Barracuda Email Protection vs Trend Micro Email Security comparison

Barracuda Email Protection vs. Trend Micro Email Security

Download the complete report

Helped 824,053 peers since 2012

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Defender for Offi...

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Email Security category, the mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is 15.8%, down from 20.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Barracuda Email Protection is 2.7%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trend Micro Email Security is 3.9%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Email Security

Featured Reviews

Jamie LeClair

IT Collaboration Services Manager at Dow

File-sharing options and ease of collaboration or meetings allow for quick collaborations and chats

I work in my company's IT department, so I use all of the products under Office 365 daily, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, and all the other components in the product. My company can't make it through a day or go by without using the products offered under Office 365. Some of our manufacturing workers may use Office 365 a lot less, but it is still necessary for things like Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. I found Microsoft Teams to be the most valuable feature of the solution, along with all of the products and features offered under Office 365. My organization has remote workers, and we can't run the company without meetings organized with the help of Microsoft Teams.

Read full review

Alex Clerici

System Integrator IT Manager at Tecnimex S.r.l.

Efficient and easier to manage than other products, especially Microsoft products

Regarding Barracuda Email Protection specifically, I'm quite satisfied. I think there's room for improvement in their other products, especially their cloud firewall protection and ZTNA offerings. Moreover, prices could be more granular, especially for the small business area. Typically, in Italy, the majority of our customers are small businesses. It would be better if the prices could be adjusted for small businesses.

Read full review

Bruno Obata

IT Manager at Lorinvest Gestão de Recursos Ltda

Provides effective filtering for spam, phishing, and suspicious emails

In terms of improvement, reducing false positives would improve the system. If there were fewer false positives, it would be nearly perfect. In the next release, I would like to see improved detection for emails containing only text, especially if they seem suspicious but lack links or attachments. Currently, Trend Micro Email Security is effective with emails containing links or attachments, but those with only text can slip through unnoticed.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."

"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."

"Our customers are satisfied with Defender for 365 because Microsoft products are easy to use and customize to meet the client's needs. Everything is in one place, so we can adjust policies as needed for phishing, DLP, ATP, or any other security features that our clients want to apply."

"The product is not resource-intensive."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is its spam filter."

"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."

"The most valuable feature is protection against malicious links, fishing, and impersonation. You can train people to be aware of these threats, but they're not always careful. When they're using their phones between meetings, they click on a link, and it's game over."

More Microsoft Defender for Office 365 pros

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

"Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."

"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."

"We check the reports sometimes to see that frequent attacks and malicious emails are being blocked by the solution."

"The archiving and search features are very good."

"I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products."

"The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."

"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."

More Barracuda Email Protection pros

"It does a good job of ensuring users are not compromised via email."

"The most valuable features of this solution are the antivirus, antispam, and integration with cloud services. This is a multifunctional solution."

"The most valuable feature of Trend Micro Email Security is the security level it provides. The solution is efficient."

"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."

"The integration capability of the solution is good."

"The most valuable feature of Trend Micro Email Security is effective phishing prevention."

"The initial setup is not overly complex."

"I find the anti-phishing and anti-spam features most valuable because they reduce false positives and enhance security."

More Trend Micro Email Security pros

Cons

"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 must improve the overall management style, including the GUI. It also needs to change the filters so that it is easy to whitelist and blacklist data."

"They have moved features from one console to another. Things have been moved around in the interface and it takes me time to find where certain features are."

"Sometimes, phishing emails manage to pass through the filter, so the system needs to enhance its phishing email detection capabilities."

"Microsoft needs to broaden its global support presence by establishing teams of subject-matter experts in all regions."

"Configuration requires going to a lot of places rather than just accessing one tab."

"Microsoft wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization."

"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."

"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."

More Microsoft Defender for Office 365 cons

"The customer service and support could be improved if the support were available directly in Europe. Currently, the support is often managed from India, so we sometimes need to wait due to the time zone difference. It would be quicker and better if the support were provided by European staff."

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

"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."

"The platform's pricing needs improvement."

"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."

