84 P ROF I L ED : F L E TCHE R S SOL I C I TOR S During the surge towards remote working at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, cybercriminals saw the movement away from the office environment as an opportunity to target organisations and their employees. Attackers gambled that employees working from home might be more distracted and more likely to use unprotected devices. Security, application delivery and data protection solution provider Barracuda Networks reported a 667 per cent increase in Covid-related phishing attacks targeting organisations in March 2020. To protect against these dangers, UK-based legal practice Fletchers Solicitors decided to explore new solutions for email security. The practice wanted to leverage Microsoft 365 to drive employee productivity during the pandemic, but its existing security provider was becoming increasingly expensive. Anthony Terry, director of technology operations for Fletchers Solicitors, decided to look for a costeffective, cloud-native alternative, which he found in Barracuda Email Protection. “We had a great opportunity to break away and seriously evaluate other products on the market,” he says. “Barracuda Email Protection came in with an aggressive pricing structure, but then we also noticed that it had cloud backup, which wasn’t available for many other products. In terms of features, we saw Barracuda was doing everything we needed it to do and more.” Barracuda Email Protection offers end-toend security for Microsoft 365, including impersonation protection powered by artificial intelligence to mitigate business email compromises, phishing, and other advanced threats. The suite of solutions also includes account takeover protection, domain fraud protection, incident response and security awareness training. The solution is now blocking or quarantining around 50,000 out of 250,000 weekly emails for the law firm, including several so-called ‘whaling’ attempts to trick finance team members into making fund transfers. Its team uses the incident response feature to respond rapidly to the small number of threats that do slip through and uses the product extensively for domain-based message authentication, Fletchers Solicitors has used Barracuda’s Email Protection and CloudGen Firewall to guard against phishing attacks and secure its new cloud-based application Comprehensive cloud protection
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