Barracuda employs advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence for exceptional threat detection accuracy, protecting against 13 email threat types.
Key threats include phishing, which targets sensitive information, and malware, which compromises systems. The system also identifies impersonation attacks, ensuring users are aware of fraudulent communications.
Barracuda filters out spam and defends against ransomware and business email compromise (BEC), which involves fraudulent requests for funds. It safeguards against credential theft and monitors for data leakage.
The technology addresses zero-day exploits and advanced persistent threats (APTs), while also recognising social engineering tactics. It prevents domain and email spoofing, ensuring the integrity of communications.
The Barracuda AI engine continuously adapts to new threats, keeping customer defences robust and up to date.
In today’s digital age, email remains a primary communication tool for businesses worldwide. However, it also serves as a significant vector for cyber threats. Barracuda’s Email Protection offers a robust solution to safeguard your customers’ email infrastructure against a wide array of threats. This comprehensive guide explores the features, benefits, and capabilities of Barracuda’s Email Protection, ensuring your customers’ business remains secure and resilient.
Preventing Threats
Barracuda’s Email Protection is designed to prevent advanced email threats like ransomware and email impersonation. By securing all points of risk, including mailboxes, data, and users, Barracuda ensures no gaps in your email protection.
Barracuda offers comprehensive email security through various features. It uses virus scanning, spam scoring, real-time intent analysis, URL link protection, and reputation checks to block spam, viruses, and malware. Attachment protection combines behavioural, heuristic, and sandboxing technologies to detect zero-hour and targeted attacks by observing suspicious attachments in a sandbox environment. Link Protection rewrites URLs to sandbox requests at click time, blocking malicious links. Barracuda’s AI engine learns communication patterns to prevent phishing and impersonation attacks in real-time. It also detects anomalous email behaviour to alert IT and remove fraudulent emails from compromised accounts. Additionally, Barracuda provides detailed DMARC report analysis to minimise false positives, protect legitimate emails, and prevent domain spoofing.
Email threats have evolved, becoming more sophisticated and dangerous. Cybercriminals employ tactics such as phishing, ransomware, and social engineering to exploit vulnerabilities. The consequences of a successful email attack can be devastating, including data breaches, financial losses, and reputational damage. Barracuda’s Email Protection is designed to counter these threats effectively, providing peace of mind and security for their organisation.
Detecting and Responding to Threats
Barracuda’s Email Protection not only prevents threats but also detects and responds to malicious attacks and unauthorised activity. This includes:
- Automated Incident Response: Automated response capabilities help identify and mitigate the impact of threats that reach customers’ users. This includes automated email incident response, which saves resources and secures their users’ mailboxes.
- Security Awareness Training: Educating their employees about email threats is crucial. Barracuda offers security awareness training to help users recognise and respond to phishing attempts and other malicious activities.
- Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning to protect against 13 email threat types, including phishing and malware, with continuous updates.
- Email Gateway Defence: Filters out spam, viruses, and malware before they reach inboxes, providing real-time protection.
- API-Based Inbox Defence: Detects and responds to threats that bypass traditional security measures for comprehensive protection.
- Automated Incident Response: Identifies and mitigates threats automatically, saving resources and securing mailboxes.
- Security Awareness Training: Educates employees to recognise and respond to phishing and other malicious activities.
- Data Protection and Compliance: Ensures compliance with data regulations and backs up Microsoft 365 data for easy recovery.
Comprehensive Protection Plans
Barracuda offers three distinct protection plans to cater to different organisational needs:
- Advanced Plan: The Advanced Plan provides secure email gateway protection combined with artificial intelligence to protect against all email threat types. This plan includes spam and malware protection, attachment protection, link protection, and email continuity.
- Premium Plan: The Premium Plan includes all features of the Advanced Plan, with the addition of automated post-delivery email incident response. This plan enhances security by detecting and responding to threats that bypass initial defences.
- Premium Plus Plan: The Premium Plus Plan offers the most comprehensive protection, including all features of the Premium Plan. It also adds user training, data protection, email archiving, and zero trust access for Microsoft 365.
