Barracuda Email Protection Reviews

Barracuda Essentials is used for anyone that wants to protect their email. It helps with protecting against spam, malware, and encrypting your email messages. This is an option with all the email messages. They have other add-ons which use artificial intelligence to protect you against fishing attempts. 

They have employee training against email phishing attempts. There are nice packages of other options that can be added to Barracuda Essentials.

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. 

Barracuda Essentials is doing a good job at adding more features. They have a solution that will, through artificial intelligence, track email messages, and determine who's trying to spoof your emails. This is provided by the Advanced package of the solution.

You want the ability to manage your own inbox and be able to whitelist and blacklist various email messages, they have a good user management interface for doing that. The people that are managing this can see harmful messages from a central console. 

Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features.

I have been using Barracuda Essentials for approximately three years.

Barracuda Essentials is highly scalable, we can scale it up into the thousands.

Barracuda Essentials does a very good job for both mid-market and enterprise clients. We've been deploying it across small, mid-size, and a number of enterprise clients.

The technical support is fabulous we work with them a lot. I have found the support exceptional.

The initial setup is simple, it can be done within 15 to 30 minutes.

We will deploy the Barracuda Essentials, and then based on what the client's staffing size is in their IT department, they will either manage it or ask us to manage it. It all depends upon the level of staffing that they have.

Barracuda Essentials is ranked on all of the various surveys, very high against Microsoft, Mimecast, Proofpoint, and Barracuda's right at the top of the list. Traditionally, when they do these surveys, Barracuda's very high.

My advice to others is, if they look at the entire package that Barracuda has, which includes Essentials, it includes a product called Sentinel, and PhishLine. If you take those three things, they are now renamed and called Premium. I don't see any other email security solution that stacks up against them.

I rate Barracuda Essentials a nine out of ten.

The ease of use is the most important aspect of the solution. 

It's quite stable. 

We can scale the solution very easily.

The solution is straightforward to set up. 

They could simplify the licensing and the pricing.

I've used the solution for three years. 

It's stable and reliable The performance is great. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

This is a scalable solution. If a company needs to expand it, it can. 

We have about 50 people using the solution in general. 

Technical support has been very good. They are helpful and responsive. We are happy with their level of service. 

Positive

I found the solution to be quite straightforward and simple. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

I'd rate it a 4.5 out of five in terms of ease of setup. 

We have noted an ROI.

The licensing and pricing need to be improved. It needs to be streamlined and a bit cheaper. That said, I don't directly deal with the licensing. I can't speak to how much we paid for it.

I'd rate the solution 3.5 out of five in terms of affordability.

We did look into Mimecast, which was quite expensive and more difficult. They charge a lot for moving the data out as well if you decide to change. 

We have a partnership with Barracuda. 

This is one of the easiest, safest, and most secure solutions for security and email archival. It's much easier to deploy and protect using this solution rather than other options.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten as it is cost-effective and easy to use. 

It's a comprehensive solution if you need archival, backup, and security capabilities. And it works on the cloud. It's very automatic, and they don't charge you anything for taking data in or out. That's the biggest plus for any customer.

We are a solution provider and Barracuda Essentials is one of the security products that we implement for our clients.

The most valuable features are security and ease of use.

This solution adapts to changes as required, which is important.

It is easy to customize compared to other products.

The email encryption could be improved.

I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution. It would make the protection and capability more comprehensive.

We have been working with Barracuda Essentials for about a year.

I have been using this product and it is quite stable.

It is a scalable solution. We support about 60 people who are using it, of which one or two are administrators and the remainder are end-users.

The technical support is good and we have not had any challenges with them.

Prior to Barracuda, we worked with Symantec Email Security. After this, we tried Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection. We found Barracuda to be more efficient, easy to use, and customizable. Cost-wise, it is also better.

The initial setup is straightforward and it can be completed within a few hours.

The price of Barracuda Essentials is better than some of the competing products.

This is definitely a product that I recommend.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We use the solution to protect users' companies from spamming emails, phishing emails, malicious attachments and links, etc.

The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization.

The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually. The solution should enable users to view more details in the dashboard.

I have been using Barracuda Email Protection for six months.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for stability.

More than 2,000 users are using the solution in our customer's organization.

I rate Barracuda Email Protection a nine out of ten for scalability.

The solution’s technical support is very good.

Positive

The solution’s initial setup is very easy.

Depending on how many domains you have to configure with Barracuda, the solution's deployment takes one to two hours maximum.

Overall, I rate Barracuda Email Protection a nine out of ten.

I used the service, which includes the email gateways and the email archiver.

The most valuable feature is the gateway. I've been using it for years and with different companies.

When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage. That is a bonus and it's perfect for us.

I would like to see better integration with other products.

I have used Barracuda Essentials for a long time and it's a great product.

It was implemented in this company this year.

Stability-wise, this product has always been solid.

We are a small organization, with fewer than 200 users.

There is no need to increase our usage of this product at this time.

The support has always been great.

I was originally using a solution from Symantec. However, when Broadcom bought them out, the support was horrific and I had to drop the product.

