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We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and TitanHQ SpamTitan 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Barracuda Email Protection vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan Report (Updated: March 2024).
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"There are several features that I consider valuable.""The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple.""Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance.""It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased.""The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues.""Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization.""The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender.""The most valuable feature is the integration. It's a single console, so we don't have to switch around between multiple products. Another valuable feature is the ease of operations and maintenance."

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"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 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.""We now have a secondary backup of Office 365 that's much easier to retrieve compared to Microsoft. If someone deletes something in Office 365, we can get it back within Office 365, but it's difficult. Barracuda is much easier. There is a lot less management needed using Barracuda. The management becomes much easier for Office 365 and it's no longer on-prem, so there are fewer hours managing on-prem devices, servers, and things of that nature. We don't have network appliances anymore for the backup of our information.""The solution is straightforward to set up.""The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization.""The most valuable features are security and ease of use."

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"Their superior service comes at a very cost-effective price. This is the biggest part that really allows us to remain competitive. Their pricing for us has just been great. They have helped us to be where we need to be. They really do partner with us in that way so we can get more business. They provide the right pricing, which lets us remain competitive.""The solution works really well. For a small nonprofit like us who don't have a large server footprint and rely heavily on cloud services, this is great for all our emails and the mobile workforce that we have. This is a great way to manage the traffic, hopefully keep our people from getting the phishing emails and stuff like that, helping to mitigate the risks.""We really like the fact that we get a quarantine report because we can identify for ourselves which emails we want to keep and which we want to get rid of. It also gives us the option of directly allowing emails, which we really like. That way, the next time we get such emails, they're not blocked.""SpamTitan is perfectly suited for managed service providers. It's easy to use and sell. It's also straightforward to configure and monitor. In my opinion, software developers at TitanHQ did an excellent job with SpamTitan.""I like the notifications SpamTitan sends. Other products require the user to log into the system to see if something was blocked. SpamTitan sends users an email showing them any potential spam that was blocked and they can click on it to release it. It's much easier for the end-user.""It is a very easy product to use. There is one interface that services all our clients' health. Once learning the interface, we don't have to learn another one for each client. It is the same interface, which is valuable. Therefore, we find the single interface the most valuable since I have a very small team. I don't have one or two people dedicated to just SpamTitan. We all need to learn the interface and be fluent in it. So, having a unified single interface is a big deal for us. I don't have to teach my people five different interfaces in order to be managing a product. They use one interface for all our clients. It is a single pane of glass, which is huge for us.""The user interface for regular users is quite intuitive. The email report that they receive is pretty self-explanatory. The online interface for administrators is simple yet really quite effective. It's really a set-it-and-forget-it, and everything is available when needed.""Its simplicity is most valuable. It does what we ask it to do. The filters work, and we are able to set the levels and give the clients or end-user access to the quarantine through a simple email."

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Cons
"The only thing they should improve is the licensing model. They should stop changing it. A year ago, the five features I mentioned were included in one product. Now, three of them are bundled into one product, and you have to pay extra for the other two. I don't mind paying extra, but I don't want them to change it every year or every six months. I need to know what I'm looking at and not worry about it next year.""The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement.""We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email.""The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved.""Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could improve by giving customers information on techniques to prevent threats. For example, information about best practices on how to protect their own devices against hackers and scammers, such as educational information or training. This would help others have a better understanding of cyber security. Additionally, there can be more security features added.""About eight months ago, we started to measure the quantity of phishing and spam that we have been receiving, and it has been increasing a lot. That means that protection for our email is not as good as we were expecting.""The UI needs to be more user-friendly.""Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."

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"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver.""They could simplify the licensing and the pricing.""The solution's reporting mechanism is a little poor and could be improved.""The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them.""I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution.""Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features.""The platform's pricing needs improvement.""I would like to see better integration with other products."

