Barracuda Essentials

Barracuda Essentials

Barracuda Essentials

45 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Barracuda Essentials	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Barracuda Essentials is an email security platform designed to protect users and businesses from volumetric threats like malware and spam, as well advanced threats like targeted spear phishing and ransomware, and provides email archiving and data protection from corruption and deletion with cloud backup and recovery of emails and files, data leak prevention and encryption.	N/A

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Barracuda Essentials

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Pricing Offerings
Barracuda Essentials
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Barracuda Essentials
Considered Both Products	Barracuda Essentials Verified User Consultant Chose Barracuda Essentials Barracuda Essentials has a far easier admin pannel than is provided by mimecast along with far more filtering options such as dkim. Much easier to do the initial setup along with much better support provided. Barracuda Essentials has Advanced threat protection that uses AI to … Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Barracuda Essentials Pricewise this was a no-brainer. Helpful? MG Matthew Garufi Enterprise Architect Chose Barracuda Essentials Barracuda Essentials blows them away Incentivized Helpful? Victor Borghouts Technical Consultant Chose Barracuda Essentials We are most experienced with Trend Advanced Security gateway. The interface for Trend is very cumbersome compared to Barracuda. Simillarly, the set up to integrate with Azure AD is poor and very difficult compared to Barracuda. Finally, Barracuda offers Sandboxing of all … Helpful? Bill Artemik President/CIO Chose Barracuda Essentials Barracuda handles encryption better than Proofpoint. There are pre-defined rules for encryption that ProofPoint does not have (you have to define encryption rules for each client and from the ground up very tedious and time consuming). SPAM filtering is about the same. … Helpful? YW Yammi Wong Administration Officer Chose Barracuda Essentials User friendly admin portal, price, end-user able to adjust the policies. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Olson Remote Network Administrator Chose Barracuda Essentials Also, Postini and MX Logic, which were not available choices. So far Barracuda Essentials has been much better in terms of product offered as well as support from the company. Helpful? Peter Robinson IT Manager Chose Barracuda Essentials Essentials is far more user-friendly - far more customizable and seems to perform better than ATP. We used ATP for a while and found it a bit clunky and the user interface not as easy to use as Barracuda's. The easy to use GUI interface of Barracuda was one of the factors (in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Barracuda Essentials We really didn't evaluate any other products. We considered using the filtering features that come with our Office 365 subscription, but just didn't feel it was sufficient protection for our business. Being a medical clinic, we felt like we needed to implement the best … Incentivized Helpful? Derek Schroeder Service Manager Chose Barracuda Essentials Barracuda Essentials is the best in class. Things can change as time moves on, but Barracuda Essentials does the best job for sandboxing attachments as well as providing DKIM and SPF support. It is very customizable and includes outbound email encryption with its base antispam … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro Spam filtering Pro Email filtering
Top Cons	Minus See the ability Minus Quite complex Minus Month to month

Features

Barracuda Essentials

Secure Email Gateway

Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
	Barracuda Essentials 6.6 16 Ratings 24% below category average
Anti-malware	10.016 Ratings
Customizability	5.015 Ratings
Data Loss Protection	2.113 Ratings
Threat Detection	9.016 Ratings
Sandboxing	3.012 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption	8.013 Ratings
Management Tools	9.016 Ratings

Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses	Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Cloud Email Security Score 7.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Barracuda Essentials
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (16 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.9 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	8.2 (9 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Barracuda Essentials
Likelihood to Recommend	Barracuda Networks, Inc. The Barracuda Essentials solution is definitely a great alternative to network security and especially corporate email to prevent employees from clicking on malicious links, spam, phishing, trojans and ransonware. The solution today is implemented in almost all sectors of the company and we have control of everything and good protection guaranteeing principles of compliance and security. Incentivized Gabriel Silva Analista de sistema Read full review
Pros	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Barracuda Essentials Spam Filtering works and it is very easy to add or remove senders from the Spam filter lists. Barracuda Essentials provides excellent protection from Phishing and other Malware. Barracuda Essentials email encryption is so easy to use and easy to setup. Our users love it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Encryption is always on. There's NO way to turn it off so false encryption leads to real issues. Many banks and other companies cannot read/accept encrypted email. There should be a "Do Not Encrypt" type of keyword to prevent encryption (competing products have this). There's no indication an email was encrypted (like with Proofpoint or ZIX mail). MSP management interface needs work. You have to request licenses by email and wait. Pretty archaic today. Most competing product sites let MSP's increase/decrease licensing as needed, immediately. Bill Artemik President/CIO Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Its the best email security gateway product I have used. Victor Borghouts Technical Consultant Read full review
Usability	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Barracuda Essentials is simple to use. It has a user dashboard that is simple to navigate even for those who have few computer skills. One can barely realize that the program is even running in the background heading off those emails that can cause damage to my computer or our overall system. Incentivized Neisha Pander Marketing Administrative Assistant Read full review
Support Rating	Barracuda Networks, Inc. This is the best tool in the industry. It provides the best support on top of the product. If one has any trouble configuring things or troubleshooting things, Barracuda's support is renowned for resolving bugs and issues as well as assisting troubleshooting and fixing issues. I would highly recommend it as it covers all email security bases. Incentivized Derek Schroeder Service Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Barracuda Essentials has a far easier admin pannel than is provided by mimecast along with far more filtering options such as dkim. Much easier to do the initial setup along with much better support provided. Barracuda Essentials has Advanced threat protection that uses AI to spot patterns and gives you the option to remove a suspect email from all inboxs Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Barracuda Essentials has had a very positive impact especially since the Pandemic with many remote workers. Our IT objective is 99.9% uptime with many redundancy fail safes in place. Barracuda Essentials helps meet that objective by protecting the vast amount of email we receive daily. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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