Barracuda Email Gateway Defense Updates

ess.barracudanetworks.com

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

by Barracuda Networks
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

by Barracuda Networks
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

New location for buttons for reporting Spam and not spam

by Barracuda Networks
We are working on a process to provide more feedback on why an email was allowed or blocked in our User Interface (UI). As a first step in that direction we have moved the location of buttons used to report Spam and Not Spam. The new...
Usability

Trace email deliverability

by Barracuda Networks
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

by Barracuda Networks
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

by Barracuda Networks
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

by Barracuda Networks
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

Position Change - Sender Spoof Protection

by Barracuda Networks
Usability
This is only a cosmetic change to the Sender Spoof Protection setting. We have moved the this setting to a different page.There are no other changes regarding the functionality of this setting. The new position of this setting is on the...
Position Change - Sender Spoof Protection

More Details in Message Headers

by Barracuda Networks
Improvement
We have rolled out an improvement to our message headers. It is sometimes difficult to identify why a particular message was allowed or blocked. It may take a lot of time to identify the root cause. The Reason Extra will now show more...
More Details in Message Headers