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SpamTitan Plus vs Barracuda Sentinel: What You Need to Know

A recent report into spear phishing success rates identified some staggering insights: 

● Almost three-quarters (73%) of organizations said their IT staff are targeted by spear phishing. 

● Around half of the spear phishing attempts (47%) were successful.

The IBM “2022 Cost of a Data Breach” report, identifies phishing as the main cause of data breaches and sets the average cost of a breach in 2022 at $4.35m. 

Spear phishing and associated cyber scams, such as Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Account Takeover attacks, are among the most complex cybersecurity challenges. 

Solutions to meet this cybersecurity challenge must use intelligent technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and a multi-layer, catch-all approach. For example, TitanHQ SpamTitan Plus and Barracuda Sentinel offer advanced technologies to prevent spear phishing and stop BEC and account takeover scams. But which one is best for your organization? Here is a look at each and how they compare.

Did You Know?

99.99%

SpamTitan's spam catch rate

11 seconds

a ransomware attack occurs

$285

the average cost to manage spam per person without an email filter

56.50%

of all email is spam

What is TitanHQ SpamTitan Plus?

SpamTitan Plus provides advanced email security designed for all sizes of enterprises and can be delivered by an MSP. SpamTitan Plus uses intelligent technologies such as AI to block phishing and spear phishing. SpamTitan Plus is a new-generation email security solution that has enhanced coverage, providing vital advances in phishing link detection. 

SpamTitan Plus is a cloud-based solution that delivers easy-to-deploy, advanced, multi-layered, web-borne threat prevention. The SpamTitan Plus AI-enabled detection of incoming emails has made the solution a market leader in catching spam: SpamTitan Plus blocks 99.9% of phishing and spear phishing emails.

SpamTitan Plus blocks 99.9% of phishing and spear phishing emails.

Features of SpamTitan Plus include:

  • One of the most cost-effective anti-phishing solutions on the market
  • Easy deployment and configuration
  • Can be delivered by a managed service provider (MSP)
  • Automatic updates, pushed out to end-user devices
  • Easy to administer using a central web console
  • Supports existing identity systems and robust authentication
  • Fully cloud-based, no hardware or endpoint software needed
  • Collaborative spam fingerprint and real-time checks based on “community intelligence“ from over 650 million users
  • Advanced threat detection using AI
  • Multi-layered email protection to prevent modern threats
  • DMARC email authentication

What is Barracuda Sentinel?

Barracuda Sentinel is a cloud-based email protection solution. The solution integrates directly with Office 365. Barracuda Sentinel uses AI-enabled technologies to track suspicious behavior and prevent spear phishing emails. Administrators are sent alerts if an unusual sign-in activity is identified, and recipients are notified about unauthorized attempts on their accounts. In addition, the solution places malicious emails into quarantine in real-time.

Features of Barracuda Sentinel include:

  • Anti-phishing using AI technologies
  • Protection against spear phishing and BEC
  • Real-time notifications and alerts
  • Quarantines messages
  • Cloud-based
  • Notifies external users and deletes compromised email
  • Domain fraud protection using DMARC authentication

Hear from our Customers

Hands down best replacement for Barracuda

What do you like best about SpamTitan Email Security? The degree of customization and logging is amazing. You can account for everything going in or out of your organization and set filtering rules to match any scenario. Performance of the web UI and functions like searching and reporting are lightning quick. Virtual machine for VMware was super easy to deploy. SpamTitan offers an in-house solution, which we LOVE as well as options for people who prefer cloud. In-House appliance has full support for ipv6 both sending and receiving. Recommendations to others considering SpamTitan Email Security: Take the time to consider SpamTitan. The offering is flexible and if you still want and trust an in-house solution, they offer that in addition to cloud. The in-house solution is not scaled down in any way and is just as good as the cloud offering. What problems is SpamTitan Email Security solving and how is that benefiting you? Barracuda spam filtering was letting us down and letting viruses through. As a managed service provider we wanted our own in-house solution for spam filtering we could use our self and resell to customers. We didn't feel like paying some other company to do it for us in ""the cloud"". Spam Titan was the perfect fit.

David S.

CEO

THANK YOU!

Our company was getting SO many spam and phishing emails. Once this software was implemented, I was able sort and manage my email easier.

Brittany

Collections Manager

Spam Titan is a Class Act

What do you like best about SpamTitan Email Security? Product is simple to install on mail Server. And works Great. What problems is SpamTitan Email Security solving and how is that benefiting you? Spam Totally non existent now.

Gene L.

Small-Business

goodbye to the nightmare of spam

What do you like best about SpamTitan Email Security? The support is very good and the ease of use of the platform is also multilanguage. What do you dislike about SpamTitan Email Security? All is good to me really some little details. Recommendations to others considering SpamTitan Email Security: It really is very good, it would be good to improve the interface. What problems is SpamTitan Email Security solving and how is that benefiting you? We received thousands of emails per hour, this really was chaotic, after implementing SpamTitan, this was very easy and fast, our problems began to be solved almost immediately.

David A.

Mid-Market

It just works

What do you like best about SpamTitan Email Security? The set it and forget it, you don't need to think about on daily basis, once it is configured to updates antivirus antispam and definitions quite often to ensure that as little as possible spam gets through, false positives are very rare. What do you dislike about SpamTitan Email Security? There is really not much to dislike, the interface has what it needs and the system works, not much to tweak either but the again the people at SpamTitan really seams to know what they are doing. Recommendations to others considering SpamTitan Email Security: Remember to use SPF and other antispam issues on your domains, to minimize the amount of spam you send from your domain. What problems is SpamTitan Email Security solving and how is that benefiting you? Stopping a lot of spam, so that staff don't need to go trough a lot of spam to find the mail they need to respond to. This gives them time to do their work instead of filtering spam by hand.

Morten B.

System Administrator

Technology challenge: TitanHQ SpamTitan or Barracuda Sentinel?

The following table shows an at-a-glance view of some of the essential features of the two solutions; This table will help you to decide which of the two solutions is the best fit for your organization.

With spear phishing and BEC scams at an all-time high, it is vital to stop targeted cyber-attacks before they harm your company. However, choosing the right email protection for your organization is complicated, as many alternatives exist. Hopefully, this guide will help you find an alternative to Barracuda Sentinel.

If you're considering an alternative to Barracuda Essentials, click here.

To see just how powerful SpamTitan Plus is, begin your journey to a secure future here:  Start a Free Demo

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