Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs Proofpoint Essentials

• 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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• Easy to use
• Automated user account creation
• Automated user account deletion
• Lots of options to make it work for your specific environment

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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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• Add encryption (secure emails) of outbound email to Business license.
• Real-time user creations. Now it applies changes only in the beginning of the next hour.
• More appearance customization for portal.
• Sometimes it is blocking the same domain or sender again and again even if it was release and approved.

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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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• We are a financial company that requires a lot of regulations on the information security side, so Proofpoint is one of the key tools that closes lots of potential security breaches.
• Decreased almost to zero the number of SPAM, Fraud and Phishing attacks.
• Using that solution doesn't require to have a dedicated specialist for email security.

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