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We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Mimecast Mailbox Continuity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Email Archiving solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Barracuda Email Protection vs. Mimecast Mailbox Continuity Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization.""The most valuable features are security and ease of use.""The product is easy to deploy and maintain.""The solution is straightforward to set up.""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.""The most valuable features of Barracuda Essentials are it's a trusted name and is rated very high on review sites. It blocks high percentages of spam and junk email and it's in the cloud. They have hardware appliances, but this is in the cloud. The solution is very effective at blocking malware and blocking spam and this is what we are looking for. There's not a whole lot of complexity, you want a solution that is very good at blocking out all of the unwanted emails.""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."

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"The security is pretty good, and that's why we're going to upgrade to an even more advanced package. We used it when we had a power issue, and it works. It has been pretty reliable, and the support has been quite good.""The Large File Send feature comes in handy when you have to send fairly large attachments.""It has all the features required for distribution, such as the ability to mail.""Mimecast has some good support services in place.""We're now certain business-critical mail is perfectly protected in multiple ways.""The most valuable feature of Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is real-time alerts."

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Cons
"There is room for improvement, particularly in reaching out to technical support during deployment.""I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution.""The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them.""Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features.""The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually.""I would like to see better integration with other products.""Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver.""The platform's pricing needs improvement."

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"The price of the solution is expensive. It can improve by reducing the price.""The solution is expensive in comparison to similar solutions.""The interface and the documentation could be improved. They can also include some more training resources and content like video. While setting things up, I had to search for the information quite a bit. It took me time to find the correct way to do something. The information is there, but it is sort of all over the place. They can create a better help knowledge base or help portal. It retains your email for 45 days. They can maybe increase this duration.""Technical support has been slower than it was in the past, likely due to the pandemic.""The interface isn't the best. How everything works on the back end is confusing."

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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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  • "Its price is in the middle range. It is a structured licensing model where there are various components that you can add or choose to add or not."
  • "The price of Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:We're now certain business-critical mail is perfectly protected in multiple ways.
    Top Answer:I don't deal with the pricing or licensing aspects of the product I can't speak to how much it costs.
    Top Answer:Overall, just across all the Mimecast pieces that we use, it's somewhat of a mess when you want to figure out where you need to go to make a change. The interface isn't the best. How everything works… more »
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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.

    Mimecast Mailbox Continuity provides uninterrupted access to live and archive email using Outlook for Windows, the web and mobile applications.

    Sample Customers
    ACT Government, Acumen Group, AGIP, Delta Dental Plans Association, Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., Equinox Information Systems
    DAC Beachcroft, OceanFirst, Currie & Brown, Alexander Forbes, Lagan Group, Lals Group, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, Wedlake Bell, Macmillan Cancer Support, Bech-Bruun
    Top Industries
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    Manufacturing Company25%
    Construction Company25%
    Security Firm25%
    Educational Organization13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Construction Company8%
    Real Estate/Law Firm7%
    Healthcare Company7%
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    Company Size
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    Small Business54%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise42%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Barracuda Email Protection vs. Mimecast Mailbox Continuity
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Barracuda Email Protection vs. Mimecast Mailbox Continuity and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 3rd in Email Archiving with 12 reviews while Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is ranked 4th in Email Archiving with 6 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is rated 8.0. 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 Mailbox Continuity writes "Provides peace of mind and expands well but needs a better interface". Barracuda Email Protection is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, TitanHQ SpamTitan, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Abnormal Security, whereas Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is most compared with Barracuda Message Archiver. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Mimecast Mailbox Continuity report.

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