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Barracuda Email Gateway Defense
formerly Email Security

Secured Message Transmission

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If you make setting changes, allow a few minutes for the changes to take effect.

To prevent data leakage and ensure compliance with financial, health care and other federally-regulated agency information policies, Email Gateway Defense provides several types of encryption for inbound and outbound message traffic. 

Send Messages Over an Encrypted Channel

TLS provides secure transmission of email content, both inbound and outbound, over an encrypted channel using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Note that the maximum number of entries that can be added for each policy is 2500.

Outbound

To require mail to be sent outbound from Email Gateway Defense over a TLS connection, use the Outbound Settings > DLP/Encryption page. If a TLS connection cannot be established, mail will not be delivered.

Select one of the following:

  • Use TLS connection for all outbound messages – Require a TLS connection to all domains. To exempt a recipient domain, enter the exempted recipient domain one at a time and click Add, or use the Bulk Edit button.
  • Use TLS connection for select recipient domains – Require a TLS connection to certain recipient domains. Enter the recipient domain one at a time and click Add, or use the Bulk Edit button.
Inbound

To require mail coming inbound to Email Gateway Defense to use a TLS connection, use the SMTP Encryption section on the Domains > Edit Settings page.  If a TLS connection cannot be established, mail will not be delivered.

  • Select Required for Use TLS from Barracuda Networks to your mail server(s) to send inbound mail over a TLS connection if TLS is available on your organization's mail server. If TLS is not available, mail is sent in cleartext. 
  • For Require TLS to Barracuda Networks from these domains, select one of the following:
    • All inbound messages – Require a TLS connection from all domains. To exempt a sender domain, enter the exempted sender domain one at a time and click Add, or use the Bulk Edit button.
    • Select sender domains – Require a TLS connection from certain sender domains. Enter the sender domain one at a time and click Add, or use the Bulk Edit button.

Outbound Mail Encryption

For guaranteed message encryption and ensured delivery of outbound messages, use the  Barracuda Message Center to encrypt the contents of certain outbound messages. You can create policies for when to encrypt outbound messages on the Outbound Settings > Content Policies page for a domain. For details about using encryption with the Barracuda Message Center, see How to Use Encryption of Outbound Mail. For end-users, see the Barracuda Message Center User's Guide.