Barracuda

Barracuda: Unreliable, inadequate and outdated

Barracuda users deserve stronger protection, better features, and smarter threat protection. Their customers often face issues like limited features, poor efficacy, and a hard-to-manage policy engine. These challenges create complexity and leave your organization exposed to modern threats.

With Mimecast, you’re not just filling Barracuda’s gaps—you’re upgrading to a complete, proactive email security solution that evolves with ever-changing threats.

Email filtering fails

Barracuda lets bad emails through and flags safe ones. Mimecast found 11% of emails were wrongly delivered by Barracuda.

Error-prone configuration

Barracuda’s policy engine lacks granularity, forcing admins to compromise security for flexibility.

High costs, low ROI

Barracuda may seem cost-effective, but it’s limitations and 2x higher incident rate can lead to higher long-term costs.

Mimecast delivers better
results than Barracuda

Every day, 13 organizations replace their secure email gateway with AI-powered cloud
email security from Mimecast.

Better outcomes

Barracuda customers make 2x as many email-related cyber insurance claims as Mimecast customers.

Fewer misconfigurations

Companies using Barracuda often have misconfigured MX records, while Mimecast’s seamless configuration and implementation support reduce incidents.

Proven ROI

Mimecast delivers 2.55x ROI over three years through simple licensing and streamlined management.

Why switch to Mimecast?

Stronger detection,
fewer incidents.

Mimecast's solution with 40+ advanced scanning layers detects and blocks threats across inbound, outbound, and internal email and collaboration traffic.

Monitor & control
human risk

Mimecast reduces human risk with an integrated platform: email security, archiving, insider risk management, training, and third-party security data.

Innovation &
cost efficiency

With 300+ security tool integrations and continuous innovation, Mimecast ensures customers stay ahead of threats while maximizing cost efficiency.

Unmatched threat detection

Mimecast’s AI learns from 1.7B daily emails to block zero-day threats and keep malicious emails out of inboxes. It outperforms Barracuda in many areas, including:

BEC protection before emails are delivered
URL/QR Code Protection
Protection for Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint

300+ integration partners

Our integration platform offers a vast library of integrations and APIs to enable faster response times to security threats.

Integrate with best of breed security tools
Access pre-built integrations for rapid deployment
Reduce cyber risk across your existing tools

One unified platform

Manage all Mimecast products and policies from a single administration console and gain a comprehensive view of your threat landscape.

Hassle-free administration
Granular and flexible policy controls

Don’t take our word for it – we have the proof

The analysts agree. Mimecast innovation leads the way forward with top recognition from Gartner, Forrester, and Omdia.

Gartner MQ Email Security Platforms
“Mimecast’s combined ESP offering suits a broad range of organizations, especially those prioritizing email archiving and human risk management.”

Forrester HRM Wave
"Firms with a strong behavioral change drive that want to move beyond security awareness & training should consider Mimecast.”

Omdia Universe: Email Security
”Mimecast should appear on your shortlist if you are looking for a broad and comprehensive offering for email security.”