Barracuda Email Threat Scanner Reviews

Name: Barracuda Email Threat Scanner
Brand: Barracuda Networks
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

3 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Barracuda Email Threat Scanner?

Find out what's hiding in your inbox.
It's critical to assess and understand your email security vulnerabilities. Using artificial intelligence and API integration with Office 365, the Barracuda Email Threat Scanner quickly and effectively finds social engineering attacks currently sitting in your mailboxes.

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Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is the #26 ranked solution in top Anti-Malware Tools. PeerSpot users give Barracuda Email Threat Scanner an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is most commonly compared to CrowdStrike Falcon: Barracuda Email Threat Scanner vs CrowdStrike Falcon. Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 47% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 16% of all views.

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S. M. Rabiul Islam

Sr. System Engineer at Group QA

We had an incident last month where the PCs of one or two colleagues, who were outside of our factory and were using a defined network, got infected by some kind of malware. From their PCs, more than 1,000 mails were produced per hour, causing spamming on our mail server's IP. Barracuda blocked the full mail communication. Only one to two accounts were compromised, and for that, Barracuda blocked all incoming and outgoing mails. It created a great problem for other users and our office activities. Our mail server was partially blocked for three days, which we did not expected and suffered a lot. Technically, only one or two accounts should be blocked if those are compromised. When a domain or IP is blocked, communication becomes tough, mails are bounced by receiver server. It may be a configuration issue at our provider's end, where there was a mistake in configuring Barracuda. It could also be a problem related to Barracuda.

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S. M. Rabiul Islam

Sr. System Engineer at Group QA

Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is a hybrid. It is deployed on-premises for devices and has a cloud-based control panel. We use the solution to review threats that might be contained in our emails The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is the security it provides by delaying…

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Juan Mata

Manager, Information Technology at Friendly House

I use the solution to protect my email The product blocks out a lot of phishing and spam emails that are sent to the employees. The fact that the product monitors and rates incoming emails is valuable to me. It puts a score against them. If an email has a score we aren’t comfortable with, it'll…

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Barracuda Email Threat Scanner mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner in the Anti-Malware Tools category stands at 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"It was easy to learn the product."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is the security it provides by delaying the delivery of suspicious emails until they can be reviewed inside the Barracuda control panel."
"The main benefit that I am getting from this solution is that it filters almost 95% of my spam mail. Some spam mails bypass Barracuda Email Threat Scanner, but when I add those domains or addresses to the filter list, they get blocked. Some users on my premises do not understand which mail attachments or links should be opened. By filtering with Barracuda Email Threat Scanner, we are not getting any type of phishing mails. So, our infrastructure is safer, and as an IT person, I feel relaxed."

Room for Improvement

"The product must improve the features associated with creating a blacklist."
"If the price were lower, perhaps we could purchase our own."
"We had an incident last month where the PCs of one or two colleagues, who were outside of our factory and were using a defined network, got infected by some kind of malware. From their PCs, more than 1,000 mails were produced per hour, causing spamming on our mail server. Barracuda blocked the full mail communication. Only one to two accounts were compromised, and for that, Barracuda blocked all incoming and outgoing mails. It created a great problem for other users and our office activities. Our server was blocked for three days, which we did not expect. Technically, only one or two accounts should be blocked. When a domain or IP is blocked, communication becomes tough. It may be a configuration issue at our provider's end, where there was a mistake in configuring Barracuda. It could also be a problem related to Barracuda."

Pricing

"The solution is a bit expensive."
"Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is provided by our IT service provider, who also provides all the support. The licensing fee that we pay to our provider is $200 per month, that is, $1 per user. There is no additional cost.Before taking the subscription from our provider, I researched the market for Barracuda. The cost is between $5,000 to $8,000 for three years. After that, the same cost is there for renewal. If you have 200 to 500 users, it is better to take a subscription from a provider. If you have more than 500 users, then you can own the Barracuda server through the cloud or on-premises deployments. It is costly for a lesser number of users. If you increase the usage or the number of users, then the overall cost decreases.They can reduce the cost of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner for a small number of users. We could not and would not have used this solution if we had not got the renting or subscription option."

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