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Avanan vs Barracuda Essentials

Avanan
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171 Ratings
Barracuda Essentials
39 Ratings

Avanan

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171 Ratings
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Score 9 out of 100

Based on 171 reviews and ratings

Barracuda Essentials

39 Ratings
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Score 8.7 out of 100

Based on 39 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

  • Barracuda Essentials ranks higher in 1 feature set: Secure Email Gateway

Secure Email Gateway

8.7

Avanan

87%
8.8

Barracuda Essentials

88%
Barracuda Essentials ranks higher in 4/7 features
Barracuda Essentials ranks higher in 4/7 features

Anti-malware

9.1
91%
104 Ratings
9.3
93%
15 Ratings

Cusomizability

8.8
88%
105 Ratings
8.4
84%
14 Ratings

Data Loss Protection

8.7
87%
92 Ratings
9.0
90%
12 Ratings

Threat Detection

9.5
95%
105 Ratings
9.3
93%
15 Ratings

Sandboxing

8.2
82%
92 Ratings
8.4
84%
11 Ratings

End-to-End Encryption

8.1
81%
75 Ratings
8.8
88%
12 Ratings

Management Tools

8.9
89%
105 Ratings
8.2
82%
15 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • Avanan is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
  • Barracuda Essentials is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Renew, Usability

Likelihood to Recommend

9.2

Avanan

92%
111 Ratings
8.9

Barracuda Essentials

89%
15 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

9.0

Avanan

90%
5 Ratings
9.1

Barracuda Essentials

91%
1 Rating

Usability

8.8

Avanan

88%
33 Ratings
8.9

Barracuda Essentials

89%
8 Ratings

Availability

9.1

Avanan

91%
1 Rating

Barracuda Essentials

N/A
0 Ratings

Performance

6.4

Avanan

64%
1 Rating

Barracuda Essentials

N/A
0 Ratings

Support Rating

9.3

Avanan

93%
34 Ratings
8.2

Barracuda Essentials

82%
9 Ratings

In-Person Training

1.0

Avanan

10%
1 Rating

Barracuda Essentials

N/A
0 Ratings

Online Training

8.2

Avanan

82%
1 Rating

Barracuda Essentials

N/A
0 Ratings

Implementation Rating

8.7

Avanan

87%
2 Ratings

Barracuda Essentials

N/A
0 Ratings

Product Scalability

9.1

Avanan

91%
1 Rating

Barracuda Essentials

N/A
0 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Avanan

This software is well-suited for a company that is looking to protect its data from common security breaches. It is very user-friendly and easy to implement, which is why these few things make it easily usable on a daily basis. This software also allows for much faster cloud performance and provides regular reports which provide security analytics.

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Marta Budzan | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

The Barracuda Essentials solution is definitely a great alternative to network security and especially corporate email to prevent employees from clicking on malicious links, spam, phishing, trojans and ransonware. The solution today is implemented in almost all sectors of the company and we have control of everything and good protection guaranteeing principles of compliance and security.

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Gabriel Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros

Avanan

  • The dashboard for Avanan makes all of the most important information easy to digest.
  • Alerting - specifically, the Geo-Location alerts allow us to see if a user has possibly been compromised.
  • The End-User Email Quarantine experience gives users the ability to request emails be released, which trains them to better spot legitimate emails.

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Nathaniel Roebuck | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

  • Barracuda Essentials Spam Filtering works and it is very easy to add or remove senders from the Spam filter lists.
  • Barracuda Essentials provides excellent protection from Phishing and other Malware.
  • Barracuda Essentials email encryption is so easy to use and easy to setup. Our users love it.

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Cons

Avanan

  • Sometimes, it's not easy to find why the email has been moved to spam or blocked
  • Tuning takes time, sometime query just don't work even everything is right.
  • UI can be made more user friendly, so that it will be easier to operate

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Barracuda Essentials

  • Encryption is always on. There's NO way to turn it off so false encryption leads to real issues. Many banks and other companies cannot read/accept encrypted email. There should be a "Do Not Encrypt" type of keyword to prevent encryption (competing products have this).
  • There's no indication an email was encrypted (like with Proofpoint or ZIX mail).
  • MSP management interface needs work. You have to request licenses by email and wait. Pretty archaic today. Most competing product sites let MSP's increase/decrease licensing as needed, immediately.

