The solution continuously and autonomously detects and remediates threats across the full attack lifecycle, clearly explains Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace verdicts and enables rapid post-delivery message clawback.
Barracuda Networks, Inc., unveiled Barracuda Integrated Email Protection, an Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) solution delivering high-efficacy protection against evolving AI-driven threats. Powered by AI, the solution continuously and autonomously detects and remediates threats across the full attack lifecycle, clearly explains Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace verdicts and enables rapid post-delivery message clawback.
Built on BarracudaONE® platform telemetry across domains - including email, identity, network, data, and applications - and designed for single and multi-tenant environments, it also enables MSPs to quickly identify, investigate and eliminate risk, simplifying operations, strengthening resilience and accelerating growth.
"Email is no longer a human-centric communication platform; it's an operational fabric where humans and AI interact, making it a much bigger target and amplifying the speed, scale and impact of attacks when threats go undetected," said Rohit Ghai, Chief Executive Officer at Barracuda. "In the agentic AI era, effective security requires a platform approach that delivers continuous visibility and response across the full attack lifecycle. Barracuda Integrated Email Protection is fundamentally different because it correlates cross-domain signals in real time and turns them into automated, explainable action partners and customers can trust and control. The result is measurable, high-efficacy protection that stops threats as they evolve and makes cyber resilience dramatically easier."
One in seven compromised accounts is now used to launch additional attacks - a figure expected to rise with AI-driven threat automation - fueling lateral movement and expanding risk across identities, systems and data. As threats evolve after delivery and at machine speed, organizations face increasing pressure to understand risk, detect threats and respond in real time.
As part of the BarracudaONE platform, the solution also integrates natively with Barracuda Managed XDR and data protection offerings, providing unified visibility, coordinated response and 360-degree resilience across the broader attack surface.
Barracuda's Bailey™ AI assistant enhances this approach by providing clear, plain-language explanations for every decision and enabling teams to easily review or reverse actions. This gives teams visibility and control to manage every automated action - differentiating Barracuda from opaque, black-box ICES solutions.
Barracuda pairs autonomous remediation agents with rich, cross-domain telemetry - including threat intelligence, URL activity and BarracudaONE signals - giving agents the context needed to detect and respond to sophisticated, multi-stage attacks. These advanced AI agents deliver breakthrough capabilities that secure evolving email workflows and provide continuous protection against fast-moving, AI-driven threats. New capabilities include:
Powered by the Barracuda IQ™ engine and enriched by one of the largest threat intelligence datasets in the industry, spanning hundreds of threat feeds, Barracuda delivers high-efficacy detection by continuously learning from real-world data across hundreds of thousands of customer environments. As part of this intelligence, Barracuda analyzes approximately 1.5 billion URLs each day, proactively identifying threats before users click and strengthening detection accuracy over time.
Barracuda Integrated Email Protection strengthens Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace with full attack lifecycle protection. It easily deploys in minutes via an API-based architecture with no Mail Exchange (MX) record changes, mail-flow disruption or manual configuration, delivering immediate, full-lifecycle protection with minimal operational overhead.
Mr. Parag Khurana, Country Manager, India at Barracuda Networks said "AI‑driven cyberattacks in India are moving faster than many security stacks can respond. Threat actors can now move from a personalised phishing lure to full account and endpoint compromise within minutes, often bypassing the legacy controls many organisations still rely on.
For CISOs and CIOs, the shift is clear: identity‑driven attacks are too fast for traditional point‑in‑time defences. Security architectures must move from static trust to ongoing behavioural validation. AI‑powered phishing will only become more personalised and harder to detect, and some messages will inevitably reach users. The priority must move to continuous, real‑time detection across email, identity and endpoints with the ability to contain compromised accounts at machine speed."
"Barracuda Integrated Email Protection will bring meaningful efficiency to how we manage email security," said Ignace Quaghebeur, ICT Manager at Braem NV. "The new single-pane quarantine view lets us easily see and control both Barracuda and Microsoft Defender quarantines in one place, enabling us to strengthen our Microsoft security posture without maintaining two separate systems. It adds a smart, streamlined layer to our workflow that will further reduce operational overhead, improve oversight and support a more consistent, future-ready security posture across our environment."
