Barracuda Managed XDR Endpoint Security: Features

Allowlisting lets you specify trusted files, applications, or processes that can run on your endpoints, while blocking unauthorized ones. This feature reduces false positives, improves system performance, and increases your security by allowing only safe applications to run. You can customize allowlisting to meet your specific security needs, boosting both efficiency and protection.

Local endpoint sandboxing isolates malicious files in a secure environment on your endpoint, preventing them from spreading or causing harm. It enhances threat detection, accelerates incident response, and lowers false positives by analyzing potentially harmful files in a controlled environment. Furthermore, sandboxing facilitates offline investigations and improves your overall security by allowing for a more thorough examination of emerging threats.

Provides advanced defense against sophisticated threats that bypass your traditional security measures. These safeguards prevent malicious scripts, executable files, and in-memory attacks, including fileless malware, by analyzing behavior rather than just signatures. This detects and prevents unusual activities, such as code injection and unauthorized execution, in real-time. This proactive approach lowers your risk of malware, increases visibility, and provides automated responses to limit damage, ensuring comprehensive protection against advanced, stealthy threats.

USB control improves your endpoint security by blocking unauthorized USB devices, preventing malware spread, and safeguarding against data theft. It enables you to enforce specific policies, block malicious devices, and ensure adherence to data protection requirements. Limiting USB access reduces the risk of insider threats and unauthorized data transfers while simplifying device management through centralized control.

XDR Managed Endpoint Security protects you against ransomware attacks through real-time detection, automatic mitigation, and file recovery. It uses behavioral AI to detect and prevent ransomware activity, isolate compromised endpoints, and restore encrypted files to their pre-attack state. This protection reduces downtime, prevents data loss, and helps you recover quickly from attacks. In addition, it provides detailed forensic insights to improve your future defenses and reduce the risk of data exfiltration.

Safeguards your sensitive information by monitoring and controlling data transfers to prevent unauthorized access, leakage, or theft. It protects you against insider threats, ensures regulatory compliance, safeguards your intellectual property, and detects unusual data transfers. With granular policy controls, DLP strengthens your data protection and enhances your overall security posture.

HIDS looks for suspicious or malicious activity by monitoring and analyzing the events and actions on specific hosts, such as workstations or servers. By analyzing system logs, file integrity, and processes, it focuses on finding possible threats and abnormalities inside your hosts.

HIPS actively blocks malicious actions to prevent exploitation. Together with HIDS (host-based intrusion detection), HIPS provides robust protection against both known and unknown threats, ensure your system integrity, and deliver valuable security data for incident response. These features offer continuous, efficient monitoring with minimal system impact, improving your overall security and reducing the risk of successful attacks.

We detect thousands of attack types from the MITRE attack framework, including ransomware execution, application misuse, privilege escalation, crypto mining, remote code execution, command shell activity, and fileless attacks within your environment.

Monitor and correlate all endpoint activities, including processes, files, and network connections, to detect complex threats like zero-day assaults that bypass your security. By investigating anomalous behaviors or abnormalities in your environment, the SOC can find dormant or hidden threats.

Quickly understand the scope and impact of an incident by providing detailed investigation data, including a timeline of events, which helps determine how an attack occurred and what assets were affected.   This detailed information allows for faster and more precise remediation actions, reducing the time an attacker has to cause damage.

Automatically responds by isolating affected endpoints and terminating malicious processes, mitigating threats quickly without relying solely on manual intervention.

Behavioral analysis detects and prevents known and unknown threats by monitoring real-time system behaviors, rather than relying solely on signatures. It identifies suspicious patterns, such as malware or insider attacks, and offers proactive defense against emerging threats. This technology enables automated responses to stop threats quickly, reduces false positives, and provides detailed forensic insights to help with threat investigation and improve your overall security posture.

Process isolation helps to contain malicious processes, preventing them from spreading and minimizing damage. It enables real-time threat mitigation, reduces false positives, and improves visibility for investigations. This strategy strengthens your defenses by quickly isolating threats and providing valuable insights for remediation.

Remote scripting capabilities enable rapid incident response, automated remediation, and centralized management by allowing security teams to run scripts on multiple endpoints remotely. This feature enhances flexibility, supports proactive threat hunting, and aids in the collection of forensic data for troubleshooting purposes. It ensures efficient security management across both on-site and remote devices, reducing manual effort and improving response times during security incidents.

Automate responses to common threats or suspicious activities, reducing the burden on your team. This automation can lead to faster incident response times and allows your team to focus on more complex tasks. Detect threats that are unique to your environment or industry. Ensure that security policies are applied consistently across your organization to reduce the risk of human error and ensure that your security posture remains robust.

