Barracuda Essentials Review
April 25, 2021

Barracuda Essentials Review

Matthew Garufi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Barracuda Essentials

Our previous email security was through Microsoft's Office 365. This was deficient in many ways. Far too many phishing attempts and spam emails were making it through their filters. Microsoft's safe sender list is a joke, they decide what is worth considering as safe regardless of what you say. Barracuda Essentials was a welcome and well worth [adding] to our security. We have felt far more secure since implementation.

Pros

  • Secure
  • Easy to use
  • Easy to implement
  • Customer support

Cons

  • Reporting could be better
  • No negative impacts
I could not rave more about Barracuda Essentials's support staff. Excellent! Superb!

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

Yes

Are you happy with Barracuda Email Protection's feature set?

Yes

Did Barracuda Email Protection live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Barracuda Email Protection go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Barracuda Email Protection again?

Yes

Barracuda Essentials is very easy to navigate. I have rarely had to search the knowledge base on how to do something.

Barracuda Email Protection Feature Ratings

Anti-malware
9
Customizability
9
Data Loss Protection
9
Threat Detection
8
Sandboxing
Not Rated
End-to-End Encryption
8
Management Tools
8

Using Barracuda Essentials

ADManager Plus, Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold, Azure Virtual Machines

Evaluating Barracuda Essentials and Competitors

  • Microsoft Office 365
Barracuda Essentials blows them away

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