We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Retarus Email Security 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 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 link protection and anti-phishing features are great."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is that it blocks almost 99 percent of threats from users' email inboxes."
"This appliance has helped in that we now eliminate the thousands of scams, spam, and malware emails that are destined for our users."
"Barracuda is good at keeping the garbage from reaching your inbox."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway is very simple to use."
"The feature I found most valuable was getting details on the emails, being alerted once those emails got a bad reputation, and then being able to take action on those emails."
"The solution could improve by adding DomainKeys (DKIM) functionality. This is something that is essentially required nowadays for outbound security. They do not have it on their on-premise solution appliance but they have alternate arrangements for their cloud solution."
"The technical support is not available globally 24/7 and this is the biggest problem with the product."
"The reporting can be improved."
"There are some times when legit emails are trapped on Barracuda and we are unable to get that information unless we actually log on to the network to find out."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the interface, specifically the cloud interface, is a bit slow."
"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."
"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."
"I have noticed that it takes a little time to get familiar with after deploying and some tweaks need to be done as things come up."
"This solution needs to improve the area of GUI as well as dashboards because they are very poor in terms of the current email security solution."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Retarus Email Security is ranked 12th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 1 review. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Retarus Email Security is rated 8.0. 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 Retarus Email Security writes "Provides valuable reports that make it easy to take action". 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 Retarus Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
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