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Barracuda Email Protection Advanced 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.
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- Stops 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.
- Prevents email domain fraud and spoofing with DMARC reporting. Gives you granular visibility and analysis of your SPF/DKIM/DMARC configurations and minimizes false positives while protecting legitimate email.
- Defends against account takeovers by detecting anomalous email behavior and alerting IT. Finds and removes all fraudulent emails sent from compromised accounts, and automatically claws back email threats with malicious payloads post-delivery.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/month |
|---|---|---|
Advance Email protection | Email Gateway Defense and Impersonation Protection | $6.70 |
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Email security has blocked attacks and provides reliable backups and detailed reporting
What is our primary use case?
I work with Barracuda Email Protection as a customer. My major use case for using Barracuda Email Protection is at 100% because we get the whole thing, but unfortunately, it doesn't do backup for us on-premises. It only backs up wherever it's stored. We have that kind of problem, but nonetheless, so far we can keep it because we haven't been hacked. It's blocking all malware, trojans, and all these things. It's doing well for us. We haven't had any attack on Barracuda Email Protection's side.
Before Barracuda Email Protection, we did use another product for backup internally until we found another solution for internal.
What is most valuable?
I'm using Barracuda Email Protection for backup and email protection for two purposes. There are also impersonation features and other capabilities, and most of it is acceptable, but the only thing I think that's missing is the WAF and some other features. Domain fraud protection is there, and it's quite comprehensive.
The biggest advantage for me in Barracuda Email Protection is that it's user-friendly, easy to navigate anytime, and the reporting is fine. Unfortunately, you can see all the message logs, which includes the inbound and outbound messages, and that puts it in a way that we feel like we can see emails that are too sensitive for management. That was one of the downfalls. If we could hide that feature, probably we could adjust the admin so we know one is accountable. But for now, once you give anyone rights, they have all the access to see the message logs and everything.
Regarding the threat protection feature in Barracuda Email Protection, it does not help to manage threats or sophisticated threats.
The reporting in Barracuda Email Protection is very good. You can do a weekly or monthly report, and it's excellent.
I find data protection in Barracuda Email Protection is adequate for us.
What needs improvement?
The downfalls I see are that it doesn't do backup on-premises, WAF is not included, and the issue with the message logs.
Something is missing in Barracuda Email Protection. I would like to see AI incorporation so that whatever AI platforms we are using should detect that something is not legitimate or whatever. If we can have that AI tool, the power tool of AI, that would be excellent.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Barracuda Email Protection for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I think Barracuda Email Protection is stable and very reliable. The upgrades they do behind the scenes keep us quite happy, with updates, patches, and everything.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In terms of scalability, I would say it wouldn't be expensive to scale, but somehow it will take some other resources here in the operation of administration cost and management. Scalability is expensive for Barracuda Email Protection.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support from Barracuda Email Protection is helpful; you just need to know what you want from them. I would give eight points for support from Barracuda Email Protection.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before Barracuda Email Protection, we did use another product for backup internally until we found another solution for internal.
How was the initial setup?
In terms of installation and deployment of Barracuda Email Protection, I would say installation is quite easy. It's not complicated. It's just that it's tedious because a lot of things are involved, but immediately in an hour or two, you get to complete it. It's much easier if you are using the cloud one, but if you are using the on-premises component, that's one factor I feel is tedious. The cloud one is more maneuverable to deploy.
What was our ROI?
The investment in Barracuda Email Protection is quite good for us because we see the value of money on it. We are saving a lot with Barracuda Email Protection. In an estimate, we were paying close to 300,000, but now we are sitting with Barracuda Email Protection at 100,000.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I would say the price for Barracuda Email Protection is very nice; the solution is not expensive.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
What other advice do I have?
I am not using threat protection in Barracuda Email Protection. I am not using link protection; it's only looking at the M365 ones. Even though I mention some problems like the message logs or the absence of WAF, I would still give Barracuda Email Protection the maximum score. I give this review a rating of 10.
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Email protection has prevented ransomware and phishing and keeps our organization’s data safe
What is our primary use case?
We are still working with Barracuda Email Protection . The requirement for Barracuda Email Protection is to ensure security over all emails that come into the office, so it protects us from all malicious code, phishing, and ransomware attacks. It saves us from all of them, and it also tells us if there is a vulnerability in any user.
What is most valuable?
The functions in Barracuda Email Protection that I find the most valuable are the way it is reported and the way the solution is given for a threat if it has found one. The way it has protected malicious mails from being delivered makes a huge impact.
Threat Protection is a feature we use, which only gives us an advanced warning or an alert on any kind of malicious code coming in as an email.
Link Protection for email security is very important and very useful. We do use Link Protection extensively.
We do use Barracuda Data Protection functions, and the advantage we have is that the backed up data is protected from any possible attack that can come or any kind of hijack or data being misused. The Data Protection feature helps us ensure that the data is safe.
