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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Barracuda Email Protection

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ABarracuda Email Protection is an email security solution that uses machine learning to provide protection against threats. It combines email gateway defenses and API-based inbox defense to prevent attacks, respond to threats in real time, and secure Microsoft 365 data.N/A

    Mimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is a messaging security option with anti-spam / anti-malware, data loss prevention, large file send, and other features, from UK company Mimecast.N/A
    Pricing
    Barracuda Email ProtectionMimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Barracuda Email ProtectionMimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Barracuda Email ProtectionMimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    Considered Both Products
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Chose Barracuda Email Protection
    Barracuda Essentials has a far easier admin pannel than is provided by mimecast along with far more filtering options such as dkim. Much easier to do the initial setup along with much better support provided. Barracuda Essentials has Advanced threat protection that uses AI to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Barracuda Email Protection
    Pricewise this was a no-brainer.
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    Chose Barracuda Email Protection
    Barracuda Essentials is the best in class. Things can change as time moves on, but Barracuda Essentials does the best job for sandboxing attachments as well as providing DKIM and SPF support. It is very customizable and includes outbound email encryption with its base antispam …
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    Mimecast
    Chose Mimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    Mimecast offers the same or better features with great pricing. It is definitely a value for money product, that constantly provide improved and new features. Also the learning academy allows for self-paced training of administrators.
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    Chose Mimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    We most seriously looked at Proofpoint, and just felt like Mimecast Advanced Email Security has a slightly better bang for the buck.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    54 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    81 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    80 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    56 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    85 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    49 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    71 Answers
    Features
    Barracuda Email ProtectionMimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Barracuda Email Protection and Mimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    Feature
    Barracuda Email Protection
    8.7
    19 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Mimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    7.6
    93 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Anti-malware9.319 Ratings8.089 Ratings
    Customizability8.218 Ratings7.392 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection7.415 Ratings6.774 Ratings
    Threat Detection8.819 Ratings7.987 Ratings
    Sandboxing9.014 Ratings8.380 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption10.014 Ratings7.978 Ratings
    Management Tools8.519 Ratings7.289 Ratings
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    Barracuda Email ProtectionMimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    Small Businesses
    Sophos Email
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Sophos Email
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Sophos Email
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Sophos Email
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft Exchange
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Microsoft Exchange
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Barracuda Email ProtectionMimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (59 ratings)
    8.3
    (106 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (12 ratings)
    7.7
    (81 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (12 ratings)
    6.1
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (42 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Barracuda Email ProtectionMimecast Email & Collaboration Threat Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    I would definitely recommend it due to the decent pricing. I wish the MS built-in M365 tools were better, but Barracuda does a good job of taking their place. For industries that need DLP on their email, like healthcare, banking, and education, Barracuda provides a reliable product for a good cost. The additional services you get, malware/AV filtering, URL filtering, spam protection, business continuity, those are all icing on the cake. The only issues we've ever really had with them is that it will sometimes take a back/forth string of emails and decide randomly to encrypt it, so what was a flowing benign conversation is now locked behind a wall for recipients. As the sender, you have no idea when it's going to decide to do this and have to remember to tag emails with a decrypt tag long before it happens or face the consequences
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    Mimecast
    If you're using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, Mimecast Email Security CI is a must-have, as it adds an extra layer of email security. With advanced email threat detection capabilities, this tool handles internal threat incidents, ransomware, and phishing, and is effective at scanning attachments and URLs. It is a reliable/effective email security solution for business.
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    Pros
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Barracuda Essentials Spam Filtering works and it is very easy to add or remove senders from the Spam filter lists.
    • Barracuda Essentials provides excellent protection from Phishing and other Malware.
    • Barracuda Essentials email encryption is so easy to use and easy to setup. Our users love it.
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    Mimecast
    • Simplicity: Once set up, Mimecast Advanced Email Security is easy to use, intuitive, and simple. This reduces onboarding time with new employees.
    • Robust Audit Trail: Being able to see what happened with specific emails, why things happened, and who was responsible for them helps to reduce troubleshooting time as well as improving overall email observability.
