We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, Mimecast and others in SEG (Secure Email Gateway)."The most important features of Barracuda Email Security Gateway are the simple and quick configuration, interactive console, and easy-to-understand logs."
"It catches a lot of things and has the ability to add domains as well as add senders and update their things."
"Barracuda is good at keeping the garbage from reaching your inbox."
"This appliance has helped in that we now eliminate the thousands of scams, spam, and malware emails that are destined for our users."
"Before this solution, we didn't have any separate feature for protecting our emails. We used to only have a firewall but now we have email security. It has a graphical interface and we can see the log every time. We can see that the performance is fine."
"This product is powerful and quite simple to use."
"All features it provides on the cloud environment are very, very useful, including the antivirus that is enabled on it."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the complete capabilities it provides. Additionally, the phishing security and sandbox features are effective."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"A stable solution."
"The solution could improve by adding DomainKeys (DKIM) functionality. This is something that is essentially required nowadays for outbound security. They do not have it on their on-premise solution appliance but they have alternate arrangements for their cloud solution."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"The solution should include an improvised anti-phishing feature, since it blocks certain genuine emails."
"We had an incident where we didn't want to receive any emails or spam from a certain site and email address. We selected the mail ID, and we send it to Barracuda for analysis to see if it's spam or something like that. As of now, we haven't gotten any update or notification as to what happened with it."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway should add auto-remediation to improve the solution. Additionally, there are times when we have false positives and our general emails get locked, we have mentioned this to Barracuda."
"Solution requires regular checking to ensure it's 'keeping up' with spam."
"The reports are standard, and it would be nice to be able to customize them."
"The dashboard's UI could be improved to make changes to the blocklist."
"Malware needs improvement."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in SEG (Secure Email Gateway) with 51 reviews while Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is ranked 37th in Email Security. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is rated 8.6. 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 Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway writes "Facilitates creation of your own content-filtering policies with relative ease". 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, whereas Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Mimecast Email Security and Proofpoint Email Protection.
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