We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Barracuda Email Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Archiving solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."
"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 features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"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."
"Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."
"The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"The most valuable feature is the Antispam services, which are the basic services of spam device"
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"We have found some of the valuable features to be how easy the solution is to configure, the graphic support, and the intuitive dashboard."
"We find the product to be scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the complete capabilities it provides. Additionally, the phishing security and sandbox features are effective."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway is very simple to use."
"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."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"We are using the tool’s 400 model which does not offer accurate spam detection. We have also had performance issues with the tool."
"The solution should include an improvised anti-phishing feature, since it blocks certain genuine emails."
"The reports are standard, and it would be nice to be able to customize them."
"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."
"The UI could be a little cleaner and require less clicking around in different modules. They give the illusion of a single pane of glass, but as you click around to different products, you're actually being transferred into a different system."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway should include ATP in the next release."
"Spam is not always detected, and it should be more automated. We have seen that some emails are allowed by these emails, which are then stopped by Microsoft."
"I would like to have better integration with third-party archival vendors to facilitate moving data in and out."
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Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 3rd in Email Archiving with 12 reviews while Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in SEG (Secure Email Gateway) with 51 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0. 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 Barracuda Email Security Gateway writes "Robust email protection with advanced features such as effective spam filtering, virus and malware defense, phishing protection and high scalability". Barracuda Email Protection is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, TitanHQ SpamTitan, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Proofpoint Email Protection, whereas Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Proofpoint Email Protection and Cisco Secure Email. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Barracuda Email Security Gateway report.
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