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."All features it provides on the cloud environment are very, very useful, including the antivirus that is enabled on it."
"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."
"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."
"Its backups are valuable."
"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."
"Customer support is the solution's strongest point."
"The product safeguards user mail for gateway defense, data protection, business continuity, AI-based inbox defense, and automated threat detection and incident response."
"Content disarming and analysis are essential features in our email security setup"
"It has the best feature for processed mail analysis."
"This solution is easy to install. The deployment takes about forty-five minutes."
"The most valuable features are filtering and sandboxing."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ability to check to see if the email is real."
"The most valuable features are the low price and its ability to integrate with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuable features are email ATB and Malware Analysis."
"We are using the tool’s 400 model which does not offer accurate spam detection. We have also had performance issues with the tool."
"The deep scanning feature needs to be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"We would like to have a local support center in India so that they are operating in the same time zone and speak the same language."
"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 setup of the rules can be improved. I think it should be simplified and would be the best improvement in the system."
"The tool's UI can be simple since it's cluttered now and you can't understand where you are going. It's not obvious to find out the menus or things that you are looking to find."
"I can't see the feedback to the FortiMail gateway."
"Its GUI needs improvement."
"The downside of this solution is that it is difficult to implement policies on FortiMail."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiMail Cloud doesn't have AI features, making it an outdated tool for me."
"This ease of use and user-friendliness is something we believe could be improved in FortiMail."
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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 Darktrace. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud report.
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