Barracuda Email Security Gateway Valuable Features

WalidChowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Operations at BD

The simplicity of our licensing policy, combined with the consolidation of hardware and feature costs, sets us apart in the market. Additionally, our MSP mode, powered by Barracuda Identity Gateway, enhances user management facilities, providing an integrated and user-friendly experience.

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Robert Melendez - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Information Technology at Makeready

The feature that sets Barracuda apart from other solutions is the Office 365 cloud-to-cloud backup.

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MA
Director Technical at CAD CAM Center

The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the complete capabilities it provides. Additionally, the phishing security and sandbox features are effective.

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Buyer's Guide
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
March 2024
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Sameer Narayan - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Investment FIji

All of it has been quite useful. All features it provides on the cloud environment are very, very useful, including the antivirus that is enabled on it. 

It also has a threat management tool on it. It does a self-scanning so that it actually does zero-day tolerance. It's able to look at other Barracuda databases and is able to find the latest data and protect the network. There are a number of features that it has that we actually use to protect our network from email.

The setup is straightforward. 

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Carlo Bertini - PeerSpot reviewer
It consultant and Project Manager/ CTO technology officer at Cabar at Cabar SRL

One advantage is its immediate deployment capability. So, the fast speed to deploy is a big plus point. 

Another plus is the broad security coverage provided by the Barracuda email security gateway, which shares the same approach to security events as the firewall. This can help improve the security of the MRA system.

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Furqan Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Pronet

I like Barracuda's cloud sandbox feature. 

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MQ
Assistant Manager, Information Technology Systems at Getz Pharma

The solution is largely stable. 

It can scale. 

Overall, it has been working fine without issue. 

The message tracking and messaging logs have proven to be quite useful. 

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Jamie Liu - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The interface is good, and it offers good integrations. 

The solution offers very good email security. It protects us from spam and scam emails. 

It offers good visibility of any potential threats trying to enter the system.

The initial setup should be straightforward.

It is cloud-based.

So far, the solution has been stable. 

We find the product to be scalable. 

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AM
Senior Account Manager at National Bank of Egypt

Customer support is the solution's strongest point.

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Gayan Ranaweera - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at Fentons Limited

The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the cloud ATP functionality not available on the on-premise version. Most of the zero-day attacks can be mitigated with ATP. Additionally, the reporting functionality is good.

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Saad Zarkout - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at BUTEC s.a.l.

The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the ATP.

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Igor Gutierrez - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Officer & DPO - Data Protection Officer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The spam filtering, in particular, is very important for us. We have a large volume of emails each month, something like 200,000, and Barracuda filters about 85 percent of the spam, malware, and phishing that comes in. It prevents our users from receiving this content on their computers.

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Roy Bolaños - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Service Staff at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature is the spam filter.

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KR
IT Manager at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

The things I find valuable are how it is easy to maintain and its seamlessness. I cannot say it's better or worse than any other solution, but I have no issues with it as it does what it needs to do.

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Anuraj Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at SNSIN

The most important features of Barracuda Email Security Gateway are the simple and quick configuration, interactive console, and easy-to-understand logs.

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SK
Senior Manager at Havells

The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is that it blocks almost 99 percent of threats from users' email inboxes.

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RA
General Manager at Gemakom

They combined the cloud control and they have anti-phishing. There is link protection, which means when a link is in the email and it is similar to PayPal, for example, it gets flagged. The link protection checks the link and checks that it has been faked because it's not the original PayPal link. So when a link is not original then it's passed to Barracuda and checked in the sent box and when it's okay then it's opened. Otherwise, if it's malware then there's an alert which says, "That's a phishing attack and this is what you need to do."

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Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cyber Defense & Offensive Security at Habib Bank Limited

The Anomaly-based spam detection is a very good feature of Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall, since it not only keeps track of the Anomalies, but also protects and notifies any illegitimate attachments, content, as well as the suspicious source from which an email is arriving/contained in the email.

Another important feature that organizations are looking for is the Integration with LDAP and Active Directory. This Device has a capability to easily integrate with the AD connected with the Exchange environment.

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Damodharan R - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at I A M IT Technologies LLC

The most valuable features are filtering and rate controlling. They are good and are required to avoid having low IP, email, and domain reputations.

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Binoob John - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner/Owner and Director of Human Resources at Up arrow Systems

It can effectively combat phishing attacks, block spam, provide confirmation, and ensure operational manageability with a strong focus on product stability.    

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HS
Director at Dynamic Computer Services

This product is powerful and quite simple to use.

It has a unified interface for archiving, security, and backup, all put together into one portfolio.

This product has phenomenal anti-phishing capabilities.

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Mohammed Shah Newaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant General Manager at CoLoCity

There are many customizable options:

  • Attachment filtering, where we are filtering attachments according to our requirements. 
  • IT-based configurations, where we allow domains. We are blacklisting domains that we do not want to pass through. 
  • Rate Control feature, where we have the user license for 10,000 incoming and outgoing emails. Therefore, 10,000 users can use this device.

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. 

Another interesting feature of Barracuda Email Security is the content filtering. If there is any word or sentence that we or our customers want to block, then we can add that thing in Barracuda Email Security Gateway. The content contained in the email will not be delivered or received by the recipient. Maximum customization options are available. 

