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We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Barracuda Message Archiver based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"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 solution is straightforward to set up.""The most valuable features are security and ease of use.""The product is easy to deploy and maintain.""The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization.""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."

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Cons
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver.""The solution's reporting mechanism is a little poor and could be improved.""I would like to see better integration with other products.""I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution.""The platform's pricing needs improvement.""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."

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"The user mailbox management is poor.""It's a little bit more expensive than the others."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The price of Barracuda Essentials is better than some of the competing products."
  • "We pay annually. They never charged us for anything else. And they were quite a bit under that $20,000 mark. It was $19,074. And they've been pretty good about not skyrocketing the price or anything like that. It has gone up. It's gone up to $24,000 in 2020."
  • "Price-wise, this product is middle-of-the-road."
  • "On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
  • "The product is expensive."
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  • "We are satisfied with the pricing and the service is bundled so there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
  • "They're a little bit more expensive than the others."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:We use Barracuda Message Archiver to keep a copy of our users' emails, both inbound or outbound. Our goal in using it is that from a compliance perspective, we can provide access to our auditors. It… more »
    Top Answer:It's a little bit more expensive than the others. It's like anything. You got to log in when you want stuff nowadays. Other than that, it's pretty good.
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    3rd
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    8.8
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    Also Known As
    Barracuda Essentials
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    Overview

    The popularity of Microsoft 365 means criminals test and design their attacks to bypass its native security features. And that means you need additional layers of defense. With Advanced Threat Protection enabled, Barracuda uses multiple layers of detection, including signature, static, and behavioral analysis, along with CPU-emulation sandboxing to accurately detect and block zero-hour targeted attacks and ransomware.

    Traditional email gateways use static rules and policies—reputation analysis, block lists, and malicious payloads—to determine if an email is malicious.

    Barracuda protects your Microsoft 365 inbox against evasive threats with a powerful AI engine that learns the unique communication patterns within your organization through access to internal and historical emails. Once it understands what legitimate emails looks like for each user, it can detect anomalies that signal malicious intent. This context-based detection is more effective at blocking targeted attacks, which are designed to bypass traditional rule-based email security.

    Barracuda Message Archiver is a cloud-integrated message archiving solution that is easy to deploy and manage. It dramatically reduces your email storage requirements while boosting user productivity. And it makes regulatory and e-discovery compliance practically effortless.

    With Barracuda Message Archiver, all users can instantly access, search, retrieve, and export archived messages using any device, whether on-site or on the go.

    Barracuda Message Archiver integrates with all standards-based email servers, and with cloud email services such as Office 365 and Gmail.

    Sample Customers
    ACT Government, Acumen Group, AGIP, Delta Dental Plans Association, Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., Equinox Information Systems
    Alfa Romeo, Texas A&M University, Time Warner, Nintendo, Boeing 
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company25%
    Construction Company25%
    Security Firm25%
    Educational Organization13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Construction Company7%
    Real Estate/Law Firm7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization78%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Manufacturing Company2%
    Performing Arts2%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business57%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
    Large Enterprise7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise41%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise86%
    Large Enterprise6%
    Buyer's Guide
    Email Archiving
    April 2024
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    Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 3rd in Email Archiving with 12 reviews while Barracuda Message Archiver is ranked 5th in Email Archiving with 2 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Barracuda Message Archiver is rated 7.6. 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 Message Archiver writes "Easy to use and doesn't require any maintenance". 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 Abnormal Security, whereas Barracuda Message Archiver is most compared with .

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