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Barracuda Email Gateway Defense Overview

What is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense?

In today’s complex cyber-threat environment, you need an email security solution that delivers comprehensive security against sophisticated attacks while also being easy to deploy, configure, and manage. Barracuda provides cloud-based protection against advanced email attacks, helps ensure email continuity and scans outgoing email to prevent data loss - all without the need to install any additional hardware or software.

Barracuda Email Gateway Defense Details
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Product Description

Barracuda Email Gateway Defense is a cloud-based security solution designed to protect against spam, phishing, malware, ransomware, and other targeted email threats. Email Gateway Defense combines heuristic, behavioral, and sandboxing technologies to detect advanced, zero-day attacks. In addition to inbound mail it filters outbound mail and protects you from data leaks with email encryption and Data Loss Prevention capabilities.


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Seller
Barracuda
Year Founded
2002
HQ Location
Campbell, CA
Twitter
@Barracuda
15,724 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
2,153 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
Private
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At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-first, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.


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Recent Barracuda Email Gateway Defense Reviews

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John S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"FANTASTIC Customer Support!"
The customer support is always quick to respond, easy and friendly to work with. If there is something you can't find in the documentation or are h...
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Email Defence Gateway is a mature product, that has a lot of features, but the interface is aging."
Provides a lot of features that are needed at the email gateway, reasonably priced, easy to setup and integrate with Office365 etc.
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Collin Y.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Email Gateway Defense"
Its nice to be able to monitor and block informing emails.
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Barracuda Email Gateway Defense Pros and Cons

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JS
IT System Administrator
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense?

The customer support is always quick to respond, easy and friendly to work with. If there is something you can't find in the documentation or are having trouble with, they can answer your questions and help get it taken care of. I also really like the digest reports are customizable and can allow users subject only view of blocked/quarantined messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense?

It is difficult to understand the priority or order of operations on different rulesets. It could be more beginner friendly in terms of where certain settings are buried or searchable for specific settings. The product seems geared towards Office 365 users so if you are not on Office 365 your use case may be slightly more limited. If you don't wait several seconds for the page to fully load it will wipe out your search but there is no way to time this loading (no progress bar and it doesn't stop you from typing) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps protect us against spam and threats. It benefits us by reducing our workload through use of some automated and crowdsourced data to help stop threats in their tracks. It helps reduce our workload on dealing with spam and prevents many security threats and phishing emails from reaching users' mailboxes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anne G.
AG
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
Products used within Barracuda Email Protection: Barracuda Email Gateway Defense
What do you like best about Barracuda Email Protection?

It's nice not to get a lot of NSFW emails coming through. The thing I like most about using Barracuda Email Protection is that when my email server goes down, it queues up email we've received and can do so for 72 hours. The other thing I really like is that I can re-release emails if something happened during the transmission from Barracuda to our on-prem email server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Protection?

Every once in a while we go through a period of getting a ton of spam emails until the system catches up with their scanning. In those times I have to spend a lot of time marking things as incorrectly delivered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Barracuda Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

You should see all the spam and NSFW emails that get caught in the filter. It's great to not have to think about that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LL
Associate IT
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Barracuda Email Protection?

I love the ability to search for similar messages, especially if an email has been incorrectly delivered I can see all affected users for my record and then take the appropriate action. The support team for this product always does a great job when I have an issue on following up and making sure my needs have been met. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Protection?

I wish we could configure our domains in the message log instead of alphabetized to a custom order, quality of life item is all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Barracuda Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Remediating harmful emails, making sure our end users are protected against phishing/malware campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PK
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Barracuda Email Protection?

Easy to use with less knowledge and time to maintain. Also usefull for sending phinshing mails for awareness. Very easy to implement and the customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Protection?

At the moment nothing is found that will be a dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Barracuda Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Getting safer within less time and needed knowledge. Easy to use a sofisticated tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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AH
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Barracuda Email Protection?

This is an easy platform to get around in and loads of settings to customize what you need to do. The protection suite has definately saved us from end users with that notion to click-and-see! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Protection?

Probably the only downside I've ran into is the email log search could use more options for word/phrase searches in different fields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Barracuda Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Rather than chasing email through Exchange Online tools Barracuda makes it easy to purge, find or just monitor messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
AH
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
Products used within Barracuda Email Protection: Barracuda Email Gateway Defense
What do you like best about Barracuda Email Protection?

Spam filtering is top notch, and easily managed by tech savy and non-tech savy users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Protection?

I wish the retention of the barracuda email gateway defense was longer than 30 days. We aren't expecting this to be a backup solution on its own, but longer retention would definately help us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Barracuda Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Spam/virus filtering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jessica B.
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Insurance Account CSR
Insurance
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Products used within Barracuda Data Protection and Compliance: Barracuda Email Gateway Defense, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
What do you like best about Barracuda Data Protection and Compliance?

It allows users to gain access to our system without jeopardizing the safety of our files & servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Barracuda Data Protection and Compliance?

The only thing I would say is not the software but the users. I give lessons after lessons, and they still end up with a problem. That is only because they don't have to do it all the time as i do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Barracuda Data Protection and Compliance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data protection if someone should gain access to our database by unauthorized entry. Better than that they are our watchdog 24 hours around the clock. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dave D.
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IT Systems Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Barracuda Email Protection?

Barracuda does a great job using A.I initiatives to protect our organization from harmful emails and blocking garbage mail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Protection?

Limited options to select from the message log dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Barracuda Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping harmful emails from coming into our mailboxes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CY
System Admin
Hospital & Health Care
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense?

Its nice to be able to monitor and block informing emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense?

When added emails to sender policies to block or exempt there are two differeent areas to add it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense solving and how is that benefiting you?

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Verified User in Government Administration
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense?

Provides a lot of features that are needed at the email gateway, reasonably priced, easy to setup and integrate with Office365 etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense?

Aging interface needs updating, some features in relation to user management are difficult and cannot be done in bulk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense solving and how is that benefiting you?

Preventing phishing, scamming, spam eamils. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.