google Workspace, and the statistics don't update in real-time."
"Check Point has to continue refining the intelligence engine to minimize the number of false positives."
"A phishing simulator would be helpful as a user training module."
"They should consider a module that allows the customizing of reports so we can generate executive information for the client (to explain in simple language the general security situation in the SaaS environment)."
"The next release should focus more on email categorization and provide options for unlocking blocked safe emails."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 49 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration 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 Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration writes "Has a user-friendly dashboard, a great anti-phishing algorithm, and sandboxing for testing". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email and Mimecast Email Security, whereas Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security and Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration report.
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