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Barracuda Email Protection vs. Adaptive Security

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricBarracuda Email Protection

by Barracuda

Adaptive Security

by Adaptive Security

Overall rating4.54.8
Review count164176
Ease of use9.19.7
Ease of setup9.19.6
Quality of support9.49.8
Meets requirements9.29.6
NPS66.24203889.772727
Small Business20.1%10.5%
Mid-Market70.1%73.7%
Enterprise9.7%15.8%
Total page views1,5932,124
Total LLM citations4,1249,251

Barracuda Email Protection

Barracuda Email Protection helps organizations of all sizes and industries defend against increasingly sophisticated, frequent, and targeted attacks, including phishing, ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), and other threats. Email remains the top attack vector, and securing it has become an urgent priority, especially as cybercriminals leverage AI to improve and scale their attacks.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Email Security
  • Easy Setup
  • Customer Support
  • Security
  • Phishing Protection

Adaptive Security

Adaptive is the human security platform for the AI era. AI has fundamentally changed the threat landscape. Deepfakes make social engineering more convincing, AI-powered phishing scales attacks 100x, and the rapid adoption of AI tools introduces new risks to every organization. Adaptive unifies security awareness training, agentic email security, and AI governance to secure every attack surface where work happens. Adaptive’s platform trains employees against emerging threats, stops sophisticated email attacks, and secures rogue AI usage.

Pros

  • Training
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Easy Implementation
  • Awareness Increase
  • Helpful