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Pricing Details

Avanan

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$4 per user per month

Avanan Editions & Modules

Edition
Advanced Anti-Phishing$4.001
Complete Malware Protection$5.001
Full-Suite Protection$8.001
  1. per user per month
Additional Pricing Details
Prices for fewer than 500 users.

Barracuda Essentials

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

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Barracuda Essentials Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
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Likelihood to Renew

Avanan

Avanan 9.0
Based on 5 answers
Cost, need to make sure the cost is competitive for how many users are using email protection as we move users to MS Teams and don't rely so much on full access to email accounts (both sending and receiving internal and external).

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
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Barracuda Essentials

Barracuda Essentials 9.1
Based on 1 answer
Its the best email security gateway product I have used.

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Victor Borghouts | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Usability

Avanan

Avanan 8.8
Based on 33 answers
The end-users love not having their inboxes fill up with extra useless emails. As an administrator, it is simple to implement and maintain. The ability to put something into test mode before going live makes our life a lot easier and less stressful. Avanan has many different components to make your life easier.

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Ed Gray | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

Barracuda Essentials 8.9
Based on 8 answers
Barracuda Essentials is simple to use. It has a user dashboard that is simple to navigate even for those who have few computer skills. One can barely realize that the program is even running in the background heading off those emails that can cause damage to my computer or our overall system.

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Neisha Pander | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Reliability and Availability

Avanan

Avanan 9.1
Based on 1 answer
Always been available as needed.

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Eric Rise | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

No score
No answers yet
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Performance

Avanan

Avanan 6.4
Based on 1 answer
It's not all the time, on occasion the platform can delay email by seven to ten minutes.

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Eric Rise | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

No score
No answers yet
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Support Rating

Avanan

Avanan 9.3
Based on 34 answers
Support has always been there for me, they take on suggestions and product improvements quite seriously. I've spoken to techs and you can tell that they care about the product and the service in which they deliver. Avanan support is always responsive in everything I throw them and in most cases they don't tell me how to build out a widget or custom query, they actually do it for me and send it to me.

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Paul Maranzano | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

Barracuda Essentials 8.2
Based on 9 answers
This is the best tool in the industry. It provides the best support on top of the product. If one has any trouble configuring things or troubleshooting things, Barracuda's support is renowned for resolving bugs and issues as well as assisting troubleshooting and fixing issues. I would highly recommend it as it covers all email security bases.

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Derek Schroeder | TrustRadius Reviewer
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In-Person Training

Avanan

Avanan 1.0
Based on 1 answer
There was no in person training.

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Eric Rise | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

No score
No answers yet
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Online Training

Avanan

Avanan 8.2
Based on 1 answer
Takes a lot to get a 10 out of 10.

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Eric Rise | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

No score
No answers yet
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Implementation Rating

Avanan

Avanan 8.7
Based on 2 answers
Ensure system administration and exchange admin are up to speed on Avanan

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

No score
No answers yet
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Alternatives Considered

Avanan

Avanan has a one-click solution, which subscribers or clients use to deploy a new security update. Further, Avanan has the protection of any cloud application, which means, it bypasses any security threat and maintain the set safety processes. Finally, data leakage is a shield that Avanan has deployed, a very smooth process in the firm.

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Joel Elliot | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

Essentials is far more user-friendly - far more customizable and seems to perform better than ATP. We used ATP for a while and found it a bit clunky and the user interface not as easy to use as Barracuda's. The easy to use GUI interface of Barracuda was one of the factors (in many) that swayed us to use Essentials.

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Peter Robinson | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Scalability

Avanan

Avanan 9.1
Based on 1 answer
It does what they claim and then some.

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Eric Rise | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eric Rise
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Barracuda Essentials

No score
No answers yet
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Return on Investment

Avanan

  • Improved risk mitigation by providing additional layer protection for M365.
  • Easy to setup and configure. No expert knowledge required and no downtime required.
  • Customizable license count. No need to buy the same number of mailbox users if you really don't want to protect some unused mailboxes.

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Kishor Kumar TB | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Barracuda Essentials

  • Barracuda Essentials has had a very positive impact especially since the Pandemic with many remote workers. Our IT objective is 99.9% uptime with many redundancy fail safes in place. Barracuda Essentials helps meet that objective by protecting the vast amount of email we receive daily.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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