We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Proofpoint Email Protection, and Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] 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)."This appliance has helped in that we now eliminate the thousands of scams, spam, and malware emails that are destined for our users."
"The anti-spamming, anti-fishing features are great."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway has a good feature of email spooling, which acts as a first line of security."
"The security protection is the best and it's GUI is user-friendly."
"Barracuda is good at keeping the garbage from reaching your inbox."
"It is an excellent, intelligent solution that provides maximum security from email attacks."
"Great at blocking spam."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the cloud ATP functionality not available on the on-premise version. Most of the zero-day attacks can be mitigated with ATP. Additionally, the reporting functionality is good."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"The most valuable features are the business email compromise protection and targeted attack prevention."
"The solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection."
"The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the URL relay protection because it protects users from phishing attacks."
"The filtering aspect is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The ease of use and the security offered by the solution are its most valuable features. It also offers good information protection."
"This is a stable, scalable product that provides a reliable email protection layer."
"The solution is very easy to use, especially the cloud version which is very, very simple. There are some good templates already built-in, so we can just select the template, and you will get all the necessary functionality. The only one thing you have to do is point all your traffic in the cloud."
"Email encryption, because it fulfills our business needs."
"The interface makes it really easy to administer and configure."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"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."
"This product can always be made more secure."
"Solution requires regular checking to ensure it's 'keeping up' with spam."
"The UI could be a little cleaner and require less clicking around in different modules. They give the illusion of a single pane of glass, but as you click around to different products, you're actually being transferred into a different system."
"There's a bit of configuration work that's needed with the DNS service provider, but other than that, everything else should be very smooth."
"The reports are standard, and it would be nice to be able to customize them."
"False positives have given us issues."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"Integration and filtering out who you want and don't want to have integrated ID could be improved."
"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 reporting functionality is in major need of improvement."
"There are a few issues with integration that need to be addressed; this would help make deployment easier for new users."
"There aren't enough advanced settings. They should offer more advanced options."
"More things need to be integrated into this device, like DLP, so we can have a complete solution in one box."
"In the advanced version, you have DLP, Data Loss Prevention, but when you buy the standard version, you don't have it."
"Reporting could have more options for users to customize desired results."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see more user awareness, such as information about phishing email attacks that have been prevented."
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