This product is very easy to deploy. If you know how to work with your MX records and email, it's easy. We have not needed support of any kind.

We set it up ourselves as soon as we got it.

It doesn't require much maintenance. I sparingly administrate it. For example, I look at a couple of things but I don't have 

Price-wise, this product is middle-of-the-road. I'm sure that there are cheaper solutions.

I suggest negotiating either at the end of their fiscal year or at the end of every quarter. At the end of the quarter, they have an incentive to lower the prices to sell as many units as possible in order to meet their end-of-quarter quota.

Barracuda is one of my favorite vendors. They are top-notch.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use Barracuda Email Protection for user management purposes.

Barracuda helps our organization prevent data breaches more efficiently than Microsoft with a simpler interface. It provides an easy process for administrators like myself to manage and configure settings.

The product’s most valuable feature is email notification.

The platform's pricing needs improvement. 

It is a stable platform.

We have around 200 Barracuda Email Protection users in our organization.

The technical support services have been satisfactory.

Positive

We used Microsoft. We switched to Barracuda Email Protection for ease of use.

The product is easy to deploy and maintain.

The product is expensive. We purchase its annual license.

Barracuda Email Protection’s fraud detection capabilities prove beneficial in classifying spam into different terminologies. It is easy to integrate with IT infrastructure and different software such as Microsoft Exchange.

I recommend it to others and rate it an eight out of ten.

We have a premium selection within our environment and use Barracuda. It stops threats and malicious messages but also detects stuff you don't want on your computer and in your environment, so we're really happy. You don't have to do anything. You get emails to notify you.

The built-in AI tool can analyze the behavior of people who write emails to you to provide impersonation protection. Barracuda also has a single dashboard and viewing pane, so it's easy to select all the features that Barracuda Email Protection has.

Barracuda Email Protection currently only works with Microsoft 365. It would be cool to see a more inclusive vendor approach where they should include Google Suite and other vendors like Amazon, for example. You also need complete admin access within your Microsoft 365 account to deploy Barracuda completely, so when you deploy the solution for a customer, it could be hard to transfer those rights from being an end user to a reseller. That's something they could improve.

I've worked with the solution for one and a half years.

I rate Barracuda's stability a nine out of ten.

I rate Barracuda's scalability higher than eight out of ten. In my company, we were pretty weird in our segments. We have clients with 50 users, but also clients with, like, 10,000 users. And we have all kinds of clients, such as the government and the health industry.

The initial setup is easy, though it could be difficult for a non-IT person to implement the solution. Barracuda has a lot of support and training to get you started. You can take your time to get all the settings correctly. And when the solution works, it works great.

If you don't receive support, the initial setup can be rated a six and a half out of ten.

It takes one day to deploy the solution. When deploying the solution, you must have your Microsoft 365 account with admin rights. Then, you need to deploy all the inbound and outbound settings. You have to create a predefined set of rules, so you just click what you want and put in your email protocols. There are three email protocols, and you must fill in those IDs. You then have to verify your account settings, and they also need to be verified to be transferred through Barracuda Mail, and then it will be transferred back to your email. That way, Barracuda, the vendor, can see all the possible emails that you are getting. You can install these things to your wishes. You have to commit to a relink where everything is linked to Barracuda and your email server. You have to enable or disable the predefined rules and then finish. You can make the deployment as weird and as wild as you can. Those are the main steps, I believe.

I rate the pricing a five out of ten since it is in the middle. We only pay for the licensing costs.

We have 50% off on everything in our environment. We just calculate the pricing from Barracuda plus our margin for our clients.

I'm really happy with the product. I think it's amazing and rate it an eight and a half out of ten.

My advice when getting the solution is to get yourself certified to join the Barracuda campus. It allows you to train, and it's pretty important to know your product. But if you do not have the time to, I advise you to contact Barracuda's support because they're very qualified and will help you with any of your questions, even remotely, when installing it. If you do it independently without knowledge, using the solution could get messy.

We use the solution to protect against phishing, impersonation, or spam emails.

The solution's most valuable feature is impersonation detection. This feature helps users determine whether an email is legitimate because the tool scans it before it reaches the user. The solution helps identify a person impersonating another person, a decision-maker, or a CEO.

Barracuda Email Protection has one technology called Sentinel that helps stop various email threats, such as spam, impersonation, phishing attacks, and spoofing attacks.

The technology works on a supervised engine, but it would be better if it ran on an unsupervised engine.

I have been using Barracuda Email Protection for more than two years.

Our customers are happy with the solution's stability, and we haven't received any complaints from them.

I rate the solution ten out of ten for stability.

The solution's scalability depends upon your licenses, which range from 0 to 50 to 0 to 10,000. More than 50 of my customers are using the solution. Barracuda Email Protection is suitable for small, medium, and enterprise businesses.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

The solution's technical support team is well-qualified and knows what the technology does.

Positive

The solution’s initial setup is very easy.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution’s initial setup a nine out of ten.

It takes less than one hour to deploy the solution.

The solution's pricing is moderate, where it is neither cheap nor expensive.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five or six out of ten.

Barracuda Email Protection is deployed on the cloud.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.