We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud, and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, IRONSCALES and others in Secure Email Gateway (SEG)."The performance is good."
"All features it provides on the cloud environment are very, very useful, including the antivirus that is enabled on it."
"The most valuable feature is the Antispam services, which are the basic services of spam device"
"This product is powerful and quite simple to use."
"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 solution helps us to block some blacklisted emails."
"There are plenty of features, such as sandboxing capabilities with zero threat protection. It has all the leading email security appliances compared to other solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is that it blocks almost 99 percent of threats from users' email inboxes."
"It has the best feature for processed mail analysis."
"The most valuable features are the low price and its ability to integrate with other Fortinet products."
"The deployment is simple."
"If there is a problem somewhere Fortinet can act on it immediately. That is very important."
"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."
"Content disarming and analysis are essential features in our email security setup"
"The most valuable features are email ATB and Malware Analysis."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool."
"The spam filter for email is good."
"The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the dashboards and their visibility, easy configuration, and artificial intelligence. Additionally, the reports are very important and helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to remove bad messages that were delivered, prior to being classified as unwanted."
"Its anti-phishing functionality is the most valuable. Certainly, the biggest problem I have is phishing."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"Its main defense is to stop malicious emails from coming through. There is a sandbox environment where you can open malicious or suspicious emails to make sure that they're not malicious, instead of taking the risk of having your employees do it. This is definitely something that everybody needs nowadays, especially with the rise in cyber attacks."
"This product can always be made more secure."
"Some customers experience issues with integration."
"Barracuda has shown difficulty in providing us with the solutions we sought."
"Its integration with other solutions can be improved. There should be integration for telemetry information, system information, and other types of information with other solutions. Barracuda currently doesn't have that. Barracuda has its own platform. Its integration with firewalls is quite good, and it communicates really well with firewalls, but I have not seen any other integration. Based on what I know, it does have an API at the backend, but I have not used it."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's the only feature that is required."
"The downsides of the solution stem from the fact that it is an expensive product, and one may see too many false positives when using it, making them both areas where improvements are required."
"Barracuda's spam database isn't on par with its competitors. Users complain about the spam email they're receiving, and we report the issue. Barracuda said they are going to update their system to block the malicious email we received, but we're still getting the same spam. The signatures are not in their database. They need to update their spam signatures because spam is bypassing Barracuda."
"The deep scanning feature needs to be improved."
"This solution is slow and it should be made faster."
"The dashboard could use improvement."
"It is slightly difficult to configure FortiMail in the cloud with Exchange on-premise, especially the quarantine mailbox access for end-users."
"The URL filtering and handling should be enhanced because it doesn't support all languages. I believe that this would be easy to enhance in the future."
"The product could be improved by extending reporting tools and adding options for notification."
"They could look at strengthening anti-spam with the newly observed domains."
"This ease of use and user-friendliness is something we believe could be improved in FortiMail."
"I've not been able to use more than two domains in the back end. I like to view logs for the different domains. If I add any other domain I'm not able to get a proper cPanel for that domain. I am talking about the login factors. I'm not able to see logs for different domains in a different Window. Basically, it's an issue in the login process."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by reducing the price."
"Some use cases haven't been dealt with yet."
"I want Security Awareness Training in there as a package deal. A lot of companies are starting to value email security a little bit more and take it a little bit more seriously, and the great product that we link together with a lot of these sales is a training product called Security Awareness Training. It is an upsell that we do with Proofpoint, and it is definitely something that I recommend everybody with email security to look into. It would be great if Security Awareness Training is included with the email security."
"The flexibility of the solution can be improved."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"The stability and UI are the two areas of the solution with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
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