Barracuda Email Gateway Defense Updates

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Block Password Protected PDFs

by Barracuda Networks
You now have granular control over messages containing password protected PDF documents. Phishers and scammers sometimes use malicious PDFs to attack email users. You can choose to block or quarantine such messages. You can also choose...
New Feature

Granular policy options for SPF protection

by Barracuda Networks
Barracuda Email Security Service (ESS) now allows admins to select how to handle emails when SPF checks fail for incoming emails. SPF has two different kind of failure modes – hardfail and softfail. ESS allows you to decide how to handle...
New Feature

Password-less logins for end-users (aka SAML integration)

by Barracuda Networks
Barracuda Email Security Service (ESS) now allows end-users, to access their message log without entering the password or even going to the ESS UI. Many companies have a portal where their end users go to see all the authorized app. Now...
New Feature

Protecting from left over MX records pointing directly to your email server

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Often customers will leave their secondary MX record pointing directly to the email server or O365. Attackers use this information to bypass ESS and send spam, virus, malware and other harmful emails. Since ESS was bypassed by the...
New Feature

Understanding why emails were allowed or blocked

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When you are analyzing emails in the Message Log you often want to know why an email was allowed or blocked. Enhancements in the message log now allow you to see the reason why an email was allowed or blocked quickly. If you want to see...
New Feature

Trace email deliverability

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The message log now allows you to trace deliverability of an email. If you see an email that is not delivered for any reason, you can now trace it to see if the sender retried the email later and if it was delivered. When a message is...
New Feature

SIEM/syslog integration available for Essentials Security edition customers

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The syslog/SIEM integration feature is now available, to all customers. This can be configured in the Account Management tab at the top level. With this feature, you can transfer Message Log data onto your own syslog/SIEM server to...
New Feature

Option to Prevent Administrators from Viewing Users’ Email Body

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To enhance user privacy, you now have the option to prevent your organization’s administrators from viewing the email body of your users’ messages. Administrators will still be able to view the headers of the email but not the message...
New Feature

Search for Similar Messages using Barracuda FIR

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New Feature
Barracuda Email Security Service (ESS) now allows you to search for similar messages (based on the same sender and/or subject) using Barracuda Forensics and Incident Response (FIR). A link to the Forensics product is now available in the...
Search for Similar Messages using Barracuda FIR