What’s New - Q3 2025

Improved threat detection across all products in the BarracudaONE platform

Advanced Threat Protection improvements

• More effective in detecting malicious HTM(L) artifacts/attachments.
• Added support for SVG files.
• Faster scanning of links and documents.

Integration with professional services automation applications from the BarracudaONE dashboard

Automated billing and invoicing with the following PSAs

• BMS, ConnectWise, Autotask, HaloPSA, Pulseway and Syncro

Access MSP App directly from the BarracudaONE dashboard

Enhanced account takeover detection classifiers

Improved accuracy and speed of now real-time impossible travel detections.

Multimodal AI for threat detection 

Context-aware protection simultaneously processes text, images, URLs, documents and QR codes to threats with high accuracy and speed.

Enhanced Barracuda LinkProtect

Inspects URLs for hidden threats, malicious scripts, suspicious redirects and other attacks using a virtual sandbox and secure, isolated browser environment.

Bulk email exemptions

Customers can exempt specific email senders or domains from the bulk email filter.

Enhanced Email Threat Scanner

New filters allow scanning threats from 30 to 365 days, reducing false positives.

Email spoofing protection

150% increase in spoofing detections with new fraud weight signals

Deepfake benchmarking campaign

Security Awareness Training holds a free AI deepfake phishing simulation for customers in April.

SVG file scanning

New Advanced Threat Protections feature detects threats in weaponized SVG files used for phishing.

Scheduled reports for Email Gateway Defense

Customers can now automate report generation and email delivery.

New Incident Response reports

Offering actionable security recommendations to prevent future attacks

Updated reported email tracker

Customers now receive feedback on incorrectly blocked/delivered emails.

Sender authentication improvements

Email Gateway Defense now prioritizes Barracuda headers over Microsoft for more accurate authentication results.

Allowed senders exemptions

Impersonation Protection and Incident Response now support better allowlisting controls. 

Encrypted email recall

Admins can now retract encrypted emails mistakenly sent to wrong recipients.

Email Gateway Defense now live in India

Expansion into AWS regions to serve global customers

Microsoft 365 inline deployment

New mail flow rules allow Email Gateway Defense deployment without MX record changes.

Enhanced filtering for Microsoft 365

Aligning with Microsoft's best practices for better email security integration

Email log 

A unified email security experience that combines pre- and post-delivery threat management into a single, intuitive interface

New onboarding wizard   

Onboarding wizard enables all core email protection products with a single flow. Easy setup and configuration.

Unified admin UI

The new interface is now the default for new customers, streamlining all email security products.

Email Gateway Defense login experience update

A modernized authentication process with a smoother workflow

Simplified navigation

Improved message log layout and condensed filters for better usability

Email warning banners

Now available in open beta for all customers, improving threat awareness.

Email Gateway Defense end-user UI

Fully rolled out to all customers, replacing the legacy interface.

Threat intelligence integration

When a threat is confirmed by a human reviewer or labeler, Incident Response now automatically removes the corresponding emails from all tenants, ensuring rapid remediation across the board.

SOC/XDR integration

Through the Incident Response API, we’ve integrated with Security Operations Center (SOC) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platforms, enabling security teams to remediate emails directly within the XDR UI, streamlining response workflows.

Barracuda Backup

Scalable virtual appliances

Barracuda Backup scalable virtual appliance is designed to provide seamless scalability and flexibility to enable comprehensive data protection with rapid recovery if an event occurs.

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup:

Entra ID Backup Premium

Following on Entra ID Backup, Entra ID Backup Premium protects up to 13 different Entra ID objects.

New Restore UI

Redesigned restore interface with improved filtering, full revision visibility and a cleaner layout, allowing users to locate and restore files in fewer steps. Plus, the ability to export backup data directly to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.

Purge-on-Demand

Permanently delete specific files, folders or user data from your backups without touching the rest of the backup set.

Alert enrichment

Context within alerts is enhanced with Barracuda AI to provide clarity on what is happening and why you are being alerted. This powerful integration significantly reduces alert response times and optimizes SOC resource utilization.

