Key Solution Advantages

E-mail services standard security features leave you vulnerable to phishing, zero-day exploits, and other email-borne attacks. Essentials protects you against:

Advanced Threat Detection

Essentials Advanced Threat Detection, a vital security layer that scans email attachments in most commonly used file formats and compares them against a cryptographic hash database.

ADT isolates and detonates files of unknown status in a sandbox environment within the Barracuda Cloud to observe their behavior. The result is pushed into the Barracuda Real Time System to provide protection for all you and other customers.

Emails found to contain malicious content are quarantined. If no malicious content is found, regular mail processing rules apply.

Real-Time Security Monitoring

• Continuous monitoring and blocking of the latest Internet threats via Barracuda Central
• Quarantines, exception lists, and blocked sender lists configurable per user or per organization

Virus Protection

Email and file scanning using three layers of polymorphous scanning technologies

Spam Protection

Barracuda Central-enabled screening for known spammers and malware domains

Anti-Phishing

Anti-fraud intelligence, sender spoofing detection, and domain name validation

Link Protection

Intelligent detection of malicious URLs

Typosquatting Detection

Active URL screening against fraudulent lookalikes of genuine sites

Denial of Service Attack Prevention

Protection against malware designed to cripple or disable networks

Email Spooling

Up to 96 hours of spooling to ensure email delivery in case of server or connection failures

Automated Email Encryption

Simplified key management using 256-bit AES encryption and SMTP over TLS