We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Mimecast Email Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Office 365 Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Essentials are it's a trusted name and is rated very high on review sites. It blocks high percentages of spam and junk email and it's in the cloud. They have hardware appliances, but this is in the cloud. The solution is very effective at blocking malware and blocking spam and this is what we are looking for. There's not a whole lot of complexity, you want a solution that is very good at blocking out all of the unwanted emails."
"The best feature of Barracuda Email Protection is that it provides protection for Microsoft 365."
"We now have a secondary backup of Office 365 that's much easier to retrieve compared to Microsoft. If someone deletes something in Office 365, we can get it back within Office 365, but it's difficult. Barracuda is much easier. There is a lot less management needed using Barracuda. The management becomes much easier for Office 365 and it's no longer on-prem, so there are fewer hours managing on-prem devices, servers, and things of that nature. We don't have network appliances anymore for the backup of our information."
"The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products."
"What I like about the integration is that it is directly into Microsoft 365, users can use their Microsoft 365 credentials to log into the portal and access their mail."
"The solution is pretty straightforward to use and easy to set up."
"It's really quite user-friendly. In terms of technical superiority and the product itself, there are no complaints. It is really cutting edge."
"In the current environment that the world is in, everyone is trying to hack everyone else, so Project+ definitely helps a lot there."
"Mimecast certainly helped my customers reduce phishing emails."
"We like Mimecast's spam filtering. The email signature feature is also a big plus for our users."
"The solution offers good technical support."
"URL inspection works pretty well."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"There is room for improvement, particularly in reaching out to technical support during deployment."
"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"The installation is not so straightforward."
"We have subscribed to an archival service, and yet, when we have to get our data out, we have to pay a fee to get our own data. They charge an extraction fee."
"The detection rates are an area for improvement."
"While it's quick and easy, the initial setup could be more user-friendly."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Many of our users complain that the system is blocking too many attachments. It's a good practice from a security perspective, but our users think Mimecast is doing too much. It might be something we'll have to adjust."
"The reaction time between a new threat being identified and Mimecast picking it up needs to be narrowed a bit."
"The feature that should be included is to remove the block on the encrypted files."
Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 4th in Office 365 Protection with 13 reviews while Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Office 365 Protection with 23 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Mimecast Email Security is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda Email Protection writes "Set-it-and-forget-it type of product that doesn't require a lot of management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". Barracuda Email Protection is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, TitanHQ SpamTitan, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Abnormal Security, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and IRONSCALES. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Mimecast Email Security report.
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