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Hodgkiss deployed Barracuda Email Protection to prevent spam , ransomware , all socially engineered threats including phishing , spear phishing , business email compromise and account takeover attacks .
“ Barracuda Email Protection takes a comprehensive , automated approach with email threats detected and remediated within minutes and goes much further than your typical email protection provider ,” he said .
Barracuda takes flexible approach
“ During the pre-deployment , we extended the subscription to cover Email Gateway Defense and Impersonation Protection ,” said Hodgkiss .
“ With other IT vendors , additional product means creating a separate contract , but Barracuda
WITH BARRACUDA , EMAIL DATA IS STORED OFF PREMISES AND IN THE CLOUD , SAVING CONSIDERABLE STORAGE AND MAINTENANCE COSTS . enlarged the master contract and retained the single subscription model making everything easy .
“ Barracuda ’ s archiving platform has a full litigation hold meaning if an employee deletes an email by accident or otherwise , the message is retrievable due to cloud synchronization .
“ This brings a considerable cost-savings benefit because under the legacy system , the archive mailbox and email exchange storage resided on-premises . With Barracuda , email data is stored off premises and in the cloud , saving considerable storage and maintenance costs .”
Guarding against the possibility of an employee sharing a link internally to a spam website , Barracuda offers link protection . Whenever an employee shares a link inside the network , Barracuda will intercept the email , scan the contents , click through to the website , and if safe , the email is released . If not , the message is blocked and an alert is triggered .
Sitting inside the network , Barracuda Impersonation Protection uses Artificial Intelligence to learn the communications patterns of employees and detects personalized fraud – spear phishing for example – in real time . When a threat is identified , the email is filtered out with zero impact on performance .
Rounding out the solution is Barracuda Security Awareness Training that offers sophisticated security awareness assessment and training on a platform running multi-vector and variable attack simulations with pre-built email templates and landing pages .
“ This takes the cybersecurity training to the next level by giving engaging and real-life content to employees ,” said Hodgkiss . “ From the performance metrics and detailed reports on user behavior , we can assess security risks and report back to the corporate compliance team .”
Short deployment , long term cost savings
“ Deployment took a day and a half thanks to the structured documentation with the Barracuda team on hand to assist ,” said Hodgkiss . “ Switchover took less than five minutes with zero downtime . It was easy . In the first month of operation , Barracuda scanned 400,000 inbound emails and removed 14,500 threats , and cut our network traffic and storage utilization by 22 %.” p
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