We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Sophos Email based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two SEG (Secure Email Gateway) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is an excellent, intelligent solution that provides maximum security from email attacks."
"It's easy to use. The configuration and web interface are user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the ATP."
"Barracuda is good at keeping the garbage from reaching your inbox."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the complete capabilities it provides. Additionally, the phishing security and sandbox features are effective."
"Customer support is the solution's strongest point."
"It is lightweight, and we can filter all of our inbound and outbound emails. We have controls for rate control, quarantine, and tagging. We can see whether an email is a spam email or a phishing email."
"The deployment is very easy. It's quite straightforward."
"Sophos Email provides both inbound and outbound filtering."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the anti-spam detection filter. Its threat email intelligence features help to identify email data."
"The speed and stability were fine."
"Good VIP protection, time of click protection and the Sandstorm feature."
"I found the user interface friendly."
"The platform is scalable when installed on server-based systems."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"The dashboard's UI could be improved to make changes to the blocklist."
"The spam filtering is a little too aggressive. You can not get granular enough to back off on what is considered spam and what is not."
"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."
"Barracuda should have a sandbox feature in the appliances."
"There is room for improvement in the management of multiple domains."
"The technical support is not available globally 24/7 and this is the biggest problem with the product."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway can improve email detection. We have some emails that are bypassing the threat scanning. There are some impersonation emails passing through."
"The product could include all the essential features and capabilities, similar to the on-premise, server-based version."
"The security of the solution could improve."
"Sophos Email needs to increase the number of promos."
"The solution's technical support is slow and unresponsive. You need to book time in order to get support."
"It was sometimes hard to find the settings in the solution's interface."
"Sophos Email can improve mail security."
"The tool's integration becomes an issue when the internet connection is weak."
"Sophos Email has few improvements to implement, including the handling of incoming emails in the systems. It needs to add additional feature that helps in enhancing the scanning processes of these emails. While adding these features, it should work towards improving the current features also."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in SEG (Secure Email Gateway) with 51 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 9th in Email Security with 23 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. 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 Sophos Email writes "Ensures that there is maximum security enabled for our communication processes". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Proofpoint Email Protection and Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection and Perception Point Advanced Email Security. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Sophos Email report.
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