Barracuda Email Security Gateway Return on Investment, Reviews & Ratings 2024

Overview

What is Barracuda Email Security Gateway?

Barracuda Email Security Gateway is designed to protect against inbound malware, spam, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks, and ensure that business productivity isn’t impacted by attacks through the email system.

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Barracuda Foundational service you need to use.

Rating: 8 out of 10

May 3, 2022

Vetted ReviewVerified User

Tracking emails for organizations along with spam scores with filters. It helps in mitigating malware and phishing emails. We also use it to block or allow certain types of em...

Andrew Nakamura

Employee - Information Technology

System Administrator

Prolacta BioScience

1 year of experience

Secure your Email.

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 28, 2022

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use the email security gateway with Microsoft 365 exchange. It is the email security for inbound and outbound emails. With Security gateway, we can apply policies and rules...

Justin Graves

Manager - Information Technology

HIPAA Security Officer

Area Agency on Aging Region 9, Inc

5 years of experience

Barracuda ESG, flawless email threat protection

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 27, 2021

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use the Barracuda Email Security Gateway to filter inbound and outbound email traffic to protect from threats via email including spam, phishing attacks, malware or fraudul...

Mike Maner

Administrator - Information Technology

Network Systems Engineer

Whitesell Group

6 years of experience

Bang for your buck

Rating: 7 out of 10

October 25, 2019

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We migrated from this to the big box Proofpoint. We were sold on all the bells and whistles. And I can honestly say this did a better job for our organizational size.

Timothy Good

Technician - Information Technology

System Administrator

Michigan State University

4 years of experience

Barracuda Email Security Service - No-frills email security and attachment sandboxing!

Rating: 6 out of 10

June 28, 2019

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

Barracuda Email Security Service (ESS) is the anti-spam, anti-phishing, and general anti-bad stuff product in use by the entire organization since early 2017. The heuristics, ...

Bear Golightly

Professional - Information Technology

IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager

Nashville Wraps

3 years of experience

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What is Barracuda Email Security Gateway?

Barracuda Email Security Gateway is designed to protect against inbound malware, spam, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks, and ensure that business productivity isn’t impacted by attacks through the email system.

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Secure Email Gateway

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Anti-malware
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Customizability
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Sandboxing
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Product Details

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What is Barracuda Email Security Gateway?

The Barracuda Email Security Gateway is an email security gateway that manages and filters all inbound and outbound email traffic to protect organizations from email-borne threats and data leaks. As a complete email management solution, the Barracuda Email Security Gateway lets organizations encrypt messages and leverage the cloud to spool email if mail servers become unavailable. The Barracuda Email Security Gateway is offered without per-user or per-feature fees, and is also available as a virtual appliance or in a public cloud environment (Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure).

Barracuda Email Security Gateway Features

Secure Email Gateway Features

Supported: Anti-malware
Supported: Customizability
Supported: Data Loss Protection
Supported: Threat Detection
Supported: Sandboxing
Supported: End-to-End Encryption
Supported: Management Tools

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Barracuda Email Security Gateway Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise
Operating Systems	Windows, Linux, Mac
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

Barracuda Email Security Gateway is designed to protect against inbound malware, spam, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks, and ensure that business productivity isn’t impacted by attacks through the email system.

Mimecast Advanced Email Security are common alternatives for Barracuda Email Security Gateway.

Reviewers rate End-to-End Encryption highest, with a score of 7.8.

The most common users of Barracuda Email Security Gateway are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

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Barracuda Foundational service you need to use.

Rating: 8 out of 10

May 03, 2022

AN

Andrew Nakamura

System Administrator

Prolacta BioScience (Biotechnology, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

1 year of experience

Return on Investment

Our average emails are about 2000 per day and this product helps mitigate spam and malicious content.
Once combined with other Barracuda email products, this becomes the foundational piece to use.
You need to have adequate training which they provide but takes a while to train up your staff to be fully functional.

Secure your Email.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 28, 2022

JG

Justin Graves

HIPAA Security Officer

Area Agency on Aging Region 9, Inc (Non-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

5 years of experience

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Return on Investment

Less Spam.
Less risk.
Less compromised messages.

Barracuda ESG, flawless email threat protection

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 27, 2021

MM

Mike Maner

Network Systems Engineer

Whitesell Group (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

6 years of experience

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Return on Investment

The Barracuda [Email Security Gateway] cloud based fail over protection is worth the cost all by itself.
The management cost of email borne threats is hard to quantify, we do business through email, so its of massive importance.

Bang for your buck

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 25, 2019

TG

Timothy Good

System Administrator

Michigan State University (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

4 years of experience

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Return on Investment

Affordable compared to other products.
Logging was basic and simple.

Barracuda Email Security Service - No-frills email security and attachment sandboxing!

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

June 28, 2019

BG

Bear Golightly

IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager

Nashville Wraps (Wholesale, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

3 years of experience

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Return on Investment

The cost of ESS for our organization is tiny compared to the amount of money we would lose if even one virus-laden PDF slipped through
Ignoring genuine malware/phishing, the cost of ESS for our organization is tiny compared to the amount of money we save by blocking regular spam (so employees don't ever see it)
From an administrator's perspective, putting the reins in the hands of our employees so they can look at their own quarantine (and leave IT out of it) has saved us 💵DOLLA 💸DOLLA💵BILLS 💸Y'ALL💵

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