Security Gateway for Email vs Barracuda Email Security Gateway

What do you like best? for the most part it very "Ronco" with set and forget it. easy user configuration easy to stop and start the interface. and the one time i called support the tech was spot on and repaired the software asap.

What do you dislike? it has a tendency to stop running. i'd say once every few months i need to restart the service. a better local user interface. local users have a hard time migration their interfaces.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? being a large international company, it's nice to put of a defense from the bulk of email/spammers. this make my workload easier, this is a good thing.

What do you like best? Security Gateway is surprisingly easy to setup and configure but offer some of the latest and best security features compared to some of the most expensive Mail/Security platforms. The daily email reports and more advanced GUI reports available really help you access what is happening on the mail platform.

What do you dislike? Some of the more advanced features is a bit more difficult to understand and configure but luckily Google and customers support is always close at hand.

Recommendations to others considering the product? It is really work while spending some time installing and evaluating Security Gateway for your email services. The Combination of the Mdaemon Mail Server and the Security Gateway is really all you need.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Since we started using Security Gateway, we have not had any viruses reach any of our end users. The AntiSpam features has also drastically reduced Spam and with additional Administrator options enable you too perfect the spam detecting rules. We also have great reporting on hand to analyse and monitor mail activity.

What do you like best? Security Gateway off curse very effective security filter in between our email server and end users that filters the emails and send the only that are valuable and reject the malicious emails that could be due to virus, spam or dns black, abuse and easy administration of such kind of attacks that can be easily manage by adding in white list or black list and at the end user can get the filtered emails that value their business.

What do you dislike? Some times malicious emails cannot filter and sending them to end users. Every year renewal cost is also matter that is high and it should be go down. if we add sub domains in the main domain the filter difficult to process work.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Email communication between business users in clean and secure environment.

What do you like best? Users are self serve in many aspects. Administration is easy, and so is the integration with Mdaemon. Upgrades are smooth, and it is very stable.

What do you dislike? can't think of anything, really, it does everything i want it to do and good.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Incoming Email gateway, Spam filter and quarantine.

What do you like best? We don't receive un-wanted mails anymore, not mails from registrered spam addresses, no outbreak mails - and only very few spam mails you have to treat manually.

What do you dislike? When we recieve mails from e.g. our payroll company, they are per default rated as spam, because the attachment (pdf) is password protected. Whitelist is ignored.

Recommendations to others considering the product na.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Antispam.

What do you like best? Small, fast, affroadable, easy to use! Lost of setting to play with in order to secure my users.

What do you dislike? Nothing, this is the best product on the market.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? SG preventing spam and my company can read only intended mails.

What do you like best? SecurityGateway is a great product for multiple domains. We are a small service provider who hosts are number of email domains for our clients. We like to use open source products as much as possible, but a mail gateway product that really works is hard to find. Couple that with the great user interface for each user that is linked directly to their back end email account, our users can use one login to manage both email and their spam gateway.

What do you dislike? There is nothing at this time the I find in this product. Price is always a concern for a small business.

Recommendations to others considering the product I would recommend it, however make sure that you don't need to integrate another antivirus product into your gateway product or look at forums for ways to get around the 3rd party antivirus integration issues.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? This product has allowed us to put together a solution that is comparable to the experiences that users have with Google Apps or Office 365 and yet have a cost per mailbox that is less than what each of those platforms cost today.

What do you like best? I get an enormous amount of junk mail. Security Gateway filters those out so i don't have to deal with them.They also spot the emails with viruses and weeds those out. It will also track my companies email and stop any spam from being sent from one of my employees email.

What do you dislike? There's not much i dislike about Security Gateway. I' m certain there are more tools and things happening behind the scenes that i don't know about. If anyone were to show me, I would probably get tired head and not fully understand the behind the scenes stuff. It would be exhausting for me to try to learn all it can do.

Recommendations to others considering the product I would recommend Security Gateway to anyone with email.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? With Security Gateway i don't have to weed through all those emails myself and have more time to do real work. I also don't have the down time due to a virus.

What do you like best? Very easy to customize to fit our requirements. Most other email security software is a one size fits all type of product. Unfortunately, every company has different requirements, Security Gateway makes an extremely flexible package. That is easy to use and set up.

What do you dislike? Not much to dislike. Software works great at what it does.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Using the software to filter out all the junk mail we used to get that would slip right by our Exchange server.
We spend much less time deleting junk and more time responding to legitimate emails.

What do you like best? it is user friendly. I have been managing 200 nodes and it is quite simple.

What do you dislike? not really. Sometime i see latency in email delivery.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? internet security gateway infrastructure

What do you like best? It is very effective, i dont have to worry about always running malware checks or making sure it did expire.

What do you dislike? It would be nice if it was a built-in option but other than that there is nothing i dislike.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Its keeping us safe from unwanted visitors.