We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Kaspersky Security for Mail Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The client has the option to blacklist or whitelist any email address or domain based on the sender and recipient filters. If they want, they can restrict any IP addresses so email won't be received from those IP addresses."
"Eliminating inbox clutter creates an opportunity to be more productive instead of wasting time manually sorting through spam."
"We have found some of the valuable features to be how easy the solution is to configure, the graphic support, and the intuitive dashboard."
"There are plenty of features, such as sandboxing capabilities with zero threat protection. It has all the leading email security appliances compared to other solutions."
"The feature that sets Barracuda apart from other solutions is the Office 365 cloud-to-cloud backup."
"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."
"It can scale."
"One advantage is its immediate deployment capability. So the fast speed to deploy is a big plus point."
"The integration rate is very high in Kaspersky, which is why most of our customers like it."
"You can install the plugins on the same machine hosting your exchange solution. It's a good complement for Sophos security, which scans the traffic before it reaches your mail service. Kaspersky is on the mail server itself while Sophos handles the incoming traffic. With both of them working together, we have the perfect solution for mail."
"The most valuable features are the anti-phishing and anti-spam capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a highly reliable and dependable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the straightforward setup."
"The reports are standard, and it would be nice to be able to customize them."
"The solution should add automatic alerts to the mobile."
"We are using the tool’s 400 model which does not offer accurate spam detection. We have also had performance issues with the tool."
"There are limited administration controls that should be improved."
"We would like to have a local support center in India so that they are operating in the same time zone and speak the same language."
"Barracuda's spam database isn't on par with its competitors. Users complain about the spam email they're receiving, and we report the issue. Barracuda said they are going to update their system to block the malicious email we received, but we're still getting the same spam. The signatures are not in their database. They need to update their spam signatures because spam is bypassing Barracuda."
"There is room for improvement in the management of multiple domains."
"Few customers require an on-premises fabric ATP box for attack detection and response."
"Kaspersky lacks in the area of customization, so simpler customization options need to be provided to users."
"The biggest problem in the solution is related to its license renewal since it is pretty hard in Kaspersky to find out the procedure to renew a license."
"It would be great if Kaspersky could do what Sophos does for us. However, we love having these two different technologies doing the same thing. Sometimes Sophos has the patch to block a novel threat, but Kaspersky doesn't."
"Encrypted email attachments are not being monitored by this solution, which is an area that they need to work on."
"The solution is not 100 percent stable and that can use improvement."
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway is ranked 2nd in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 51 reviews while Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is ranked 10th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 5 reviews. Barracuda Email Security Gateway is rated 8.0, while Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is rated 8.2. 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 Kaspersky Security for Mail Server writes "A stable product that offers a very high rate of integration to its users". Barracuda Email Security Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email and Sophos Email, whereas Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Sophos Email. See our Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Kaspersky Security for Mail Server report.
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