We compared Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Perception Point Advanced Email Security 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. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is known for its ability to identify impersonation attacks and exceptional scanning capabilities.
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. Perception Point Advanced Email Security could improve content analysis and the ability to detect BEC attacks.
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. Perception Point's customer service is highly regarded for being responsive, attentive, and interactive.
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. Some users find Perception Point’s setup process to be straightforward and easy, while others have encountered hurdles.
Pricing: Users say Barracuda Email Security Gateway is competitively priced. Perception Point Advanced Email Security offers affordable pricing that accommodates all budgets and delivers satisfactory value.
ROI: Barracuda Email Security Gateway benefits users by minimizing business disruptions and reducing costs. Perception Point Advanced Email Security excels in its ability to detect threats effectively, resulting in significant time and cost savings by preventing downtime and the need for extensive cleanup.
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. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is praised for its ability to detect and prevent impersonation attacks and great customer support. The solution could improve in detecting BEC attacks and providing user-friendly configuration options.
"We find the product to be scalable."
"It is very simple to whitelist addresses."
"I like Barracuda's cloud sandbox feature."
"Before this solution, we didn't have any separate feature for protecting our emails. We used to only have a firewall but now we have email security. It has a graphical interface and we can see the log every time. We can see that the performance is fine."
"The anti-spamming, anti-fishing features are great."
"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."
"It catches a lot of things and has the ability to add domains as well as add senders and update their things."
"The most important features of Barracuda Email Security Gateway are the simple and quick configuration, interactive console, and easy-to-understand logs."
"It really works well on SharePoint when you upload a file or save a file. Advanced Email Security scans if it is malicious and identifies issues. It can do some forensics on its console, which is nice."
"I see from time to time that Perception Point is being proactive. They approach us, and say, "Can you check this, and this?" So, it does seem that they are an extension of my incident response."
"We can use it to perform detection and analysis of emails. For any malicious content found in emails, it gives in-depth analysis reports to end users. If you log into the console, you can see in-depth detection and how it happens."
"One of the most valuable features is the service provided by the incident response team. There have been cases where we have suspected that emails were fraudulent or something was suspicious. In those cases, we immediately contacted the incident response team through the platform, and we had a response in less than a minute."
"What's really good about this platform is that you have full visibility, it has a very nice and very friendly UI, it's quick, and there's no latency in the scanning."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the speed of scanning emails."
"It has modules to detect malware and that is a strong point. It has a very nice way of showing you, directly in the product, a lot of details about certain pieces of malware. It goes very deep and even shows you the assembly code. It also does detonations on files and shows you the results in different operating systems. That is very useful."
"The solution’s effectiveness when it comes to detection is very good. It has a very good mechanism. It scans our emails. It identifies any threat or phishing attempts and phishing campaigns as well as any bad reputation, servers, or links, then it blocks them. This is what I find to be very good about this 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."
"There is room for improvement in the management of multiple domains."
"The solution should add automatic alerts to the mobile."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway should include ATP in the next release."
"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."
"Barracuda has shown difficulty in providing us with the solutions we sought."
"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."
"There is still room for improvement with BEC. There is more work to be done by Perception Point on machine learning and neuro language as well. BEC is very difficult if you don't have a computer language looking into the content of the email and trying to make a determination through that. With BEC you often don't have an attachment or a URL."
"Its websites for analysis need to be a bit more approachable for people who are less technical. Technically, it is a fire-and-forget solution. So, you want to be able to implement this solution for a lot of companies who don't have security operation teams (SOCs) behind them. You need to have something where a secretary can jump onto this console and release whatever she needs to release. Therefore, it needs to be written in a very specific non-technical language."
"They could improve their anti-spam engine a little bit, because there are a lot of false positives. Sometimes, emails pass through their system but are spam. In terms of security and engines for malicious emails and antivirus, they're doing a good job. Their other engines can be improved."
"They could provide additional data loss prevention features as we encounter different kinds of attacks in today's scenario."
"Dashboard is an area of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"This is an option to preview an email in their console, and that could be improved. If you open the preview, then it auto scrolls. Therefore, it is hard to look at the email when it is going to the next page or scrolling. It should not have the auto-scroll."
"The only thing that can be improved in Perception Point is the in-depth analysis and attribution to cyberattack groups."
"They can do better on the spam. Today, Perception Point is not our only solution. We have two solutions, and they are the second in line because the spam filtering is not yet the best."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Perception Point Advanced Email Security is ranked 16th in Email Security with 21 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Perception Point Advanced Email Security is rated 9.0. 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 Perception Point Advanced Email Security writes "Incident Response team answers immediately and fine-tunes system to continually improve detection". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Perception Point Advanced Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Proofpoint Email Protection, IRONSCALES and Cisco Secure Email. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Perception Point Advanced Email Security report.
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