Compare Barracuda Content Shield vs. Control D

Ensure your business's web browsing is secure, as there are approximately 18.5 million compromised websites at any moment. Safeguard your employees and business from harmful links, sites, and downloads to maintain a secure working environment. It's essential to shield both local and remote users from accessing dangerous online content. With 40% of internet usage often straying from work-related activities, implementing detailed access policies can help curb unproductive or inappropriate browsing. You can easily initiate this process within minutes without the need for client software installations. Barracuda Content Shield Plus is a cloud-centric solution that melds effective content filtering, file protection, precise policy enforcement, in-depth reporting, straightforward centralized management, and real-time threat intelligence, all designed to safeguard your users, organization, and brand. Its architecture, designed without a proxy requirement, ensures that latency remains low. Meanwhile, Barracuda Content Shield offers superior web protection but comes with a more streamlined set of features. It incorporates cutting-edge DNS and URL filtering that is perpetually updated, alongside agent-based filtering to enhance security. By utilizing these tools, organizations can create a safer online environment for all users.

Control D is a customizable DNS filtering and traffic redirection platform that leverages Secure DNS protocols like DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-QUIC, with support for Legacy DNS. With Control D you can: block malicious threats, block unwanted types of content network wide (ads & trackers, IoT telemetry, adult content, socials, and more), redirect traffic using transparent proxies and gain visibility on network events and usage patterns, with client level granularity. Think of it as your personal Authoritative DNS resolver for the entire Internet that gives you granular control over what domains get resolved, redirected or blocked.