We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Fortinet FortiMail based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In this comparison, both products share similar ratings regarding deployment, pricing, and the level of support they receive. However, Barracuda Email Security Gateway users report seeing an ROI whereas Fortinet FortiMail users do not mention it.
"It can scale."
"Before this solution, we didn't have any separate feature for protecting our emails. We used to only have a firewall but now we have email security. It has a graphical interface and we can see the log every time. We can see that the performance is fine."
"I like Barracuda's cloud sandbox feature."
"It can effectively combat phishing attacks, block spam, provide confirmation, and ensure operational manageability with a strong focus on product stability."
"We find the email security to be valuable."
"It is lightweight, and we can filter all of our inbound and outbound emails. We have controls for rate control, quarantine, and tagging. We can see whether an email is a spam email or a phishing email."
"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the complete capabilities it provides. Additionally, the phishing security and sandbox features are effective."
"The most valuable feature of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is the cloud ATP functionality not available on the on-premise version. Most of the zero-day attacks can be mitigated with ATP. Additionally, the reporting functionality is good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are anti-spam, sender reputation, and antivirus."
"The biggest implementation my team has done for Fortinet FortiMail was for more than five thousand people, and the most valuable feature was its anti-spam feature."
"This solution is good for small and medium enterprise companies."
"A full-featured email gateway solution that contains security threats reliably."
"Technical support is great. They're available 24/7 and their response time is typically within the hour."
"The deployment is simple and once up and running it is easy to manage."
"The number of false positives is minimal."
"The anti-spam features are valuable."
"The pricing is a little bit high, and it is causing the company to rethink renewal. If they could lower the pricing, that would be ideal."
"Barracuda could improve its log and export options like PDF and HDML. It can also bring in more detailing in their console so that it could be better. Some new features should be expanded and made accessible for better protection."
"There are some times when legit emails are trapped on Barracuda and we are unable to get that information unless we actually log on to the network to find out."
"The solution should add automatic alerts to the mobile."
"The reporting can be improved."
"The dashboard's UI could be improved to make changes to the blocklist."
"Solution requires regular checking to ensure it's 'keeping up' with spam."
"False positives have given us issues."
"The support could be faster because we've been receiving complaints from customers, they say that when they raise a ticket, it doesn't take 24 hours to respond, sometimes the support responds after three days. This is a lot of time."
"My customers frequently ask to have detailed documentation for FortiMail and FortiWeb as they have in FortiGate. What they currently have is not enough."
"I believe there is room for enhancement in content and web security features."
"I need a stable update in the product that stays for a long time instead of having to deal with frequent updates."
"Maybe FortiMail's integration could be better."
"The product's cybersecurity features could be better."
"FortiMail's dashboard is somewhat complex and could be made simpler."
"Fortinet FortiMail should allow more flexibility with the content rules."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 57 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Barracuda Email Security Gateway writes "Robust email protection with advanced features such as effective spam filtering, virus and malware defense, phishing protection and high scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email, Proofpoint Email Protection and Trend Micro Email Security, whereas Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Proofpoint Email Protection. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Fortinet FortiMail report.
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