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Barracuda Email Protection Premium Plus leverages a world-class AI engine to secure your email against all email threats, offering both a cloud email gateway and API-based inbox defense to protect you from ransomware, spear phishing, spam, account takeover, and new email threat types. Empower your security teams to respond to email threats post-delivery with robust threat hunting and incident response tools, preserving IT resources by automatically removing malicious messages and offering fully automated and customizable response playbooks.
Minimize false positives, protect legitimate email, and prevent spoofing of your email domains with DMARC reporting, giving you granular visibility and analysis of your SPF/DKIM/DMARC configurations.
Never worry about malicious or accidental data deletion again - our popular Cloud-to-Cloud Backup and Cloud Archiving Service provide powerful data protection, including unlimited Microsoft 365 backup and easy-to-use email archiving. Data Inspector scans your OneDrive and SharePoint data for sensitive information and files containing malware. See who these files are shared with and easily remediate improper file shares.
Security Awareness Training provides advanced, automated education technology with a wide library of localized content and simulation-based training, while attack simulation provides continuous testing and powerful reporting for administrators.
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AWS customers, or even organizations who are considering AWS, can take advantage of AWS Private Offers https://www.barracuda.com/solutions/aws/private-offer to receive a specialized price quotation from Barracuda, allowing you to negotiate terms, conditions, even discounts, either directly or through your trusted partner.
Highlights
- Prevents email threats from compromising your business, data, and employees. Blocks phishing, malware, and other socially engineered attacks from reaching your users' inboxes with AI-powered detection and response.
- Helps you stay complaint and resilient even during downtime with unlimited backup of your key Microsoft 365 data. Secures your OneDrive and SharePoint environments with sensitive file scans and remediation for improper file shares.
- Train your users to recognize attacks and report them to security teams. Simplify and automate post delivery incident response to save resources and minimize risk of security breach.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/month |
|---|---|---|
Premium Plus Protection | Gateway Defense, Impersonation Protection, Incident Response + More | $16.60 |
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Struggled with spam control and have faced persistent gaps in data protection and support
What is our primary use case?
I no longer deal with Barracuda Email Protection . We only deal with the firewall, specifically Barracuda Firewall, as the product was changed to another solution.
I stopped working with Barracuda WAF and Barracuda Email Protection last year.
With Barracuda Email Protection, the features I find most valuable are spam filtering, as it is primarily used for spam protection. The antivirus component uses an antivirus solution, though I am uncertain which specific antivirus they are using.
The customers who used Barracuda Email Protection were from the finance and banking sectors.
What is most valuable?
With Barracuda Email Protection, the features I find most valuable are spam filtering, as it is primarily used for spam protection. The antivirus component uses an antivirus solution, though I am uncertain which specific antivirus they are using.
The link protection feature has impacted my customers positively. I believe they have link protection functionality.
Regarding the data protection features in Barracuda, I am not certain which are the most beneficial.
What needs improvement?
I am uncertain if Barracuda has DLP (Data Leak Protection). They do not have DLP , I believe. The product is very basic in that regard. When we compete with FortiGate, they have DMARC capabilities. Barracuda Email Protection did not have DMARC, I think. They also didn't have DKIM. You must depend on server DKIM functionality or something similar.
In assessing Barracuda Email Protection's ability to prevent accidental data leaks, they didn't have data leak protection. I believe they lacked data leak protection capabilities. This is why my customer changed to another competitor, and we lost the project.
I think Barracuda Email Protection could improve in the future to make it more competitive by addressing the fact that Barracuda started with anti-spam and email protection, but now they are moving more to cloud-based solutions rather than device-based or hardware-based solutions. Most of the new features are for the cloud, and they work with Google and Outlook Exchange Online .
I consider it problematic that they are moving completely to the cloud. I think they should maintain something on-premise as well.
For the features I would prefer to see, DKIM is a priority. I have already protested for three years about why they cannot implement DKIM functionality.
I believe all features available in the cloud must also be available in the on-premise solution. Why would you put more features in the cloud but not in the on-premise version? The problem is their server is not in Indonesia. Their server is in the United States. In our country, you must store the data within Indonesia. This is the problem. I cannot sell your product if it is only available in other countries. This is why I cannot sell the cloud-based Barracuda Email Protection in Indonesia due to data residency requirements.
For how long have I used the solution?
I worked with Barracuda Email Protection for approximately four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Customers chose a different product after experiencing a problem when they upgraded the firmware, which caused the system to restart multiple times during working hours.
