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82 Ratings
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Based on 82 reviews and ratings
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Based on 7 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business ranks higher in 1 feature set: Secure Email Gateway
Secure Email Gateway
6.7
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
67%
9.4
Proofpoint Essentials
94%
Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business ranks higher in 7/7 features
Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business ranks higher in 7/7 features
Anti-malware
7.3
73%
15 Ratings
9.2
92%
2 Ratings
Cusomizability
5.4
54%
13 Ratings
8.6
86%
2 Ratings
Data Loss Protection
7.4
74%
11 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Threat Detection
6.7
67%
15 Ratings
9.2
92%
2 Ratings
Sandboxing
6.1
61%
9 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
End-to-End Encryption
7.9
79%
12 Ratings
9.6
96%
2 Ratings
Management Tools
6.3
63%
15 Ratings
9.4
94%
2 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
75%
23 Ratings
10.0
Proofpoint Essentials
100%
3 Ratings
Usability
8.5
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
85%
2 Ratings
Proofpoint Essentials
N/A
0 Ratings
Availability
10.0
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
100%
1 Rating
Proofpoint Essentials
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance
6.0
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
60%
1 Rating
Proofpoint Essentials
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
9.9
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
99%
8 Ratings
Proofpoint Essentials
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
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.
System Administrator
Prolacta BioScienceBiotechnology, 201-500 employees
Proofpoint Essentials
I would definitely recommend it for fast and easy deployment with no need of constant managing solution. It is a solid solution that will do all what you need for the email security. Especially when you have a small IT team or even do not have enough experienced specialists to handle email security questions - Proofpoint is what I would recommend to use. I gave it 9 of 10 points only because of the price, you can find find more cheap solutions on the market.
IT Department Manager
Acceptance Solutions GroupFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
Pros
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
- 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.
IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager
Nashville WrapsWholesale, 51-200 employees
Proofpoint Essentials
- For basic protection, the Solution has an Antivirus, Zero hours Filtering, and Impostor protection.
- Targeted attacks - URL and Attachment Defense.
- Content filtering.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesCons
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
- 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.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Marketing and Advertising Company, 51-200 employeesProofpoint Essentials
- I don't have [a lot] of bad things to say about the software its all positives in my book
IT Support
Cypress HealthcareHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Proofpoint Essentials
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Usability
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Barracuda Email Security Gateway 8.5
Based on 2 answers
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

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Furniture Company, 51-200 employeesProofpoint Essentials
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Barracuda Email Security Gateway 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Availability is robust and flawless. This is a non-issue, its always up & running and fail-over protection is available for restarts or upgrades.
Network Systems Engineer
Whitesell GroupMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees
Proofpoint Essentials
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Performance
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Barracuda Email Security Gateway 6.0
Based on 1 answer
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.
Network Systems Engineer
Whitesell GroupMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees
Proofpoint Essentials
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Barracuda Email Security Gateway 9.9
Based on 8 answers
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.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 201-500 employeesProofpoint Essentials
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
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.
HIPAA Security Officer
Area Agency on Aging Region 9, IncNon-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Proofpoint Essentials
As already wrote, Proofpoint is perfect solution to be deployed quickly without requiring any additional resources or services.Good email tracking logs, excellent reporting features. Great filtering mechanism. Cost effective pricing.
IT Department Manager
Acceptance Solutions GroupFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
Return on Investment
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
- 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.
AVP of IT
Rio Grande Credit UnionFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
Proofpoint Essentials
- Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business has a simplified management.
- It has a Basic Archive and Legal Hold & eDiscovery Management.
- Integrated DLP that gives benefits to any organization.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees