Barracuda Email Security Gateway Primary Use Case

WalidChowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Operations at BD

Our customer faced a significant challenge with spam, leading to increased expenses. The complexity of their email infrastructure added to the issue, with some clients using Microsoft Exchange, others relying on different systems, and some operating on Linux platforms. To address this, we recommended a solution that seamlessly integrates with diverse email security platforms. It not only tackles spam effectively but also incorporates advanced features like ATP and active features which ensures a comprehensive and adaptable email security solution tailored to their heterogeneous environment.

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Robert Melendez - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Information Technology at Makeready

Barracuda protects you from spam and email-based threats like phishing. It also provides backup and web security. We have around 600 users.

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MA
Director Technical at CAD CAM Center

Our customers use the solution for security.

The solution can be deployed on-premise and in the cloud.

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Barracuda Email Security Gateway
April 2024
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Sameer Narayan - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Investment FIji

The solution is primarily for email security. For example, if an email comes through, we need to know what sort of email it is. We have enabled the SPF and the DMARC on it. We've also enabled those security elements so that it has some threat prevention before any unsolicited email comes to our gateway. This basically does all the filtering, before we actually receive an email. There are a number of undeliverable emails we get in our inboxes. In that event, if we are not able to see these emails, we can always log onto the Barracuda Gateway to actually see the emails to say whether they're valid or not. If the authenticity of the email is revealed, we are able to release them.

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Furqan Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Pronet

Barracuda is similar to FortiMail. There is a cloud component that acts like a sandbox. The email enters, and you can open a suspicious attachment to see if it's malicious. If you find that it's malicious, you can block it and send it to Barracuda's on-prem device.

The on-prem device looks for other details like URLs and particular types of content. If everything looks okay, it's forwarded to the SMTP server and the user. We have around 20 to 30 users.

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MQ
Assistant Manager, Information Technology Systems at Getz Pharma

We primarily use the solution for email security.

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Phakedi Mphela - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at Brilliant telecommunications

Barracuda Email Security Gateway is a good product, though it is a bit expensive. Barracuda Email Security Gateway's AI and threat detection methods are good, though the product doesn't provide much archiving features. I even recommend Barracuda Email Security Gateway to others, and if I have money, I will go for it, but when I am running a business, I need to look at what is good for business and make profits.

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Jamie Liu - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I'm still new to the Barracuda. We're using the Email Security Gateway, however, I'm not sure about the cloud, or the archive capabilities. It's a new system for me. 

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AM
Senior Account Manager at National Bank of Egypt

Our customers use this solution for screening.

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Gayan Ranaweera - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at Fentons Limited

We are Barracuda Email Security Gateway for protecting our user's emails.

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Saad Zarkout - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at BUTEC s.a.l.

We are using Barracuda Email Security Gateway for ATP,  anti-spam, antivirus, and everything related to enabling flow.

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AbdulHannan - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at Pronet

The solution helps manage both inbound and outbound email. It prevents email phishing, spam attacks, and major attacks, securing email communication against various threats, including social engineering and compromised addresses. It has multiple features to prevent the user from being the victim of attacks.

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AV
Network Administrator at Ras Al Khaimah International Airport

All our Office 365 emails will first go through Barracuda. It checks for any EXEs and the like, checking the email contents to allow or stop those. We also use the solution for archiving and backups.

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Igor Gutierrez - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Officer & DPO - Data Protection Officer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is the first security layer for emails that come into our network, and we use it to filter all spam, phishing emails, and malware that come in via email.

We are now using the virtual appliance in our VMware environment.

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Roy Bolaños - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Service Staff at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It's easy to use. The configuration and web interface are user-friendly. The spam filter and other features work well.

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KR
IT Manager at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Our primary use case for this solution is spam filtering. It extracts messaging for us. Thanks to Barracuda Email Security Gateway, I have seen increases in productivity and functionality in terms of spam reduction and filtering against different threats, which is a benefit by default.

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Anuraj Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at SNSIN

Barracuda Email Security Gateway can be deployed on the cloud or on-premise.

Barracuda Email Security Gateway is similar to a traditional spam filter but provides more features. It protects you from the attacks that are coming through your emails. It scans and filters your email, and delivers them.

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SK
Senior Manager at Havells

Barracuda Email Security Gateway is used to protect users' email inboxes from malicious threats coming from outside of the network. For example, it can be a malicious link or some malware as an attachment. If these threats are sent to our users, then it blocks and deletes the email.

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RA
General Manager at Gemakom

We use it ourselves as well as our customers. Our deployment is on-premise and also combined with cloud control. Cloud control is second-tier. The first tier is cloud control, the Barracuda and Barracuda cloud and then the email is passed to our Barracuda box which is on-premise. It's a gateway appliance, not a hardware box. It is normally used with Microsoft Exchange server but is also supported with Microsoft Office 365. We have 20 users but our customers have from 200 to 500 users.

