The solution is directly used as a email service for inbound and outbound protection and as a spam gateway. When issues of spam are reported to the company then we can suggest Email Security Gateway for the customer.
IT Manager at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Feb 13, 2023
Our primary use case for this solution is spam filtering. It extracts messaging for us. Thanks to Barracuda Email Security Gateway, I have seen increases in productivity and functionality in terms of spam reduction and filtering against different threats, which is a benefit by default.
Learn what your peers think about Barracuda Email Security Gateway. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
Cloud Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Dec 15, 2022
I'm still new to the Barracuda. We're using the Email Security Gateway, however, I'm not sure about the cloud, or the archive capabilities. It's a new system for me.
Barracuda is similar to FortiMail. There is a cloud component that acts like a sandbox. The email enters, and you can open a suspicious attachment to see if it's malicious. If you find that it's malicious, you can block it and send it to Barracuda's on-prem device. The on-prem device looks for other details like URLs and particular types of content. If everything looks okay, it's forwarded to the SMTP server and the user. We have around 20 to 30 users.
Barracuda Email Security Gateway can be deployed on the cloud or on-premise. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is similar to a traditional spam filter but provides more features. It protects you from the attacks that are coming through your emails. It scans and filters your email, and delivers them.
Barracuda Email Security Gateway is used to protect users' email inboxes from malicious threats coming from outside of the network. For example, it can be a malicious link or some malware as an attachment. If these threats are sent to our users, then it blocks and deletes the email.
The solution is primarily for email security. For example, if an email comes through, we need to know what sort of email it is. We have enabled the SPF and the DMARC on it. We've also enabled those security elements so that it has some threat prevention before any unsolicited email comes to our gateway. This basically does all the filtering, before we actually receive an email. There are a number of undeliverable emails we get in our inboxes. In that event, if we are not able to see these emails, we can always log onto the Barracuda Gateway to actually see the emails to say whether they're valid or not. If the authenticity of the email is revealed, we are able to release them.
We use Barracuda Email Security Gateway and also provide it for our customers to reduce incoming spam. It provides security for email delivery from our customer sites and also our sites. Most of our clients, who get a lot of spam, manage their own email server, but they do not have a dedicated spam filter or email security gateway. As a result, they get a lot of spam. Because of this, they end up searching for a solution that they can use. They do not want to buy a dedicated solution. Instead, they want to use a subscription option. In our VM, we provide a subscription model. People are server scraping to us for incoming and outgoing purposes. This is an on-premise solution in our data center. We provide it to our remote customers as a hosted service. This is a virtual appliance installed within a server. The VM is installed within the Hyper-V Server.
Information Security Officer & DPO - Data Protection Officer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Jan 14, 2022
The solution is the first security layer for emails that come into our network, and we use it to filter all spam, phishing emails, and malware that come in via email. We are now using the virtual appliance in our VMware environment.
We are using Barracuda Email Security Gateway to protect against inbound malware, spam, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks to ensure that our business productivity isn't impacted by attacks through the email system.
This solution is my spam filter and it's tied to my exchange server. All SMTP traffic goes through Barracuda. I've just started using their cloud service and I'm looking possibly at their firewall solutions also because I can tie all these things together in the cloud. We are customers of Barracuda and I work as CIO at a municipality in the States.
We use it ourselves as well as our customers. Our deployment is on-premise and also combined with cloud control. Cloud control is second-tier. The first tier is cloud control, the Barracuda and Barracuda cloud and then the email is passed to our Barracuda box which is on-premise. It's a gateway appliance, not a hardware box. It is normally used with Microsoft Exchange server but is also supported with Microsoft Office 365. We have 20 users but our customers have from 200 to 500 users.
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Feb 20, 2020
We are a system integrator and this is one of the products that we provide to our clients. This solution is used for email security. It provides security when using Office 365, for Google Suite, in-house email servers, and other devices. We generally deploy it as a hardware solution for our clients, but it depends on their environment and what their requirements are.
Our primary use of this solution is for the main features: intelligent sensing of attacks and the assistance for load balancing. The features are very good. The system is intelligent enough to determine which emails are genuine and deliverable and which are spam or phishing or other types of potential attacks. It processes emails in real-time and it can protect your email server and provide good security for an organization's network.
Senior Systems Administrator - Microsoft & LINUX at TCS Pvt. Ltd.
Real User
Apr 26, 2019
As a large organization, we require a powerful email spam filter and an email security gateway. This is our primary use case for Barracuda Email Security.
Barracuda Email Security Gateway is a robust security solution that allows users to protect themselves from external threats as well as from potential data leaks. It can be managed and monitored from a centralized location. Users can efficiently and easily keep track of every aspect of their security suite all at one time. Customized protections can also be set up in a matter of minutes.
Benefits of Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Some of the benefits of using Barracuda Email Security...
We use Barracuda Email Security Gateway for securing emails.
The solution is directly used as a email service for inbound and outbound protection and as a spam gateway. When issues of spam are reported to the company then we can suggest Email Security Gateway for the customer.
Our customers use the solution for security. The solution can be deployed on-premise and in the cloud.
