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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

    Proofpoint Email Protection

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AProofpoint Email Protection is available as an on-premise or cloud based solution and blocks unwanted, malicious and impostor emails with granular search capabilities and visibility into all messages. Outbound controls include encryption and data loss prevention, while continuity capabilities ensure business communications can continue as normal in the event of an email outage. With Proofpoint's Email Protection, you can protect your people, data, and brand from today’s threats…N/A
    Pricing
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Proofpoint Email Protection
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Proofpoint Email 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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    Community Pulse
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Proofpoint Email Protection
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose Barracuda ESG (discontinued)
    I did not make the selection, I support the service. It was simple to support, patching was easy.
    Incentivized
    Proofpoint
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    Proofpoint Email Protection allows configuration and granularity that far exceeds those features we'd been able to use with the Barracuda Email Security Gateway product. In addition, the robust Proofpoint reporting features give us and our decision makers much improved detail …
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    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    With so many other organizations using their product, Proofpoint has the best insight into what potential threats could impact our organization. Rarely do I see new threats stay unclassified for an extended period of time with Proofpoint. I cannot say the same for other …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Proofpoint Email Protection
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Barracuda ESG (discontinued) and Proofpoint Email Protection
    Feature
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)
    7.3
    15 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Proofpoint Email Protection
    8.0
    79 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Anti-malware8.015 Ratings10.077 Ratings
    Customizability6.013 Ratings7.076 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection7.510 Ratings6.049 Ratings
    Threat Detection7.015 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Sandboxing8.68 Ratings7.058 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption7.012 Ratings10.059 Ratings
    Management Tools7.015 Ratings8.075 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Proofpoint Email Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (23 ratings)
    10.0
    (96 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (5 ratings)
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)Proofpoint Email Protection
    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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    Proofpoint
    Well suited: Proofpoint does a pretty good job at protecting us from spam emails. I was able to block a lot of emails coming from SendGrid by blocking SendGrid emails with a custom spam filter. However, SendGrid has a lot of legit emails too so I was able to create another rule to allow those emails from certain people, then block the rest. That way business need was met but spam emails are blocked. Less Appropriate If you are trying to monitor internal to internal emails Proofpoint is probably a little over featured for that.
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    Pros
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    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Proofpoint
    • Spam - catches these emails before hitting the inbox.
    • Daily digest - provides users with a list of the emails that were blocked and allows them to choose to release them if they are legitimate emails.
    • Ensures that emails coming into our organization is safe for our users and verifies the email is coming from stated senders email server.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
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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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    Proofpoint
    • Proofpoint could offer more frequent training opportunities to customers at all levels of expertise.
    • Proofpoint can always continue to strive to keep its product a leader in the industry.
    • Proofpoint's support site could be overhauled to provide a more logical flow.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Proofpoint
    Very robust and solid product in protecting our emails. The engineers who assisted with our implementation was very knowledgable and great to work with. Easy to use by end-users. Administration and management are also easy for IT. Great dashboard and reporting tools for business reviews.
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    Reliability and Availability
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    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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    Proofpoint
    There were no appliance errors or unplanned outages during five years of operation.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Proofpoint
    Most important thing is the performance of processing mails. Even in a complex environment the system keeps performing on a very high Level.
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    Support Rating
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    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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    Proofpoint
    We use ProofPoint support quite often to fix issues and assist with setting up features and rules. Each time we have created a ticket, they have been very helpful and respectful. Each ticket has been treated with the appropriate SLA time and attention. We also enjoy the regular check-ins from the engineers when tickets are open but we get busy with other tasks.
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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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    Proofpoint
    We previously used halon anti-spam, which lasted us well until our organization really started to grow and it was not able to keep up with the amount of mail we were receiving. The support is also nothing compared to Proofpoint's professional services offering. Halon was also not able to have the complex rules that Proofpoint can offer.
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    Scalability
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    Proofpoint
    You can add a lot of agents to your environment if you need them. And you can operate hardware appliances and virtual appliances in the same cluster.
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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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    Proofpoint
    • Having easy-to-reach backups of all employee emails has made Proofpoint worth it by itself. That plus the countless times that spam/malicious emails did not make it through to the intended person that could have potentially cost the organization a lot of money.
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