They changed to Fortinet because of the instability caused by the firmware upgrade. I discussed this issue with Barracuda, but they only patched the problem repeatedly without solving it. After six months, they identified the issue and recommended upgrading the memory configuration, which solved the problem. I was frustrated with Barracuda because resolving something of this nature took six months. After four years of working with this customer, I lost the project because of this incident, which seemed like a preventable error.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
When it comes to functionalities and stability, Barracuda Email Protection is still a good solution. However, regarding scalability, you must change the product box if you want to increase scalability. I am referring to the on-premise hardware version, not the virtual version. If you are using the virtual version, scalability is acceptable because you simply change your subscription and gain scalability. However, with the hardware product, you must change the box. Barracuda does not limit you based on how many mailboxes or users you have, which is one of the good things for Barracuda. This is concerning the box performance. With other products, you must depend on the number of mailboxes and users involved in the protection.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate the technical support from Barracuda as three out of ten. The technical support is poor. For email security specifically, the support is inadequate. For other products such as WAF and network solutions, the support is acceptable. However, for email, the support is insufficient. You need six months to solve a problem. Every one to two months, the email system restarts. This is particularly problematic for a financial institution and banking customer.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for Barracuda Email Protection is straightforward because we had been working with this customer for years already. We never had a problem with the initial setup. Everything, when troubleshooting occurred, was handled appropriately. However, during the last year, I felt the support from Barracuda was unsatisfactory.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I think the costs of Barracuda Email Protection are acceptable because I am selling another software license for anti-spam, and I have no problem with that product.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I also have partnerships with Fortinet and other solutions such as MDaemon.
Improved email security has reduced spam, simplified encrypted mail, and strengthened user trust
What is our primary use case?
Barracuda Email Protection is an essential addition to our email security suite, and we use it ourselves and for other clients at present. It is simply the best anti-spam gateway I have used, better than Trend and Mimecast and other products I used in the distant past. As a front-end gateway with a well-thought-out user interface, it is easy to see messages from external clients that were either caught up in anti-spam or antivirus queues and explain to end-users what happened to their email.
I use Barracuda Email Protection with our clients as an excellent anti-spam gateway with the best logging display of messages I have seen. It is so easy to identify what happened to messages, which is so important when I am the person they call when things go wrong and messages are not received. It takes seconds to set up and minutes to configure. It is very easy to use for both my clients and myself.
The email spam filtering is very great, email encryption, and email archiving are all features that we support for our clients as part of our network security services packages.
How has it helped my organization?
Barracuda Email Protection has positively impacted my organization by increasing our email protection and security significantly. Our security has increased from forty percent to sixty-five percent, especially when dealing with all the threats that come through emails. It has been a great tool because we can handle email delays and delays on file scanning. It has helped us have less time chasing bad emails. The fast implementation of encrypted mail keeps employees working with less interruption since they are happy, satisfied, and secure. When our partners are happy, we are very happy.
What is most valuable?
The best features Barracuda Email Protection offers include good spam filtering and very good sandboxing of all links, as well as good encryption. It also has integrated logging for user management of their own spam. It has better filtering technology, so few are false positives as well, with excellent anti-spam engines and logging. It is extremely easy to install, configure, and set up, and there is excellent message tracking for folks that say they have not received an email they were expecting.
Integrated logging and user management make my daily work easier because it is very easy to log in and to manage this tool, hence making it a very good tool for email protection. It also has excellent, easy-to-add designated users as site administrators, and it is competitively priced.
It has a user-friendly portal, strong cloud-based features, and no additional maintenance cost, along with responsive support. Barracuda Email Protection has positively impacted my organization by handling encryption better than any other tool I have used before, which has increased our email protection significantly. Our security has also increased from forty percent to sixty-five percent, especially when dealing with all the threats that come through emails. It has been a great tool because we can handle email delays and delays on file scanning. When our partners are happy, we are very happy, and it has helped us have less time chasing bad emails. The fast implementation of encrypted mail keeps employees working with less interruption since they are happy, satisfied, and secure.
What needs improvement?
Barracuda Email Protection can be improved by enhancing the reporting feature.
The speed of the portal is quite slow, and the quarantine reports are scheduled-based and not on the spot itself.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Barracuda Email Protection for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Barracuda Email Protection is very stable, as I have not experienced any lagging or downtime.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Barracuda Email Protection's scalability is very good because it handles all my clients' emails and all my organization emails. It can be used by any size of organization, hence being more scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is very good, and the times that I have reached out to the support team, I noticed they are very responsive. They are quick to find a solution, and they are available twenty-four seven, so overall, it is a great customer support team.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics .
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment because I have saved the end-user heartache, especially since they are very secure and have peace of mind. The IT department has saved time and cost, as they do not have to run up and down fighting with malicious spam or malicious attacks. They are at peace.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
In my experience, the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Barracuda Email Protection are competitively priced, making it very affordable for any size of organization, so it is a very cost-effective tool.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Barracuda Email Protection, I evaluated other options, including Bitwarden .
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Barracuda Email Protection is that we are using Barracuda Essentials across the organization to protect users from malicious email attacks and to secure data in the cloud backups. It solves issues in one solution: backup, protection, and reporting. All data is backed up to the cloud, including Office 365 , SharePoint , and OneDrive for all users. It protects the user inbox with a myriad of content filtering and black and whitelisting. It is simple for the IT department and other departments to find quarantined emails and release them. It has increased my organization's security posture, especially when dealing with threats from emails, making it a very recommendable tool that is cost-effective and easy to use.
Our users feel more comfortable since they receive a lot less spam and phishing emails, and they love how easy it is to send encrypted emails. Barracuda Email Protection is very easy to use since it really does not take any effort from the user other than clicking one button to send outgoing encrypted emails when needed. Management is also very easy, and there is not much to do other than add or remove email addresses and add or remove domains from the spam filtering list. Overall, it is a great tool. I would rate this review an eight.
