We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Mimecast Email Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Office 365 Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Essentials are it's a trusted name and is rated very high on review sites. It blocks high percentages of spam and junk email and it's in the cloud. They have hardware appliances, but this is in the cloud. The solution is very effective at blocking malware and blocking spam and this is what we are looking for. There's not a whole lot of complexity, you want a solution that is very good at blocking out all of the unwanted emails."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."
"Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."
"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution's performance is good."
"It does a good job for us, and its admin console is easy to use."
"It's really quite user-friendly. In terms of technical superiority and the product itself, there are no complaints. It is really cutting edge."
"The piece that is most valuable from the Mimecast standpoint will be the sandboxing feature."
"The solution is scalable."
"The setup was easy."
"The product is good. To date, we have not faced any challenges."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"There is room for improvement, particularly in reaching out to technical support during deployment."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"As a user, the user interface of the management console could be upgraded, for example."
"The filtering needs more flexibility."
"The solution should include more AI features instead of Mimecast's more general static configuration tooling."
"The installation is not so straightforward."
"I did have a problem with Mimecast. That is why I was looking for an alternative solution because their sender IP address gets poorly rated by Microsoft."
"Lately, Mimecast's outbound mail servers have been regularly blocklisted by spam filters. That didn't happen a few years back, but it seems to be a more frequent problem these days. When a server is blocklisted, it means all of my outgoing mail ends up in the recipient's junk mail. That affects my reputation and business confidence."
"Their support should be improved. They are notorious for sending you to knowledge-based articles rather than actually talking to you, but that is, unfortunately, kind of becoming a trend with everything. In terms of features, I haven't had any complaints. However, I don't like the fact they moved to a paid training subscription model. They used to have a lot of free webinars for training, but they have started to charge for them in the past year."
"While it's quick and easy, the initial setup could be more user-friendly."
Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 4th in Office 365 Protection with 12 reviews while Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Office 365 Protection with 23 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Mimecast Email Security is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda Email Protection writes "Set-it-and-forget-it type of product that doesn't require a lot of management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". Barracuda Email Protection is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, TitanHQ SpamTitan, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Abnormal Security, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and IRONSCALES. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Mimecast Email Security report.
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