Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs FireEye Email Security

• 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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• Blocking URL-based threats using FAUDE features.
• Post threat detection via the Retroactive feature.
• Excellent sandboxing analysis performance and detailed dynamic analysis reports.

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• 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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• The interface is not exactly intuitive.
• There are a high number of false positives.
• To my knowledge, there is not a way to whitelist links or attachments.

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• 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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• It's been positive in the sense that it has blocked some malicious email that would have otherwise made it to our users.
• It has been negative in the sense that we spend a higher-than-expected number of cycles dealing with false positives.
• Another negative is that we also experience false negatives.

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