--- title: Barracuda Email Gateway Defense Reviews meta\_title: 'Barracuda Email Gateway Defense Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 39 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Barracuda Email Gateway Defense works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 39 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Email Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/email-security --- # Barracuda Email Gateway Defense Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Barracuda Email Gateway Defense but has limited features. Are you part of the Barracuda Email Gateway Defense team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [Barracuda](https://www.g2.com/sellers/barracuda) Discussions [Barracuda Email Gateway Defense Community](https://www.g2.com/products/barracuda-email-gateway-defense/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Kathy Kliskey Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 11 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/barracuda-email-gateway-defense/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Mimecast Advanced Email Security](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mimecast Advanced Email Security") Mimecast Advanced Email Security 4.4/5(348) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mimecast-advanced-email-security/reviews) [ ![Microsoft Defender for Office 365](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Microsoft Defender for Office 365") Microsoft Defender for Office 365 4.5/5(299) ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-defender-for-office-365/reviews) [ ![SpamTitan Email Security](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SpamTitan Email Security") SpamTitan Email Security 4.5/5(199) ](https://www.g2.com/products/spamtitan-email-security/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/barracuda-email-gateway-defense/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 39 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") AH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/18/2020 "LOVE Barracuda Essentials!" 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Barracuda Email Gateway Defense: 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense solving and how is that benefiting you? We needed comprehensive email scanning and filtering and Barracuda was the best we could find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JG Jay G. Director of IT Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/29/2020 "Doesn't get easier or better!" 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/29/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Best Email Security to operate with ease" 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? The cloud offering needs to integrate with other products in order to give additional features such as forensics and sentinel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense solving and how is that benefiting you? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") AA Verified User in Automotive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/25/2020 "Antispam that works" 4/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? It is cloud based, easy to start and has good reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? It becomes quite hard if you need to stop messages containing certain text or so (quite advanced topics). Essentials is not really into exceptions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense solving and how is that benefiting you? I had a onsite antispam solution. Since you really can't predict the load on such solution, it is quite problematic to scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") AH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/2/2020 "Barracuda Essentials in Higher Education" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Barracuda Email Gateway Defense: Contact them for a free demo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic MG Matthew G. Sr. Enterprise Architect Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/16/2020 "Barracuda Essentials" 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? Essentials overall has been great for my corporation. The message log alone is a life saver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? I would love to see increased reporting capabilities and more custom configuration of the spam filters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense solving and how is that benefiting you? We wanted increased protection from spam and phishing. Office 365 just wasn't delivering. Essentials has. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Neisha P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Neisha P.") NP Neisha P. Marketing Assistant Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/22/2019 "Using Barracuda, Does it Help?" 2/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") UC Verified User in Consumer Goods Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/21/2019 "Barracuda helps manage the dangerous waters of Email Threats!" 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? I love the daily emails showing the emails that have been scanned and are awaiting my disposition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? Could be a little easier to log into when not using the email shortcut. Sometimes, when I go straight to the website and login, it doesn't take me to my home page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Barracuda Email Gateway Defense: Ease of use and effectiveness gives great cost benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense solving and how is that benefiting you? Email threats are constant. Barracuda is very successful in helping us filter out all non-essential emails to limit our potential exposure to email threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/1/2019 "A good firewall for email" 4/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Barracuda Email Gateway Defense: 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Pharmaceuticals](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Pharmaceuticals") AP Verified User in Pharmaceuticals Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/3/2019 "Secure gateway with multiple cloud-based apps" 4/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Barracuda Email Gateway Defense: Look at all of the available options. Plan your implementation thoroughly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Email Gateway Defense 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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