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Barracuda Email Protection vs. Proofpoint Core Email Protection

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

MetricBarracuda Email Protection

by Barracuda

Proofpoint Core Email Protection

by Proofpoint

Overall rating4.54.6
Review count164628
Ease of use9.18.7
Ease of setup9.18.6
Quality of support9.49.0
Meets requirements9.29.4
NPS66.24203874.471545
Small Business20.1%4.6%
Mid-Market70.1%29.5%
Enterprise9.7%65.9%
Total page views1,5932,102
Total LLM citations4,12417,373

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

Proofpoint Core Email Protection

Proofpoint Collaboration Security tackles multichannel, multistage attacks with 99.999% detection accuracy. It identifies and remediates advanced email threats including BEC, ransomware, phishing, ATO, and exec impersonations. The solution blocks threats across email and other digital communication and collaboration platforms, i.e. MS Teams, WhatsApp, Slack, LinkedIn, OneDrive, protecting users anywhere they work, on any device. Customers get protection against both internal and supplier account compromise, and strengthens human resilience against emerging threats.

Pros

  • Protection
  • Email Security
  • Ease of Use
  • Effective
  • Security
  • Customer Support