Microsoft Defender support

Integration with Microsoft Defender allows XDR to incorporate feeds for single and multi-tenant applications.

Automated Threat Response 

Automatically contain and block threats from malicious traffic. Support was added for feeds from Cisco Meraki, Fortinet FortiGate, SonicWALL, Microsoft 365, Palo Alto Firewalls, and Sophos XGS.

Microsoft 365 anomalous login and impossible-travel detection

A proprietary machine-learning model now enhances the detection of anomalous Microsoft 365 logins for improved alert accuracy and optimized alert volume by analyzing 30 distinct features associated with potential user compromise events.

Barracuda SecureEdge Access

• New onboarding wizard rapidly guides customers through the major steps required to set up and start seeing value from zero-trust network access.
• SecureEdge Access now has the option to work with local users and groups without the need to integrate with centralized user directories/identity providers.
• SecureEdge Manager allows for mass enrollment for SecureEdge Access with their respective devices. You can now enroll multiple groups and users at the same time.
• A new SecureEdge Access dashboard enables administrators to visualize the management of traffic information and status for connected users, resources, and custom applications.

Barracuda SecureEdge enhancements

• SecureEdge Access Global and User Settings improvements ensure that the system is tamper-proof, so that users cannot disable the access agent or unenroll from the system. Users can now also enroll multiple devices using the same enrollment link. Admins can limit the number of devices that each user can enroll.
• Identity management improvements enable extensive integrations with popular identity providers and user directories.
• Administrators can now configure secure internet traffic from LANs on the Private Edge Service, meaning they can secure internet traffic from the LANs of downstream sites and downstream private edge services on a Private Edge Service and can choose to backhaul and secure all internet traffic from the downstream site's LAN networks.
• SIP Proxy Support: The Barracuda SecureEdge Manager now allows administrators to enable/disable the SIP Proxy feature for all connected infrastructures with respect to an individual workspace. 

Barracuda SecureEdge Connector

An enhanced SecureEdge Connector is now available. The Barracuda SecureEdge Manager allows administrators to configure the SecureEdge Connector to keep your devices secure by redirecting their traffic through a secure VPN connection. You can now deploy the Connector in Routed mode. This requires Routed mode to be activated. You can also use the Connector for app-to-app communication between Connectors or between a Connector and the SecureEdge environment.

Barracuda SecureEdge Agent improvements

Many improvements have been made to the SecureEdge Agent, including linkless enrollment for large-scale deployments, pre-login support for devices, ability to silently block websites, support for dynamic DNS updates with Active Directory and additional languages support.

Support for Barracuda SecureEdge Access with MSP App

Managed Service Providers can now manage their SecureEdge Access seats via the MSP App.

Web Security Gateway migration tooling

Customers can now seamlessly migrate their existing web security policies from Web Security Gateway over to SecureEdge, enabling customers to benefit from the stronger and more modern web security capabilities in SecureEdge.

Cross-Regional Load Balancing 

New support for Global Static IPs through Azure Cross-Regional Load Balancing, enabling DNSSEC-dependent customers to migrate from Legacy DC to Azure WAFaaS. This addresses the limitations of DNS CNAME-based solutions while maintaining regional redundancy.

Intelligent login page security

Automatic detection of application login pages with targeted security policies against common attack vectors. Protects against:

• Brute force – Blocks repeated unauthorized access attempts to web applications
• Credential stuffing – Prevents access using stolen username/password combinations
• Credential spraying – Blocks attempts using common passwords with valid usernames

Advanced GenAI bot protection

Enhanced Advanced Bot Protection now detects and blocks AI-powered bots in near-real time, protecting proprietary content and maintaining competitive integrity. Leverages machine learning models and crowd-sourced intelligence with visibility through the ATI dashboard.

Enhanced API discovery

Improved API identification and cataloging system that provides faster discovery and real-time monitoring of APIs across your environment. Helps maintain security posture by reducing unauthorized access risks and enabling better vulnerability management.