Quickly revert your systems to a state before an attack occurs, including file-based and file-less malware that operates in memory or alters system processes. This minimizes downtime and data loss, negating the impact of the attack without needing to resort to backups or manual data recovery processes. This helps security teams respond more efficiently and return your systems to normal operation quickly.

Ensure that your agents have the latest threat intelligence and detection algorithms to accurately identify and respond to the newest malware, ransomware, and other threats.

VDI support provides you with comprehensive, efficient security for virtual desktop environments while requiring minimal resources. It offers centralized management, scalability, and consistent security across dynamic virtual sessions, making it ideal for large-scale VDI deployments. It also works seamlessly with popular VDI solutions, providing real-time threat detection, automated response, and detailed forensics while ensuring consistent security across all your virtual and physical endpoints.

GPO deployment simplifies and streamlines the installation and management of endpoint security throughout your organization. It uses Active Directory to automate agent deployment, ensuring consistent protection across all your devices while reducing manual effort and errors. This method improves your operational efficiency, deployment speed, and compliance by implementing standardized policies across all endpoints, particularly in large-scale Windows environments. In addition, it reduces your IT overhead and allows for faster updates, improving your organization's overall security posture.

XDR Managed Endpoint Security provides comprehensive, cross-platform security for Windows, Linux, and macOS, ensuring robust protection across a wide range of environments. It offers unified management, real-time threat detection, and advanced AI-powered protection for all your devices, whether desktop, server, or cloud. Multi-OS support simplifies your security operations, improves scalability, reduces complexity, and ensures consistent defense in your hybrid IT environments.

Real-time threat monitoring and guidance are available to you through dedicated security teams ensuring around-the-clock coverage. Each SOC team works in the background to provide proactive detection and response services, so you can feel confident that your security is in good hands. 

The SOC teams continually research and develop new security detections, keeping Barracuda XDR one step ahead of the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape. Whenever you need support, direct access to the SOC is just one phone call away.

Data residency is critical for ensuring compliance with regional data privacy laws, protecting and controlling your sensitive information, and improving incident response times. 

You can select the appropriate data region from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, reducing latency, increasing trust through transparency, and mitigating risks associated with geopolitical data access restrictions. Choosing the right data region ensures that your XDR platform runs efficiently, securely, and in accordance with local and international regulations.

By centralizing and correlating attack telemetry across your endpoints, servers, networks, cloud services, and email, you reduce complexity and gain improved visibility compared to monitoring disparate systems. This approach also allows for the detection of patterns or anomalies that might not be apparent when looking at individual logs, giving you a clearer view of potential threats.

Aggregation and enrichment enhance your threat detection and response by offering a complete perspective and relevant context. This includes asset data, threat intelligence data, and user information, enabling analysts to prioritize and investigate threats more efficiently. The added context helps you better understand the significance of events, leading to faster investigations and more effective automation.

A unified platform gives you Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR), Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), and Incident Management System (IMS) functionality in a single platform, simplifying your security operations.

Extended visibility goes beyond the traditional visibility triad of endpoint, network, and logs. This cloud-native cybersecurity platform gives you a single pane of glass view of telemetry throughout your environment. The Barracuda XDR platform also analyzes data from your existing security solutions, providing you with centralized visibility across your entire digital estate.

Defense-in-depth allows you to build layers of security around your data, devices, and users. Multiple security layers are necessary in order to provide the protection your organization needs. Barracuda Managed XDR adds additional layers of protection for major attack surfaces such as email, endpoints, servers, firewalls, and cloud devices, so you can effectively counter emerging risks.

The growing list of technology integrations allows the Barracuda XDR teams to monitor commonly requested data sources from multiple vendors. Proprietary detections are powered by machine learning (ML) and are mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework, allowing Barracuda XDR to detect threat actors faster and predict their next move, so you can outpace potential security threats.

Barracuda utilizes a large global threat indicator repository informed by rich security intelligence feeds from diverse sources with over 11 billion indicators of compromise (IOCs), including Barracuda's proprietary intelligence, to help you defend against new and emerging threats.

Highly trained security professionals investigate, validate, and contextualize security events, helping you identify threats, including the threat's origin, severity, and business impact. Our security experts bring human reasoning and intuition which machines cannot replicate to identify patterns in hidden threats, such as multi-stage attacks or insider threats, that detection algorithms may miss. Our SOC team provides actionable insights and guide prioritized responses.