We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Office 365 Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 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."
"I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products."
"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"The best feature of Barracuda Email Protection is that it provides protection for Microsoft 365."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the TAP Dashboard. It provides more detailed information that can be used for forensic analysis. This is an advantage that other email security providers, such as Cisco, IronPort, or Microsoft do not offer in their dashboards."
"The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The stability is very good."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a good product, and its most beneficial feature is the Threat Response Auto-Pull. I also like that it's an integrated email security solution."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"The solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"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 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 solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The accessibility of Proofpoint Email Protection, particularly access to product trials, could be improved. It's hard to get a trial for Proofpoint Email Protection, and many customers prefer not just to do the POC or demo but try the product out."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"The false positives are an issue."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is an expensive solution."
"The flexibility of the solution can be improved."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 4th in Office 365 Protection with 13 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Office 365 Protection with 44 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. 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 Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". 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 Perception Point Advanced Email Security, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Proofpoint Email Protection report.
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