We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and IRONSCALES 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's easy to use. The configuration and web interface are user-friendly."
"This solution has helped to significantly reduce the amount of junk email that we receive."
"Customer support is the solution's strongest point."
"This product is powerful and quite simple to use."
"It is a very stable solution."
"We find the product to be scalable."
"It is an excellent, intelligent solution that provides maximum security from email attacks."
"It can effectively combat phishing attacks, block spam, provide confirmation, and ensure operational manageability with a strong focus on product stability."
"The fact that it is set-and-forget is valuable. Once you turn it on, you very rarely have to micromanage it, whereas, with a lot of spam filters, you have to go in very often."
"For what was being offered with IRONSCALES, I feel like we got an incredible deal."
"AI-driven phishing detection and incident remediation are valuable. It saves time from having to do manual analysis and investigation, and we also get alerts for phishing emails."
"Their anti-phishing platform is absolutely fantastic. The automated AI piece is amazing, and their technical support is fantastic."
"The biggest benefit is that we get fewer phishing and spam emails, so using IRONSCALES has made our environment much safer."
"The report function through Gmail is probably the most valuable feature. The next most valuable features are simulation and training."
"There is buzz around phishing awareness training. When I make a campaign, all of a sudden people in our organization are talking, thinking, and wondering about it. Therefore, it keeps people on their toes. That is perfect because it does exactly what we want it to do."
"For me, the mobile app is most valuable. All other features are also very useful, but the mobile app makes it really easy for me to manage on the go. I don't have to be at my desk. I could be at the shops, or it could be in the evening when I am out, and I can get a notification on my phone that there is an incident that has been raised. I can sort it out very quickly without having to be at my work PC."
"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."
"I have noticed that it takes a little time to get familiar with after deploying and some tweaks need to be done as things come up."
"Its integration with other solutions can be improved. There should be integration for telemetry information, system information, and other types of information with other solutions. Barracuda currently doesn't have that. Barracuda has its own platform. Its integration with firewalls is quite good, and it communicates really well with firewalls, but I have not seen any other integration. Based on what I know, it does have an API at the backend, but I have not used it."
"I am not aware of the licensing costs."
"Few customers require an on-premises fabric ATP box for attack detection and response."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"I would like to have better integration with third-party archival vendors to facilitate moving data in and out."
"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."
"In addition to integrated training, they should also have personalized training that you don't have to do as part of a phishing campaign or a simulation."
"I would love to see the indication of compromise and how the solution utilizes open source resources. It would be good to see that included in the paid versions. It would be a small addition but add a lot of value for clients."
"The only thing that I could say is that some of the reporting features could be better."
"The integration with Google Suite needs to be better. it's something they can work on."
"There is a feature called Account Takeover, which isn't what I want it to be able to do. I know that they're working on that, but when they first started the Account Takeover feature in incident management, it didn't have much information. It didn't have any usability to it. I already had tools in place that were better."
"There's room for improvement in the campaign management. IRONSCALES has many built-in templates that I use, but you can also build templates from scratch. However, the interface for creating custom templates needs to be updated."
"The simulation and training piece could be improved by having more granularity in terms of scheduling how campaigns are run and allowing people to directly take the training rather than having to go through an official campaign. That's not available yet."
"Its UI could be improved. My pet peeve with a lot of these cloud-based systems is that a lot of times, the interface for the management is a little clunky. If you live and breathe IRONSCALES all day long, you'll obviously know where everything is just from muscle memory, but the system is not designed for people to be in it all day long. You're only supposed to occasionally look at it. When things get moved around, it is not necessarily that intuitive. I'm an IT guy, and I can pretty much take the worst UI and figure it out, but the menus and the options in the interface could be a little cleaner graphically. If you have a quick problem that you want to resolve, it takes a little bit of digging in the admin console, whereas it should take a few clicks up front."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while IRONSCALES is ranked 3rd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 11 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while IRONSCALES is rated 9.2. 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 IRONSCALES writes "It has an easy installation that can be done in a matter of minutes". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email and Darktrace, whereas IRONSCALES is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Sublime Security, Perception Point Advanced Email Security and Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. IRONSCALES report.
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