Barracuda Email Protection vs Mimecast Email Security comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Email Protection
Ranking in Office 365 Protection
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Email Archiving (2nd), Email Security (14th)
Mimecast Email Security
Ranking in Office 365 Protection
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (5th)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Office 365 Protection category, the market share of Barracuda Email Protection is 20.0% and it increased by 4.0% compared to the previous year. The market share of Mimecast Email Security is 16.7% and it increased by 62.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Office 365 Protection
Unique Categories:
Email Archiving
5.0%
Email Security
3.6%
 

Featured Reviews

CH
Mar 7, 2024
Easy-to-maintain platform with a simple interface
We use Barracuda Email Protection for user management purposes Barracuda helps our organization prevent data breaches more efficiently than Microsoft with a simpler interface. It provides an easy process for administrators like myself to manage and configure settings. The product’s most valuable…
JE
Dec 18, 2020
Good gateway and email security with an easy initial setup
We're just an end-user. We use their Perimeter Defense plan, we use their Continuity plan, we also use email to archive. These are the three scales that we use from them. I would advise others considering the solution to technically evaluate their competencies, their highs, and lows, first. Also, read the fine print, and understand the exact costs. A company will need to understand natively how much of Mimecast capabilities does Microsoft offer if you just subscribe to an Office 365 license. It might make them rethink using this solution. From a technical standpoint, I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"We now have a secondary backup of Office 365 that's much easier to retrieve compared to Microsoft. If someone deletes something in Office 365, we can get it back within Office 365, but it's difficult. Barracuda is much easier. There is a lot less management needed using Barracuda. The management becomes much easier for Office 365 and it's no longer on-prem, so there are fewer hours managing on-prem devices, servers, and things of that nature. We don't have network appliances anymore for the backup of our information."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Essentials are it's a trusted name and is rated very high on review sites. It blocks high percentages of spam and junk email and it's in the cloud. They have hardware appliances, but this is in the cloud. The solution is very effective at blocking malware and blocking spam and this is what we are looking for. There's not a whole lot of complexity, you want a solution that is very good at blocking out all of the unwanted emails."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"The archiving and search features are very good."
"I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products."
"The best feature of Barracuda Email Protection is that it provides protection for Microsoft 365."
"The setup was easy."
"In the current environment that the world is in, everyone is trying to hack everyone else, so Project+ definitely helps a lot there."
"Mimecast certainly helped my customers reduce phishing emails."
"We like the content filtering and secure messaging features."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"What I like about the integration is that it is directly into Microsoft 365, users can use their Microsoft 365 credentials to log into the portal and access their mail."
"It's really quite user-friendly. In terms of technical superiority and the product itself, there are no complaints. It is really cutting edge."
"It's good, it keeps the spam out."
 

Cons

"The customer service and support could be improved if the support were available directly in Europe. Currently, the support is often managed from India, so we sometimes need to wait due to the time zone difference. It would be quicker and better if the support were provided by European staff."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"The product must enable bulk user management."
"The solution's reporting mechanism is a little poor and could be improved."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"As a user, the user interface of the management console could be upgraded, for example."
"The filtering needs more flexibility."
"I'd like to have better support from the product in the future."
"The solution's console interface was recently changed for the admins, but the previous one was much better because we could open tabs on it."
"They should improve the cookies management feature."
"The detection rates are an area for improvement."
"From an administrative point of view, Mimecast is a little bit cumbersome and difficult. It's not something that the end-user can easily find navigate themselves."
"While it's quick and easy, the initial setup could be more user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Barracuda Essentials is better than some of the competing products."
"Price-wise, this product is middle-of-the-road."
"The price is similar to that of Microsoft 365."
"The product is expensive."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"We pay annually. They never charged us for anything else. And they were quite a bit under that $20,000 mark. It was $19,074. And they've been pretty good about not skyrocketing the price or anything like that. It has gone up. It's gone up to $24,000 in 2020."
"Barracuda licensing model is good."
"Compared to the other solutions in the market, Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection's pricing is fine."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a ten."
"It's an expensive solution."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The customers can select the license packages as per their requirements."
"The licensing costs are per-user for the product that you get with them."
"The product has good pricing in terms of return on investment."
"Compared to the other products in the market, it is neither cheap but nor very expensive. I would rate it somewhere in the middle, 5 out of 10."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Construction Company
7%
Healthcare Company
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Email Protection?
I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Email Protection?
The price is similar to that of Microsoft 365. There’s only a 4% to 5% difference between the prices of Barracuda and Microsoft 365.
What needs improvement with Barracuda Email Protection?
The solution must provide security gateway features. It must enable users to archive emails for a specific period. The tool must allow organizations to extend the storage capacity by at least 10%. ...
What do you like most about Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection?
The interface of this solution is very easy to navigate and user-friendly. There is no delivery in email and other communications, making it reliable. The configuration is relatively easy.
 

Also Known As

Barracuda Essentials
Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

ACT Government, Acumen Group, AGIP, Delta Dental Plans Association, Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., Equinox Information Systems
Azizi Developments, Affinity Credit Union, Aftercare, Al Abbar Group
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