Barracuda Email Protection

Comprehensive, elegantly simple protection against email-borne threats to your users, brand, and business.

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Complete Email Protection Requires a Layered Defense

Between 75% and 90% of targeted cyber-attacks start with an email. Email-borne attacks interrupt business operations, cause financial damage, and compromise business integrity. Barracuda protects you by extending traditional email security with a multi-faceted approach that protects all aspects of your email infrastructure.

Gateway Defense Layer

Stop Advanced Threats Before They Reach Your Mail Server

Modern email attacks have evolved beyond volumetric spam and phishing campaigns to zero-day threats like ransomware and business fraud. Barracuda’s Advanced Threat Protection, filtering, and encryption keep sensitive data safe. CPU-intensive tasks such as sandboxing to “detonate” suspicious attachments are performed in the Barracuda cloud with no impact on your email performance.

Email Resiliency Layer

Ensure Compliance and Continuity with Archiving and Backup

Business email requires compliance with email retention policies. Barracuda Essentials provides tamper-proof archiving and simplifies e-discovery. Cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery protects your business from accidental or malicious deletion of emails and data. Mail server failover and email spooling ensure that emails are delivered –even if your mail server of Office 365 access fails.

Fraud Protection Layer

Stop Social Engineering Attacks with AI-Based Fraud Detection and DMARC

Barracuda Sentinel is powered by an AI engine that detects and blocks spear phishing attacks in real-time. The platform automatically learns the unique communication patterns of your organization to determine with a high degree of accuracy whether an email is part of a spear phishing attack. Identified attacks and quarantined in real-time, and the recipient and administrator are notified of the attempted attack.

User Security Awareness Layer

Build Your Human Firewall with Advanced Phishing Simulations and Training

Email filtering tools can’t catch email attacks that bypass the filters to reach users via their personal email, voicemail, or SMS. Therefore, a complete email protection strategy must include user security awareness training. Barracuda PhishLine automatically runs simulated phishing and administers personalized security awareness training. Using the industry’s most advanced reporting, it identifies risks by user, department, type of device, and thousands of other factors.

Automated Incident Response Layer

Minimize Damage by Automating and Accelerating Incident Response

Barracuda Forensics and Incident Response automates critical processes to accelerate your response to security incidents. It makes it easy for you to quickly identify all impacted users and remove malicious mail directly from users’ inboxes. At the same time, it lets you prevent future attacks by blocking emails from malicious senders, domains, and geo-regions. Discovery and threat insights provided by the platform help to identify anomalies in delivered email, providing more proactive ways to detect email threats.

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Barracuda's Next Generation Email Protection goes beyond the traditional gateway security to block advanced threats like spear phishing.

Next-Generation Email Security

As email-borne attacks have become more prevalent and sophisticated, traditional email security gateways can no longer protect users and data. Many threats, such as spear phishing attacks or emails directed at users via their personal email, bypass gateways.

While a secure gateway is still necessary, complete email protection also requires a multi-layered defense that stops advanced attacks and protects email data. Barracuda is the only company that combines award-winning email security that can identify phishing emails with user awareness training, archiving, and backup.

Defense Starts with the Email Security Gateway

Inbound Filtering Stops Spam and Protects Users

Anti-spam technologies that block analyze several aspects of email messages with granular policy controls
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) that combines behavioral, heuristic, and sandboxing technologies to protect against zero-hour and targeted attacks
Protection against sender spoofing, and domain name validation
Link Protection and Typo-squatting protection that automatically rewrites URLs I emails so they can be validated at click time to block malicious links

Outbound Filtering and Encryption Protect Your Data and Reputation

Prevent your organization from being put on spam block lists
Prevents outbound attacks originating from inside your network
DMARC, DKIM, and SPF authentication to validate emails and prevent others from spoofing your domain
Data Leakage Protection (DLP) that prevents sensitive data such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, HIPAA data, and customer lists from being sent by email
Email Encryption that ensures secure email transmissions

Inbound and Outbound Email Filtering

Ensure Email Compliance and Business Continuity

Compliance and Continuity

Email Archiving and e-discovery Simplify Compliance

Barracuda Essentials 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 into a separate immutable store for long term retention and preservation.

The service offers easy-to-use search capabilities, ranging from the most basic search to advanced Boolean search strategies for e-discovery requests. It includes native and mobile apps for Android and iOS.

Ensure Continuity with Email Server Failover and Backup

Barracuda Essentials ensures that email operations continue by failing over to a cloud-based, email service, in the event primary email services become unavailable. During email server outages, an emergency mailbox allows users to continue sending, receiving, reading, and responding to email.

If you use Office 365, 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 even accidental deletion. Barracuda Essentials protects Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business data by backing it up directly to Barracuda Cloud Storage.

Protect Users from Email Fraud and Phishing Attacks

Real-Time Spear Phishing Protection with the Power of AI

Barracuda Sentinel is powered by an AI engine that detects and blocks spear phishing attacks in real time. The AI engine automatically learns the unique communication patterns of each individual organization. It uses this knowledge to find anomalous signals in the attributes of the incoming message's metadata and content. Barracuda Sentinel combines these signals to determine with a high degree of accuracy whether an email is part of a spear phishing attack. If identified, spear phishing attacks are quarantined in real-time, and the recipient and administrator are notified of the attempted attack.

Protect Your Brand with Domain Fraud Protection

Barracuda Sentinel protects your brand by stopping domain spoofing and unauthorized activity. It provides an intuitive wizard to implement DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance) to ensure deliverability of legitimate email traffic while preventing unauthorized third-party senders from spoofing our domain.

Fraud and Spear Phishing

Make Users a Line of Defense from Spear Phishing Attacks

Training and Reporting

Run Realistic Multi-Vector Phishing Simulations

Social engineers don’t just attack users through corporate email. They can also reach them via personal email, voicemail, and SMS messages. PhishLine provides the industry-leading email (phishing), voice phishing (vishing) and SMS messaging (smishing) simulation platform to help you test your users the way an attacker would.

PhishLine can simulate outbound and inbound email, phone, and text campaigns. In outbound mode, PhishLine will call or text your users and provide interactive text-to-speech responses to test which users take the bait. In inbound mode, PhishLine emails your users with a call-to-action.

Identify Human Risk with Advanced Reporting and Training

PhishLine provides leading-edge user awareness training to counter sophisticated phishing and socially engineered spear phishing attacks. The platform includes a vast library of realistic content. It includes a button to let users notify you of suspected phishing attempts.

PhishLine helps your users sharpen their anti-phishing skills with advanced phishing simulations along with end-user testing, reporting, and comprehensive metrics that let you take prompt and meaningful action against threats.

"We found Barracuda Essentials to be the perfect solution for our customers using Exchange or Office 365. Being able to prevent problems before they happen saves our customers and us more time to focus on what really matters."

David Rolleri

Systems Engineer | INTERDEV Managed Security

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