Why Choose IRONSCALES™ over Barracuda®

Choosing the right email and messaging security platform is foundational to the protection of your organization. This page compares two of the top-rated email security platforms — IRONSCALES™ and Barracuda® — to help you choose the platform that’s right for you.
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IRONSCALES provides a self-learning, AI-driven email security platform that continuously detects and remediates advanced threats like BEC, credential harvesting, ATO, and more, in milliseconds. The platform also incorporates employees into the organization’s fight against phishing with integrated email alert banners, report buttons, personalized phishing simulation testing, and advanced security awareness training (SAT).
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For two decades, Barracuda has created a legacy by providing businesses with reliable and comprehensive security solutions to protect their data and networks. Their products have been trusted by SMB organizations around the globe for preventing a wide range of cyberattacks, namely SPAM and malicious content.

Adapting to an Evolving Email Security Landscape

Email security has changed a lot in the last 20 years. Basic protocols like authentication and signature-based secure email gateways (SEGs) used to be enough—but they can't keep up with the latest attacks. Now email security needs to address "malicious intent" like social engineering, and actively protect at the mailbox level. Solutions now use AI, machine learning, and automation as well as human insights to fight advanced threats like business email compromise, account takeover, and VIP impersonation.
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How are IRONSCALES™ and Barracuda® Different? 

IRONSCALES and Barracuda employ distinct methods for securing an organization's email environment, though there is some overlap in their capabilities due to recent updates.

Barracuda traditionally operates with a preventative approach, using a Secure Email Gateway (SEG) to block SPAM and known threats before they reach the inbox. This method functions similarly to network firewalls as they are located in the DMZ of a network, in-line and upstream of a mail server or service. Recently, Barracuda has enhanced its capabilities by adopting API-level integration and AI / ML for improved detection and response, to augment its foundational SEG framework. These enhancements offer features that are more aligned with IRONSCALES’ approach, such as direct inbox defense, though Barracuda maintains its core as a robust SEG solution.

IRONSCALES leads the way in API-based, AI/ML-driven email security, being the first in the industry to deploy this advanced technology across email platforms. As a pioneer with this approach, we've been able to refine and perfect the use of AI and machine learning in real-time threat detection and remediation. Our solution empowers employees to become a responsive part of the security posture with user-friendly alert banners and phishing report buttons.

The platform also includes the ability to send personalized phishing simulations and training based on employees' profiles and recent inbox attacks, thanks to integrated phishing simulation testing and security awareness training (SAT).
This is just a high-level difference between the two solutions. Both Barracuda and IRONSCALES offer different types of features and capabilities, which we’ll cover in more detail in the table below.

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Why IRONSCALES?

Our platform protects your employee's inboxes from advanced phishing attacks that others miss, with the only technology that combines AI and human insights. Our platform is quick to deploy and  dead simple to manage (so you get instant protection).

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Advanced Threat Protection

Protect Better
Block advanced phishing and BEC attacks (and never seen before threats) with our Adaptive AI—dynamically sharpened by real-world user insights and a community of over 25,000 threat hunters.
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SOC Automation

Simplify Operations
Slash the time your team spends remediating email incidents from 30 minutes per incident to 30 seconds. Our Adaptive AI scans every email for malicious indicators. When it finds a threat, it doesn’t just block it, it automatically finds and remediates all others like it in your environment.
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SIMULATIONS & TRAINING

Empower your Org

Triple the email security awareness of your workforce and transform your employees into a crucial line of phishing defense. We make it dead simple to sharpen your employees' understanding of real-world threats with:

  • Phishing simulation testing
  • Security awareness training (SAT)
  • Dynamic email banners

...and a GPT-powered chat assistant

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Case Studies

"The ability to provide real-time feedback on both positive and negative performance has proven very effective. It’s a wake-up call for our employees.”
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