Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued) vs. Sophos Web Content Filtering

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Barracuda Content Shield Plus was a cloud-based service that combines content filtering, file-based protection, granular policy enforcement and reporting, centralized management, and real-time threat intelligence to protect users, an organization, and its brand. It is reaching end of life (EoL) and will be discontinued.N/A
Sophos Web Content Filtering
Score 8.9 out of 10
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UK headquartered Sophos offers web content filtering.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)Sophos Web Content Filtering
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)Sophos Web Content Filtering
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)Sophos Web Content Filtering
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
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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Sophos
Before Sophos, I would receive scammers regarding tradeshow lists. People wanted me to pay for lists, but these people weren't actually from the tradeshows. I can now block those, and have received much fewer of those scams. I am also able to open emails within quarantine to view them before deleting, releasing, allowing, or blocking. I use this to my advantage, and am able to make better decisions on what to do with the emails.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • 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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Sophos
  • Sophos does an excellent job of category-based content filtering. It's easy to configure and flexible for many environments with the ability to tighten or loosen restrictions as requirements determing.
  • Sophos' built-in capabilites can force safe search rules to protect against content work-arounds like Image search and search engines in general.
  • The Sophos XTreme architecture also helps improve the overall performance of the Web Content Filtering solution. It is very quick and very transparent when in use on the network.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Increased policy customization
  • Filtering policy preferences
  • Increased manual settings
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Sophos
  • It only allows UTF-8 encoded characters.
  • It does not support metadata.
  • It does not support comments in the custom filter file.
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Usability
Discontinued Products
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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Sophos
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
I have only had to call twice for access issues but it has been overall a normal experience.
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Sophos
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
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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Sophos
Sophos has been a much easier product to configure and eventually manage, with preset rules and policies to start off right out of the box, saving administrators time from adding every category and or site. However you can add/import all know good company sites (internal url's) as well as local sites for a safer settings. (know sites)
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Increased Reporting Times
  • Threat Training time increase
  • Policy enforcement increased time
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Sophos
  • Super positive impact, the Sandstorming Add On, it increases protection at it's maximum level (for new or existent/variant threats).
  • Customers often have the need of a system capable of report everything that the network is being handed, Sophos Web Content Filtering achieves this.
  • The ROI is very fast since top management quickly see results on filtering and reporting of what is really going on within their networks.
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