UPDATE - Deprecation enforcement of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 postponed to a later date

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On January 9, 2020, we had posted a notice that ESS would be dropping support for TLS v1.0 and v1.1 on June 1 of this year. Due to the current world crisis, we have temporarily halted the deprecation enforcement of TLS 1.0 and 1.1. This...
Update

Block Password Protected PDFs

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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

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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)

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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

ESS dropping support for insecure ciphers

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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

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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

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