Barracuda Essentials Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is cloud based, easy to start and has good reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

Essentials overall has been great for my corporation. The message log alone is a life saver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would love to see increased reporting capabilities and more custom configuration of the spam filters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One less piece of hardware to manage onsite. Allows whitelisting and blacklisting to prevent false positives from not showing up in inbox. There will be some legit emails that get blocked, and spam that gets through, but rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If connection to your DC goes down, users will not be able to send emails. I was also locked out from administering and had to contact support to get back in. They were quick and responsive and gave me the access I needed to get back in and take care of things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like it that it doesn't take up any computer resources (RAM, CPU) and still manages to do a great job filtering and protecting our e-mail services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am uncertain of all the benefits that it offers. It runs in the background and rarely pops up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The price is to expensive, and the need a lot of configurations. It's not easy to set up on production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use Barracuda security as our chief firewall against spam, hacker emails, etc. I use the system pretty much daily to review emails that have been relegated to spam. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As good a job as it does, I do occasionally find legitimate emails in the folder Barracuda creates for spam, but it's not often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, good support services, easy to setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Little difficult purchasing, had to use a vendor, so pretty sure the issue was with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User quarantine, allows users to check any blocked emails and release it without IT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scoring system needs to be easier to use from administrative side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keeps a lot of spam that would otherwise reach my inbox quarantined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Barracuda quarantines a lot of emails that are harmless email campaigns from websites I follow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.