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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)

    Score6.2 out of 10
    N/ABarracuda ESG were physical or virtual appliances designed to protect email servers from spam, virus, spoofing, phishing and spyware attacks. The product line is discontinued.N/A

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP) is a holistic, cloud delivered endpoint security solution that includes risk-based vulnerability management and assessment, attack surface reduction, behavioral based and cloud-powered next generation protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), automatic investigation and remediation, managed hunting services, rich APIs, and unified security management.

    $2.50

    per user/per month

    Pricing
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Academic
    $2.50
    per user/per month
    Standalone
    $5.20
    per user/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    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
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose Barracuda ESG (discontinued)
    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 …
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    157 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    146 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    155 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    130 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    Features
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Barracuda ESG (discontinued) and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)
    7.3
    15 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    -
    Ratings
    Anti-malware8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability6.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Detection7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sandboxing8.68 Ratings00 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption7.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tools7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Barracuda ESG (discontinued) and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    8.7
    79 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.179 Ratings
    Centralized Management00 Ratings8.679 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Infection Remediation00 Ratings9.077 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management00 Ratings8.774 Ratings
    Malware Detection00 Ratings9.278 Ratings
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (23 ratings)
    8.9
    (169 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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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    If you have multiple endpoints in your environment, if you're looking to understand what your environment looks like, if you're trying to identify the health of your environment, or identify any risks or vulnerabilities in your environment pertaining to your endpoints and devices.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    • The big thing for us is on endpoint, it kind of integrates with everything else that we already have because we use Microsoft completely. And so that helps us with being able to integrate, and send things over to Azure Sentinel as we need to as well.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    Microsoft
    • I'd say building out summaries and log reviews for analysts reviewing incidents. So, pivoting from the alerts themselves to actually getting the detail underneath. Trying to understand what caused an alert, where they went from there, et cetera, et cetera. And then trying to get into deeper log review to take that investigation further can be a pain point.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Cost add-ons for Security features is nickel and diming the process to keep pace with cybercrime. Limited Education budgets require us to be more pro-active in finding cost-effective measures to protect our devices, staff and students. Defender is a strong, well-featured product that is pricing itself out of the education market
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    Usability
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    Setting up the Barracuda for use with Microsoft 365 provides issues that Barracuda seems to have no fix for. I mentioned these issues to their support, because I am constantly reminded of them by their system, and I was told that those errors are normal for our setup and to ignore them which is frustrating to me.
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    Because it's hard to find things sometimes. I can find things now because I know where they are. But you have to work with it a little while to figure out how. I'd basically say it was a security tool designed by developers. So you have to get that mindset to find things. So a new hire, a new person in the SOC would have a difficult time. I know that's sitting in here, or that screen is in here somewhere. So it's gotten better.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint chugs along just fine no matter what we throw at it and what systems it's running on. It doesn't take up a lot of resources either, so that's welcomed.
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    Performance
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    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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    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Barracuda Email Security Gateway support is great at responding and escalating cases when needed. Timeliness is key when dealing with email attacks, spoofing or malware. Barracuda also has great resources for end-user training as our end users are our first line of defense in combatting attacks on our company. Training end-users pays off in time spent dealing with any email attacks
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    Microsoft
    The first time I tried to onboard my macOS endpoints to MDE I struggled for quite a bit. I had to reach out to Microsoft's MDE support team. The tech was very helpful in walking me through the steps during a screen share session
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    Implementation Rating
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    Microsoft
    Deployment was handled by our team here and everything went pretty smoothly. We did have a few hiccups in our test group, but that only took a bit to get ironed out.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    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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    Microsoft
    Particularly, we're evaluating Symantec Endpoint Protection, the commercial version. We've looked at eSet, a couple of the others, and it's much too heavy or difficult to manage, things like that. Ease of use, ease of integration. It's already there. It's super easy to update it with the regular OS updates and everything. So we can manage it whether we're using SCCM or Intune or Dato, it's very easy to deploy updates and manage things.
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    Scalability
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.
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    Return on Investment
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    • The gateway learns current scam which can prevent unmeasureable damage. As a government organization attacks on our network affect public safety.
    • Previous gateways I have managed have required significant amounts of time grooming. The Barracuda gateway has freed up a great deal of my time due to its intelligence and intent scanning.
    • I have very few incidences where a legitimate malicious email will pass through the filter. Just one of these emails can wreak havoc on an organization.
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    • I think the positive impact overall is that we do a lot of sitting in front of assessors- federal assessors, government assessors. And it really comes down to when the assessor has to think about another product that you're bringing in that's not Microsoft, it creates a lot of confusion, more paperwork, more explanation. But the positive impact is that they know it, everybody kind of knows Microsoft. And so when you tell them you have this endpoint for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, they're like, okay. The questions go away, and it makes the overhead a lot less during an assessment.
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