Stop ransomware before it strikes.
Ransomware attacks on state and local governments have increased over the last several years. Government entities with budget challenges often rely on outdated equipment and inadequate IT support, which makes them more vulnerable to modern attacks. Unfortunately even budget constraints can give way to large ransom demands when the alternative is downtime, service interruptions, and the loss of stolen data.
Global ransomware-related losses are predicted to exceed $265 billion by 2031, and industry research makes it clear that 35% of ransomware attacks start with an email attack. Barracuda Email Protection secures your organization against all 13 email threat types. This multilayered defense protects your inboxes from ransomware and other attacks.
Stop data loss through outbound email.
Nearly 40% of data breaches are caused by employees accidentally sending incorrect attachments and sensitive data to the wrong recipient. The use of email in business communication continues to grow, and only 56% of that email is fully encrypted. While encryption provides necessary protection, it cannot stop unauthorized users from emailing sensitive data to recipients outside of the organization.
Barracuda Email Protection helps public entities secure email messages and attachments while in motion and at rest. Messages can be encrypted automatically with custom or security policies that ensure confidentiality. Data leak protection content policies can automatically encrypt, quarantine, or block certain outbound emails based on their content, sender, or recipient.
Defend your network and users from phishing and social engineering.
Over 20% of data breaches in state and local governments have been traced back to a phishing attack. These social engineering tactics trick email users into providing network credentials, which lead to further attacks such as system intrusion or business email compromise (BEC). One county paid a fake $50,000 invoice to a scammer impersonating a County Commissioner. Despite best efforts, the county could not recover the invoice amount or the costs related to the fraud investigation.
Barracuda uses AI-driven inbox security to identify the malicious intent of phishing attacks. Barracuda Phishing and Impersonation Protection works silently in the background to block attacks from reaching their intended targets.
Arm your employees with security awareness training.
Even users with the most technical expertise can be tricked into giving up credentials in a spear-phishing attack. One city paid nearly $300,000 in ransom after the city IT manager accidentally leaked his credentials in the DHL-themed spear-phishing attack detailed in this report. Training employees to identify these attacks is critical to your security strategy.
Barracuda makes it easy to deliver ongoing awareness training that is tailored to your environment. Threat simulation and behavior analysis allow you to assess risk and respond with additional education and threat exercises.
Reduce the impact and cost of email attacks.
The average time for a phishing attack to snare its first victim is 16 minutes, and it is an average of 33 minutes before the attack is reported to IT. With manual incident response it takes another three and a half hours for organizations to respond. Barracuda research finds that a typical organization responds to five email-related security incidents each day. With an average of 3.5 hours to respond to each incident, it would take the equivalent of two full-time employees to respond to these incidents each day.
Attackers will make the most of every moment they have in your inboxes and network. Barracuda Email Protection enables administrators to respond immediately to attacks that get through to the inbox. Automated incident response removes all instances of the attack and contacts users with the administrator’s preconfigured messaging.
