Cloudflare Email Security
Posted by 0092236@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 5 comments
What’s up everybody,
We recently signed off on with Cloudflare DNS, Email Security, and a few other modules at my org, and I’m curious how it’s worked out for others who’ve made the switch.
We’re currently running Barracuda One across the board for everything Cloudflare will be replacing, and I’m in the middle of migrating it all over. The process has been going smoothly so far, but I’d love to hear from those who’ve been through it.
Have you noticed any improvements over your previous solution? Any gotchas or surprises along the way? What’s your general experience been like with Cloudflare overall?
I recently stumbled across Proofpoint and wished I came across it sooner…
I Appreciate any insight you guys can share!
enterprisedatalead@reddit
We went through a similar migration recently and overall the visibility and policy management side improved a lot compared to our older setup. The migration itself was pretty smooth, but tuning retention policies and reducing false positives definitely took some time after go-live.
One thing we started paying more attention to during the rollout was long-term archiving and recovery strategy alongside email security itself, especially for compliance requests and phishing recovery scenarios.
This was actually a pretty solid read on cloud-based enterprise archiving and governance strategy:
https://www.solix.com/resources/lg/white-papers/enterprise-archiving-in-the-cloud/
littleko@reddit
Cloudflare can work fine, but don't assume DNS convenience means the mail security side is automatically better. Watch false positives, quarantine workflows, user-reporting flow, and how it handles forwarded mail or weird SaaS senders.
We switched our clients to Suped for the monitoring side. Fewer tickets, less chasing aggregate reports when SPF/DKIM/DMARC weirdness shows up during migrations.
InflateMyProstate@reddit
This is the first I’m hearing that Cloudflare even offers email security services. Feels a bit like going to Burger King for a taco.
I’ve used Proofpoint and implemented it for many clients at my last MSP gig and it’s definitely the superior email security product I’ve utilized.
raip@reddit
We went from Proofpoint to Cloudflare, saw a massive uptick of phishing attempts getting through and went back shortly after.
anxiousvater@reddit
Cloudflare support is largely non-existent, even enterprise customers struggle.