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Cloud Email Protection vs. Barracuda Email Gateway Defense

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

MetricCloud Email Protection

by Fortra

Barracuda Email Gateway Defense

by Barracuda

Overall rating4.54.2
Review count1040
Ease of use9.09.0
Ease of setup8.98.8
Quality of support8.29.0
Meets requirements9.09.1
NPS6042.105263
Small Business0.0%22.5%
Mid-Market20.0%52.5%
Enterprise80.0%25.0%
Total page views151321
Total LLM citations1851,648

Cloud Email Protection

Fortra Cloud Email Protection is a cloud-native platform driven by an advanced system of machine learning (ML) models, Large Language Models (LLMs), and neural networks to detect and mitigate advanced email threats. For the broadest possible protection, our solution references hundreds of curated, high-fidelity threat indicators from newly observed threats every day—all gathered by Fortra’s Global Inbox Threat Intel—that have bypassed traditional Secure Email Gateways.

Pros

    Barracuda Email Gateway Defense

    In today’s complex cyber-threat environment, you need an email security solution that delivers comprehensive security against sophisticated attacks while also being easy to deploy, configure, and manage. Barracuda provides cloud-based protection against advanced email attacks, helps ensure email continuity and scans outgoing email to prevent data loss - all without the need to install any additional hardware or software.

    Pros

    • Email Security
    • Phishing Protection
    • Spam Blocking
    • Ease of Use
    • Protection
    • Customization