Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued) vs. Qustodio

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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Qustodio is well-suited for organizations that want to monitor and manage internet usage to ensure a safe and productive online environment. It is useful for companies with strict internet usage policies, as well as those with a bring your own device policy. However, in scenarios where employees need a significant level of internet freedom to perform their job functions, Qustodio may be less appropriate.

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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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• Monitoring daily communication throughout the firm
• Storing historical messaging in a database for audit and tracking purposes
• Developing rules and guidelines in the system to be automatically enforced

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

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• It could offer more support towards Chromebooks.

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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.

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Qustodio stacks up well against other products like Norton Family, Kaspersky Safe Kids, and Net Nanny in terms of its features and capabilities. All of these products offer similar features like website filtering, app management, and monitoring of internet activities. However, Qustodio stands out for its ease of use and user-friendly interface. It also offers more granular controls for setting time limits and restrictions, and the alerts it sends are more detailed and informative. Additionally, Qustodio's customer support is also very responsive and helpful.We selected Qustodio over the other products because it offered the best balance of features, ease of use, and customer support. It was also more cost-effective than some of the other options. Overall, Qustodio has proven to be a reliable and effective solution for our organization's internet usage management needs.

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

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• Consistent messaging throughout the firm
• Managing reputation risk
• Preventing inappropriate or outside-of-scope communication or browsing

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