We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade 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."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."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the complete capabilities it provides. Additionally, the phishing security and sandbox features are effective."
"Eliminating inbox clutter creates an opportunity to be more productive instead of wasting time manually sorting through spam."
"This solution has helped to significantly reduce the amount of junk email that we receive."
"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 of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is that it blocks almost 99 percent of threats from users' email inboxes."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the ATP."
"There are plenty of features, such as sandboxing capabilities with zero threat protection. It has all the leading email security appliances compared to other solutions."
"Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is quite reliable...It is a very stable solution."
"It is certainly very beneficial for a small business and works best in combination with other Check Point blades, such as the Data Protection Blade that protects against data loss via email."
"This solution is very efficient."
"The policies and port blocking are the most valuable features. We have a significant amount of spam emails passing through our network."
"Anti-spam and malware phishing are valuable features of the solution."
"This solution helped us lock down and have our infrastructure easier to manage."
"The robust Smart Dashboard enables to us fetch important and accurate data insights concerning the blocking of spammers and malware attacks on the system."
"The solution can be monitored on a single dashboard with actionable insights and reporting."
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"Barracuda Email Security Gateway should include ATP in the next release."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway should add auto-remediation to improve the solution. Additionally, there are times when we have false positives and our general emails get locked, we have mentioned this to Barracuda."
"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."
"We had an incident where we didn't want to receive any emails or spam from a certain site and email address. We selected the mail ID, and we send it to Barracuda for analysis to see if it's spam or something like that. As of now, we haven't gotten any update or notification as to what happened with it."
"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."
"I would like to have better integration with third-party archival vendors to facilitate moving data in and out."
"The reports are standard, and it would be nice to be able to customize them."
"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."
"The ease of use with the user interface could be better as it is very static."
"In my book, more and more customized integrations could be made available so that different kinds of mail servers and cloud servers can be internally integrated for real-time system flow and security enablement."
"A possible improvement for the solution would be to be able to implement artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to improve the accuracy of detecting spam and malicious emails that are constantly arriving."
"If you face any configuration problems, Check Point is the only solution."
"It would be useful to have more logs and in aggregate mode, perhaps through a specific report, that can be more easily used for troubleshooting."
"While we often take advantage of Check Point's cloud part, including Infinity or Harmony, I would like to see products that directly deal with mobile or native environments or other operating systems that we have within the organization."
"The anti-spam features could be upgraded to be able to detect unnoticeable spam."
"One thing which annoys me with the Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is its customer support portal which still lags in service even after so many developments."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is ranked 9th in Email Security with 33 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade 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 Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade writes "Effectively secures data centers against various threats, including spam emails and provides policy-based control". 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 Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is most compared with Abnormal Security, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade report.
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