Barracuda Impersonation Protection vs. Microsoft Defender for Office 365

I am not sure how I can put this any more clearly, until we deployed this product we were swamped by phishing and spear-phishing attacks. After testing the free version, I had all the info I needed to sell this to my boss; the product ID'd users and it started blocking attempts. I walked in with a stack of 60+ blocks and told my boss, "we need this." She agreed to pay for it and overnight our phishing and spear-phishing attempts dropped by 75%+. From where we were, to where we are now, with the AI learning our users and our environment, these attempts have dropped by 90-95%+. An amazing product.

It's well suited for our physical deployment of remote people and sort of a SaaS company. It exists in cyberspace, so that's really very constructive. Where it's not, these sort of very specific data sets and sort of identity protection for customers, it's not as useful and it may not be one of its core purposes, but we're trying to use it for that as well.

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• Capturing targeted phishing attacks
• Capturing spoofed addresses - emails purporting to be from the CEO but using a Gmail account.

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• I mean, Microsoft is a good tool. It's a good and helpful solution, and we leverage on all of their capabilities, I would say.

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• Small company's don't really benefit from the AI
• It would be great if some more rule intelligence could be added.

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• I think it needs to be tuned correctly. For example, afterwards I tried to go in and print once after the implementation was done, I went in and tried to print a file or export a document. Just not possible, which just means it's great, works really well, but it also means that you have to tune your data categorization very carefully.

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We've had the product for 2-years now, I am not going back to where I was when I wasn't using this.

Extremely easy to use. You can easily review and decide how to handle phishing email attacks.

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until now, i haven't encountered any problem.

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no delays seen.

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Support from Barracuda, in all departments, has been exceptional. They are quick to respond, they are attentive and they have been courteous. I have nothing but the best things to say about their staff. My only issue is that their ticketing system needs to better identify a cloud user versus a physical hardware user.

It was "stupid easy" from the technical side.

We have been a long-standing customer of Barracuda Backups Cloud to Cloud and Main Backups so this was a logical extension of what we had already been doing and the positive results we had been receiving on the other products

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The Sony al, then what do you call the Google deal then the Microsoft 365 Defender, these three products I have used. It's a very secure interest. Trustworthy, that's why. Only because of the trust and it has, I say to use this, I would say.

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It is 1 setting for your environment. so flexibility is low (but not necessary). I have not yet noticed any delays due to sentinel

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• Reducing the risk of a user inadvertently responding to a malicious email

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• I would say it's positive at end kind of will be like what we really need or what the company is asking for or let's say this kind of business area.

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