ESS dropping support for insecure ciphers

by Barracuda Networks
Barracuda Email Security Service (ESS) no longer supports the following insecure ciphers for Transport Layer Security (TLS). ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA [1.0] ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA [1.0] DHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA [1.0] AES256-GCM-SHA384 [1.2...
Announcement

ESS dropping support for older versions of TLS/SSL

by Barracuda Networks
Starting on Jan 16, 2020 (next week), ESS will no longer accept connections on SSL v3. Additionally on Jun 1, we’ll drop support for TLS v1.0 and v1.1. These are extremely old protocols that have lots of security vulnerabilities. This...
Announcement

New location for buttons for reporting Spam and not spam

by Barracuda Networks
We are working on a process to provide more feedback on why an email was allowed or blocked in our User Interface (UI). As a first step in that direction we have moved the location of buttons used to report Spam and Not Spam. The new...
Usability

Beta for Syslog/SIEM Server Integration

by Barracuda Networks
We are now in the beta phase of syslog/SIEM server integration. With this, you can transfer Message Log data onto your own syslog/SIEM server to monitor, track and troubleshoot message log activity. It provides the benefits of a single...
Announcement

Position Change - Sender Spoof Protection

by Barracuda Networks
Usability
This is only a cosmetic change to the Sender Spoof Protection setting. We have moved the this setting to a different page.There are no other changes regarding the functionality of this setting. The new position of this setting is on the...

More Details in Message Headers

by Barracuda Networks
Improvement
We have rolled out an improvement to our message headers. It is sometimes difficult to identify why a particular message was allowed or blocked. It may take a lot of time to identify the root cause. The Reason Extra will now show more...

Scanning inside Attachments for Links that Point to Malicious Websites

by Danica Tangri
Essentials now scans for links that are inside documents sent as attachments in emails. Scanning occurs at the time of email delivery, when the email is processed, and not at the time of click. Messages determined to contain malicious...
Enhancement

Block and Quarantine of Encrypted Microsoft Office Documents

by Danica Tangri
You now have the option to reject inbound and outbound encrypted Microsoft Office documents before they reach your end users’ inboxes. If your organization does not expect emails with encrypted attachments, we recommend you turn this...
Enhancement

Message Log

by Barracuda Networks
To improve end user and organizational security, the Deliver and Whitelist buttons have been removed from the Message Log, in the blocked message view for end users, preventing them from delivering any blocked messages or whitelisting...
Usability