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Damodharan R - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at I A M IT Technologies LLC

We use the solution to protect our email, domain, and users against spear phishing, spamming, malware, and malicious attacks regarding attachments and URLs.

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Binoob John - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner/Owner and Director of Human Resources at Up arrow Systems

Barracuda Email Security Gateway is primarily employed for safeguarding emails, focusing on email security.

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HS
Director at Dynamic Computer Services

This is a total email security solution.

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Lahiru Somasiri - PeerSpot reviewer
Trainee Engineer - Systems & Security at Connex Information Technologies

The solution is directly used as a email service for inbound and outbound protection and as a spam gateway. When issues of spam are reported to the company then we can suggest Email Security Gateway for the customer.

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Zubair Ahmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Chief Manager at Arcil

We always use the latest version. 

We use it as an email gateway. 

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Mohammed Shah Newaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant General Manager at CoLoCity

We use Barracuda Email Security Gateway and also provide it for our customers to reduce incoming spam. It provides security for email delivery from our customer sites and also our sites. Most of our clients, who get a lot of spam, manage their own email server, but they do not have a dedicated spam filter or email security gateway. As a result, they get a lot of spam. Because of this, they end up searching for a solution that they can use. They do not want to buy a dedicated solution. Instead, they want to use a subscription option.

In our VM, we provide a subscription model. People are server scraping to us for incoming and outgoing purposes. 

This is an on-premise solution in our data center. We provide it to our remote customers as a hosted service.

This is a virtual appliance installed within a server. The VM is installed within the Hyper-V Server.

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BJ
DP Manager at a agriculture with 51-200 employees

Barracuda protects us from spam and email-based threats. 

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MuhammadIshaq Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Administrator at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution helps us to block some blacklisted emails.

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Mohankannan Ramadoss - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Manager at Digitaltrack

We use Barracuda Email Security Gateway for securing emails.

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KM
Computer Networks and Systems Support Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 11-50 employees

We use Barracuda Email Security Gateway for email security.

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DD
CIO at a government with 51-200 employees

This solution is my spam filter and it's tied to my exchange server. All SMTP traffic goes through Barracuda. I've just started using their cloud service and I'm looking possibly at their firewall solutions also because I can tie all these things together in the cloud. We are customers of Barracuda and I work as CIO at a municipality in the States. 

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SH
Senior Systems Administrator - Microsoft & LINUX at TCS Pvt. Ltd.

As a large organization, we require a powerful email spam filter and an email security gateway. This is our primary use case for Barracuda Email Security.

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Zubair Ahmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Chief Manager at Arcil

We are using Barracuda Email Security Gateway to protect against inbound malware, spam, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks to ensure that our business productivity isn't impacted by attacks through the email system. 

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FR
Founder CEO at Waterdog Computer Works

We are an MSP (Managed Service Provider) so, basically, all of our business clients who want email security are using this product.  

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SS
System Administrator at Subisu Cablenet Pvt. Ltd.

We are relaying our emails from Barracuda Email Security Gateway. We are using Barracuda Email Security Gateway 600.

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CK
Network Specialist at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for filtering and enhancing our email.

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TA
Network Manager with 1-10 employees

We use this as our email security gateway for the protection of the emails. 

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AH
Head Information Technology Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is useful for a medium-sized business. It is not useful for large enterprise solutions. It's made for small networks with fewer mailboxes.

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KA
Deputy Manager IT Operations (Senior System Administrator) at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is primarily used for email protection and security.

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SS
Senior IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We are using the solution to upgrade clients using old legacy security to the cloud.

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AJ
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Our primary use of this solution is for the main features: intelligent sensing of attacks and the assistance for load balancing. The features are very good. The system is intelligent enough to determine which emails are genuine and deliverable and which are spam or phishing or other types of potential attacks. It processes emails in real-time and it can protect your email server and provide good security for an organization's network.

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SM
Insolvency Practitioner and Director at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

We are using this product to protect us against spam and viruses.

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MB
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are a system integrator and this is one of the products that we provide to our clients.

This solution is used for email security. It provides security when using Office 365, for Google Suite, in-house email servers, and other devices.

We generally deploy it as a hardware solution for our clients, but it depends on their environment and what their requirements are.

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it_user8769 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology and Information Systems Manager at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

Our primary use case is really for spam and malware, in and out of the organization.

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DS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We have almost 600 users using Veeam Backup which is secured through Barracuda Email Security gateway. We are resellers of Barracuda. 

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SS
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use Barracuda Email Security Gateway for threat protection.

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Buyer's Guide
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Barracuda Email Security Gateway. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.