Avast Email Security vs. Barracuda Email Security Gateway

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avast Email Security
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Avast Email Security is a service available and delivered through the company's CloudCare security management console. Three features of Avast Email Security service allow employees and customers to manage their email more safely: Anti-spam to keep email boxes free of unwanted email, encrypted emails ensure that incoming and outgoing email are securely delivered , and email archiving allows users to manage the size and storage for inboxes.N/A
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is designed to protect against inbound malware, spam, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks, and ensure that business productivity isn’t impacted by attacks through the email system.N/A
Pricing
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Avast Email SecurityBarracuda Email Security Gateway
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Avast Email Security
9.1
1 Ratings
8% above category average
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
6.4
15 Ratings
28% below category average
Anti-malware9.01 Ratings6.915 Ratings
Customizability9.01 Ratings5.013 Ratings
Data Loss Protection10.01 Ratings7.311 Ratings
Threat Detection9.01 Ratings6.315 Ratings
Sandboxing9.01 Ratings6.09 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption9.01 Ratings7.812 Ratings
Management Tools9.01 Ratings5.715 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Barracuda Essentials
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 7.8 out of 10
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Score 7.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Avast Email SecurityBarracuda Email Security Gateway
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.2
(23 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(2 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
Avast Email SecurityBarracuda Email Security Gateway
Likelihood to Recommend
Avast Software
Avast Email Security is ideal for people who care [about] email security. With Avast Email Security you need not worry about spamming and malware attacks. Also, if you regularly share confidential information, Avast Email Security comes in handy when it comes to encrypting emails to ensure no unauthorized access. Therefore, the software is ideal for many companies and professionals such as doctors, accountants, and insurance firms.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Good combination when using their other products like an incident response. When using automated workflows, this makes creating sender policies a breeze. Unfortunately, this can also be done too well as it may filter out valid emails and to resend or place them back into users' mailbox isn't an easy thing to do even if you attempt to resend through the Email Security Gateway.
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Pros
Avast Software
  • Avast Email Security is so easy to use and anyone can decrypt and encrypt emails
  • The software offers better protection to emails
  • The software is relatively affordable
  • With Avast Email Security, it is easy to manage inbox sizes of individual emails
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • ESS has a simple interface for both users and administrators.
  • The "Manage Quarantine" button in each email is a direct sign-on link, so users don't have to remember their password to manage their quarantine (this is GOLD, Jerry!).
  • The baseline functionality (catching spam/malware/phishing/malware attachments/malformed PDFs etc) is super-solid, with few false positives and few false negatives.
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Cons
Avast Software
  • I have not experienced any issues that I can list here.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • You need to take time in adding your contacts to a whitelist so that you don't miss an email.
  • I recommend changing the time interval; Barracuda notifies you that you have quarantined emails as we were only getting 1 per day and we missed some urgent emails.
  • The quarantine folder is web based, we'd prefer it to have been an add-in for Outlook.
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Usability
Avast Software
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
So far we have had limited problems the one's we have had we can attribute to poor user judgement not our gateway failing. One of the best features is the Barracuda is intuitive to choices we make on blocking or rejecting emails which is a great feature. lessens are need to repetitively enter the same information
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Reliability and Availability
Avast Software
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Availability is robust and flawless. This is a non-issue, its always up & running and fail-over protection is available for restarts or upgrades.
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Performance
Avast Software
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
The WebUI is the only piece I find lacking on the Barracuda ESK. Its is not the fastest and is fairly utilitarian in its approach. The Outlook plug-in, while not in wide use here, causes zero slowdown in Outlook or the Barracuda ESG.
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Support Rating
Avast Software
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda customer support is great. Most of the time when I can an actual tech support representative answers, not some person that will just take a message. If one is not available I will receive a call back in a very short time.
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Alternatives Considered
Avast Software
Avast Email Security is a great tool more so if your have other Avast products. It is easy to use, very secure and offers great features to protect your emails. It is the best I have used
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda integrates well with Office 365 and mail flow is great. It was the first solution we found that was part of a greater suite to fit all the requirements we had. With the Email Security gateway being in the cloud, it required no extra hardware but also nothing new installed on an endpoint as some solutions require.
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Return on Investment
Avast Software
  • By keeping spamming and other online threats away, we do not have to worry about corrupt emails or hacking instances.
  • With Avast Email Security, we do not have to worry about data loss
  • Avast Email Security makes it easy to encrypt and decrypt emails thereby ensuring data privacy
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Allows us to set it and forget it. We don't have to worry about patch or upgrade to a newer version. Barracuda does it all for us.
  • DLP has been great. That's a risk which is hard to monitor but Barracuda does it effortlessly.
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