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Barracuda Essentials
What do you like best about the product?
Essentials overall has been great for my corporation. The message log alone is a life saver
What do you dislike about the product?
I would love to see increased reporting capabilities and more custom configuration of the spam filters
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted increased protection from spam and phishing. Office 365 just wasn't delivering. Essentials has.
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Barracuda Essentials in Higher Education
What do you like best about the product?
It is very easy to set up and use. It does a nice job of blocking viruses and malware. I like the layout of allow/block lists. I like that it takes the load off of on-site hardware. It is hard to beat Barracuda's support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Like all products out there, some things do get through. But, not sure that is a dislike so much. It is just that nothing can block everything while still allowing the good in.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it in conjunction with our on-site Email Security Gateway. It takes the workload off of it.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Contact them for a free demo.
Doesn't get easier or better!
What do you like best about the product?
The Barraucuda Forensics and Incident Response (FIR) is easy to use and allows you to immediately identify, verify, and mitigate a problem within a few minutes. Without FIR you may not even know if there was a problem, and it may take hours to find and resolve.
Many email scanners handle incoming email only, but with Barracuda Essentials you get incoming and outgoing email scanning.
The Archiving feature, with it's unlimited retention and storage, is a great way to dive into historical emails for research or legal inquiries.
Many email scanners handle incoming email only, but with Barracuda Essentials you get incoming and outgoing email scanning.
The Archiving feature, with it's unlimited retention and storage, is a great way to dive into historical emails for research or legal inquiries.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Cloud Control web access to the ESS can sometimes be slow and/or drag a bit. But other than that I can't find anything that is a negative.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Besides the obvious benefits of email scanning for viruses and malware, the FIR portion of the ESS is incredible. We have already stopped one account takeover, whereby the users account was logged in from someone in Turkey (we are in California/USA). The FIR immediately notified us and within a few clicks we were able to stop the takeover and change the users password. In the past, we would have not known about something like this or found it too late - and I now have to wonder if this did happen before and we just never knew about it.
For ransomware, phishing and scamming, the FIR continuously monitors suspicious activity and alerts us. We have the ability to instantly look at the suspicious email and determine if we want to delete it from the users inbox(s) and then block the offending email address and/or domain, or if it is a false positive, we can report it as such back to Barracuda. It is constantly learning.
For ransomware, phishing and scamming, the FIR continuously monitors suspicious activity and alerts us. We have the ability to instantly look at the suspicious email and determine if we want to delete it from the users inbox(s) and then block the offending email address and/or domain, or if it is a false positive, we can report it as such back to Barracuda. It is constantly learning.
Secure gateway with multiple cloud-based apps
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use portal that provides access to all of Barracuda’s cloud apps. Easy to setup and sync with local AD or Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have had problems added and removing admin users. We have one user that we could setup as an admin. Had to contact support multiple times to figure it out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a reliable and secure email filter, and this is one of the applications available in Barracuda Essentials.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look at all of the available options. Plan your implementation thoroughly.
Just the Basics
What do you like best about the product?
Just like the name implies, you get the essentials. But what's great about this product is that you get them for stupid cheap. That is definitely what's best.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, this product should come with a warning label. No serious company should just purchase this. They really really should tack on the Sentry product too. For protection against modern day attacks, consider sentry essential, haha.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We stopped 95% of bad emails coming in. Most of these were bulk email, dmarc, spf, or phishing reasons, but it does do a good job of stopping them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
GET SENTRY AS WELL!!!!
A good firewall for email
What do you like best about the product?
I think the Barracuda Essentials package is easy to use and gets the job done. It allows for us to conduct our workflow without the worry for phishing emails and securely backups up the precious data we've got. We can also conduct fake email phishing tests and other types of expeditions so that we can see how many of our fellow employees are failing phishing tests.
What do you dislike about the product?
Like any cybersecurity product, there are false positives from time to time and that is somewhat annoying because we need to configure certain filters to ensure there isn't a hard block.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of the biggest issues we face as a team is social engineering and Barracuda Essentials for Outlook really helps alleviate potential phishing and other threats we face with email.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Barracuda Essentials is a great way to protect your users and really extends Outlook functionality. It is a must-have for all organizations, large and small.
Email Archiving and files store on Barracuda Essentials
What do you like best about the product?
The SaaS of barracuda is great, because a big company or bank like BBVA can archive all emails, files, contracts in one tool that provide good security and easy to scale.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price is to expensive, and the need a lot of configurations. It's not easy to set up on production.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving the security and holding of our emails, some minor documents and other files. We are testing this application, maybe on the future we will expand and use it more than right now.
Barracuda Essentials is the best way to protect and support your tech
What do you like best about the product?
Today's workforce has become very independent on technology, which is not always dependable in a variety of situations. Barracuda essentials has really made the exchanging of emails, not only dependable but extremely convenient for organizing and backing up emails.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are few things I dislike about the software, although I do wish it sent fewer notifications as I feel at times I'm being flagged for viruses that are nonexistent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its a great tool for managing email accounts and backing up the information recorded in them for later review, if they ever need (especially because we have become incredibly dependent on technology).
Using Barracuda, Does it Help?
What do you like best about the product?
I do like the purpose of Barracuda. It would be nice to have a software that could read my mind when it comes to junk email. I do like the white-list, a list of senders to have blocked. This software does do a great job at blocking viruses and malware. Since we have started using it at my work, I will have to admit that I have not received any bad emails.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the layout of the site, I found it a bit difficult to navigate when I was on my mobile device. I also would quarantine items that had been accepted in the past.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are not spending so much time on our computers crashing because and employee unwittingly opened op and email with a virus. I do feel protected. It is also good for storing all of the millions of emails that a community college gets annually, those are government documents and are subject to the Freedom of Information Act and must be archived for a specified period of time.
Quick and easy implementation and use
What do you like best about the product?
User quarantine, allows users to check any blocked emails and release it without IT
What do you dislike about the product?
Scoring system needs to be easier to use from administrative side
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Blocking spam and control size of emails
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