Over the past decade and a half, I have used various products. I worked with Mimecast, targeted threat protection for seven of the last 12 years, and used ATP for four of the previous seven.

In the last 12 months, I went to Barracuda because they have an online backup system for our Office 365 tenant as an add-on. It's a package that you get with spam protection, and it's cost-effective. Barracuda offers a suite of services similar to what Mimecast includes and backup retention, which is crucial for the Office 365 environment.

I have used other solutions in the past but switched because Barracuda Email Security Gateway has a lot more features and became the leader.

I have an experience with Barracuda Email Security, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Defender.

I have previous experience with Fortinet. I decided to move from Fortinet to Barracuda since the latter provides me with the AI functionalities I need. My company tried the trial version offered by Barracuda, which is expensive, so we decided to look at Libraesva, which is an affordable product that has the AI functionalities I need. I think Libraesva is the best product in the market right now based on my experience and the product I currently use in my company.

I have experience with Mimecast. I used it about two or three years ago. Barracuda is a bit different from Mimecast. I recall Mimecast having good integration with Microsoft 365 Exchange Online. We used it to protect email and block malware mostly. 

I have worked with a number of other similar solutions to Barracuda Email Security Gateway, such as Symantec. The features have been similar to one another, but Barracuda Email Security Gateway is better.

FortiMail Security Gateway is far better than Barracuda Email Security Gateway.

Barracuda’s reporting feature allows you to locate particular logs and issues. The solution analyzes the issue if an email is not received at the recipient site. It also monitors email in the queue. FortiMail is difficult to handle from a reporting perspective. You have to dig deep into the logs to understand why a specific email is not being sent or received.

We used to have FortiMail, and we migrated to Barracuda. Barracuda is much more effective than FortiMail. Barracuda handles spam better.

In addition to Barracuda, we used an open-source solution from Linux.

I used Proofpoint and Check Point previously. 

We were using another security tool previously. We were looking for an advanced tool that helps us to log more threats and incident management. This is why we chose Barracuda Email Security Gateway.

We previously used another solution. The complexity of the user interface was very complex and if you tried to make a configuration change, you end up searching for the feature and where you can edit. Also, security is a very good feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway. It has a per-user quarantine. It's very comfortable for the user to make his own white list or blacklist.

Lack of technical support and very delayed responses in the case of an incident.

We’ve used Mimecast before. We had a support issue that we couldn't resolve. Barracuda offered a more scalable and cost-effective solution with the features and support we needed.

Prior to Barracuda, we were using Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security, and then we were using Symantec's Email Security. We now have all of the features that we want in a single product.

Working with Trend Micro is a little bit tricky at this point in time.

We didn't really use any other solution previous to this product.

We did not use another solution in the past.

Barracuda was actually the first product like this that we utilized. We were looking for a product to take care of spam and email security. In our comparison, we found this product to be the solution for us at the time.  

We have used Cisco Email Security. We switched because there was a little bit of difficulty with the licensing features. We also had to frequently get in touch with Cisco tech support for a solution. They would just investigate for a long time, and our solution was delayed. So, we chose Barracuda.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

We did not work with another solution prior to this one. 

Previously, we did not use another solution.

We did not use another solution prior to this one, although we are in the process of acquiring a new solution from the same company.

I have used three advanced email security systems, including Trend Micro (InterScan), Cisco IronPort, and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. All three are good solutions but each has its advantages. Cisco, I think, is very expensive compared to Barracuda or Trend Micro. Trend Micro is less expensive but more difficult to deploy and use.

It wasn't so much a case of switching products for my current organization as it was choosing the product that fits with our needs. It was better for us to save a little using Barracuda in cost compared to Cisco and in time and effort compared to Trend Micro.

We were using a different solution prior to Barracuda and we switched because our IT support company suggested it.

We did the research and looked at what we wanted to do. At that point in time, Barracuda was the most effective solution.