Item: Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Rating: 8
Author: Andrew Nakamura

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 emails. Its rules help us to mitigate our defense against an ever changing landscape to defend our email systems.

Pros and Cons

Sender policies easily created.
Ability to search emails quickly with multiple criteria.
Ability to send blocked emails.

Multiple select does not allow to do bulk actions.
Inability to move email content from quarantine or deleted folders to other folders.
Reports are limited, but data can be exported for other use.

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.

Key Insights

Do you think Barracuda Email Security Gateway delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Barracuda Email Security Gateway's feature set?

Yes

Did Barracuda Email Security Gateway live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Barracuda Email Security Gateway go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Barracuda Email Security Gateway again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Barracuda Forensics and Incident Response, Barracuda Backup, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Barracuda Foundational service you need to use.

Overall Satisfaction with Barracuda Email Security Gateway