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Barracuda Email Protection

Comprehensive, elegantly simple protection against email-borne threats to your users, brand, and business.


Between 75% and 90% of targeted cyber-attacks start with an email. Email-borne attacks interrupt business operations, cause financial damage, and compromise business integrity. Barracuda protects you by extending traditional email security with a multi-faceted approach that protects all aspects of your email infrastructure.

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Email security is channel’s biggest focus for 2019

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At Barracuda, we take pride in our ability to listen and react to what’s happening in the channel. With this in mind, when we headed to Marbella for our annual Discover partner conference last month, one of the things high up on our to-do list was to speak to our channel partners across the EMEA region to get their take on upcoming trends, where they see their focus for the next twelve months and their perception of end-user behaviour.

So what does the channel think? And does it match with what we’re hearing from end users? We took to the streets (metaphorically) to hear what our partners thought… Here’s what 264 of them said.

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Threat Spotlight: Modular Malware

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Defend your business against evolving and sophisticated modular malware attacks.

Barracuda researchers have seen a spike in the use of modular malware since the beginning of 2019. A recent analysis of email attacks targeting Barracuda customers identified more than 150,000 unique malicious files in the first five months of the year.

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Cybersecurity teams need to keep invasive malware species out of the IT garden

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Hunting for malware is a lot like trying to keep a garden from being choked by weeds. Every once in a great while, different types of weeds may cross-pollinate to create a new strain. For the most part, however, cybersecurity professionals are familiar with most of the malware they discover. In fact, most of that malware, much like weeds in a garden, arrives in much the same way.

A report this week from Malwarebytes, a provider of endpoint security tools, details the extent of the challenge cybersecurity professionals routinely face. The WannaCry ransomware attack that devasted so many organizations is now two years old. It turns out, however, more recent attacks such as EternalBlue and EternalRomance are exploiting the same weaknesses.

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Barracuda cited as a leader in enterprise email security by independent research firm

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Barracuda was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2019. In this evaluation, Barracuda was cited as a Leader in the category.

The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2019 is a guide for buyers considering email-security solutions. The detailed analysis evaluates products and services on a number of criteria, including cloud integration, deployments options, incident response, and support and customer success.

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Spear phishing and The Art of War

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Spear phishing has quickly become one of the hottest and most dangerous cyberattacks around the world.  The numbers vary based on how costs are counted and crimes are categorized, but the IC3 reported that businesses suffered over $48 million in phishing-related losses in the year 2018 (pdf).  The numbers are much higher when you consider that Business Email Compromise (BEC), corporate data breach, and other types of crimes that can be related to phishing attacks are categorized separately.  The Anti-Phishing Working Group recently reported that phishing attacks on SaaS and webmail services doubled in Q4 of 2018, and the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) states that an average of 4% of the targets in a phishing campaign will fall for the attack.  According to the same report, the company has only 16 minutes until someone in that 4% will act on the scam.  It will be another 12 minutes before someone reports the attack to the IT team.  The numbers get really crazy when you bring mobile attacks into the mix.  You can get details on these in the 2019 Verizon DBIR.

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