Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Barracuda Impersonation Protection

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is designed to protect against inbound malware, spam, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks, and ensure that business productivity isn’t impacted by attacks through the email system.N/A
Barracuda Impersonation Protection
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Barracuda Sentinel is AI-based protection which learns a business’s unique communication patterns to detect personalized fraud in real-time to protect against business email compromise and account takeover.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
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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Considered Both Products
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Chose Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Barracuda was selected purely on a need and cost basis during the course our selection for an SEG. We needed a tool that could be set up fairly quickly and block and detect against spam and malicious emails. It did not compare in efficacy or ease of use to Mimecast, however it …
Barracuda Impersonation Protection
Chose Barracuda Impersonation Protection
We have been a long-standing customer of Barracuda Backups Cloud to Cloud and Main Backups so this was a logical extension of what we had already been doing and the positive results we had been receiving on the other products
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Features
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Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
6.4
15 Ratings
28% below category average
Barracuda Impersonation Protection
-
Ratings
Anti-malware6.915 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability5.013 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Loss Protection7.311 Ratings00 Ratings
Threat Detection6.315 Ratings00 Ratings
Sandboxing6.09 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption7.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tools5.715 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Barracuda Email Security GatewayBarracuda Impersonation Protection
Small Businesses
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix
Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Barracuda Email Security GatewayBarracuda Impersonation Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
7.2
(23 ratings)
8.9
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(2 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
6.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(5 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Barracuda Email Security GatewayBarracuda Impersonation Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Good combination when using their other products like an incident response. When using automated workflows, this makes creating sender policies a breeze. Unfortunately, this can also be done too well as it may filter out valid emails and to resend or place them back into users' mailbox isn't an easy thing to do even if you attempt to resend through the Email Security Gateway.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
I am not sure how I can put this any more clearly, until we deployed this product we were swamped by phishing and spear-phishing attacks. After testing the free version, I had all the info I needed to sell this to my boss; the product ID'd users and it started blocking attempts. I walked in with a stack of 60+ blocks and told my boss, "we need this." She agreed to pay for it and overnight our phishing and spear-phishing attempts dropped by 75%+. From where we were, to where we are now, with the AI learning our users and our environment, these attempts have dropped by 90-95%+. An amazing product.
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Pros
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • ESS has a simple interface for both users and administrators.
  • The "Manage Quarantine" button in each email is a direct sign-on link, so users don't have to remember their password to manage their quarantine (this is GOLD, Jerry!).
  • The baseline functionality (catching spam/malware/phishing/malware attachments/malformed PDFs etc) is super-solid, with few false positives and few false negatives.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Capturing targeted phishing attacks
  • Capturing spoofed addresses - emails purporting to be from the CEO but using a Gmail account.
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Cons
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • You need to take time in adding your contacts to a whitelist so that you don't miss an email.
  • I recommend changing the time interval; Barracuda notifies you that you have quarantined emails as we were only getting 1 per day and we missed some urgent emails.
  • The quarantine folder is web based, we'd prefer it to have been an add-in for Outlook.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Small company's don't really benefit from the AI
  • It would be great if some more rule intelligence could be added.
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Likelihood to Renew
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
We've had the product for 2-years now, I am not going back to where I was when I wasn't using this.
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Usability
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
So far we have had limited problems the one's we have had we can attribute to poor user judgement not our gateway failing. One of the best features is the Barracuda is intuitive to choices we make on blocking or rejecting emails which is a great feature. lessens are need to repetitively enter the same information
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Extremely easy to use. You can easily review and decide how to handle phishing email attacks.
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Reliability and Availability
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Availability is robust and flawless. This is a non-issue, its always up & running and fail-over protection is available for restarts or upgrades.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
until now, i haven't encountered any problem.
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Performance
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
The WebUI is the only piece I find lacking on the Barracuda ESK. Its is not the fastest and is fairly utilitarian in its approach. The Outlook plug-in, while not in wide use here, causes zero slowdown in Outlook or the Barracuda ESG.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
no delays seen.
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Support Rating
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda customer support is great. Most of the time when I can an actual tech support representative answers, not some person that will just take a message. If one is not available I will receive a call back in a very short time.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Support from Barracuda, in all departments, has been exceptional. They are quick to respond, they are attentive and they have been courteous. I have nothing but the best things to say about their staff. My only issue is that their ticketing system needs to better identify a cloud user versus a physical hardware user.
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Implementation Rating
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
It was "stupid easy" from the technical side.
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Alternatives Considered
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda integrates well with Office 365 and mail flow is great. It was the first solution we found that was part of a greater suite to fit all the requirements we had. With the Email Security gateway being in the cloud, it required no extra hardware but also nothing new installed on an endpoint as some solutions require.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
We have been a long-standing customer of Barracuda Backups Cloud to Cloud and Main Backups so this was a logical extension of what we had already been doing and the positive results we had been receiving on the other products
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Scalability
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
It is 1 setting for your environment. so flexibility is low (but not necessary). I have not yet noticed any delays due to sentinel
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Return on Investment
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Allows us to set it and forget it. We don't have to worry about patch or upgrade to a newer version. Barracuda does it all for us.
  • DLP has been great. That's a risk which is hard to monitor but Barracuda does it effortlessly.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Reducing the risk of a user inadvertently responding to a malicious email
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