We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Proofpoint Email Protection 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."The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"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."
"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."
"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."
"I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products."
"The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"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."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a good product, and its most beneficial feature is the Threat Response Auto-Pull. I also like that it's an integrated email security solution."
"The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"The spam filter for email is good."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"The flexibility of the solution can be improved."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"The product's deployment is complex and requires technical knowledge."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 4th in Office 365 Protection with 13 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Office 365 Protection with 44 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. 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 Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". 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 Perception Point Advanced Email Security, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Proofpoint Email Protection report.
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