The solution helps us to block some blacklisted emails.
We are Barracuda Email Security Gateway for protecting our user's emails.
Our primary use case for this solution is spam filtering. It extracts messaging for us. Thanks to Barracuda Email Security Gateway, I have seen increases in productivity and functionality in terms of spam reduction and filtering against different threats, which is a benefit by default.
I'm still new to the Barracuda. We're using the Email Security Gateway, however, I'm not sure about the cloud, or the archive capabilities. It's a new system for me.
Barracuda protects you from spam and email-based threats like phishing. It also provides backup and web security. We have around 600 users.
Barracuda is similar to FortiMail. There is a cloud component that acts like a sandbox. The email enters, and you can open a suspicious attachment to see if it's malicious. If you find that it's malicious, you can block it and send it to Barracuda's on-prem device. The on-prem device looks for other details like URLs and particular types of content. If everything looks okay, it's forwarded to the SMTP server and the user. We have around 20 to 30 users.
We use Barracuda Email Security Gateway for email security.
Barracuda Email Security Gateway can be deployed on the cloud or on-premise. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is similar to a traditional spam filter but provides more features. It protects you from the attacks that are coming through your emails. It scans and filters your email, and delivers them.
Barracuda Email Security Gateway is used to protect users' email inboxes from malicious threats coming from outside of the network. For example, it can be a malicious link or some malware as an attachment. If these threats are sent to our users, then it blocks and deletes the email.
The solution is primarily for email security. For example, if an email comes through, we need to know what sort of email it is. We have enabled the SPF and the DMARC on it. We've also enabled those security elements so that it has some threat prevention before any unsolicited email comes to our gateway. This basically does all the filtering, before we actually receive an email. There are a number of undeliverable emails we get in our inboxes. In that event, if we are not able to see these emails, we can always log onto the Barracuda Gateway to actually see the emails to say whether they're valid or not. If the authenticity of the email is revealed, we are able to release them.
We use Barracuda Email Security Gateway and also provide it for our customers to reduce incoming spam. It provides security for email delivery from our customer sites and also our sites. Most of our clients, who get a lot of spam, manage their own email server, but they do not have a dedicated spam filter or email security gateway. As a result, they get a lot of spam. Because of this, they end up searching for a solution that they can use. They do not want to buy a dedicated solution. Instead, they want to use a subscription option. In our VM, we provide a subscription model. People are server scraping to us for incoming and outgoing purposes. This is an on-premise solution in our data center. We provide it to our remote customers as a hosted service. This is a virtual appliance installed within a server. The VM is installed within the Hyper-V Server.
The solution is the first security layer for emails that come into our network, and we use it to filter all spam, phishing emails, and malware that come in via email. We are now using the virtual appliance in our VMware environment.
We are using Barracuda Email Security Gateway to protect against inbound malware, spam, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks to ensure that our business productivity isn't impacted by attacks through the email system.
We are relaying our emails from Barracuda Email Security Gateway. We are using Barracuda Email Security Gateway 600.
We use Barracuda Email Security Gateway for threat protection.
We have almost 600 users using Veeam Backup which is secured through Barracuda Email Security gateway. We are resellers of Barracuda.
We are using the solution to upgrade clients using old legacy security to the cloud.
It is useful for a medium-sized business. It is not useful for large enterprise solutions. It's made for small networks with fewer mailboxes.
This is a total email security solution.
We are using this product to protect us against spam and viruses.
This solution is my spam filter and it's tied to my exchange server. All SMTP traffic goes through Barracuda. I've just started using their cloud service and I'm looking possibly at their firewall solutions also because I can tie all these things together in the cloud. We are customers of Barracuda and I work as CIO at a municipality in the States.
We are an MSP (Managed Service Provider) so, basically, all of our business clients who want email security are using this product.
We use it ourselves as well as our customers. Our deployment is on-premise and also combined with cloud control. Cloud control is second-tier. The first tier is cloud control, the Barracuda and Barracuda cloud and then the email is passed to our Barracuda box which is on-premise. It's a gateway appliance, not a hardware box. It is normally used with Microsoft Exchange server but is also supported with Microsoft Office 365. We have 20 users but our customers have from 200 to 500 users.
We are a system integrator and this is one of the products that we provide to our clients. This solution is used for email security. It provides security when using Office 365, for Google Suite, in-house email servers, and other devices. We generally deploy it as a hardware solution for our clients, but it depends on their environment and what their requirements are.
The solution is primarily used for email protection and security.
Our primary use of this solution is for the main features: intelligent sensing of attacks and the assistance for load balancing. The features are very good. The system is intelligent enough to determine which emails are genuine and deliverable and which are spam or phishing or other types of potential attacks. It processes emails in real-time and it can protect your email server and provide good security for an organization's network.
We use this solution for filtering and enhancing our email.
As a large organization, we require a powerful email spam filter and an email security gateway. This is our primary use case for Barracuda Email Security.
Our primary use case is really for spam and malware, in and out of the organization.
We use this as our email security gateway for the protection of the emails.