We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Proofpoint Targeted Attack 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 most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the complete capabilities it provides. Additionally, the phishing security and sandbox features are effective."
"Great at blocking spam."
"It is an excellent, intelligent solution that provides maximum security from email attacks."
"Customer support is the solution's strongest point."
"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."
"It is lightweight, and we can filter all of our inbound and outbound emails. We have controls for rate control, quarantine, and tagging. We can see whether an email is a spam email or a phishing email."
"Its backups are valuable."
"It is a very stable solution."
"It has a dynamic runtime engine, which gives it an advantage over Prisma that has a static engine. In Prisma, we have to do additional malware analysis, which is not required in Proofpoint."
"There is room for improvement in the management of multiple domains."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway should add auto-remediation to improve the solution. Additionally, there are times when we have false positives and our general emails get locked, we have mentioned this to Barracuda."
"I am not aware of the licensing costs."
"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."
"The pricing is a little bit high, and it is causing the company to rethink renewal. If they could lower the pricing, that would be ideal."
"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."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"The DMARC security is somewhat weak and could be strengthened."
"We are using the TRAP console that has a Linux-based UI, which is not user-friendly. The TAP console looks very advanced. Currently, we are maintaining three different consoles, and it is sometimes hard to switch between them or try to grab the data."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is ranked 23rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is rated 7.0. 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 Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection writes "Dynamic runtime engine and good protection, but needs better support and a single console". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email and Proofpoint Email Protection, whereas Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, IRONSCALES, Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Microsoft Defender for Identity.
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