A Barracuda email security alternative for Australian businesses.
Barracuda Email Security is a well-established product in the SMB and mid-market. It's often deployed on-premises or in a hybrid configuration and typically managed by internal IT staff or a generalist MSP. When the business grows past what internal IT can manage, or when the MSP supporting it doesn't have deep mail expertise, the product often drifts — filters become stale, delivery problems go undiagnosed, and nobody is actively tuning it.
Why businesses look for a Barracuda Email Security alternative.
- Product maintained by internal IT or a generalist MSP without email specialisation
- Filter rules that haven't been reviewed or tuned in years
- Delivery problems that surface only when someone complains
- No proactive monitoring of spam rates, blacklist status or filter effectiveness
- Hardware or virtual appliance approaching end of life with no clear upgrade path
Mail Shield — managed by engineers, not a helpdesk.
Mail Shield replaces a self-managed Barracuda deployment with a fully managed service. No appliance to maintain, no filters to tune, no delivery problems to diagnose on your own. Edos manages it end to end.
- Self-managed or managed by a generalist MSP
- Appliance or virtual machine to maintain and update
- Filter tuning requires internal expertise or vendor support
- Delivery problems diagnosed reactively
- Hardware refresh cycle and licensing renewal
- Fully managed by email specialists
- Cloud-delivered — no appliance or VM to maintain
- Proactive filter tuning and performance monitoring
- Delivery problems detected and resolved before complaints
- Monthly subscription, no hardware lifecycle
Local engineers. Australian hosting. No offshore handoffs.
Edos Solutions is based in Sydney. Every engineer is Australian, all infrastructure is hosted in Australian data centres, and when you contact us you reach the person who actually manages your environment — not a helpdesk that escalates to someone who escalates to someone else.
For Australian businesses with data sovereignty requirements, privacy obligations under the Australian Privacy Act, or compliance frameworks that specify local data handling — this matters from day one.
Frequently asked questions
- We have a Barracuda appliance on-premises — what happens to it?
- We migrate mail flow to Mail Shield, verify delivery is working correctly, then decommission the appliance once the parallel run is confirmed clean. The physical or virtual hardware can be retired on your own timeline.
- Our Barracuda is managed by our current IT provider — can you take over just the email security?
- Yes. Mail Shield is a standalone engagement. We manage inbound and outbound filtering, DMARC alignment, blacklist monitoring and delivery — your existing IT provider keeps everything else. We're used to operating alongside other providers.
- How do you handle the transition without disrupting mail flow?
- We run Mail Shield in parallel with the existing Barracuda setup, test delivery in both directions, then cut MX records over. Your team sees no interruption to mail flow during the transition.
- Is Mail Shield suitable for our size — we have around 30 users?
- Yes. Mail Shield works from small teams to several hundred users. At 30 users you're paying AUD $750/month for fully managed email security with direct engineer support. That's typically less than what a generalist MSP charges to react to delivery problems after they occur.
Ready to switch? Start with a conversation.
Tell us what you're running now and what's not working. We'll tell you whether we're the right fit and what a transition would actually look like.
Australian businesses. Local engineers. No offshore subcontracting.