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"Sometimes when I'm trying to pull up reports, the speed can suffer.""As a Danish company, it would be great to see a Danish translation for the UI.""I wish there would be less false positives.""The inter mailbox email flow needs improvement. If you are in the same domain, it does not have the capability to transfer one email to the same domain through SpamTitan. They need an API for Office 365 which is currently being developed""The user interface of SpamTitan is fair, at best. They're coming out with a new one. The current one is a bit hard to navigate, and that was the biggest part of what made it a steep learning curve. It took three to six months to learn how to find stuff in there.""It would be nice if the reporting feature could be updated. Also, the feel of the web interface is a little dated.""There is room for improvement in automation; better wizards for deployment, for example.""I would also like to see SpamTitan improve on its antivirus software. I believe they're using Bitdefender and ClamAV. A problem with them is that they sometimes miss Trojans and malicious sites. We have internal antivirus software as well, and when we receive emails we see that our local antivirus software has found Trojans in them."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's a user-base subscription."
  • "From the pricing point of view, like any other product in the market, there is scope for negotiation."
  • "Defender is a little bit more expensive as compared to others. We are in the manufacturing environment. So, we don't have a high budget for all of our endpoint devices. Its cost is a major concern for us."
  • "For licensing, it's usually a yearly package for customers who are subscribed to Office 365, but they can also pay on a monthly basis."
  • "Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is an add-on to the Office license. Many customers are purchasing this solution."
  • "Microsoft Defender for Office 365 comes with Microsoft Windows. It is free with the operating system."
  • "The solution saves money so we have seen a return on investment."
  • "Defender for 365 comes in various plans and licenses, along with other Microsoft security solutions. Purchasing this kind of package or security bundle gives good value for money, and that's what I recommend."
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  • "The price of Barracuda Essentials is better than some of the competing products."
  • "We pay annually. They never charged us for anything else. And they were quite a bit under that $20,000 mark. It was $19,074. And they've been pretty good about not skyrocketing the price or anything like that. It has gone up. It's gone up to $24,000 in 2020."
  • "Price-wise, this product is middle-of-the-road."
  • "On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
  • "The product is expensive."
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  • "The price of this solution is low. When you do purchase everything is included in the licensing cost."
  • "We are on a per-user or per-mailbox monthly subscription. We are happy with the price of the solution. When comparing it to other solutions it is much cheaper."
  • "The cluster was an additional cost. We had to get some more licenses to get to that level. It's well worth it because it means peace of mind for everyone."
  • "Compared to all of the others, including the solution we used previously, SpamTitan is cheaper."
  • "The price is good by today's standards. You actually get what you pay for."
  • "The price was great compared to other solutions that we looked at the time."
  • "Our pricing has pretty much stayed somewhat the same. Sure, there has been an increase or two that keeps up with inflation, but that is everybody. When we switched from AppRiver to SpamTitan, we saved about 20%. That is $1,000 to $2,000 a month. We went to SpamTitan and WebTitan. It was $1,000 savings a month for SpamTitan and another $1,500 a month savings for WebTitan."
  • "It is very good. We actually ended up saving money from our previous solution."
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    Questions from the Community
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    Top Answer:The product's GUI, dashboard, and speed could be better.
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    MS Defender for Office 365
    Barracuda Essentials
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    Overview

    Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect organizations against advanced threats in their email, collaboration, and productivity environments. It combines the power of Microsoft's threat intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analytics to provide real-time protection against phishing, malware, ransomware, and other malicious attacks.

    With Microsoft Defender for Office 365, organizations can safeguard their email communication by detecting and blocking malicious links, attachments, and unsafe email content. It employs advanced anti-phishing capabilities to identify and prevent sophisticated phishing attacks that attempt to steal sensitive information or compromise user credentials.

    This solution also offers robust protection against malware and ransomware. It leverages machine learning algorithms to analyze email attachments and URLs in real-time, identifying and blocking malicious content before it reaches users' inboxes. Additionally, it provides advanced threat-hunting capabilities, allowing security teams to proactively investigate and respond to potential threats.

    Microsoft Defender for Office 365 goes beyond email protection and extends its security features to other collaboration tools like SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams. It scans files and documents stored in these platforms, ensuring that they are free from malware and other malicious content. It also provides visibility into user activities, helping organizations detect and mitigate insider threats.

    Furthermore, this solution offers rich reporting and analytics capabilities, providing organizations with insights into their security posture and threat landscape. It enables security administrators to monitor and manage security incidents, track trends, and take proactive measures to enhance their overall security posture.

    The popularity of Microsoft 365 means criminals test and design their attacks to bypass its native security features. And that means you need additional layers of defense. With Advanced Threat Protection enabled, Barracuda uses multiple layers of detection, including signature, static, and behavioral analysis, along with CPU-emulation sandboxing to accurately detect and block zero-hour targeted attacks and ransomware.

    Traditional email gateways use static rules and policies—reputation analysis, block lists, and malicious payloads—to determine if an email is malicious.

