We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Archiving solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Barracuda Essentials are it's a trusted name and is rated very high on review sites. It blocks high percentages of spam and junk email and it's in the cloud. They have hardware appliances, but this is in the cloud. The solution is very effective at blocking malware and blocking spam and this is what we are looking for. There's not a whole lot of complexity, you want a solution that is very good at blocking out all of the unwanted emails."
"Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"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."
"This is a solid email monitoring and security system that learns and maintains a two-way dialog with email system administrators."
"The scanners with FortiMail are valuable."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to setup rules and destinations. It also helps to monitor suspicious items."
"If there is a problem somewhere Fortinet can act on it immediately. That is very important."
"Content disarming and analysis are essential features in our email security setup"
"The implementation was very professional. There are a lot of features I can get through Fortinet and FortiMail, such as security. FortiGuard is the most reliable and professional mitigation center to handle incidents and risk that I have to face."
"The most valuable features are email ATB and Malware Analysis."
"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 platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"The solution's reporting mechanism is a little poor and could be improved."
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"The product could be improved by extending reporting tools and adding options for notification."
"I would like to see more advanced sandbox features, where you can actually download to a machine where you can test."
"This ease of use and user-friendliness is something we believe could be improved in FortiMail."
"Fortinet FortiMail Cloud doesn't have AI features, making it an outdated tool for me."
"I can't see the feedback to the FortiMail gateway."
"The downside of this solution is that it is difficult to implement policies on FortiMail."
"It is slightly difficult to configure FortiMail in the cloud with Exchange on-premise, especially the quarantine mailbox access for end-users."
"The setup of the rules can be improved. I think it should be simplified and would be the best improvement in the system."
Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 3rd in Email Archiving with 13 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 6th in Cloud Email with 18 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda Email Protection writes "Set-it-and-forget-it type of product that doesn't require a lot of management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". Barracuda Email Protection is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, TitanHQ SpamTitan, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Abnormal Security, whereas Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Proofpoint Email Protection. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud report.
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