We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Sophos Email based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"We find the product to be scalable."
"This solution has helped to significantly reduce the amount of junk email that we receive."
"We find the email security to be valuable."
"The security protection is the best and it's GUI is user-friendly."
"The solution is scalable."
"This product is powerful and quite simple to use."
"With the cloud service, one of the nice things about Barracuda is the quarantine service. It gives the ability for our users to go in and check what has been quarantined, and then connect with our IT staff to release anything that should be fine so that we can test it before we release."
"The solution protects users from phishing links and spam."
"I find the comprehensive features of Sophos Email most valuable."
"I found the user interface friendly."
"I cannot guarantee any email by its name. It can be spam. Sophos Email helps to double-check whether an email is spam or not. It has a dashboard which gives an overview of the alerts."
"It has enhanced our approach to tackling malware and spam. It is a reliable product with a good user interface."
"The most significant aspect is the response filtering concerning attachments and links."
"When you say email security, it's about everything, incoming email, outgoing email, spam, phishing emails, unwanted marketing emails. You can set rules, but the main feature of Sophos Email is to make sure you don't get hacked. 95% of people who are hacked do not get hacked by typing the router password. They are hacked from the inside out, which means they send you a document that is a zero-day attack, you open it, nothing happens, but technically the attack is running in the background of your computer. This is how they gain access to your PC."
"The feature of Sophos Email that we find most effective for detecting suspicious emails is primarily based on their signatures."
"Barracuda Email Security Gateway should include ATP in the next release."
"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 spam filtering is a little too aggressive. You can not get granular enough to back off on what is considered spam and what is not."
"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."
"I am not aware of the licensing costs."
"The deep scanning feature needs to be improved."
"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."
"Barracuda has shown difficulty in providing us with the solutions we sought."
"The tool’s stability should be improved."
"The main drawback is regarding the technical support."
"The installation of Sophos Email could be easier. It's a bit difficult because setting up the email virtually requires some bit of technical knowledge."
"The solution should be able to support the cloud environment."
"Sophos Email can improve mail security."
"The security of the solution could improve."
"Sophos Email could improve DLP features."
"There have been some issues with compatibility and effectiveness, particularly when integrating it with our firewall. The main challenge has been email protection, especially due to compatibility issues and difficulties with log access and email relay configuration."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 10th in Email Security with 25 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Sophos Email 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 Sophos Email writes "Ensures that there is maximum security enabled for our communication processes". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Proofpoint Email Protection and Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection and Perception Point Advanced Email Security. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Sophos Email report.
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