    • Clean Interface: Mimecast Advanced Email Security is a Swiss-Army-Knife of email security. There are many different configurations and complex rules that can be implemented. To make this manageable Mimecast Advanced Email Security has implemented a simple and clean UI. Being able to favorite commonly used features makes a huge difference in usability.
    • Simple SSO Integration: This seems like a no-brainer, but its odd to see how many SaaS products either don't support SSO, or make it so complicated and convoluted that setup and maintenance becomes a fully time job.
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    Cons
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • The product is pretty solid so I am not sure how it can be improved. One thing I noticed recently, I am not getting the emails back from Sentinel when I send in a "miss". Used to be I got an email back saying "sorry we missed this, we are improving." That does happen anymore, so I am assuming that when I send a miss, the AI is getting better.
    • I would expand this to cover all kinds of email fraud like ransomware and spam rather than creating another product.
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    Mimecast
    • I would like to see some additional improvement around the attachment protection, specifically what may be getting caught and what types of files are attempting to be delivered via email by impersonators.
    • The Targeted Threat Protection is a great product, and I wish there was a dashboard for this service where we could easily see the types of emails and/or links that have been caught as part of the protection module that could be shared with executives.
    • Finally, I feel that the phishing protection is great and honestly don't believe there should be much improvement needed there.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Although cost competitive, we still feel like we are not digging deep enough to train our staff. We have little to no way other than digging through reports that have not proven to be adequately documented (hey you, Barracuda campaign reports) to identify and require users to take more training who have not passed their requirements.
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    Mimecast
    There is no question as to the value of the product to the business and the disruption of changing vendors would not be worth any savings possibly achieved by switching.
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    Usability
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Regarding usability, we like it to be an easy solution to implement and configure on the server. Routine backups are made frequently and reports are issued for control and analysis by information security teams. It has great integration with the cloud and encryption.
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    Mimecast
    Mimecast advanced email security is an excellent tool, and even better, all the tools can be accessed from a single console. One thing I love about Mimecast is that when you add features to your account, they are automatically added to your console, which you already have experience with. No need to learn a new console.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    Overall, it's very good, but I do remember a few times in the past year we have seen some availability issues.
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    Performance
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    Pages need to consistently load quickly. Sometimes good, sometimes not.
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    Support Rating
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    I have not had to use customer support yet which goes to show the effectiveness of the program. It also shows how easy the program is to use for the average person with no experience using this type of program. Our IT department also does a great job at teaching us to detect emails with malware that in combination with this software issues rarely arise even though we have over 500 employees.
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    Mimecast
    When calling them you get best in the world customer services but as previously mentioned their online community and capabilities are a bit lacking. They want you to log into their portal to see updates on issues (vs. using a public facing service) and I rarely find the answers to my issues in electronic format. Their online presence is only helpful with the simplest of issues.
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    In-Person Training
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    We did not have in-person training. All was done through meetings and on phone.
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    Online Training
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    Training was good from Mimecast as well as the Mimecast knowledgebase.
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    Implementation Rating
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    It was "stupid easy" from the technical side.
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    Mimecast
    Easy to set up and configure, but did have Mimecast assistance.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    We have used several email solutions over the years, some were bought and killed off by larger companies. Barracuda Email Protection offers a very complete solution and has all the tools that we were looking for, and our MSP offered it.
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    Mimecast
    Mimecast Advanced Email Security is FAR superior. Sophos practically gave us the email for free and we still didn't want it. Sophos also does not do both Gateway and API properly. Mimecast Advanced Email Security's AI-Powered net is next level.
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    Scalability
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    The solution continues to grow and add features.
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    Professional Services
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Mimecast
    Professional services for our setup was excellent, quick and knowledgeable.
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    Return on Investment
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • This tool was supplied free with out Email Security, so its come at no cost
    • This tool has helped us meet requirements by our insurance to train users on the risks of phishing
    • However, the dated interface slows down what should be seamless adoption
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    Mimecast
    • Enhanced email security across the business.
    • This product has reduced the risk of being hit by malware/phishing; Mimecast has been holding emails efficiently after reviewing emails.
    • The reporting side is practical, helps create a business case for the product, and shows its worth.
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