Barracuda Content Shield vs Smoothwall SWG

Likelihood to Recommend

We are a healthcare organization so it is very important that we are HIPPA compliant with our data via email/web based. For non-medical related issues sometimes we get items we do need blocked by the program.

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Smoothwall SWG is very suitable in companies where there is a lot of staff and power to distribute the bandwidth by areas and give priority to the staff that requires better service. It's also well suited for business that require protection of their data and services as it is constantly monitoring the network and does not let them enter dangerous sites.

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germary zambrano

jefe del departamento de informatica

ministerio de educacionComputer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

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Pros

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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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Real-time IP filtering is very favorable. That helps limit and restrict prohibited content.
Elaboration of personalized reports of the activities or pages that users visit to make new blocking rules to the pages most visited by users that may damage the functioning of the servers.

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germary zambrano

jefe del departamento de informatica

ministerio de educacionComputer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

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Cons

The layout is simple but its all one color and there are a lot of tabs that I don't know what they are used for
I cant figure out why the Barracuda emails go straight to my junk box, I don't always check it so some emails have gotten lost

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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It is necessary for them to have more material or a community that can help expand knowledge about this software so users can use 100% of their tools.

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germary zambrano

jefe del departamento de informatica

ministerio de educacionComputer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

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Usability

Barracuda Content Shield 7.0

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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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Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

Barracuda Content Shield 8.0

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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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Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We chose this package because of our industry, there is a lot of web based information that can get lost or stolen. We want to be compliant and not lose any sensitive information.

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Smoothwall SWG has many tools similar to pfSense but in my opinion I like the graphical environment of smoothwall swg more. It is more didactic and simple to use for new users. Also pfSense lacks the tools for monitoring in real time and the elaboration of reports that helps to perform statistics on sites visited.

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germary zambrano

jefe del departamento de informatica

ministerio de educacionComputer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Keeping our data more secure
Controlling information in and out of the servers

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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This software helps a lot and is very economical, since it is free and it can be installed in equipment with low performance. That is of importance to companies with little budget or who are just starting out in the market.

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germary zambrano

jefe del departamento de informatica

ministerio de educacionComputer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No