We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Fortinet FortiMail based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In this comparison, both products share similar ratings regarding deployment, pricing, and the level of support they receive. However, Barracuda Email Security Gateway users report seeing an ROI whereas Fortinet FortiMail users do not mention it.
"The link protection and anti-phishing features are great."
"All features it provides on the cloud environment are very, very useful, including the antivirus that is enabled on it."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway has a good feature of email spooling, which acts as a first line of security."
"Its backups are valuable."
"The client has the option to blacklist or whitelist any email address or domain based on the sender and recipient filters. If they want, they can restrict any IP addresses so email won't be received from those IP addresses."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the cloud ATP functionality not available on the on-premise version. Most of the zero-day attacks can be mitigated with ATP. Additionally, the reporting functionality is good."
"We find the email security to be valuable."
"This appliance has helped in that we now eliminate the thousands of scams, spam, and malware emails that are destined for our users."
"Technical support is great. They are able to look at their patches and offer quick responses. We even have an account manager in the Middle East. They are very good."
"Troubleshooting is very simple because you can see where the email was not delivered and why it would be considered as spam."
"A full-featured email gateway solution that contains security threats reliably."
"Fortinet FortiMail is easy to use and the detection rate is very good. You can customize content filters and profiles are done easily. Additionally, there is a sandbox integration feature that is good."
"Its performance is very good and it is stable."
"FortiMail is a stable product."
"Fortinet FortiMail is a complete product addressing mail security concerns. It helps to know spam subscriptions and create restriction policies."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The DMARC security is somewhat weak and could be strengthened."
"Some customers experience issues with integration."
"Few customers require an on-premises fabric ATP box for attack detection and response."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway can improve reporting and anti-spam. The anti-spam engine is not working well. We are seeing a lot of problems where spam is going through the gateway. Additionally, access privilege should be given to the IT support, because they don't have a lot of privileges. We are forced to give our IT support administrative access in order to clear and deliver emails and this should not be happening."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"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."
"There are limited administration controls that should be improved."
"Some of the phishing emails are not being blocked. Another problem is that we are not able to manage the date and time in our time zone."
"Issues with the current email search functionality."
"The Ui isn't that intuitive."
"The product's cybersecurity features could be better."
"The infrastructure could be improved."
"Online support sometimes takes up to a week to get back to you."
"What's missing in Fortinet FortiMail is some sandbox information for some of the emails. It's probably configuration-based, where it could be configured on some emails. For example, there was malware in some emails that weren't detected in some of the Fortinet FortiMail sessions, but it should have been configured from my company's end to better catch scam emails, but overall, the solution is okay. At the moment, my company is okay with the current Fortinet FortiMail offerings, but in the past, because of a lack of understanding, my team wasn't able to quickly implement the geographical IP blocking feature. It was time-consuming to implement that feature, but that wasn't a fault of Fortinet FortiMail. The issue was from my team's end, but just by emailing the support team, that issue was resolved, so right now, there isn't any additional feature I'd like added to Fortinet FortiMail."
"Fortinet FortiMail's pricing could be improved."
"An additional feature that could be added is a pop-up screen notifying you that an email has been blocked, without having to double click on it to take you there it could provide you with a summary explaining why it was on hold or why was it spam when you hover over it with your cursor."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 54 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6. 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 Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email and Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade, whereas Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Proofpoint Email Protection. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Fortinet FortiMail report.
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