Spam, Malware, and Advanced Threat Protection
Barracuda's Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) combines behavioral, heuristic, and sandboxing technologies to protect against zero-hour and targeted attacks. ATP automatically scans email attachments in real-time; suspicious attachments are detonated in a sandbox environment to observe behavior. In addition to blocking the attachments, results are integrated into the Barracuda Real-Time System, providing protection for all other customers.
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The Barracuda combats, detects, and blocks phishing attempts by combining anti-fraud intelligence, behavioral and heuristic detection, protection against sender spoofing (i.e., spammers spoofing valid email addresses), and domain-name validation.
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With a long-standing heritage in spam protection, Barracuda remains the leader in identifying and blocking spam. A comprehensive set of security layers ensures your organization remains productive in the face of evolving threats.
Barracuda identifies email from known spammers and determines whether domains embedded in email lead to known spam or malware domains. It leverages industry-leading techniques that protect against attempts to embed text inside images with the intent of hiding content from traditional spam filters.
As virus attacks become more sophisticated and complex, email infrastructure requires advanced virus protection. The potential for the destruction and release of information or the disruption of a network severely impacts productivity and can lead to financial loss.
Barracuda scans email and incoming files using three powerful layers of polymorphic virus scanning technologies. It also decompresses archives for complete protection. Powerful virus definitions are automatically updated to maintain the most up-to-date protection against email-borne viruses.
Impersonation Protection
Account Takeover Protection
Email Encryption and Data-loss Prevention
Your emails can travel through many different servers before they reach the intended mailbox. Barracuda secures your mail by encrypting it during transport to the Barracuda Message Center, encrypting it at rest for storage in the cloud, and providing secure retrieval by your recipients through HTTPS Web access. Data in motion is secured via Transport Layer Security (TLS) and data at rest is secured via AES 256-bit encryption.
If you are sending a sensitive email, you can manually mark it for encryption. However, you can also create a policy to automatically encrypt emails based on their sender, content and other criteria. Encryption policies ensure that your organization complies with regulations designed to protect customer data, such as HIPAA.
Outbound filtering keeps sensitive data from leaving your organization while simultaneously ensuring that legitimate emails are delivered. At the same time, outbound filtering blocks outbound spam and viruses, preventing your employees or other infected clients from inadvertently sending malicious email, as well as keeping your mail server IP addresses and domains from being listed on spam-block lists.
Employees can inadvertently allow their email to be used for botnet spam. The outbound filter stops outbound spam and the spread of viruses.
Administrators can also create and enforce content policies to prevent sensitive data from being sent by email, such as credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, HIPAA data, customer lists, and other private information. Policies can automatically encrypt, quarantine, or block certain outbound emails based on their content, sender, or recipient.
Domain Fraud Protection
Web Security
Incident Response
Incident Response can help you locate potential threats looming in your Microsoft 365 account. Potential incidents comprise two categories:
- Related threats — Threats based on an incident you already created.
- Post-delivery threats — Based on Barracuda’s (community) intelligence on currently circulating threats that might already be present in your inbox.
Incident Response RESTful API (beta) provides remote administration and configuration of Barracuda Incident Response.
Syslog Integration enables you to export your event data to a syslog server or a security information and events management (SIEM) system. With Syslog Integration, you can store your information and use it for tracking, analysis, and troubleshooting.
Security Awareness Training
Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
Hosting production data in the cloud does not mitigate the need for backup and recovery. Emails and important documents are susceptible to corruption and risk being unrecoverable due to malicious attacks or accidental deletion. Barracuda Email Protection includes Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, which protects Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Teams data, by backing it up directly to the cloud.
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup offers unlimited storage and retention for your Microsoft 365 email, SharePoint, and OneDrive data, including folder structure, attachments, calendars, contacts, schedules, and tasks. Recover individual files and email accounts with point-in-time accuracy, to the same account/location or to a different account/location.
Cloud Archiving
Barracuda provides a cloud-based archive of all email communication, to ensure that you meet demanding business and legal requirements. It follows the accepted “best practice” approach for compliance by archiving an original copy of every email in a separate, immutable store for long-term retention and preservation.
Compliance and e-discovery capabilities provided within Microsoft 365 may be adequate for some organizations, but the “in-place” approach Microsoft takes for long-term email retention and preservation means these capabilities have inherent limitations. They can be complex and expensive to operate and are unlikely to meet the needs of organizations with more demanding compliance and discovery requirements.
Barracuda offers a cloud-based, indexed archive separate from Microsoft 365 that allows for granular retention policies, extensive search, auditing, permissions, legal hold, and export of emails that may be required in e-discovery. Litigation holds preserve email from being tampered with until the litigation hold expires or is removed.
Microsoft 365 makes email management simpler than on-premises solutions, but you have to get your legacy emails to enjoy the benefits of cloud-based email access. For most organizations, this means a cumbersome process that involves locating countless emails in disparate PST files and migrating them to the cloud.
Barracuda PST Enterprise is available as an add-on option to automate this process. PST Enterprise will automatically discover PST files on network servers and end-user systems and migrate this data to an archive or to Microsoft 365. This gives IT administrators control over email data scattered across their organization. With all your emails migrated to a single database, you minimize the risk of losing important emails and reduce the ongoing costs and support IT requirements for compliance and e-discovery.
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