It is estimated that more than 361 billion emails are sent around the world every single day. We are continually being bombarded with messages from internal teams, customers, stakeholders, suppliers and much more. It’s hard to imagine what life was like before emails became commonplace – for todays’ younger digital generations entering the workplace, they’ve never known anything different.
So, it’s understandable that with so many emails being sent, we all need to take active steps to protect ourselves, and our businesses, from any malicious threats that might come through in an email.
We recently wrote about the importance of protecting your emails from phishing scams and malicious threats. One of the key tools we use to protect our clients is a software solution called Barracuda.
This highly efficient solution enhances your security settings and can protect your inbox from being affected by a hacker.
Here at Lucid Systems, our role as cybersecurity specialists isn’t just about providing you with the technical support you’re looking for. It’s also about educating you so you’re aware of what we are doing, and why.
Read on to learn more about what Barracuda email security is, and why we recommend it for businesses in Ipswich and Colchester.
How does the Barracuda system protect your emails?
Barracuda email security is a highly intuitive software solution. It can identify and prevent any threats, respond quickly, secure your data, and ensure compliance with key security measures.
It offers spam and malware protection which reduces the likelihood of phishing scams reaching your inbox. It also protects you from unintended email impersonation and strengthens protection for your data, users, and mailbox.
We recommend Barracuda as an email security gateway as it will effectively protect your emails by reducing the time between an email breach occurring and that breach being discovered.
This is important because when it comes to cybersecurity, time is of the essence. Having a solution that expedites the time taken to discover an issue is essential to protecting your business.
Integration with Microsoft 365 solutions
As Microsoft partners, we welcome any solution that seamlessly integrates with MS 365 services, and the Barracuda system does this seamlessly. You can expect to benefit from an additional layer of backups along with fast retrieval and restoration of your emails and data.
Of course, as you would expect, we recommend several different layers of protection to fully strengthen your resilience. Combining MS 365 and Barracuda software with our data backups means that you’re showing your customers that you are doing everything you can to keep your data safe.
Barracuda offers protection against 13 levels of email threats
Your business is facing a never-ending stream of threats. Hackers and malicious communications use many different methods to try and breach your security settings, and Barracuda has identified thirteen different levels of email threat – from basic to complex.
These thirteen email threat types include:
- Spam
- Malware
- Data exfiltration
- URL phishing
- Scamming
- Spear phishing
- Domain impersonation
- Brand impersonation
- Extortion
- Business email compromise
- Conversation hijacking
- Lateral phishing
- Account takeover
Investing in email protection solutions for each individual threat would be expensive and difficult to manage, but Barracuda email protection handles it all seamlessly.
As cybersecurity specialists, we’re continuously educating businesses in Ipswich about the need to find new ways to safeguard your emails. From employee education through to detailed disaster recovery plans, we take a holistic approach to your email security.
Should small businesses in Ipswich invest in email protection?
Now we’ve explained what Barracuda email protection is, let’s examine why businesses in Ipswich (and further afield) need to invest in it.
We regularly explain that hackers focus on smaller businesses because they know that there is less likely to be the same levels of protection. Those smaller companies (which make up the heart of the business community in Ipswich and Colchester) are also less likely to have formal IT policies and procedures in place.
What’s more, staff may be less likely to receive formal training in how to identify potential cybersecurity threats.
If you’ve read our blog about why “cybersecurity should focus on human weaknesses as well as digital ones”, then you’ll know why this is disastrous.
For small businesses in Ipswich, an email data breach could have disastrous consequences.
It could lead to a significant financial fine due to GDPR legislation. And reputational damage could lead to lingering consequences long after you’ve regained access to your data and recovered your emails.
We believe that stringent cybersecurity and email protection should always be affordable to everyone. That’s why we focus on providing exceptional IT support for businesses in Ipswich and Colchester, all the way up to Cambridge.
Allow us to secure your emails and create effective IT solutions matching your business needs and budget.
To set up Barracuda email protection on your system, please phone us on 01473 355199.