"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."

"The solution's reporting mechanism is a little poor and could be improved."

"I would like to see better integration with other products."

More Barracuda Email Protection cons

"I would like to see more integration of Trend Micro Email Security with different platforms."

"The enterprise security feature needs improvement."

"In terms of improvement, reducing false positives would improve the system."

"In our company, we found out that the solution wasn't well-tested by Trend Micro, resulting in a performance and bandwidth problem."

"While they are good, not 100% of email is protected just yet."

"There is a lot of room for improvement towards the phishing kind of email filtering, with the different hijacking attacks, and with the kind of password attacks which these phisher attackers do."

"The only negative thing about Trend Micro Email Security is its price. It could be less expensive."

"Trend Micro Email Security can improve on scam detection. It could use AI in this area."

More Trend Micro Email Security cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I know that the product is incredibly expensive."

"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 comes with Microsoft Windows. It is free with the operating system."

"The license is expensive because the cost is based on the number of users."

"It is much more expensive than using another solution because we have had to include some options and upgrade our license."

"While Microsoft Defender for Office 365 necessitates pricier E3 or E5 subscriptions, the extensive functionality offered by these licenses across various Microsoft products justifies the investment."

"I was working in the government and it was too expensive for us to use our Microsoft products."

"For large enterprise organizations, they can definitely afford it, but for small and medium organizations, they might struggle to cover the expenses."

"The solution could be better by simplifying the business model of their licensing. It was hard to figure out how to get the licensing done for the environment, initially."

More Microsoft Defender for Office 365 pricing and cost advice

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

"Despite a list price possibly around $40 per user, their market price allows customers to easily buy the solution."

"The price is similar to that of Microsoft 365."

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

"We didn't have to pay a lot for the solution because we got it from a good vendor with a good user volume."

"Barracuda licensing model is good."

"Price-wise, this product is middle-of-the-road."

"The product is expensive."

More Barracuda Email Protection pricing and cost advice

"Trend Micro Email Security is not an expensive solution."

"The cost is about $6,000 for 300 users for one year."

"The solution is inexpensive so we recommend it to small to mid-sized businesses."

"The tool must improve its pricing."

"The solution's pricing is very optimum, given its quality, features, and stability."

"Trend Micro Email Security's pricing is reasonable."

"The price of Trend Micro Email Security is annual. There are no additional fees."

"The price of Trend Micro Email Security is more than Sophos' similar solution."

More Trend Micro Email Security pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Email Security solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

824,053 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Construction Company

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Defender for Office 365?

Threat Explorer is an invaluable tool for me, and it plays a crucial role in helping me discern the origins of variou...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Defender for Office 365?

The pricing is reasonable since it comes integrated with our Office 365 license.

What needs improvement with Microsoft Defender for Office 365?

Microsoft needs to broaden its global support presence by establishing teams of subject-matter experts in all regions.

What do you like most about Barracuda Email Protection?

I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Email Protection?

Their list price is too high, but in India, the selling price is affordable at around $10 per user per year. Despite ...

What needs improvement with Barracuda Email Protection?

Barracuda Email Protection needs better reporting and more robust integration with security awareness training platfo...

What do you like most about Trend Micro Email Security?

The tool provides a strong defense against attacks. It is also easy to use. Trend Micro Email Security's integration ...

What needs improvement with Trend Micro Email Security?

Trend Micro Email Security can improve on scam detection. It could use AI in this area. For example, there is a norma...

What advice do you have for others considering Trend Micro Email Security?

The features of such security software are all very similar, and very close to each other. But if you would like to s...