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KA
Sophos Certified Product Architect at Softech Microsystems

In Barracuda Email Security Gateway, a cloud protection layer spools emails for 96 hours. When your email server recovers from downtime, all the emails will be shown in your inbox. Barracuda Email Security Gateway has a good feature of email spooling, which acts as a first line of security.

The solution also has the ATP cloud control option, which is directly connected to the cloud, works fast, and has all the signatures worldwide. Barracuda Email Security Gateway protects from zero-day attacks and zero-hour attacks. It detects attacks from all around the world about to happen in an hour.

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Lahiru Somasiri - PeerSpot reviewer
Trainee Engineer - Systems & Security at Connex Information Technologies

Barracuda Email Security Gateway has features like identify the spam source, rules to avoid some specific spams and then reschedule. And there are some other features like the email continuity, the email server and gateway site, which  can relay the mail kit. The solution is user-friendly.These kind of features are the most valuable. 

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BJ
DP Manager at a agriculture with 51-200 employees

Barracuda is good at keeping the garbage from reaching your inbox. 

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Mohankannan Ramadoss - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Manager at Digitaltrack

Barracuda Email Security Gateway is very simple to use. The solution is predominantly suited for less than 10,000 mailboxes. Barracuda Email Security Gateway has a simple dashboard.

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KM
Computer Networks and Systems Support Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 11-50 employees

It's a good solution. Maybe if we switch to the cloud version, it will be more up-to-date. It's a good one.

It catches a lot of things and has the ability to add domains as well as add senders and update their things.

It could be more automated. Many solutions in the industry are now receiving automatic updates. This one, we believe, is not; however, a later version may be better.

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RM
Technical Manager at Sarkar Group

The solution's anti-spam features are its most valuable aspect. It's quite effective. It stops a lot of junk from getting through.

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DD
CIO at a government with 51-200 employees

I like the frontend blocking of spam which is what it is designed to do. I like the Dashboard view, it gives me a great overview of everything. Also, it is rich in configuration options which allow for some very fine tuning. Overall, It's been very beneficial.

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SH
Senior Systems Administrator - Microsoft & LINUX at TCS Pvt. Ltd.

The features that we find most valuable are spam and virus protection. Another is the protection against e-mail spooling. Also, if the email server experiences an outage then we can see the status of all spooled emails, and whether an email has been re-delivered.

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Zubair Ahmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Chief Manager at Arcil

The product safeguards user mail for gateway defense, data protection, business continuity, AI-based inbox defense, and automated threat detection and incident response.

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FR
Founder CEO at Waterdog Computer Works

It is really hard to pinpoint any one feature that is more valuable than the others. I mean, the features are all valuable. If I had to choose, I guess the spam filtering part of the product stands out as phenomenal. The time it saves in eliminating inbox clutter and the focus that creates allows staff to be more productive instead of absolutely wasting time manually filtering spam.  

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SS
System Administrator at Subisu Cablenet Pvt. Ltd.

It seems good in terms of spam blocking and virus blocking. 

It is lightweight, and we can filter all of our inbound and outbound emails. We have controls for rate control, quarantine, and tagging. We can see whether an email is a spam email or a phishing email.

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CK
Network Specialist at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

We really like the logging system in this solution. It is easy to track down email messages that a user has misplaced, or didn't realize that they got. Perhaps it came in but was wrong because the sender had the wrong email alias, for example. You can track down and find things like this.

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TA
Network Manager with 1-10 employees

The complete filtering feature for all of the emails is valuable for us. It filters all of the emails. There are lots of attacks that come to our network through emails and it does a good job of blocking that. 

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AH
Head Information Technology Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the Antispam services, which are the basic services of spam device.

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MN
IT Administrator at SPSP

We find the email security to be valuable. 

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KA
Deputy Manager IT Operations (Senior System Administrator) at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is easy to use.

The performance is good.

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MS
Presales Network & Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is a really good product with a lot of features. It is responsive, updated, and modern. It is easy to use and has an easy interface for non-IT users. Its dashboard is also quite fine.

It is also quite flexible and has an API at the backend. 

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SS
Senior IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We have found some of the valuable features to be how easy the solution is to configure, the graphic support, and the intuitive dashboard.

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AJ
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable features are really the same as our primary use for the product: intelligent handling of potential email attacks and offloading or load-balancing. This effectively protects the organization from malicious attacks.

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SM
Insolvency Practitioner and Director at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

It is very simple to whitelist addresses.

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MB
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The security protection is the best and it's GUI is user-friendly.

It has a simple configuration where you can set up the protection.

The solution provides good information on various threats that can affect our customers.

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it_user8769 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology and Information Systems Manager at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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DS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The anti-spamming and anti-phishing features are great. They're really strong and stable in this solution.

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SS
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It is a very different solution when it comes to anti-spam, anti-phishing, scanning, and it has API direct integration. There are plenty of features, such as sandboxing capabilities with zero threat protection. It has all the leading email security appliances compared to other solutions.

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Buyer's Guide
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Barracuda Email Security Gateway. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.