“With the recent rise in targeted email threats such as phishing and email-borne ransomware, MSPs need to take a more holistic approach to data protection by offering not only backup services, but also specialised email security,” said Jason Howells, Director EMEA, MSP Solutions at Barracuda. “By adding Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 to our MSP offering in the UK, we will provide our partners with another best-in-class solution that further enables them to protect their customers from data loss while improving efficiency, lowering operating costs, and allowing them to focus on their main priorities — delivering customer value and growing their businesses.”
For MSPs looking to provide their customers with extra layers of protection, Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 can also be integrated with Intronis’ other data protection solutions. Partners can choose from either the award-winning Intronis ECHOplatform, which enables IT service providers to securely protect businesses’ physical and virtual data through a rebrandable central management console, or Barracuda Backup – Intronis MSP Edition, a subscription-based data protection solution that simplifies business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) service delivery. And, with Intronis’ fixed-fee pricing per account, MSPs are able to streamline their pricing strategy and simplify their account management.
Enterprise-Grade Advanced Threat Detection
Featuring Barracuda’s Email Security Service and Advanced Threat Detection (ATD), Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 offers a comprehensive and cost-effective way for MSPs to protect their customers using Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite against a broad range of email-based threats including phishing, zero-day vulnerabilities, malware, and spam.
Advanced Threat Detection provides an important security layer that scans email attachments in most commonly used file formats and compares them against a cryptographic hash database. Files of unknown status are neutralised in a sandbox environment within the Barracuda Cloud to observe behaviours, and the results are then pushed into the Barracuda Real Time System to provide protection for all customers. Emails found to contain malicious content are quarantined, and administrators and users can be notified. If no malicious content is found, regular mail processing rules apply.
Extra Protection with Archiving and Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
In addition, with Barracuda Essentials for Office 365, customers can archive their emails using policy-based retention and search capabilities. This allows MSPs to easily and effectively help customers meet compliance requirements and address eDiscovery requests. MSPs can also automate the backup and recovery of Exchange Online emails and attachments, as well as OneDrive for Business files, to protect against data loss, corruption, and accidental deletion.
“With the addition of Barracuda Essentials for Office 365, we are able to bolster email security for our customers already using Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite, while also leveraging the centralised management capabilities available across Intronis’ entire suite of email security and data protection solutions. We’ve reduced our administrative overhead and greatly enhanced the security and compliance capabilities that we can offer existing and prospective customers,” said Perry Bowles, Technical Director at IT service provider Ziptech Services. 
