We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud, and Proofpoint Email Protection 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 is very simple to whitelist addresses."
"Great at blocking spam."
"The client has the option to blacklist or whitelist any email address or domain based on the sender and recipient filters. If they want, they can restrict any IP addresses so email won't be received from those IP addresses."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the ATP."
"The feature that sets Barracuda apart from other solutions is the Office 365 cloud-to-cloud backup."
"The most important features of Barracuda Email Security Gateway are the simple and quick configuration, interactive console, and easy-to-understand logs."
"This solution has helped to significantly reduce the amount of junk email that we receive."
"It is an excellent, intelligent solution that provides maximum security from email attacks."
"This solution is easy to install. The deployment takes about forty-five minutes."
"If there is a problem somewhere Fortinet can act on it immediately. That is very important."
"Content disarming and analysis are essential features in our email security setup"
"The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool."
"FortiMail Cloud is very fast."
"It has the best feature for processed mail analysis."
"The scanners with FortiMail are valuable."
"The most valuable features are email ATB and Malware Analysis."
"The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the TAP Dashboard. It provides more detailed information that can be used for forensic analysis. This is an advantage that other email security providers, such as Cisco, IronPort, or Microsoft do not offer in their dashboards."
"I like all the features with Proofpoint, such as how it filters the spam and marketing mail, lost reality mail, blocks phishing attacks, blocks malicious attachments, and stops phishing links. Also it can defend against the business email compromise impersonation technique. It is a complete solution for all email attacks. It filters for the bad, malicious attachments. If there is any executable file, it can be deleted. It is a good, complete solution."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"It was easy to set up."
"The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup can be a little bit complex."
"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."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's the only feature that is required."
"The downsides of the solution stem from the fact that it is an expensive product, and one may see too many false positives when using it, making them both areas where improvements are required."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"Networking should be simplified."
"This ease of use and user-friendliness is something we believe could be improved in FortiMail."
"I've not been able to use more than two domains in the back end. I like to view logs for the different domains. If I add any other domain I'm not able to get a proper cPanel for that domain. I am talking about the login factors. I'm not able to see logs for different domains in a different Window. Basically, it's an issue in the login process."
"Its GUI needs improvement."
"The downside of this solution is that it is difficult to implement policies on FortiMail."
"I can't see the feedback to the FortiMail gateway."
"The dashboard could use improvement."
"The product could be improved by extending reporting tools and adding options for notification."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"Some use cases haven't been dealt with yet."
"The flexibility of the solution can be improved."
"We'd like to have the ability to create more customized reports."
"It has too many screens. It is kind of a conglomeration of products. In other words, they built product A, product B, and product C, and they are yet to integrate them into a single administrative console. I would certainly like to see a more seamless administrative interface. I would also like to see them include more bang for the buck, by including features like email fraud protection, rather than making their product so piecemeal, where you are buying little pieces. I agree with the idea of having multiple tiers or layers, but maybe as small, medium, and large, as opposed to an a la carte menu."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"There is room for improvement in detecting and preventing phishing attacks. While the solution performs well in some aspects, it struggles with phishing threats."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
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