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Based on 22 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Secure Email Gateway
8.8
Barracuda Essentials
88%

FireEye Security Suite
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Barracuda Essentials ranks higher in 7/7 features
Barracuda Essentials ranks higher in 7/7 features
Anti-malware
9.4
94%
15 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Cusomizability
8.4
84%
14 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Data Loss Protection
9.0
90%
12 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Threat Detection
9.3
93%
15 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Sandboxing
8.5
85%
11 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption
8.8
88%
12 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Management Tools
8.3
83%
15 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- FireEye Security Suite is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
Barracuda Essentials
89%
15 Ratings

9.0
FireEye Security Suite
90%
3 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
Barracuda Essentials
91%
1 Rating

FireEye Security Suite
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
8.9
Barracuda Essentials
89%
8 Ratings

FireEye Security Suite
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
8.3
Barracuda Essentials
83%
9 Ratings

FireEye Security Suite
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Barracuda Essentials
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.
Analista de sistema
NaturaChemicals, 201-500 employees
FireEye Security Suite
FireEye is the obvious solution if a company is having trouble with threats getting in via mail attachments. We use Office 365 and initially subscribed to their attachment scanning product. Users immediately started complaining it would take a minimum of 3 minutes and sometimes as long as 12 hours to receive their attachments. This rate of time was unacceptable. So we did a POC with FireEye and immediately saw that attachments were processed on average in 30 seconds but at the most, around 1.5 minutes. We were convinced after that.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Retail Company, 5001-10,000 employeesPros
Barracuda Essentials
- 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.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Medical Practice Company, 51-200 employeesFireEye Security Suite
- Deployment is fast and efficient with multiple architectural models.
- Fireeye support has been great, quickly responding to issues and remaining very helpful.
- The information afforded through NX, HX, and EX greatly improve our ability to triage and respond to threats of all sizes.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employeesCons
Barracuda Essentials
- 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.
President/CIO
Innovative Systems DirectInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
FireEye Security Suite
- Hard to configure
- Needs more tools to analyze incidents
- All modules need to be connected to each other

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Banking Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
Barracuda Essentials
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—FireEye Security Suite
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials 9.1
Based on 1 answer
Its the best email security gateway product I have used.
Technical Consultant
36-400 IT SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
FireEye Security Suite
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials 8.9
Based on 8 answers
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.
Marketing Administrative Assistant
Alvin Community CollegeHigher Education, 501-1000 employees
FireEye Security Suite
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials 8.3
Based on 9 answers
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.
Service Manager
Kloud9Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
FireEye Security Suite
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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 many) that swayed us to use Essentials.
IT Manager
Worthing High SchoolEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees
FireEye Security Suite
Advanced Threat Protection, or ATP in Office 365 was awful. Some attachments wouldn't be delivered at all while others took minutes and sometimes hours to be delivered after being scanned. It was causing us to lose business. FireEye processes attachments in less than 60 seconds in most cases. We now have buy in from employees to scan attachments since it's hardly noticeable to them

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Retail Company, 5001-10,000 employeesReturn on Investment
Barracuda Essentials
- 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.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Furniture Company, 51-200 employeesFireEye Security Suite
- Stronger security posture
- Faster security event response times
- Global deployment can be difficult as hardware may not be be available in remote locations.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees