Barracuda Essentials Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Make sure to create an admin account outside of domain for emergency reasons, in case you get locked out for any reason.

Mainly, it reduces the copious amounts of spam my end users receive on a daily basis. Couldn't live without it!

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.

I am uncertain of all the benefits that it offers. It runs in the background and rarely pops up.

As long as your IT company is well-versed in servers this is a great tool to utilize to secure them. Make sure it also integrates with the email system you currently have in place.

Keeps our email servers safe and prevents us from getting additional spam and junk emails.

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.

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.

All I can say is that it does a good job in capturing a vast amount of spam and it is easy to scroll through as I often do to ensure nothing "good" has fallen into the net, as it were. It's easy to set and will automatically dump emails after a prescribed time period, so they don't add up.

Vastly reducing the amount of spam and potentially harmful emails that would otherwise be clogging my daily inbox.

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.

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.

Look at all of the available options. Plan your implementation thoroughly.

We needed a reliable and secure email filter, and this is one of the applications available in Barracuda Essentials.

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.

The price is to expensive, and the need a lot of configurations. It's not easy to set up on production.

We are solving the security and holding of our emails, some minor documents and other files. We are testing this application, maybe on the future we will expand and use it more than right now.

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.

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.

Its a great tool for managing email accounts and backing up the information recorded in them for later review, if they ever need (especially because we have become incredibly dependent on technology).

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.

Keeps a lot of spam that would otherwise reach my inbox quarantined.

Barracuda quarantines a lot of emails that are harmless email campaigns from websites I follow

Our office receives a lot of spam from various sources. Barracuda helps keep that number down.

Easy to use, good support services, easy to setup

Little difficult purchasing, had to use a vendor, so pretty sure the issue was with them.

Archiving

Backup

Spam filtering

Encryption

User quarantine, allows users to check any blocked emails and release it without IT

Scoring system needs to be easier to use from administrative side

Blocking spam and control size of emails