Barracuda Essentials for Office 365

Multi-Layer Security

Comprehensive Email Security:

Stop Email-Borne Threats before They Hit Your Mail Server

Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 is a scalable, cloud-based email security solution that comprehensively protects organizations against advanced email-based attacks and data loss, and minimizes business disruptions. It includes enterprise-class technologies that leverage Barracuda's advanced threat intelligence framework, gathering threat data across all network threat vectors. It also provides granular policy management and monitoring controls for customized rules.

Essentials for Office 365 protects against spam and viruses and known malware. Anti-phishing protection includes link protection which redirects malformed, suspicious, and typosquatted (a form of URL hijacking) links to a sandbox at time of click.

Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 also includes Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for detecting sophisticated, zero-day, advanced persistent threats, and ransomware variants including Locky and CrytoLocker. ATP automatically scans email attachments in most commonly used file formats and opens any questionable content in a secure sandbox environment to detect malicious attachments.

Outbound Email Protection:

Protect Critical Data from Leaving Your Business

Outbound filtering keeps sensitive data from leaving your organization while simultaneously ensuring that legitimate emails are delivered. At the same time, outbound filtering also 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 such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, HIPAA data, customer lists and other private information from being sent by email. Policies can automatically encrypt, quarantine or even block certain outbound emails based on their content, sender or recipient.

Secure Your Communication with Email Encryption

Your emails can travel through many different servers before they reach the intended mailbox. Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 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.

Leverage the power of Barracuda Central

Our email protection leverages Barracuda Central to identify email from known spammers and determine whether domains embedded in email lead to known spam or malware domains and is continually updated with intelligence on the latest threats across all threat vectors. Barracuda Central is our 24x7 centralized threat intelligence gathering organization, where the latest threats across all vectors are analyzed and added to our extensive databases. Over 170,000 organizations worldwide provide intelligence to Barracuda Central, and our email security is updated on a continuous basis.

Archiving, Compliance and eDiscovery

Granular Retention Policies

Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 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.

Compliance and eDiscovery capabilities provided within Office 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 Essentials for Office 365 includes a cloud-based, indexed archive separate from Office 365 that allows for granular retention policies, extensive search, auditing, permissions, legal hold and export of emails that may be required in eDiscovery. Litigation holds preserve email from being tampered with until the litigation hold expires or is removed.

Powerful Search and eDiscovery

The Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service offers easy-to-use search capabilities, ranging from the most basic search by a user for a misplaced email to advanced Boolean search strategies for an auditor during an eDiscovery request.

Barracuda offers native and mobile apps for Android and iOS that simplify search to ensure messages are found easily even when email services are unavailable. Mobile users can search, download and respond to any email ever sent or received, even if deleted from the server. Because all email is indexed, search is often much faster than typical native mobile email applications and provides a much higher search success rate. Users can forward, reply or resend email to themselves.

Backup, Recovery and Business Continuity

Email Service Continuity

The Email Continuity Service ensures that email operations continue by failing over to a cloud-based, email service, in the event Office 365 email services become unavailable. During email server outages, an emergency mailbox allows users to continue sending, receiving, reading, and responding to email.

Cloud-to-Cloud Backup and Recovery

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 for Office 365 protects Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business data by backing it up directly to Barracuda Cloud Storage.

Barracuda Backup is the world’s most widely used integrated backup appliance, according to IDC’s Purpose-Built Appliance Tracker. Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 utilizes Barracuda’s award-winning technology and data protection expertise to employee mailboxes in Exchange Online and corporate data hosted in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business for point-in-time recovery. These solutions can be deployed separately or together to cover your cloud-based data protection needs.

Simplified Email Management

Migrate Legacy Email Faster

Office 365 makes email management simpler than on-premises solutions, but you first have to get your legacy emails to enjoy the benefits of cloud-based email access. For most organizations, this means a cumbersome process locating countless emails in disparate PST files and migrating them to the cloud.

Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 automates this migration with a 90 day subscription to Barracuda PST Enterprise. PST Enterprise will automatically discover PST files on network servers and end-user systems, and migrate this data to an archive or to Office 365. This gives IT administrators control over email data scattered across their organization. With all of 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 eDiscovery.

Cloud-based Central Management

Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 is integrated with the Barracuda Cloud Control web-based management portal, which leverages Barracuda’s global cloud infrastructure and provides a global view to centrally manage all of their Barracuda devices and services through a “single pane of glass” interface. Barracuda Cloud Control also allows administrators to centrally manage policies and configuration. The simple interface makes it easy for organizations to implement and manage the service with minimal IT overhead.

Integrated End-User Security Training

By integrating end-user security education and training exercises into the Barracuda Email Security technology, users that click on malicious links are taken to a landing page where they can take training exercises to understand what they did wrong and how to avoid repeating this mistake moving forward. The exercises run about five minutes and take the user through a course to understand who is behind these attacks, what to look for and a test to ensure they can apply what they’ve just learned.

AI for Real-Time Spear Phishing and Cyber Fraud Defense

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