Proofpoint Email Protection vs Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Comparisons

Compared 13% of the time

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Compared 8% of the time

Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) vs Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Compared 5% of the time

Cisco Secure Email vs Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Compared 5% of the time

Sophos Email vs Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Compared 4% of the time

More Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Competitors

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration vs Barracuda Email Protection

Compared 28% of the time

Abnormal Security vs Barracuda Email Protection

Compared 8% of the time

Fortinet FortiMail vs Barracuda Email Protection

Compared 5% of the time

Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) vs Barracuda Email Protection

Compared 5% of the time

Mimecast Email Security vs Barracuda Email Protection

Compared 5% of the time

More Barracuda Email Protection Competitors

Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) vs Trend Micro Email Security

Compared 13% of the time

Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security vs Trend Micro Email Security

Compared 11% of the time

Fortinet FortiMail vs Trend Micro Email Security

Compared 9% of the time

Cisco Secure Email vs Trend Micro Email Security

Compared 8% of the time

Proofpoint Email Protection vs Trend Micro Email Security

Compared 6% of the time

More Trend Micro Email Security Competitors

Product Reports

Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Download Microsoft Defender for Office 365 product report

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 report

Barracuda Email Protection

Download Barracuda Email Protection product report

Trend Micro Email Security

November 2024

Download Trend Micro Email Security product report

Also Known As

MS Defender for Office 365

Barracuda Essentials

No data available

Learn More

Microsoft

Barracuda Networks

Trend Micro

Overview

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect organizations against advanced threats in their email, collaboration, and productivity environments. It combines the power of Microsoft's threat intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analytics to provide real-time protection against phishing, malware, ransomware, and other malicious attacks.

With Microsoft Defender for Office 365, organizations can safeguard their email communication by detecting and blocking malicious links, attachments, and unsafe email content. It employs advanced anti-phishing capabilities to identify and prevent sophisticated phishing attacks that attempt to steal sensitive information or compromise user credentials.

This solution also offers robust protection against malware and ransomware. It leverages machine learning algorithms to analyze email attachments and URLs in real-time, identifying and blocking malicious content before it reaches users' inboxes. Additionally, it provides advanced threat-hunting capabilities, allowing security teams to proactively investigate and respond to potential threats.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 goes beyond email protection and extends its security features to other collaboration tools like SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams. It scans files and documents stored in these platforms, ensuring that they are free from malware and other malicious content. It also provides visibility into user activities, helping organizations detect and mitigate insider threats.

Furthermore, this solution offers rich reporting and analytics capabilities, providing organizations with insights into their security posture and threat landscape. It enables security administrators to monitor and manage security incidents, track trends, and take proactive measures to enhance their overall security posture.

The popularity of Microsoft 365 means criminals test and design their attacks to bypass its native security features. And that means you need additional layers of defense. With Advanced Threat Protection enabled, Barracuda uses multiple layers of detection, including signature, static, and behavioral analysis, along with CPU-emulation sandboxing to accurately detect and block zero-hour targeted attacks and ransomware.

Traditional email gateways use static rules and policies—reputation analysis, block lists, and malicious payloads—to determine if an email is malicious.

Barracuda protects your Microsoft 365 inbox against evasive threats with a powerful AI engine that learns the unique communication patterns within your organization through access to internal and historical emails. Once it understands what legitimate emails looks like for each user, it can detect anomalies that signal malicious intent. This context-based detection is more effective at blocking targeted attacks, which are designed to bypass traditional rule-based email security.

Trend Micro Email Security is a comprehensive solution designed to protect organizations from email-based threats. With advanced threat intelligence and machine learning algorithms, it provides real-time protection against spam, phishing, malware, and other email-borne attacks.

This product offers multi-layered security, including content filtering, URL reputation analysis, and attachment scanning, ensuring that malicious emails are blocked before they reach the users' inbox. It also includes data loss prevention capabilities, preventing sensitive information from being leaked via email.

Trend Micro Email Security is easy to deploy and manage, with a centralized management console that allows administrators to set policies, monitor email traffic, and generate reports.

With its robust security features and user-friendly interface, this product is an essential tool for organizations looking to safeguard their email communications.

Sample Customers

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is trusted by companies such as Ithaca College.

ACT Government, Acumen Group, AGIP, Delta Dental Plans Association, Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., Equinox Information Systems

MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Air21, Azra Solutions, CBOSS, De Montfort University, Depaeuw, DHR Health, Fukui University Hospital

Barracuda Email Protection vs. Trend Micro Email Security