Email is often the most common attack vector for hackers and sophisticated state sponsored operations. Secure your email protection with the power of Barracuda Email Security.
For organizations that want to protect their businesses, brands, and people against the most advanced email-borne threats, Barracuda Email Protection is a comprehensive, easy-to-use solution that delivers gateway defense, API-based inbox defense, incident response, data protection, and compliance capabilities.
Barracuda uses advanced techniques to detect known spam and malware. It also provides email continuity, along with outbound filtering and encryption, to prevent data loss. Built-in Advanced Threat Protection uses payload analysis and sandboxing to discover zero-day malware. Link protection redirects suspicious and typo-squatted URLs, and DNS filtering blocks access to malicious web domains to prevent recipients from downloading malware inadvertently.
Barracuda stops the phishing attacks that hackers use to harvest credentials for account takeover. It detects anomalous email behavior and alerts IT, then finds and removes all fraudulent emails sent from compromised accounts.
Barracuda’s unique API-based architecture lets its AI engine study historical email and learn users’ unique communication patterns. It can then identify anomalies in message metadata and content, to find and block socially engineered attacks in real time.
Enable your users to recognize the latest phishing techniques and help prevent attacks from spreading across your organization. Get access to highly engaging training materials and phishing simulations based on real-world threats.
Identify potential threats post-delivery based on insights gathered from analysis of previously delivered email and community-sourced threat intelligence. Preserve IT resources with automatic removal of malicious messages and automated response playbooks. Stay ahead of the cybercriminals and block future attacks with continuous remediation.
Get cloud backup for Office 365 data including Exchange Online mailboxes, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Teams. Fast point-in-time recovery in the event of accidental or malicious deletion. Cloud archiving helps you meet compliance requirements with e-discovery, granular retention policies, and unlimited storage.
Barracuda researchers have revealed a startling rise in account takeover, one of the fastest growing email security threats. A recent analysis of account-takeover attacks targeted at Barracuda customers found that 29 percent of organizations had their Office 365 accounts compromised by hackers in March 2019. More than 1.5 million malicious and spam emails were sent from the hacked Office 365 accounts in that one month.
Hackers executed the account-takeover attacks using a variety of methods. In some cases, hackers leveraged usernames
and passwords acquired in previous data breaches. Because people often use the same password for different accounts,
hackers were able to reuse stolen credentials and gain access to additional accounts. Hackers also use stolen passwords for personal emails and use access to that account to try to get access to business email. Brute-force attacks are also used in account takeover attacks because many people use very simple passwords are that easy to guess, and they don’t change them often enough. Attacks also come via web and business applications, including SMS.
With more than half of all global businesses already using Office 365, and adoption continuing to grow quickly, hackers are turning increasingly to account takeover because it gives them a gateway into your network and data.
Scammers are adapting email tactics to bypass gateways and spam filters, so it’s critical to have a solution in place that detects and protects against spear-phishing attacks, including business email compromise and brand impersonation. Deploy purpose built technology that doesn’t solely rely on looking for malicious links or attachment. Using machine learning to analyze normal communication patterns within your organization allows the solution to spot anomalies that may indicate an attack.
Some of the most devastating and successful spear phishing attacks originate from compromised accounts, so be sure scammers aren’t using your organization as a base camp to launch these attacks. Deploy technology that uses artificial intelligence to recognize when accounts have been compromised and that remediates in real time by alerting users and removing malicious emails sent from compromised accounts.
Multi-factor authentication, also called MFA, two-factor authentication, and two-step verification, provides an additional layer of security above and beyond username and password, such as an authentication code, thumb print, or retinal scan.
Use technology to identify suspicious activity, including logins from unusual locations and IP addresses, a potential sign, of a compromised account. Be sure to also monitor email accounts for malicious inbox rules, as they are often used as part of account takeover. Criminals log into the account, create forwarding rules and hide or delete any email they send from the account, to try to hide their tracks.
Educate users about spear-phishing attacks by making it part of security-awareness training. Ensure staffers can recognize these attacks understand their fraudulent nature, and know how to report them. Use phishing simulation for emails, voicemail, and SMS to train users to identify cyberattacks, test the effectiveness of your training, and evaluate the users most vulnerable to attacks. Help employees avoid making costly mistakes by creating guidelines that put procedures in place to confirm requests that come in by email, including making wire transfers and buying gift cards.
Google’s G Suite is a comprehensive cloud-based productivity suite that includes everything from email and calendaring, to a full range of business productivity applications, which includes substantial cloud storage. With aggressive pricing, cross-platform support, and tight integration with Android devices, G Suite has proven to be as popular with small businesses and educational users as it has with the millions of individuals who use their free accounts every day.
For email users, Gmail has always provided spam filtering and consistently updated their platform to improve security. Unfortunately, breaches still happen. Convincing phishing attacks against Gmail users seen in early March 2017 and a Google docs hack in early May 2017 showed that all it takes is one user clicking on a malicious email to create havoc for other users and their organization.
Where G Suite provides a range of tools that satisfy most user’s needs, they lack several business-critical features that some organizations (such as municipal governments, non-profits, or school districts) require for both security and compliance.
Below, we take a look at a few of the potential issues with G Suite as it stands and some of the ways you can address them.
