We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Cisco Secure Email, and Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] 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)."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 most valuable feature is the Antispam services, which are the basic services of spam device"
"The performance is good."
"The most important features of Barracuda Email Security Gateway are the simple and quick configuration, interactive console, and easy-to-understand logs."
"It is very simple to whitelist addresses."
"We find the product to be scalable."
"One advantage is its immediate deployment capability. So the fast speed to deploy is a big plus point."
"It's easy to use. The configuration and web interface are user-friendly."
"This solution provides some benefits, like comfortable access to TAC support. You get prompt support when working directly with Cisco."
"Cisco Secure Email Cloud Gateway has allowed our users to be able to concentrate on the emails that they do receive. Previously, our users had to deal with nine million additional emails across the organization, which is nearly 1,000 emails per user to have to deal with a month. That's a massive amount for our staff to deal with and probably several hours of their time. We have a lot of clinical staff, being a hospital. We want to make our staff as productive as possible. By removing a lot of that spam and phishing type emails, this allows them to do their job."
"Users were able to do a check by themselves on quarantined emails. They could check if a valid email had been stopped, if it matched up with the SPF certification."
"It has the IMS engine, Intelligent Multi-Scan engine, and it does a good job, right out-of-the-box, of blocking the vast majority of things that should be blocked."
"It integrates with Active Directory and we can limit specific users to using specific applications."
"It does a great job of preventing spam, malware, and ransomware. I can only go by what people have told me and what I've seen, but I have not seen spam in a year and a half to two years in my own company mailbox. And there are not a lot of catches where it's catching something that should have gotten through, either."
"The added value of it is that every migration to a new version is initiated by the Cisco version itself, so that is a bunch of work that you don't have to do on the Cisco ESA system on-premise. As it becomes a safe platform, you don't need to invest anything in your own data center or in your upgrade path."
"Cisco Secure Email is part of Cisco's extensive efforts and investments in technology, especially in the realm of cyber security. The product is one among many security solutions offered by Cisco."
"The ease of use and the security offered by the solution are its most valuable features. It also offers good information protection."
"The filtering aspect is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The solution is very easy to use, especially the cloud version which is very, very simple. There are some good templates already built-in, so we can just select the template, and you will get all the necessary functionality. The only one thing you have to do is point all your traffic in the cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the URL relay protection because it protects users from phishing attacks."
"Email encryption, because it fulfills our business needs."
"This is a stable, scalable product that provides a reliable email protection layer."
"The interface makes it really easy to administer and configure."
"The dashboard's UI could be improved to make changes to the blocklist."
"I am not aware of the licensing costs."
"The solution should include an improvised anti-phishing feature, since it blocks certain genuine emails."
"The solution should add automatic alerts to the mobile."
"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."
"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 has shown difficulty in providing us with the solutions we sought."
"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."
"Cisco Email Secure's pricing needs to be less. We have vendors who provide cheaper solutions with the same features."
"The scalability must be improved."
"The interface is dated. It has looked pretty much the same for 15 years or so. It would be helpful to be able to do everything from one spot. The centralized quarantine and reporting are completely separate from policy administration."
"I would like to see sandboxing for email, where suspicious emails received by the system are analyzed through online services."
"The graphical user interface is not user-friendly like other vendors. I find it very difficult at times to find some options on the UI."
"The user interface could be updated."
"The hardware is not up to the mark. Two to three times a year we have complete downtime."
"If you are not a technical guy, it is hard to maneuver, but as soon as you work on it, it gets better and better. If there was a better way to know how to do things or how to find things, it would be good."
"More things need to be integrated into this device, like DLP, so we can have a complete solution in one box."
"There aren't enough advanced settings. They should offer more advanced options."
"In the advanced version, you have DLP, Data Loss Prevention, but when you buy the standard version, you don't have it."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see more user awareness, such as information about phishing email attacks that have been prevented."
"There are a few issues with integration that need to be addressed; this would help make deployment easier for new users."
"The reporting functionality is in major need of improvement."
"Reporting could have more options for users to customize desired results."
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