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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/ABarracuda 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

    McAfee Security for Email Servers

    Score5.8 out of 10
    N/AN/AN/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    McAfee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
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    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Barracuda ESG (discontinued) and McAfee Security for Email Servers
    Feature
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)
    7.3
    17 Ratings
    13% below category average
    McAfee Security for Email Servers
    9.9
    1 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Anti-malware8.017 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Customizability4.415 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection9.012 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Threat Detection7.517 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Sandboxing9.010 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption7.013 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Management Tools5.917 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Barracuda Email Protection
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)McAfee Security for Email Servers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (25 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)McAfee Security for Email Servers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Good combination when using their other products like an incident response. When using automated workflows, this makes creating sender policies a breeze. Unfortunately, this can also be done too well as it may filter out valid emails and to resend or place them back into users' mailbox isn't an easy thing to do even if you attempt to resend through the Email Security Gateway.
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    McAfee
    In my experience the McAfee Security for Email Servers is well suited for the all the types of organization and their employees who main concern is security for their mailing application. As they need to protect the sensitive data sent and receive through mail and also wants to protect their employee and organizations sensitive data. Also, I don't see any scenario where McAfee Security for Email Server is not suited as every organizations wants to protect their data and employee from the many cyber attacks.
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    Pros
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    • ESS has a simple interface for both users and administrators.
    • The "Manage Quarantine" button in each email is a direct sign-on link, so users don't have to remember their password to manage their quarantine (this is GOLD, Jerry!).
    • The baseline functionality (catching spam/malware/phishing/malware attachments/malformed PDFs etc) is super-solid, with few false positives and few false negatives.
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    McAfee
    • mail filtering
    • threat protection
    • threat response
    • customer support
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    Cons
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    • You need to take time in adding your contacts to a whitelist so that you don't miss an email.
    • I recommend changing the time interval; Barracuda notifies you that you have quarantined emails as we were only getting 1 per day and we missed some urgent emails.
    • The quarantine folder is web based, we'd prefer it to have been an add-in for Outlook.
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    McAfee
    • Intelligent threat detection
    • Data protection can be improved
    • Pricing can be improved
    • monitoring of spam sending patterns and IP behavior can be improved
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    Usability
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    Setting up the Barracuda for use with Microsoft 365 provides issues that Barracuda seems to have no fix for. I mentioned these issues to their support, because I am constantly reminded of them by their system, and I was told that those errors are normal for our setup and to ignore them which is frustrating to me.
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    McAfee
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    Reliability and Availability
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    Availability is robust and flawless. This is a non-issue, its always up & running and fail-over protection is available for restarts or upgrades.
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    McAfee
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    Performance
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    The WebUI is the only piece I find lacking on the Barracuda ESK. Its is not the fastest and is fairly utilitarian in its approach. The Outlook plug-in, while not in wide use here, causes zero slowdown in Outlook or the Barracuda ESG.
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    McAfee
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    Support Rating
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    Barracuda Email Security Gateway support is great at responding and escalating cases when needed. Timeliness is key when dealing with email attacks, spoofing or malware. Barracuda also has great resources for end-user training as our end users are our first line of defense in combatting attacks on our company. Training end-users pays off in time spent dealing with any email attacks
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    McAfee
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    Alternatives Considered
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    Barracuda integrates well with Office 365 and mail flow is great. It was the first solution we found that was part of a greater suite to fit all the requirements we had. With the Email Security gateway being in the cloud, it required no extra hardware but also nothing new installed on an endpoint as some solutions require.
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    McAfee
    The McAfee Security for Email Servers is very robust and compact against many newly generated cyber threats. Also the McAfee Security for Email Servers is very easy to operate and understand. The great thing about the McAfee Security for Email Servers is it's ability to determine the threat pattern and disabled it before it occurs and causes the problem in daily operations is too good.
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    Return on Investment
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    • The gateway learns current scam which can prevent unmeasureable damage. As a government organization attacks on our network affect public safety.
    • Previous gateways I have managed have required significant amounts of time grooming. The Barracuda gateway has freed up a great deal of my time due to its intelligence and intent scanning.
    • I have very few incidences where a legitimate malicious email will pass through the filter. Just one of these emails can wreak havoc on an organization.
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    McAfee
    • The layer of protection provided by the McAfee Security for Email Servers from cyber attacks is on of the highlight of it.
    • It is the one of the best solution to prevent your organizations employee to fall prey to the attacks like phishing, spamming and many more.
    • The most incredible thing McAfee Security for Email Servers does is that it can be great in dealing with the attacks and detection of cyber threats even before they impact your business.
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