    Barracuda protects your Microsoft 365 inbox against evasive threats with a powerful AI engine that learns the unique communication patterns within your organization through access to internal and historical emails. Once it understands what legitimate emails looks like for each user, it can detect anomalies that signal malicious intent. This context-based detection is more effective at blocking targeted attacks, which are designed to bypass traditional rule-based email security.

    TitanHQ SpamTitan is a next-generation robust anti-spam service that protects today’s businesses by blocking spam, spoofing, zero-day attacks, phishing, malware, and more from users' emails. SpamTitan uses the most intuitive AI-driven threat protection to keep users' networks safe and secure at all times.

    TitanHQ SpamTitan Key Features:

    TitanHQ SpamTitan has many valuable key features. Some of its most useful features include:

    • Protection: TitanHQ SpamTitan works seamlessly to improve users' Office 365 security against malicious malware by using a next-generation intuitive in-depth defense approach. SpamTitan will also scan all inbound emails with robust anti-virus protection to intercept spear phishing and whaling.
    • Sandboxing: SpamTitan provides users with behavior analysis and machine learning to improve security teams' ability to safely stop suspicious files from reaching users' email inboxes.
    • Email blocking: SpamTitan is able to effectively block 99.99% of malware, spam, ransomware, and viruses. Users have the option to use blacklist or whitelist protocols, recipient verifications, outbound scanning, and additional advanced intuitive reporting to ensure email processes are secure at all times.
    • Zero Day protection: SpamTitan uses AI-driven intuitive global technology to accurately predict and anticipate potential risks or threats, continually delivering a secure solution for business email systems. The solution also provides robust data leak prevention protocols to negate any internal organizational data loss.

    Reviews from Real Users

    The solution saves employees' time. Many of our faculty are physicians who don't have much time to check their emails, especially if they need to scroll through and delete spam mail, which can hide important messages. A cleaner inbox is easier to use and saves time, probably an hour a week per user. That might not sound like much, but we had physicians with inboxes so full of spam they stopped checking their emails, which is no longer the case. Our catch rate is up significantly, and our false positives have dropped considerably, saving the end user time.” - A PeerSpot user who is a DevOps Director at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

    “I can't tell you the number of times that their web interface has saved me. I had server issues but I still needed to be able to look at what emails I would have received if my email server had been working correctly. SpamTitan has a reporting functionality that showed me what emails would have been sent. I could actually see the content of those emails. For me, several times, that has been a real lifesaver.” - Walter H., An Enterprise Architect at Unified System Solutions, Ltd.

    “Its algorithms are doing a very good job in terms of the false positive rate. We have some regular mail that gets caught and some spam mail that gets through, but they're just balancing the line between spam and regular mail. We do catch a lot of spam, the amount of spam on an average day ranges from 65-85%. The Link Lock also reduces the risk when clicking on a link in an email, it removes a lot of concern about harmful links.” - A PeerSpot user who is a Cloud & Infrastructure consultant at a tech services company.

    Sample Customers
    Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is trusted by companies such as Ithaca College.
    ACT Government, Acumen Group, AGIP, Delta Dental Plans Association, Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., Equinox Information Systems
    De Montfort University, Scope Services, Park County School District, NRC, Quality Smith, Toyota, CarTrawler, Videotron
    Top Industries
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    Manufacturing Company16%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Logistics Company6%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
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    Construction Company25%
    Security Firm25%
    Manufacturing Company25%
    Educational Organization13%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Construction Company7%
    Real Estate/Law Firm7%
    Healthcare Company7%
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    Manufacturing Company23%
    Construction Company9%
    Healthcare Company6%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Construction Company10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business42%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise42%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise51%
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    Small Business57%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
    Large Enterprise7%
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    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise41%
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    Small Business71%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise36%
    Buyer's Guide
    Barracuda Email Protection vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Barracuda Email Protection vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 4th in Office 365 Protection with 12 reviews while TitanHQ SpamTitan is ranked 1st in Office 365 Protection with 76 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while TitanHQ SpamTitan is rated 9.0. 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 TitanHQ SpamTitan writes "Has the ability to easily see what was blocked, enabling users to restore emails they were expecting with the click of a button". Barracuda Email Protection is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Abnormal Security, Mimecast Email Security and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas TitanHQ SpamTitan is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Sophos Email, Avanan and Trend Micro Email Security. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan report.

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