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Barracuda Email Protection Primary Use Case

Xavie Simons - PeerSpot reviewer
Xavie Simons
Business Development Manager at Procter & Gamble

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.

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Phakedi Mphela - PeerSpot reviewer
Phakedi Mphela
IT Project Manager at Brilliant telecommunications

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Email Protection's data protection feature is effective because we are using the archiving and all emails have been archived with Barracuda Email Protection archiving.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.

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Ferrianto Suryanto - PeerSpot reviewer
Ferrianto Suryanto
Director Of Technology at PT Exa Teknologi Indonesia

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.

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Sherif Fouad - PeerSpot reviewer
Sherif Fouad
Group ICT Manager at a mining and metals company with 501-1,000 employees

I am still working with Sophos, and I moved all our systems. Not all, but when it comes to cybersecurity, I always prefer using multiple layers of security. Sophos has been on the table since the end of 2018.

Sophos is not the only solution that I'm working with. When it comes to cybersecurity, it's one of the very few areas that I always like to have diversification because each product has its own edge. I would use Sophos for the endpoint and the servers protection, Sophos Intercept X MDR, and then I use them a little bit for anti-spam, but I use a different product solution for the mail security which is Barracuda Mail Security, and the incident response and the forensics investigation and the vulnerability assessment. I also use Microsoft Defender combined with InTune.

I am working with Barracuda products, specifically the whole cloud security suite. I'm using Barracuda Email Protection. I'm using the Impersonation Protection. I'm using the Domain Fraud Protection. I'm using the Email Gateway Defense. I'm using the response. I'm using the security awareness module as well. I'm using the Vulnerability Management.

I am now working with Capital Limited. It is still with Capdrl; Capdrl is Capital Limited. We just changed the name so we increased our portfolio. Instead of doing drilling, we're doing drilling for a source of mining services.

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HirenShah - PeerSpot reviewer
HirenShah
Director at Dynamic Group

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.

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LeeMiles - PeerSpot reviewer
LeeMiles
Director, Information Technology at St Albans High School For Girls

Threat protection, spam filtering, and cloud backup solutions are essential for me.

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Mujtaba Rizvi - PeerSpot reviewer
Mujtaba Rizvi
Manager IT- Systems and Data Center Operations at Hamdard

We use the solution to filter inbound emails for spam emails.

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Raghav Pandey
Senior Tech. Lead at WE

Barracuda Email Protection is good for customers who don't have resources to manage email security. It is automated and easy to use. You just need to configure it, turn it on, and it works automatically. It's suitable for customers with up to a thousand users and does not require extensive customization.

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BassamAlobaidi
ICT officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is useful for archiving. We archive emails and search our mailboxes.

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Alex Clerici - PeerSpot reviewer
Alex Clerici
System Integrator IT Manager at Tecnimex S.r.l.

We use Barracuda primarily as an email gateway. It also integrates with the Microsoft 365 platform.

It provides anti-spam protection and all the various anti-spam aspects of email management. We generally use it with products other than Microsoft, so we're very happy to have Barracuda available.

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AshishSingh15 - PeerSpot reviewer
AshishSingh15
Presales Consultant Cybersecurity at ZONES PVT LTD

As a system integrator, our focus lies in delivering system integration as a service. Our approach is customer-centric, tailoring solutions based on individual client relationships. Suppose a scenario where a customer was using Office 365 and noticed a lack of attachment security in their inboxes due to missing Office 365 E or E5 licenses. This resulted in an influx of spam emails, recognizing the significant threat posed by email-based attacks. In response, we conducted an assessment and recommended Barracuda Total Email Protection. We seamlessly redirected Office 365 traffic to the existing Barracuda solution, effectively addressing the attachment security concerns.

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Sazzad Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Sazzad Khan
CTO at Dhaka Distributions

It's used by big companies, banks, and others. We provide technical support and solution design for them.

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AmrZaki
Chief Information Officer at Ramw Group

Barracuda Email Protection is used for email protection and forensics.

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Brian Lippold
Network Administrator at BROCKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

The primary use is to back up our Office 365. It also comes with email security and the Message Archiver. Our Office 365 backup is probably the most important piece and the Message Archiver is the second most important piece. It archives every email that comes in, it's not a backup type of an archive. You can use it for a backup, but it doesn't put it in folders, it's not for restoring someone's mailbox. It's just for searching for emails in case there's some type of litigation that requires us to retrieve someone's email messages.

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Anne-Aimee Wollerich - PeerSpot reviewer
Anne-Aimee Wollerich
Cyber Security Consultant at Axle iT

We have a premium selection within our environment and use Barracuda. It stops threats and malicious messages but also detects stuff you don't want on your computer and in your environment, so we're really happy. You don't have to do anything. You get emails to notify you.

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Donald Wisdom
Owner at Datalink Networks

Barracuda Essentials is used for anyone that wants to protect their email. It helps with protecting against spam, malware, and encrypting your email messages. This is an option with all the email messages. They have other add-ons which use artificial intelligence to protect you against fishing attempts. 

They have employee training against email phishing attempts. There are nice packages of other options that can be added to Barracuda Essentials.

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reviewer2507559 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2507559
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the solution to protect against phishing, impersonation, or spam emails.

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CM Hong
System Engineer at AFG

We use Barracuda Email Protection for user management purposes.

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reviewer1164006 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1164006
Director Of Information Technology at a security firm with 1-10 employees

I used the service, which includes the email gateways and the email archiver.

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HirenShah - PeerSpot reviewer
HirenShah
Director at Dynamic Group

We are a solution provider and Barracuda Essentials is one of the security products that we implement for our clients.

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Muhammed Elsayed
Security Consultant at Global Brands Group (GBG)

We use the solution to protect users' companies from spamming emails, phishing emails, malicious attachments and links, etc.

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Buyer's Guide
Barracuda Email Protection
March 2026
Learn what your peers think about Barracuda Email Protection. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2026.
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