Barracuda Email Gateway Defense
Comprehensive and 100% Cloud-Based Email Security and Archiving
Barracuda Email Gateway Defense protects your organization with comprehensive, scalable, and affordable multi-layer security and archiving – whether you use on-premises email like Exchange or a cloud-hosted system like Google Workspace. Email remains a primary target for cyberattacks, leading to data breaches, disruptions, compliance issues, and reputational damage.
Today’s email threats go beyond simple spam, evolving into sophisticated phishing campaigns, targeted zero-hour attacks, and data theft exploiting user behavior. With 91% of hacks starting with a targeted email attack, robust protection is essential. Barracuda Email Gateway Defense safeguards your users, data, and assets – whether you run Exchange on-premises or in the cloud – while ensuring business continuity and meeting compliance requirements.
Barracuda Email Gateway Defense combines multiple layers of protection for inbound and outbound email to secure against advanced attacks, provides email spooling for uninterrupted service, and offers archiving to meet demanding compliance needs and simplify eDiscovery requests.
Features
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Advanced Threat Detection
Stop zero-hour attacks before they impact your business. Barracuda's Advanced Threat Detection (ATD) combines behavioral, heuristic, and sandboxing technologies to identify and block even the newest threats. Suspicious attachments are detonated in a safe sandbox environment, protecting your network from malware.
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Anti-Phishing Protection
Protect your users from deceptive phishing attacks. Barracuda Email Gateway Defense combats phishing attempts by combining anti-fraud intelligence, behavioral detection, sender spoofing protection, and domain name validation to identify and block malicious emails.
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Malware Protection
Keep viruses out of your inbox. Leveraging the cloud for dynamic, real-time threat analysis, attachment sandboxing, and URL protection, Barracuda Email Gateway Defense prevents malware from affecting your email users.
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Link Protection
Prevent malicious downloads with safe web browsing. Attackers often hide malicious code within URLs. Barracuda’s Link Protection automatically rewrites URLs and sandboxes them at click time, blocking access to dangerous websites.
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Typosquatting Protection
Don't fall for cleverly disguised malicious links. Barracuda’s Link Protection detects and redirects typosquatted URLs (URLs with subtle misspellings) to a sandbox, preventing users from clicking on harmful websites.
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Anti-Spam Protection
Eliminate unwanted emails and boost productivity. With a long-standing heritage in spam protection, Barracuda Networks remains the leader in identifying and blocking spam. Its comprehensive security layers ensure your organization stays productive.
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Anti-Virus Protection
Protect against evolving virus threats. The Barracuda Email Gateway Defense scans email and incoming files using three powerful layers of polymorphic virus scanning technologies, including archive decompression for complete protection.
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Agentless Email Encryption
Secure sensitive communications with ease. Barracuda Email Gateway Defense offers encryption features without complex key management. Outbound email matching policy is securely sent via TLS to the Barracuda Message Center, using AES with 256-bit keys.
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Outbound Filtering
Prevent your organization from being blacklisted and protect against data leaks. Barracuda Email Gateway Defense’s outbound filtering stops spam and viruses originating from within your network, preventing your systems from becoming compromised.
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Data Leak Prevention (DLP)
Protect sensitive information from leaving your organization. Data Leak Prevention allows administrators to configure policies that automatically recognize and block or encrypt sensitive content in outbound emails, such as credit card numbers and social security numbers.
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Email Spooling
Ensure business continuity during outages. Barracuda Email Gateway Defense ensures email delivery continues even during server failures or connectivity loss. Email is spooled in the Cloud Protection Layer for up to 96 hours, with an option to redirect traffic.
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Denial of Service (DoS) Attack Prevention
Keep your email system online and accessible. As a cloud-based service, Barracuda Email Gateway Defense stops spammers before they can overload your email server.
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Archiving, Compliance & eDiscovery
Meet compliance requirements and simplify legal requests. The Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service assists organizations with compliance and eDiscovery requests effectively and easily when used with Microsoft Exchange, Google Workspace, and other environments.
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Barracuda Central
All Barracuda products are supported by Barracuda Central, a 24/7 advanced security operations center that continuously monitors and blocks the latest Internet threats. It analyzes data from over 150,000 collection points worldwide.
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100% Cloud
Barracuda Email Gateway Defense is a fully cloud-based service: It requires no hardware or software installation and is licensed as an ongoing service. The elasticity of Barracuda’s global cloud infrastructure provides the flexibility to handle email surges.
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Simple Cloud-Based Management
An intuitive web interface makes administering Barracuda Email Gateway Defense easy and straightforward. Initial deployment takes less than 30 minutes.
