Barracuda Essentials Reviews

It allows users to gain access to our system without jeopardizing the safety of our files & servers.

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.

Data protection if someone should gain access to our database by unauthorized entry.

This product is easy to use. There is an outlook plug-in for users to report suspicious emails, rather than clicking on them.

Too many gmail emails not detected as spam.

Email filtering

Barracuda Essentials is very easy to configure and use - has pretty good accuracy in stopping spam/phishing - easy to submit messages for quarantine - easy to add new users - "secure email" feature configured by simply entering a text phrase in new email message Subject Line - and, good pricing

pricing has substantially increased over past year

Using for anti-spam, but then found it has a secure email feature so our users can send encrypted emails right through Barracuda, with an easy to set up UI

Barracuda Essentials is a great complete tool that we use with a complete solution in order to provide protection for our emails and data in Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange. What I also like is protection against advanced threats from Zero Day attacks and protects against deletions and hacking of information.

No problems with Barracuda Essentials and no reports of technical problems or errors. The solution is collaborating a lot with work and productivity and safety.

It has its differential for combining good protection of corporate e-mails and archiving them to ensure compliance, backup and complete restoration of data in the cloud. Protection is end-to-end and has filtering right at the entrance that protects emails from viruses, malware, spam and pishing. And it also has outbound protection that prevents information from leaking with encryption.

Barracuda Essentials works so well and is easy to manage once installed and configured. I am able to see everything that comes in add senders to the Blacklist or Whitelist as needed. Very satisfied with the results.

It's so powerful that the menus can sometimes be a little overwhelming. But, once you used it for little while it will make sense and become very easy to use.

It works and it is not too expensive for most businesses and will pay for itself many times over if it saves you from just one ransomware or other malware attack.

We needed comprehensive email scanning and filtering and Barracuda was the best we could find.

The Simplicity of setting up and the ease of which you can start protecting your domain within minutes. This products integrates well within other products of barracuda to give you ease of accessibility and control over multiple barracuda products. The centralized cloud control is the one place to view and manage all barracuda cloud offerings. The details of each setting is remarkable to beginners as they jump into protecting their email domains. Highly recommended as an enterprise email security solution.

The cloud offering needs to integrate with other products in order to give additional features such as forensics and sentinel

Barracuda essentials have kept our business email domain secured from sophisticated attacks and have helped the business adapt to best practices when securing the organizations domain.

Per-User quarantine is the best feature. We can stop a lot of spam email using per user quarantine. Email spooling feature is best we did not lose email. We can easily deploy within minimum downtime. We can manage multiple domains separately.

Global Quarantine feature. Because we can not see quarantine delivered details in the message log. Only we can see specific Quarantine mailbox delivered details. We can not customize external sender warning messages.

Easy deployment compares other products and minimum downtime to deploy.

95% Spam email blocked by Barracuda and email spooling is better. Several time our email server down we protect email spooling feature without mail lost.

Essentials overall has been great for my corporation. The message log alone is a life saver

I would love to see increased reporting capabilities and more custom configuration of the spam filters

We wanted increased protection from spam and phishing. Office 365 just wasn't delivering. Essentials has.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

GET SENTRY AS WELL!!!!

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.