Barracuda Email Security Gateway Reviews

We use Barracuda Email Security Gateway and also provide it for our customers to reduce incoming spam. It provides security for email delivery from our customer sites and also our sites. Most of our clients, who get a lot of spam, manage their own email server, but they do not have a dedicated spam filter or email security gateway. As a result, they get a lot of spam. Because of this, they end up searching for a solution that they can use. They do not want to buy a dedicated solution. Instead, they want to use a subscription option.

In our VM, we provide a subscription model. People are server scraping to us for incoming and outgoing purposes. 

This is an on-premise solution in our data center. We provide it to our remote customers as a hosted service.

This is a virtual appliance installed within a server. The VM is installed within the Hyper-V Server.

Remotely, we receive email from specific servers. We allow it outbound by using an IP address. If there is an email server delivering more email than the accepted value, then Barracuda Email Security Gateway utilizes the maximum connections per IP address in 30 minutes. By default, the recommended number is 50, but we customize it according to our requirements, e.g., having an email server handling more than 1,000 email boxes and sending 200 to 500 emails within 30 minutes. Sometimes, there is an emergency requirement where they want to send their 2,000 to 3,000 EGM-related or marketing-related emails, then we customize the value. We increase it to 2,000 or 3,000 so they can deliver those emails within a minute from their server through our Barracuda Email Security Gateway. 

From a front-end security point of view, Barracuda Email Security Gateway instantly reduced our spam. That is the main benefit that we are getting together with our customers. It instantly reduced spam emails or emails with a bad reputation from SpamCop and RBL. Those emails instantly get blocked by the Barracuda Email Security Gateway and not a single email is delivered to its destination. 

Every client gets their own administration panel, where they can add their users' emails and create accounts for administering their domain. This provides flexibility for the customer.

Our customer faced a significant challenge with spam, leading to increased expenses. The complexity of their email infrastructure added to the issue, with some clients using Microsoft Exchange, others relying on different systems, and some operating on Linux platforms. To address this, we recommended a solution that seamlessly integrates with diverse email security platforms. It not only tackles spam effectively but also incorporates advanced features like ATP and active features which ensures a comprehensive and adaptable email security solution tailored to their heterogeneous environment.

The simplicity of our licensing policy, combined with the consolidation of hardware and feature costs, sets us apart in the market. Additionally, our MSP mode, powered by Barracuda Identity Gateway, enhances user management facilities, providing an integrated and user-friendly experience.

Barracuda protects you from spam and email-based threats like phishing. It also provides backup and web security. We have around 600 users.

My current company had no product before Barracuda. We get a lot of added value from the various things it does, ranging from advanced threat protection and spam filtering to protection from viruses and email spoofing. It also features cloud-to-cloud backup.

My primary use case for the solution is email security, with a focus on anti-malware protection. The product also handles data backup and provides personalized protection for me as a customer. With phishing techniques evolving through AI, traditional systems that rely on specific signatures aren't viable. Therefore, having a system that analyzes the behavior and context of emails is highly valuable to me, offering an extra level of protection compared to some competitors.

I appreciate that the product provides account takeover protection. It is simple to set up, offers numerous integration methods, and its overall security quality is market-leading. It provides good value compared to competitors such as Mimecast.

We primarily use the solution for email security.

The solution is largely stable. 

It can scale. 

Overall, it has been working fine without issue. 

The message tracking and messaging logs have proven to be quite useful. 

One advantage is its immediate deployment capability. So, the fast speed to deploy is a big plus point. 

Another plus is the broad security coverage provided by the Barracuda email security gateway, which shares the same approach to security events as the firewall. This can help improve the security of the MRA system.

There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface; specifically, the cloud interface is a bit slow. I work exclusively in the cloud and not on-premises. The cloud interface is quite slow, especially when you're searching or navigating between menus.

So, in the future, I'd like to see a faster interface.

The solution is the first security layer for emails that come into our network, and we use it to filter all spam, phishing emails, and malware that come in via email.

We are now using the virtual appliance in our VMware environment.

In the past, we had a lot of problems from threats and malware that came into our network, directly from email. Users would receive the content and click on a malicious link or open a malicious attachment, and that caused us a lot of problems.

By choosing Barracuda as our solution for filtering, year by year we have seen a big improvement in our environment with a significant reduction in the number of threats. Consequently, we have fewer problems with users. In the past, users who clicked on this malicious content had to stop work for a long period while our support team helped them. We have almost 600 employees, and every month we had a lot of problems with that. Today we have good security maturity using this solution. It has reduced the risk in our environment. Employees lose less time due to malicious content on their computers. Barracuda has helped to secure the gateway.

The solution is primarily for email security. For example, if an email comes through, we need to know what sort of email it is. We have enabled the SPF and the DMARC on it. We've also enabled those security elements so that it has some threat prevention before any unsolicited email comes to our gateway. This basically does all the filtering, before we actually receive an email. There are a number of undeliverable emails we get in our inboxes. In that event, if we are not able to see these emails, we can always log onto the Barracuda Gateway to actually see the emails to say whether they're valid or not. If the authenticity of the email is revealed, we are able to release them.

All of it has been quite useful. All features it provides on the cloud environment are very, very useful, including the antivirus that is enabled on it. 

It also has a threat management tool on it. It does a self-scanning so that it actually does zero-day tolerance. It's able to look at other Barracuda databases and is able to find the latest data and protect the network. There are a number of features that it has that we actually use to protect our network from email.

The setup is straightforward.