We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Trend Micro Email Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"The risk level notifications are most valuable. We get to know what kind of intrusion or attack is there, and we can fix a problem on time."
"It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable features are safe attachments and safe links."
"Defender is a SaaS platform, so it offers more flexibility. Managing the permissions is easier. The solution's automated detection and response features are scalable."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"The best feature of Barracuda Email Protection is that it provides protection for Microsoft 365."
"The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."
"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 most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."
"Trend Micro constantly releases new versions and patches based on evolving needs."
"Trend Micro Email Security’s most valuable feature is spam filtering."
"Since implementing it, we've seen a significant improvement in security. We no longer receive spam emails, and we're protected from various cyberattacks, including ransomware and social engineering."
"The integration capability of the solution is good."
"It is mostly stable."
"The technical support is good."
"The email and the signature based protection is the most valuable feature."
"The best features are that it is very convenient to configure new rules onto it and it gives very good insight on what has entered my system and what the email security solution has taken action upon."
"Several simulation options are available within 365, and the phishing simulation could be better."
"About eight months ago, we started to measure the quantity of phishing and spam that we have been receiving, and it has been increasing a lot. That means that protection for our email is not as good as we were expecting."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"Configuration requires going to a lot of places rather than just accessing one tab."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"We noticed that from time to time, Microsoft's stability does have problems. Sometimes the service goes up and down. Sometimes they change without prior notice."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"There is room for improvement, particularly in reaching out to technical support during deployment."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"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."
"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in threat detection, especially for advanced attacks and business email compromise."
"There is a limitation when customers are using their email from a third-party solution that isn't from Trend Micro."
"While they are good, not 100% of email is protected just yet."
"The tool's dashboard is old."
"In our company, we found out that the solution wasn't well-tested by Trend Micro, resulting in a performance and bandwidth problem."
"The enterprise security feature needs improvement."
"The only negative thing about Trend Micro Email Security is its price. It could be less expensive."
"There needs to be more documentation for the product."
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Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 15th in Email Security with 12 reviews while Trend Micro Email Security is ranked 8th in Email Security with 21 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Trend Micro Email Security 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 Trend Micro Email Security writes "The solution blocks spam emails from reaching the user’s mailbox but should introduce new features, improvements, and updates". Barracuda Email Protection is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, TitanHQ SpamTitan, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Abnormal Security and Mimecast Email Security, whereas Trend Micro Email Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Trend Micro Email Security report.
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