We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Cisco Secure Email, and Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, IRONSCALES and others in Secure Email Gateway (SEG)."It can effectively combat phishing attacks, block spam, provide confirmation, and ensure operational manageability with a strong focus on product stability."
"All features it provides on the cloud environment are very, very useful, including the antivirus that is enabled on it."
"The solution helps us to block some blacklisted emails."
"The anti-spamming, anti-fishing features are great."
"It's easy to use. The configuration and web interface are user-friendly."
"With the cloud service, one of the nice things about Barracuda is the quarantine service. It gives the ability for our users to go in and check what has been quarantined, and then connect with our IT staff to release anything that should be fine so that we can test it before we release."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the ATP."
"Eliminating inbox clutter creates an opportunity to be more productive instead of wasting time manually sorting through spam."
"The most valuable feature is the different content filters we are using, such as DKIM."
"The tech engineers are very knowledgeable."
"I can customize the configuration and policies."
"It is a user-friendly product."
"The advanced phishing protection and the integration with the awareness tool that Cisco has embedded into the solution to bring awareness to the customers about the dangers of phishing attacks and other things that come from email are the most valuable features."
"It has the ability to tell us, after an email has been delivered, where else it went, once it got inside. Maybe it's something we wanted it to stop and it didn't stop it, but it notified us later that it was something that it should have stopped. It can give us a trajectory of all the other places that it went internally and it can tell us what files were transferred as well."
"It's a bit easy to handle Cisco Secure Email; it's not that difficult. For the logs, which are in PDF format, it's not hard to read them. We don't need Wireshark much to analyze the logs."
"The tool has a DLP solution which we can implement. Its database is updated regularly."
"A stable solution."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"The dashboard's UI could be improved to make changes to the blocklist."
"The deep scanning feature needs to be improved."
"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 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."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"Two improvements that are needed include an enhancement in the proxy feature, as well as the ability to more fully automate patches and updates."
"Few customers require an on-premises fabric ATP box for attack detection and response."
"I would like to have better integration with third-party archival vendors to facilitate moving data in and out."
"The user interface could be updated."
"Typically, in a phishing email, they try to use a name everybody's going to recognize, like the CEO's name or the CFO's name... With this appliance, the way it's designed at the moment, for us to really stop that with any level of confidence, we have to build a dictionary of all the names of the people we want it to check, and all the ways they could be spelled. My name would be in there as Phillip Collins, Phillip D. Collins, Phillip Dean Collins, Phil Collins, Phil D. Collins. There could be eight or 10 variations of my name that we'd have to put in the dictionary. There's no artificial intelligence to say "Phil Collins" could be all these other things, and to stop phishing from coming through in that way."
"I would like to see sandboxing for email, where suspicious emails received by the system are analyzed through online services."
"Licensing is quite complicated for a number of customers, including ourselves."
"We have Microsoft and we have the E5 licenses, they have more EDR responses on certain emails. That's something that Cisco ESA on the cloud doesn't have. They don't do anything about MITRE attacks. They only detect if there is a malicious email or a threat and they remove it."
"I use the search all the time. Sometimes, it is hard to search for things and things are hard to find. People come to me all the time, saying, "This email didn't get through." Then, I go searching and don't find it on the first search. You have to think about alternative searches. I don't know if there is an easier way that they could help to find things. I don't know how they could simplify it, because now everybody else is using the cloud and everything is coming from Office 365, or whatever. It is just not the same environment from years ago where everybody had their own server and you could search easier."
"There are some concerns in the way the architecture is set up, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The solution does not have a strong outbound service. It should also integrate DLP."
"Malware needs improvement."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
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