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Barracuda Impersonation Protection

Barracuda Impersonation Protection
Formerly Barracuda Sentinel

Overview

What is Barracuda Impersonation Protection?

Barracuda Sentinel is AI-based protection which learns a business’s unique communication patterns to detect personalized fraud in real-time to protect against business email compromise and account takeover.

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The software has been widely praised for its ability to address the major problem of phishing and spear-phishing attacks. Users have …
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Product Demos

Redington & Barracuda Webinar - Latest Email Threat & Threat Scanner demo - 8th June 2020

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Redington & Barracuda Webinar - Latest Email Threat & Threat Scanner demo - 8th June 2020

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Product Details

What is Barracuda Impersonation Protection?

Business Email Compromise, account takeover, and spear phishing are the leading email-borne threats to business data and reputation. Traditional email security gateways can’t stop these threats. Barracuda Impersonation Protection (formerly Sentinel) is designed to protect businesses in real time with zero IT administration.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Barracuda Sentinel is AI-based protection which learns a business’s unique communication patterns to detect personalized fraud in real-time to protect against business email compromise and account takeover.

Datto SIRIS are common alternatives for Barracuda Impersonation Protection.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Barracuda Impersonation Protection are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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The software has been widely praised for its ability to address the major problem of phishing and spear-phishing attacks. Users have reported that it proactively intercepts and blocks malicious emails, effectively preventing hackers from taking over. The AI technology behind the software has been highly effective, with no reported false positives so far.

One of the key use cases of this product is to monitor and detect unusual logins and suspicious email rules. Users have found that it provides easy and readable access to suspicious inbox rules, allowing them to quickly identify any potential security threats. Additionally, the software offers a sign-in locations map, which helps users track user sign-ins and detect any unauthorized access.

Another important use case of this software is its effectiveness in blocking spear-phishing, account takeovers, and spoofing attempts. Customers have reported that it has successfully thwarted various forms of phishing emails in Microsoft Exchange for their entire organizations. It can also determine if a Microsoft Exchange account has been taken over by an outside entity, providing an added layer of protection.

Furthermore, the software offers domain fraud protection and catches a large number of quarantined emails from invalid senders. This feature has been particularly helpful in reducing the risk of falling victim to fraudulent activities.

Overall, this product has proven to be a valuable tool in combating phishing and spear-phishing attacks. Its ability to proactively intercept malicious emails, monitor unusual logins, block spoofing attempts, and provide domain fraud protection has made it an essential solution for organizations looking to enhance their cybersecurity measures.

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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Barracuda Sentinel goes probing in the users mailboxes and eliminates potential threats. Besides that, it monitors unusual logins and suspicious email rules. The good is that the AI behind really works well. I haven't had any false positives yet. But a lot of junk mail (harmless but potentially dangerous as well) gets caught. Awesome: set and forget.
We recently used it also to setup DMARC correctly and the ease of use is again great.
  • Set and forget
  • Very easy
  • Simple to use dashboard
  • documentation and webinars cover a lot.
  • Small company's don't really benefit from the AI
  • It would be great if some more rule intelligence could be added.
Barracuda Sentinel does what it supposed to do. Stop junkmail in an intelligent way. Junkmail that passes your spamfilters. As an addon it informs you of suspicious mail rules and user logins. I know you can do that with the office 365 tools also, but sentinel makes it easy. Very easy. One drawback: the smaller your user population, the less the AI can learn. So a really small company (eg. 20 users) won't benefit that much from the AI part. But still again, dmarc setup, remedation, etc : great.
  • dmarc setup made ease
  • set and forget security
  • Less administration time to check suspicious logins
  • AI works very well. No false positives
  • It is an addon. It improves your security but will not stop all threats
barracuda is real easy to implement and i haven't had any false positive mail till date.
180
It is active on my mailboxes. So all office workers are involved.
3
But to be honest, it is set and forget.
  • it is an extra security on the mailboxes
  • we get alerted on suspicious activity
  • our mailsetup is correctly implemented (spf, dkim, dmarc)
  • the suspicious rule creation stopped an attack quite early.
  • monitoring of the "shadow" it: who sends legit mail
it helps, does its job. why change?
No
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
one option, we already used the antispam and archiving. Upgrading to a license that included sentinel was a quite logic step.
at the implementation, we compared point solutions. now we have a barracuda package, so we would need to compare a product suite capable of doing a lot.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
We first implemented the sentinel agent that scans mailboxes and removes phising mails.
Later we did the correct setup for Dmarc (and spf, dkim due to information in the documentation of sentinel)
Change management was minimal
  • we saw that our dkim was incorrectly set.
It is really just follow the setup documentation. no risk, no troubles.
  • No Training
Since there is no interaction with the users, training was not needed.
there is not really a configuration you can make. But it is not needed.
i found it somewhat difficult to see why some mailsources are failing dmarc. I can see the domains and ip's that send mail, but it would help to actually see the mail (or at least the header of the mail)
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
No - the product does not support adding custom code
no.
Documentation is good and covers more than the product uses (eg. how dkim works) To be honest, the product is that simple you don't really need support. And it just keeps on working. Maybe it is too simple, so a way to tune it more would be great. But for now :follow the documentation and you're set. Set and forget. it just works.
It is a subscription model, so support is included
Yes
I was more like a feature request. I had rules that kept on giving alerts. The answer was that AI (or Machine Learning) needs some time to figure out what is a correct alarm and what is a false alarm. And indeed, it learn after some time.
Specifically for Sentinel, no. But the archiver saved us multiple times, especially with deleted accounts where after 6 months, an important mail was needed.
It only lost some points because it fails when your user population is too small. I had it activated on 1 tenant of 25 mailboxes and besides the login and mailrule checks, the AI to stop junk mail fails. In my larger tenant of 180 mailboxes, it works like a charm.
the domain fraud section works perfect. The link towards forensics and remediation is really good.
  • setup is quite easy and straightforward
  • dmarc setup really helps
  • you have to trust the system.
It is 1 setting for your environment. so flexibility is low (but not necessary). I have not yet noticed any delays due to sentinel
until now, i haven't encountered any problem.
no delays seen.
  • barracuda essentials
  • barracuda incident response
  • office 365
documentation is perfect.
  • ticket system
alerts in sentinel should become an IT ticket in our helpdesk system. I saw that mail is possible, so that should be easy.
  • Single Signon
The integration was there by default.
the needed integrations are there by default (identity and office365)
i'm a member of barracuda insiders, so i have lot of channels to work with the vendor.
similar.
Since we already had a product, the license came as an upgrade.
price/offering is good compared to the market.
  • as a cloud service, upgrades are seamless
  • they add more intelligence in their offerings.
No
No
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize the Barracuda Sentinel product to block malicious emails including spear-phishing and account takeovers or spoofing. I get a large number of emails that are quarantined that the system is catching where the sender is not a valid account.
  • Capturing targeted phishing attacks
  • Capturing spoofed addresses - emails purporting to be from the CEO but using a Gmail account.
  • This application is doing exactly what I need. It is intuitive and provides details when needed.
We have reduced the number of malicious emails that are being delivered to our end users by a significant amount. There are multiple layers of protection being provided and each layer manages to filter out a few more risks.
  • The capture of malicious email
  • Alerting us of potential email account take over
  • Capturing spoofed email specifically those purporting to need a financial transaction
  • Reducing the risk of a user inadvertently responding to a malicious email
We have been a long-standing customer of Barracuda Backups Cloud to Cloud and Main Backups so this was a logical extension of what we had already been doing and the positive results we had been receiving on the other products
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