We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, Mimecast and others in SEG (Secure Email Gateway)."The client has the option to blacklist or whitelist any email address or domain based on the sender and recipient filters. If they want, they can restrict any IP addresses so email won't be received from those IP addresses."
"The solution is scalable."
"It can effectively combat phishing attacks, block spam, provide confirmation, and ensure operational manageability with a strong focus on product stability."
"The most important features of Barracuda Email Security Gateway are the simple and quick configuration, interactive console, and easy-to-understand logs."
"The spam filtering, in particular, is very important for us. We have a large volume of emails each month, something like 200,000, and Barracuda filters about 85 percent of the spam, malware, and phishing that comes in. It prevents our users from receiving this content on their computers."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is that it blocks almost 99 percent of threats from users' email inboxes."
"The performance is good."
"The security protection is the best and it's GUI is user-friendly."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"A stable solution."
"Barracuda isn't catching everything. We're still getting quite a few phishing emails, so we're looking for something else."
"Barracuda has shown difficulty in providing us with the solutions we sought."
"Barracuda could improve its log and export options like PDF and HDML. It can also bring in more detailing in their console so that it could be better. Some new features should be expanded and made accessible for better protection."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"The dashboard's UI could be improved to make changes to the blocklist."
"The solution should include an improvised anti-phishing feature, since it blocks certain genuine emails."
"We would like to have a local support center in India so that they are operating in the same time zone and speak the same language."
"We still have critical threats coming into our environment and delivered to our users. When we compare it with other solutions, these other solutions can already detect those threats."
"Malware needs improvement."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in SEG (Secure Email Gateway) with 51 reviews while Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is ranked 37th in Email Security. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Barracuda Email Security Gateway writes "Robust email protection with advanced features such as effective spam filtering, virus and malware defense, phishing protection and high scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway writes "Facilitates creation of your own content-filtering policies with relative ease". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Proofpoint Email Protection and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Mimecast Email Security and Proofpoint Email Protection.
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