Barracuda ESG (discontinued) vs. Mimecast Advanced Email Security

Barracuda ESG (discontinued)

101 Reviews and Ratings

Mimecast Advanced Email Security

196 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Barracuda ESG (discontinued)	Score6.4 out of 10	N/A	Barracuda ESG were physical or virtual appliances designed to protect email servers from spam, virus, spoofing, phishing and spyware attacks. The product line is discontinued.	N/A
Mimecast Advanced Email Security	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	The Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is a messaging security option with anti-spam / anti-malware, data loss prevention, large file send, and other features, from UK company Mimecast.	N/A

Pricing

Barracuda ESG (discontinued)

Mimecast Advanced Email Security

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Pricing Offerings
Barracuda ESG (discontinued)	Mimecast Advanced Email Security
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Barracuda ESG (discontinued)	Mimecast Advanced Email Security
Considered Both Products	Discontinued Products Verified User Chose Barracuda ESG (discontinued) Because we are a small nonprofit a large portion of our decisions come down to cost. Barracuda was the lowest cost option for us during our evaluation of email gateway products. That one factor alone was the deciding factor, because Barracuda indicated that their product would … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Barracuda ESG (discontinued) Barracuda was selected purely on a need and cost basis during the course our selection for an SEG. We needed a tool that could be set up fairly quickly and block and detect against spam and malicious emails. It did not compare in efficacy or ease of use to Mimecast, however it … Incentivized Helpful? Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Whitesell Group (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees) Chose Barracuda ESG (discontinued) The Barracuda [Email Security Gateway] is cost comparative to the Sonicwall Email Security appliance but outperforms it in every scenario we tested. The Mimecast Security Email Gateway was not a good fit, had far too many "beta" quality features. The Cisco Email Security … Incentivized Helpful? Bear Golightly IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager in Information Technology at Nashville Wraps (Wholesale, 51-200 employees) Chose Barracuda ESG (discontinued) We switched from an IronPort appliance to ESS in the cloud after evaluating several others, and have evaluated competitors at each renewal since then. The only services that come close are MimeCast and Proofpoint; if I were making the decision again today, it would … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Daniels Network Engineer in Information Technology at EPMG-Emergency Physicians Medical Group (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) Chose Barracuda ESG (discontinued) Mimecast is an excellent, versatile and full-featured product. However, it was significantly more costly than Barracuda ESS. If you need some of the advanced features from Mimecast and are able to justify the cost based upon those, you will not be disappointed. Microsoft offers … Incentivized Helpful?	Mimecast Jose Castelan, CISSP IT Security Manager in Information Technology at Axiom Space (Aviation & Aerospace, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security Mimecast Advanced Email Security has the greatest feature set at great price point. It is cloud based which fits our cloud first initiative. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security Mimecast Advanced Email Security at the time, seems to be the most stable, reliable, cloud-based MTA spam filter that integrated with SSO and ticks all of our security and compliance boxes. Incentivized Helpful? Moises Jimenez Systems / Network Admin in Information Technology at MAOF (Non-profit Organization Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security We selected Mimecast based on its features, cost and ease of use. We were also recommended to use Mimecast by other professionals in our industry, and based on the reviews we found doing our product research. Mimecast has performed well and has exceeded our expectations. We are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security It is a very powerful and focused offering. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security In our opinion, Mimecast Advanced Email Security was better than the other products we tested. It was more about simplicity for us, and we found it simpler to use. Also, our research from other users of these types of products also seemed to recommend the Mimecast Advanced … Incentivized Helpful? Amritpal Gill IT Manager in Information Technology at iPlato Healthcare (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees) Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security Mimecast is the most mature email security platform I've ever used in my nine years in industry and across MSPs, other work 'well enough' but the configurability of Mimecast is where it shines - it can be exactly how I want it to be. Given we work in a highly regulated … Incentivized Helpful? Tony Laurenzana Security Analyst in Information Technology at CarDon & Associates (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security Mimecast offers a lot more features than the old Barracuda gateway. It is all cloud-based as well. Being able to access it from anywhere is a plus right out of the gate. The Barracuda basically just did spam filtering. There was nothing in terms of archiving, list management, … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Cope IT Administrator in Information Technology at JMA Energy Company, LLC (Oil & Energy, 11-50 employees) Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security We switched from Barracuda to Mimecast and I definitely feel like Mimecast is more robust and has allowed for more customization of features. Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Nickles Vice President, Information Technology in Information Technology at INSURICA (Insurance, 501-1000 employees) Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security We found Mimecast to offer the value and features we were seeking at a more competitive price when compared to its competitors. It was a significant enhancement over the cloud-based service we used prior to switching. Therefore, we've been happy with our choice and would … Incentivized Helpful? Debbie Johnson Technology Systems Manager in Information Technology at Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore (Law Practice, 51-200 employees) Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security We used Symantec (previously Dell's) Email Security Cloud. The features were listed as similar to Mimecast, but support was a thousand times slower and we had significantly more spam, even after all the setting adjustments we could make. We also experienced several issues in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security Barracuda was causing us a lot of problems with missed malicious emails, and a high false positive count. Proofpoint was evaluated against Mimecast and was found to appear superior. However when it came down to bidding, Mimecase undercut Proofpoint by a very large margin. … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher St.Amand Senior Network Security Engineer in Information Technology at PeoplesBank (Banking, 201-500 employees) Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security The price was a bit middle of the road which we found to be ok (we were paying much less with a inferior product). We also appreciated the sales people and their knowledge of the product during demonstrations. The product had many things that we needed without being overly … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Barracuda ESG (discontinued)

Mimecast Advanced Email Security

Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Barracuda ESG (discontinued) and Mimecast Advanced Email Security
Feature	Barracuda ESG (discontinued) 7.3 17 Ratings	Mimecast Advanced Email Security 8.0 67 Ratings
Anti-malware	8.017 Ratings	8.565 Ratings
Customizability	4.415 Ratings	8.566 Ratings
Data Loss Protection	9.012 Ratings	6.655 Ratings
Threat Detection	7.517 Ratings	8.463 Ratings
Sandboxing	9.010 Ratings	8.058 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption	7.013 Ratings	8.555 Ratings
Management Tools	5.917 Ratings	7.764 Ratings

User Ratings
	Barracuda ESG (discontinued)	Mimecast Advanced Email Security
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (25 ratings)	8.5 (79 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.7 (2 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (4 ratings)	8.2 (54 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.4 (5 ratings)	6.0 (7 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.8 (28 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)