We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Barracuda is good at keeping the garbage from reaching your inbox."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the Antispam services, which are the basic services of spam device"
"The client has the option to blacklist or whitelist any email address or domain based on the sender and recipient filters. If they want, they can restrict any IP addresses so email won't be received from those IP addresses."
"With the cloud service, one of the nice things about Barracuda is the quarantine service. It gives the ability for our users to go in and check what has been quarantined, and then connect with our IT staff to release anything that should be fine so that we can test it before we release."
"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."
"One advantage is its immediate deployment capability. So the fast speed to deploy is a big plus point."
"It is very simple to whitelist addresses."
"It has the best feature for processed mail analysis."
"This is a solid email monitoring and security system that learns and maintains a two-way dialog with email system administrators."
"The most valuable features are the low price and its ability to integrate with other Fortinet products."
"The deployment is simple."
"This solution is easy to install. The deployment takes about forty-five minutes."
"Content disarming and analysis are essential features in our email security setup"
"The most valuable features are email ATB and Malware Analysis."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool."
"The DMARC security is somewhat weak and could be strengthened."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"The deep scanning feature needs to be improved."
"The downsides of the solution stem from the fact that it is an expensive product, and one may see too many false positives when using it, making them both areas where improvements are required."
"Barracuda isn't catching everything. We're still getting quite a few phishing emails, so we're looking for something else."
"Artificial intelligence improvement could be used to help block spam and phishing mail that is directly delivered to users."
"Two improvements that are needed include an enhancement in the proxy feature, as well as the ability to more fully automate patches and updates."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway should include ATP in the next release."
"Email sorting is missing from this solution."
"I've not been able to use more than two domains in the back end. I like to view logs for the different domains. If I add any other domain I'm not able to get a proper cPanel for that domain. I am talking about the login factors. I'm not able to see logs for different domains in a different Window. Basically, it's an issue in the login process."
"They could look at strengthening anti-spam with the newly observed domains."
"I would like to see more advanced sandbox features, where you can actually download to a machine where you can test."
"The URL filtering and handling should be enhanced because it doesn't support all languages. I believe that this would be easy to enhance in the future."
"The downside of this solution is that it is difficult to implement policies on FortiMail."
"This ease of use and user-friendliness is something we believe could be improved in FortiMail."
"I can't see the feedback to the FortiMail gateway."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 8th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 18 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2. 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 Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". 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 Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Cisco Secure Email. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud report.
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