We compared Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Barracuda Email Security Gateway’s stand-out features include sandboxing, diverse customization options, and a cloud environment. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration offers exceptional integration through APIs, advanced protection against data leaks, and the ability to detect complex social engineering attacks.
Room for Improvement: Barracuda Email Security Gateway users say the solution should add DomainKeys functionality, enhance anti-phishing measures, and introduce the ability to add multiple domains. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration could improve integration with Exchange and other SaaS clouds while enhancing its threat clouds and AI engines.
Service and Support: Customers have praised the customer service of Barracuda Email Security Gateway for its professionalism, responsiveness, and availability, rating it as good and reliable. Check Point has earned mixed reviews for its customer service. Some customers appreciate the technical support provided, while others are dissatisfied with response times.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Barracuda Email Security Gateway is described as simple and intuitive, requiring a few hours or a day to complete. Check Point Harmony Email is considered relatively easy to implement.
Pricing: Users say Barracuda Email Security Gateway is competitively priced. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is a cost-effective option. It offers competitive prices and is suitable for small to medium-sized organizations.
ROI: Barracuda Email Security Gateway benefits users by minimizing business disruptions and reducing costs. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration delivers superior return on investment compared to other options.
Comparison Results: Barracuda offers a wide range of capabilities, customizable options, and excellent customer support. Suggestions for improvement are more prevalent for Barracuda, including better pricing, automation, and user interface. Opinions on pricing vary for both products, with some users considering Barracuda to be more affordable. Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration is an effective solution for blocking malicious attachments and detecting social engineering attacks. However, there is room for improvement in terms of integration and support, reducing false positives, and enhancing response times.
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"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."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway is very simple to use."
"The security protection is the best and it's GUI is user-friendly."
"This appliance has helped in that we now eliminate the thousands of scams, spam, and malware emails that are destined for our users."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is that it blocks almost 99 percent of threats from users' email inboxes."
"We find the product to be scalable."
"It is very intuitive. It is a point and click type of deal."
"The API is its most valuable feature. On the API side, relative to the rest of the market, Check Point is decades ahead of its competitors."
"It helped us to bring security compliance and ensure system robustness throughout."
"I can count the number of endpoints, emails, and collaborations being used in the environment."
"Its characteristics are adapted to the most modern threats."
"Its total protection has been the greatest aspect since it completely protects all the mail from the cloud."
"I like the fact that having granular information about the potential threats is received in email."
"Machine Learning and AI for email security have helped all the organization's members to guard their information against insecure exposure."
"We are using the tool’s 400 model which does not offer accurate spam detection. We have also had performance issues with the tool."
"Barracuda should have a sandbox feature in the appliances."
"We still have critical threats coming into our environment and delivered to our users. When we compare it with other solutions, these other solutions can already detect those threats."
"Barracuda's spam database isn't on par with its competitors. Users complain about the spam email they're receiving, and we report the issue. Barracuda said they are going to update their system to block the malicious email we received, but we're still getting the same spam. The signatures are not in their database. They need to update their spam signatures because spam is bypassing Barracuda."
"Barracuda isn't catching everything. We're still getting quite a few phishing emails, so we're looking for something else."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway can improve reporting and anti-spam. The anti-spam engine is not working well. We are seeing a lot of problems where spam is going through the gateway. Additionally, access privilege should be given to the IT support, because they don't have a lot of privileges. We are forced to give our IT support administrative access in order to clear and deliver emails and this should not be happening."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"False positives have given us issues."
"The left-hand feature can be made more granular for the implementation of the policy."
"They must provide security to more email service providers."
"if a phishing email were to get through and bypass the product — which very few do — it would be nice if, when a user clicked on that phishing email, they got a second-chance opportunity, a chance to double-check that they really wanted to proceed to that website."
"There are sometimes leakages of viruses when the system is experiencing network failures."
"Stability has been a pain point. I was going back and forth with my product engineer and project manager for a couple of months. I had the product in a demonstration mode and wasn't satisfied with the results initially. After a few alterations and a few revisions later, it is fine."
"At this time, the two-factor authentication does not work for Active Directory."
"The solution fails to support hybrid deployments."
"It would be nice to see them expand their collaboration capabilities to include other suites and integrate with lesser-known products."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is ranked 7th in Email Security with 47 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is rated 8.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration writes "Has a user-friendly dashboard, a great anti-phishing algorithm, and sandboxing for testing". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Proofpoint Email Protection and Symantec Messaging Gateway, whereas Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Mimecast Email Security and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP). See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration report.
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