Barracuda Integrated Email Protection

Email Security built for the AI era

Barracuda Integrated Email Protection is an AI-driven email security solution that continuously detects, re‑evaluates and automatically remediates evolving threats.

Modern attacks don’t stop at delivery. Neither does Barracuda.

Barracuda Integrated Email Protection is an API-based solution that strengthens Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace with high-efficacy, full-lifecycle protection. Powered by Barracuda IQ™, it continuously re-evaluates risk and removes threats in real time — making email security easy, keeping your team in control and reducing remediation time from hours to instantaneous.

From: ceo@company-secure.com URGENT: Wire Transfer Authorization Required ⚠️ Spoofed Sender Domain AI Confidence: 97.3% 🎭 BEC Pattern Detected AI Confidence: 94.8% ⏰ Urgency Manipulation AI Confidence: 89.2% 🛡️ Threat Remediated Deleted in 0.3 seconds

Why must email security evolve for the AI era?

Email is no longer human-centric. As AI adoption grows, people and agents create and act on messages, expanding the attack surface beyond users. AI has made phishing cheap and easy to launch at scale, while today’s attacks exploit trusted identities, hijack conversations and often appear benign at delivery before evolving later. This makes traditional email security based on point-in-time detection insufficient to stop modern attacks.

90%

of phishing attacks use Phishing-as-a-Service kits

1 in 3

Organisations hit by account takeover

5 minutes

from phishing email to full compromise

How Barracuda protects you

How does Barracuda strengthen native email security?

Barracuda integrates directly with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace via API-based email security, continuously detecting, re-evaluating and automatically remediating threats. It deploys in minutes with no Mail Exchange (MX) record changes, no mail-flow disruption and no manual configuration required.

API-driven integration · Behavioural AI & social graph analysis · Continuous inspection & remediation

Threat Detection

AI-driven detection adapts as threats evolve

Barracuda IQ is a multi-model AI engine that analyses message intent, links, identity behaviour, and content across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments, blocking threats out of the box. It continuously monitors for delayed phishing after delivery, rescans links and detects anomalies as risk changes. That helps stop business email compromise and socially engineered attacks that bypass built-in protections.

99.2%

blocked with zero manual configuration

70%

more business email compromise caught vs. Microsoft 365 Defender

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup

Account Takeover Protection

Detect and stop identity abuse inside the mailbox

Most solutions detect account takeover from login anomalies alone. Barracuda uses AI to detect account takeover from post-access email behaviour — abnormal outbound patterns, inbox rule abuse and lateral phishing attempts — then automatically identifies and contains the threat before it spreads, so your team stays in control without manual security operations centre (SOC) intervention.

1 in 7

compromised accounts used to launch attacks

35,000

account takeover detections per month

Post-delivery Incident Response

Easy by design. Automated by default

Post-delivery remediation addresses threats that emerge or evolve after inbox delivery. It automatically reassesses delivered email as risk changes, fingerprints the threat and claws back every instance across the tenant via API in seconds to prevent spread across users and mailboxes. The Bailey™ assistant provides plain-language explanations, so your team stays in control while AI does the work.

Real time

tenant-wide clawback

50%

reduction in support escalations

End link is a known malicious URL https://www.shopname.com/products/women/dresses/evening-gowns/silk-maxi-dress-navy variant=789234&ref= homepage_banner This email has a suspicious call-to-action Because the attack activates after delivery, it can bypass initial defenses and exploit user trust, increasing the likelihood of credential theft, malware infection, or lateral spread within the organization. The email’s links or resources were harmless when received but later became dangerous—this delayed change triggered detection. Severity High Confidence Very high Delayed phishing AI Analysis Microsoft verdict: Allowed
Barracuda verdict: Threat Action taken: Message deleted

BarracudaONE Platform

Complete security across email, identity, data, network, and applications

Email is only the entry point. Barracuda Integrated Email Protection is built on the intelligent BarracudaONE platform, connecting protection, detection and response across email, identity, data, application, and network layers. By correlating signals across these domains and leveraging 100+ threat intelligence feeds through Barracuda IQ, BarracudaONE identifies risks that isolated tools miss. With 24/7 SOC-backed remediation, your organisation stays protected even when your team is offline.

 

100+

threat intelligence feeds correlated through Barracuda IQ

24/7

SOC coverage

 

Extend Native Protection

Built for the platform your team already uses

Native email security in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace stops obvious threats at delivery, but today’s most damaging attacks evolve after they arrive — exploiting trusted identities, hijacked conversations and delayed tactics that native controls weren’t designed to stop.

Barracuda closes that gap with continuous detection, re-evaluation and remediation — stopping business email compromise, post-delivery weaponisation, account takeover, and social engineering at scale.

 

  • Deploy in minutes via API, no MX record change required
  • Zero mail-flow disruption, operational in minutes
  • Continuous agentic post-delivery protection with tenant-wide clawback
  • Trusted by over 80,000 organisations

Schedule your Email Protection demo

Get a personalised product demo with a Barracuda cybersecurity expert.

What is covered in the demo:

  • Scan for latent threats in your inbox.
  • Identify and understand your current email cyber risks.
  • How to set up Barracuda Email Protection in minutes.
  • How to protect your data and ensure compliance.
  • How Barracuda automates threat detection and response.