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Barracuda Email Protection vs Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Email Protection
Ranking in Email Security
12th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Email Archiving (2nd), Office 365 Protection (5th)
Check Point Harmony Email &...
Ranking in Email Security
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (5th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Email Security category, the mindshare of Barracuda Email Protection is 3.0%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is 4.8%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Email Security Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration4.8%
Barracuda Email Protection3.0%
Other92.2%
Email Security
 

Featured Reviews

LeeMiles - PeerSpot reviewer
Very good threat protection, spam filtering, and cloud backups
Considering it integrates with Azure, I would like to be able to effectively set up policies where people are by default included in certain settings. For instance, for email quarantine, I can't set up a global setting. Users must go through an induction session where I guide them in configuring quarantine alerts rather than having default settings based on group membership. This seems like an oversight since they already use Active Directory details. They should assign policies based on group membership, which configures these settings by default.
Nasseer Qureshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Email security effectively detects a wide range of threats and improves productivity
Since we have been using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for a year, we haven't encountered significant challenges. However, it would be beneficial if it could support other email security services beyond Microsoft and Google. Integration with other platforms would enhance its appeal since the features are commendable. While the analytics are commendable, they don't provide deep dive insights. They show the overall counts of malware, phishing, and business compromise emails, but there isn't a robust ability to dive deeper into those categories to see specifics. Analytics should allow us to explore which users received malware emails the most or trends among departments. Currently, we have to sift through manually, which is not ideal. A more profound analytical capability would elevate the tool to become the complete email security solution for any user.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We now have a secondary backup of Office 365 that's much easier to retrieve compared to Microsoft. If someone deletes something in Office 365, we can get it back within Office 365, but it's difficult. Barracuda is much easier. There is a lot less management needed using Barracuda. The management becomes much easier for Office 365 and it's no longer on-prem, so there are fewer hours managing on-prem devices, servers, and things of that nature. We don't have network appliances anymore for the backup of our information."
"The archiving and search features are very good."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"The best feature of Barracuda Email Protection is that it provides protection for Microsoft 365."
"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"I would rate the solution nine out of ten."
"The option to set a copy is beneficial."
"The solution is easy to customize and the options available on the portal are easily accessible to all technicians."
"The phishing filtering feature is valuable for me because it stops most of the phishing emails before they hit the users' inboxes, ensuring that users don't see the infected or phishing emails."
"The threat management database provides consistent updates."
"Check Point adds value with east-west protection in the data center."
"The ease of management and intuitive administration are excellent."
"It seems quite scalable. We don't anticipate any scaling issues. We have it deployed in the cloud."
"The stuff that it's picking up and blocking and stopping from coming into our environment has been fantastic."
 

Cons

"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"Barracuda Email Protection needs better reporting and more robust integration with security awareness training platforms and third-party solutions."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"There is room for improvement, particularly in reaching out to technical support during deployment."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"The customer service and support could be improved if the support were available directly in Europe. Currently, the support is often managed from India, so we sometimes need to wait due to the time zone difference. It would be quicker and better if the support were provided by European staff."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"A phishing simulator would be helpful as a user training module."
"It would be good to have the option to export the respective record data from dashboards or logs to .csv or other files."
"Cloud Guard would be a complete solution if Check Point added a comprehensive data loss solution that included capabilities such as bulk data transfer detection."
"The reporting could be improved."
"Integration is currently limited to Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite."
"We are unable to export the reports from the dashboard, and if it is possible to do then it is not intuitive."
"After updates, the internet connection fails, and I have to restart my desktop to resume initial functionalities."
"We have used technical support, but their response time is very slow. It needs to be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We didn't have to pay a lot for the solution because we got it from a good vendor with a good user volume."
"The solution's pricing is moderate, where it is neither cheap nor expensive."
"The price of Barracuda Essentials is better than some of the competing products."
"Barracuda licensing model is good."
"We pay annually. They never charged us for anything else. And they were quite a bit under that $20,000 mark. It was $19,074. And they've been pretty good about not skyrocketing the price or anything like that. It has gone up. It's gone up to $24,000 in 2020."
"Despite a list price possibly around $40 per user, their market price allows customers to easily buy the solution."
"The product is expensive."
"Price-wise, this product is middle-of-the-road."
"Reasonable cost, quick and easy implementation, and transparent."
"Being able to keep the phishing campaigns out of my company has been ROI for me."
"The pricing and licensing are always negotiable."
"You can get CloudGuard as part of Infinity. When you do the solution through Infinity, it's a per user type of license cost."
"Cost is the main concern that every customer takes into consideration, and Check Point always negotiates a price that is affordable."
"This is a very good product if you are on the cloud, but the price is a little more expensive."
"The product is expensive compared to some competitors, especially for the SME segment."
"One of the nice features is that the licensing model is elastic, so if you go over your license count, you can add users during your billing cycle and true-up later."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Construction Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business47
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise29
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Email Protection?
Barracuda Email Protection is easy to deploy and maintain. It doesn't require a specialized resource to manage this tool.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Email Protection?
Their list price is too high, but in India, the selling price is affordable at around $10 per user per year. Despite a list price possibly around $40 per user, their market price allows customers t...
What needs improvement with Barracuda Email Protection?
Considering it integrates with Azure, I would like to be able to effectively set up policies where people are by default included in certain settings. For instance, for email quarantine, I can't se...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point Harmony Email & Office?
The setup cost for Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration was minimal since the vendor set it up for us.
What is your primary use case for Check Point Harmony Email & Office?
We are currently using Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration for our primary email security gateway to scan all the vulnerabilities that come in the mail and to safeguard us from spam mails...
What do you like most about Check Point Harmony Email & Office?
The product offers good and easy integration capabilities with other products.
 

Also Known As

Barracuda Essentials
Check Point CloudGuard, Check Point CloudGuard SaaS , Check Point Harmony Email & Office
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

ACT Government, Acumen Group, AGIP, Delta Dental Plans Association, Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., Equinox Information Systems
Helvetia, Denham Capital, Daymark Solutions, Neopharm Group
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