At the recent event sponsored by Accellis Technology Group and Barracuda Networks, business leaders learned that email-borne risk is an existential threat to SMB’s, and social engineering represents 93% of email breaches.

Senior Systems Engineer at Barracuda, Mike Gorman stated.

It all starts with the mailbox. Whether you’re on a cloud service like Office 365 or Gsuite, on-premises, or in a hybrid configuration, the defenses are the same.

And the gateway is as crucial as ever, so make sure you have inbound, and outbound security deployed, including traditional signature defenses and advanced techniques like sandboxing. Secure yourself against accidental and malicious data loss with encryption and DLP and archive important emails for compliance and/or storage reasons.

Email security beyond a traditional gateway safeguards your employees, brand, and organization. AI-enabled solutions protect against sophisticated, socially-engineered targeted attacks like business email compromise and account takeover.

Take advantage of the Email Threat Scanner Barracuda briefly discussed at the event. This highly effective tool retroactively scans your Office 365 mailboxes and removes any malware or phishing emails from the mailboxes. It will also provide a detailed report on the number of threats that are lurking in the entire organization’s Office 365 account. Remember, this is a free tool and only takes a few minutes to set up.

Once we scan your mailbox, our team will schedule a no-cost meeting with you to review the results, eliminate the threats, and review the existing setup of your Office 365 tenant to optimize security and compliance.