Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued) vs. IBM Secure Gateway

Barracuda Content Shield is well suited to large companies with many employees that are based in many areas and have various aspects of their job that need them to be on the internet at all times and in many cases opening themselves to many threats. It may be less appropriate for small companies that are in individualized clusters

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Datapower external connectivity is made easy with built-in client provisions in gateway servers. [There are] other use cases if you need to access resources in IBM Cloud with enterprise connectivity setup.

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• Easy to use
• Layout of program looks like an email so its easy to read and identify
• Helped many suspicious senders from getting into our system

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• Ease of setup
• Integrated Datapower clients
• Console based management in IBM Cloud

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• Increased policy customization
• Filtering policy preferences
• Increased manual settings

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• Product documentation on setting up various client use cases
• Flexible plan
• Deployment options beyond saas

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I think the program is easy to use, I think there are more functions it can have or better ability to customize the layout so it doesn't look so plain

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I have only had to call twice for access issues but it has been overall a normal experience.

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Barracuda Content Shield was compared to this product and in our opinion was more robust and cost effective for our growing firm. Barracuda allowed us to create filtering that worked for our firm and allowed us to make the customization easy so that all employees had access to what they needed and were not shut out.

Incentivized

• Increased Reporting Times
• Threat Training time increase
• Policy enforcement increased time

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• Was able to quickly set up vpn tunnel with our IBM Cloud resources access. That helped to get quick time to market.

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