We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Mimecast Email Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Office 365 Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."
"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"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 aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"The best feature of Barracuda Email Protection is that it provides protection for Microsoft 365."
"Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."
"Mimecast certainly helped my customers reduce phishing emails."
"We like the content filtering and secure messaging features."
"It's good, it keeps the spam out."
"Due to our specialized use case, that HIPAA dictionary really comes in handy."
"The setup was easy."
"URL inspection works pretty well."
"The solution is scalable."
"Email security is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"There is room for improvement, particularly in reaching out to technical support during deployment."
"The solution's reporting mechanism is a little poor and could be improved."
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"Lately, Mimecast's outbound mail servers have been regularly blocklisted by spam filters. That didn't happen a few years back, but it seems to be a more frequent problem these days. When a server is blocklisted, it means all of my outgoing mail ends up in the recipient's junk mail. That affects my reputation and business confidence."
"The detection rates are an area for improvement."
"As a user, the user interface of the management console could be upgraded, for example."
"We have subscribed to an archival service, and yet, when we have to get our data out, we have to pay a fee to get our own data. They charge an extraction fee."
"They could provide a unified licensing model, including all the security features."
"The reaction time between a new threat being identified and Mimecast picking it up needs to be narrowed a bit."
"The solution should include more AI features instead of Mimecast's more general static configuration tooling."
"The feature that should be included is to remove the block on the encrypted files."
Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 4th in Office 365 Protection with 12 reviews while Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Office 365 Protection with 23 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Mimecast Email Security is rated 7.8. 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 Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". 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 Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Abnormal Security, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and IRONSCALES. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Mimecast Email Security report.
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