Barracuda Email Protection helps us prevent accidental data leaks because it gives Link Protection, so you don't click a link by oversight or mistake thinking it is genuine. This ensures that your chances of being vulnerable are gone, and the data used for protection is also safe, so we don't see any kind of data leak coming through this.
The main benefits Barracuda Email Protection provides for us are saving time and money because we don't run into any kind of attack or disruption in the mail service that we may face, including ransomware attacks. That is definitely important for us; the workflow is there but it is not that critical at this point. However, it is important to be protected and save money.
What needs improvement?
In my opinion, Barracuda Email Protection can improve by possibly adding more features towards zero trust capabilities or towards ensuring that the data protected is more secure, such as a vault. Additionally, the retrieval feature through Outlook, which is the email client that we use most, can be improved.
For the purpose for which we use it, I see no lack of function in Barracuda Email Protection. The wishlist can always be there to enhance it, but from what it is meant to do, it is fairly up-to-date and modern.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Barracuda Email Protection for about six to seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
For stability, I would rate Barracuda Email Protection almost a nine.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would also rate the scalability of Barracuda Email Protection as a nine.
How are customer service and support?
We have not had too many technical issues, but I would rate technical support as an eight. They can still improve.
How was the initial setup?
The setup process for Barracuda Email Protection is quite simple. We did the setup ourselves; our team installed it.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did compare Barracuda Email Protection with other products, specifically Check Point Harmony. We chose Barracuda Email Protection over Harmony because we found Barracuda Email Protection's strike rate on identifying detection was much higher. Second, we found Barracuda Email Protection's pricing to be far more comparable and reasonable than Harmony. Additionally, I found the speed of Harmony was not as good as Barracuda Email Protection.
What other advice do I have?
I would give Barracuda Email Protection a final mark of about nine. We strongly recommend users to go with Barracuda Email Protection.
Advanced threat protection has strengthened email security and provides actionable real-time analytics
What is our primary use case?
We are using Barracuda Email Protection , which is an email defense solution. We utilize the Threat Protection feature, including declination, cloud features, backup, and archiving.
We do use Barracuda Email Protection 's data protection features. Barracuda Email Protection's data protection feature is effective because we are using the archiving and all emails have been archived with Barracuda Email Protection archiving.
I have found value in the actionable analytics provided. The benefits my customers have seen from the actionable analytics include pulling out more data and analyzing real-time threats.
I assess the impact of Barracuda Email Protection on compliance efforts regarding security events as good. There are two issues that I can think of in terms of compliance, such as local data storage, which they do not have. We are storing the data in another foreign country, which is not how it is supposed to be. Our data must be within the South African borders. I think that compliance part is the one that is lacking there.
What is most valuable?
Threat Protection feature is a good tool and a very efficient tool. I tried competitors' solutions.
The link protection feature is good and it impacts our organization's email safety by detecting links that other security solutions would let pass through. It locks them, blocks them, and quarantines them sometimes.
I assess Barracuda Email Protection's ability to prevent accidental data leaks as good because they are using RDL and scoring. If it finds something with a low score, it is quarantined or blocked on our end.
What I use to evaluate the effectiveness of Barracuda Email Protection's email security features are metrics depending on the scoring. Barracuda Email Protection has scoring to indicate if something is spam or a phishing link, and the scoring is at 100%. If we see that it is a false positive from our end, we release it so that machine learning could improve for next time.
I think the automatic security updates are good and very effective. These updates have helped my customers counter emerging threats by allowing them to notice if there is a new interface. We started with an old Barracuda Email Protection interface, and now you can click to get to the new interface, which I found very good and helpful.
The real-time attack detection feature has improved their threat response strategies significantly.
What needs improvement?
I think Barracuda Email Protection can be improved in the reporting part. They need to do something with the reporting and it needs to be in PDF format. At the moment, it is in Excel, and the reporting is very average. What we need to do on our side is not a standard way of reporting; we need to infuse the data that is being pulled from Barracuda Email Protection to Power BI and then generate our own reports. I am not using their report.
Regarding the price, I find it pretty expensive. It is not even reasonable; it is pretty expensive because we are dealing with the South African market and our currency is not as powerful as the dollar. That is where we are struggling a little bit with this.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Barracuda Email Protection for about five years.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate the technical support for Barracuda Email Protection as eight. They take long to respond, but they know their content and are good at it.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for Barracuda Email Protection is straightforward and simple. The only challenge is that Barracuda Email Protection always supports cloud. We tried to implement it on-premises, but it was struggling and we had to maneuver through and resolve some conflicts so that it could accommodate on-premises Microsoft. However, Exchange Online comes through very well with Exchange Online and Microsoft 365.
What other advice do I have?
You can purchase Barracuda Email Protection directly from Barracuda. We deal with Barracuda Email Protection as a Service. I have been working with Barracuda Email Protection as a Service for about five years as well. I usually recommend Barracuda Email Protection for private and government companies. I rate this review an 8.
