What's New in February 2025
The Email Threat Scanner can now scan email covering various time periods. Selections include all email sent in the last 30, 60, 90, 180 or 365 days.
What's New in January 2025
Links from Allowed Senders will no longer be clicked by Barracuda. This allows proper functioning of one-time-use links and training campaigns that use phishing techniques.
What's New in December 2024
The Allowed Senders list is editable from both Barracuda Incident Response settings and Barracuda Impersonation Protection settings.
Updated User Interface aligns all Email Security capabilities to the same design and navigation experience.
What's New in October 2024
An updated Best Practices guide for configuring Barracuda Impersonation Protection and Barracuda Incident Response is available.
What's New in May 2024
Reports
Impersonation Protection offers a variety of new reports, which can be customized and saved. Reports can be generated and delivered via email on the day and time you select. Up to 10,000 lines can be exported from any report.
Classifier Enhancements
The detection of threats using or DocuSign or lookalike services has been greatly improved.
What's New in April 2024
Classifier Enhancements
Expanded detection of email-based Account Takeover attacks.
What's New in February 2024
Classifier Enhancements
Greatly improved detection of attacks attempting to impersonate company employees, especially those in leadership positions. This applies to accounts with paid licenses.
Improved detection of phishing emails using non-traditional vectors of attack.
Frequent retraining of all scamming classifiers.
User Interface
The display of threats has been updated to better accommodate Barracuda gateway sender authentication results.
What's New in January 2024
Inbox Rules
Greater Account Takeover detection by examining Inbox Rules and suspicious rule changes.
Improved detection of scamming emails by increasing the rate of retraining related machine learning classifiers.
What's New in October 2023
Free Trial
A free trial can be started with a single click on the Barracuda Email Threat Scanner report.
What's New in September 2023
Classifier Enhancements
Increased Impersonation Protection efficacy by improving detections and reducing false positives. Enhancements have been made in the following areas:
QR code-based attacks
Scam related campaigns
Business email compromise
Admin users will see these detections on the Impersonation Protection UI. We encourage all users to submit missed emails and incorrect detections via the Barracuda Email Protection Add-In.
What's New in March 2023
Message Details
Suspicious elements of an email can be highlighted to show why Barracuda Impersonation Protection classified it as malicious. See the Highlighting section of the Spear Phishing Protection for more information.
What's New in July 2022
Classifier Enhancements
Increased Impersonation Protection efficacy by improving detections and reducing false positives. Enhancements have been made in the following areas:
Phish masking – Hiding malicious URLs behind link forwarding or shortening services.
Fake invoices embedded in emails.
Threats using IPFS links.
Impossible travel – Activity occurring at a distance impossible for a person to reach in the time between events.
HTML classifier enhancements.
Improved native Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Dutch language threat detections.
What's New in June 2022
Message Details
Added Statistics tab information to Message Details. See Spear Phishing Protection for more information.
What's New in September 2021
Suspicious Sign In Status
Account Takeover information for Suspicious Sign Ins now includes whether the attempted suspicious sign in was a success or a failure. For more information, see Account Takeover Incidents.
What's New in May 2021
Exporting Mailboxes to CSV
You can now export and the list of mailboxes and their protection status to a CSV file. For more information, see Spear Phishing Protection.
What's New in April 2021
New Workflow for Reporting False Positives
Improved workflow for receiving feedback about why an email is a false positive. Updated flow is described in False Positives.
What's New in June 2020
Integration with Syslog
You can now export your message log data to a syslog server or a security information and events management (SIEM) system.
For details, refer to How to Connect to a Syslog.
What's New in March 2020
New Usage Report
The dashboard page now displays which Office 365 mailboxes are licensed and monitored. It includes:
a list of all mailboxes (users and shared mailboxes)
whether they have an Exchange license entitlement
whether each mailbox is monitored and protected by Barracuda Sentinel
It is possible that a mailbox does not have an Exchange license, but Barracuda Sentinel will still monitor and protect it. There is also the case where a mailbox is licensed but we are unable to monitor it. Those are rare.
For more information, see Spear Phishing Protection.
What's New in February 2020
Barracuda Sentinel Serial Number
You can now enter your serial number and linking code directly into Barracuda Sentinel. Within Barracuda Sentinel, click on the three dots on the top right and enter their serial number and linking code in the dialog that appears.
Your serial number and linking code are located in the email that you received when you purchased Barracuda Sentinel, Barracuda Total Email Security, or Barracuda Total Email Protection.
What's New in February 2020
Conversation Hijacking
Barracuda Sentinel now protects you against Conversation Hijacking attacks. Check out our blog post to learn more.
What's New in January 2020
Introducing the Barracuda Sentinel changelog!
The What's New feature now appears in the top right of Barracuda Sentinel pages. It includes new features, improvements, fixes but also scheduled maintenance. You can also subscribe to receive updates sent to your inbox.
What's New in October 2020
DMARC Redesign
Sentinel updated how it handles DMARC. See the following articles for details: