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Vendor: Barracuda Networks
4.3 out of 5
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What is Barracuda Email Threat Scanner?

Find out what's hiding in your inbox.
It's critical to assess and understand your email security vulnerabilities. Using artificial intelligence and API integration with Office 365, the Barracuda Email Threat Scanner quickly and effectively finds social engineering attacks currently sitting in your mailboxes.

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Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is the #29 ranked solution in top Anti-Malware Tools. PeerSpot users give Barracuda Email Threat Scanner an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is most commonly compared to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Barracuda Email Threat Scanner vs Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is popular among the small business segment, accounting for 46% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 21% of all views.
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As of June 2025, the mindshare of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner in the Anti-Malware Tools category stands at 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Valuable Features

  • "It was easy to learn the product."
  • "The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is the security it provides by delaying the delivery of suspicious emails until they can be reviewed inside the Barracuda control panel."
  • "The main benefit that I am getting from this solution is that it filters almost 95% of my spam mail. Some spam mails bypass Barracuda Email Threat Scanner, but when I add those domains or addresses to the filter list, they get blocked. Some users on my premises do not understand which mail attachments or links should be opened. By filtering with Barracuda Email Threat Scanner, we are not getting any type of phishing mails. So, our infrastructure is safer, and as an IT person, I feel relaxed."

Room for Improvement

  • "The product must improve the features associated with creating a blacklist."
  • "If the price were lower, perhaps we could purchase our own."
  • "We had an incident last month where the PCs of one or two colleagues, who were outside of our factory and were using a defined network, got infected by some kind of malware. From their PCs, more than 1,000 mails were produced per hour, causing spamming on our mail server. Barracuda blocked the full mail communication. Only one to two accounts were compromised, and for that, Barracuda blocked all incoming and outgoing mails. It created a great problem for other users and our office activities. Our server was blocked for three days, which we did not expect. Technically, only one or two accounts should be blocked. When a domain or IP is blocked, communication becomes tough. It may be a configuration issue at our provider's end, where there was a mistake in configuring Barracuda. It could also be a problem related to Barracuda."

Pricing

  • "The solution is a bit expensive."
  • "Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is provided by our IT service provider, who also provides all the support. The licensing fee that we pay to our provider is $200 per month, that is, $1 per user. There is no additional cost.Before taking the subscription from our provider, I researched the market for Barracuda. The cost is between $5,000 to $8,000 for three years. After that, the same cost is there for renewal. If you have 200 to 500 users, it is better to take a subscription from a provider. If you have more than 500 users, then you can own the Barracuda server through the cloud or on-premises deployments. It is costly for a lesser number of users. If you increase the usage or the number of users, then the overall cost decreases.They can reduce the cost of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner for a small number of users. We could not and would not have used this solution if we had not got the renting or subscription option."
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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
8%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Educational Organization
7%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Retailer
5%
Wholesaler/Distributor
3%
Legal Firm
3%
Performing Arts
3%
Non Profit
2%
Insurance Company
2%
Consumer Goods Company
2%
Hospitality Company
2%
Healthcare Company
2%
University
2%
Logistics Company
2%

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JM
Manager, Information Technology at Friendly House
Verified user of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner
Aug 21, 2023
A highly scalable and easy-to-learn product that blocks phishing and spam emails

Pros

"It was easy to learn the product."

Cons

"The product must improve the features associated with creating a blacklist."

What is our primary use case?

I use the solution to protect my email.

How has it helped my organization?

The product blocks out a lot of phishing and spam emails that are sent to the employees.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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S. M. Rabiul Islam - PeerSpot user
Sr. System Engineer at Group QA
Verified user of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner
Dec 11, 2022
Is an easy, user-friendly solution that provides strong email security

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is the security it provides by delaying the delivery of suspicious emails until they can be reviewed inside the Barracuda control panel."

Cons

"If the price were lower, perhaps we could purchase our own."

What is our primary use case?

Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is a hybrid. It is deployed on-premises for devices and has a cloud-based control panel. We use the solution to review threats that might be contained in our emails.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is the security it provides by delaying the delivery of suspicious emails until they can be reviewed inside the Barracuda control panel. It keeps the mail inside the system unless it is deemed okay, and then can be sent to the client.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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S. M. Rabiul Islam - PeerSpot user
Sr. System Engineer at Group QA
Verified user of Barracuda Email Threat Scanner
Oct 31, 2020
Works perfectly and filters almost 95% of spam mails

Pros

"The main benefit that I am getting from this solution is that it filters almost 95% of my spam mail. Some spam mails bypass Barracuda Email Threat Scanner, but when I add those domains or addresses to the filter list, they get blocked. Some users on my premises do not understand which mail attachments or links should be opened. By filtering with Barracuda Email Threat Scanner, we are not getting any type of phishing mails. So, our infrastructure is safer, and as an IT person, I feel relaxed."

Cons

"We had an incident last month where the PCs of one or two colleagues, who were outside of our factory and were using a defined network, got infected by some kind of malware. From their PCs, more than 1,000 mails were produced per hour, causing spamming on our mail server. Barracuda blocked the full mail communication. Only one to two accounts were compromised, and for that, Barracuda blocked all incoming and outgoing mails. It created a great problem for other users and our office activities. Our server was blocked for three days, which we did not expect. Technically, only one or two accounts should be blocked. When a domain or IP is blocked, communication becomes tough. It may be a configuration issue at our provider's end, where there was a mistake in configuring Barracuda. It could also be a problem related to Barracuda."

What is our primary use case?

We are using this solution to filter spam mails. We have taken a rental subscription for 200 users from an IT service provider. We are using the latest version.

What is most valuable?

The main benefit that I am getting from this solution is that it filters almost 95% of my spam mail. 

  • Spam Scoring, with Block or Quarantine actions
  • IP Address Filtering
  • Sender Domain Filtering
  • Sender Email Address Filtering
  • Recipient Filtering
  • Content Filtering (Subject, Header and Body)
  • Attachment Filtering
  • Fingerprint Analysis
  • Image Analysis
  • Intent Analysis

Our most of communication tool was email. phishing mail was the biggest headache for me. So I decided to go with Barracuda email security gateway

Now, our infrastructure is safer, and as an IT person, I feel relaxed.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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