Stopping Phishing at a Consulting Firm: Barracuda Advanced Email Protection at SIRA Consulting

At a glance
Client	SIRA Consulting
Industry	Consulting & professional services
Solution	Barracuda Advanced Email Protection
Delivered by	Cloud Armor IT Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.
Primary threats addressed	Spear-phishing, business email compromise (BEC), invoice fraud, credential harvesting

The challenge

A consulting firm's entire business runs through email: client deliverables, contracts, invoices, candidate and engagement data. That makes consultancies a favourite target for business email compromise — attackers impersonate a partner or spoof a client, redirect an invoice, and the money is gone before anyone thinks to call and confirm.

SIRA Consulting needed protection that understands these attacks. Signature-based filtering does not flag a perfectly clean email that simply pretends to be the CEO — detecting that requires analysing sender behaviour, relationships and intent.

What Cloud Armor delivered

• Barracuda Advanced Email Protection with AI-based impersonation detection trained on the firm's real communication patterns
• Anti-phishing and credential-harvest defence — link protection with time-of-click analysis, catching pages weaponised after delivery
• Attachment sandboxing — detonation of documents and archives before they reach a consultant's laptop
• SPF, DKIM and DMARC enforcement so the firm's own domain cannot be spoofed against its clients — protecting the brand, not just the inbox
• User-level visibility for the firm's IT owner: who is being targeted, with what, and how often

The outcome

• Impersonation and invoice-fraud attempts identified and quarantined instead of landing in partner inboxes
• The firm's sending domain locked against spoofing — a trust signal clients can verify
• Email security operating quietly in the background of a business that cannot afford email friction

Frequently asked

We're a mid-size firm — are we really a BEC target? Mid-size professional-services firms are the preferred BEC target: large enough to move real money, small enough to lack layered controls. The attack requires no malware, so firm size is no defence — process and detection are. See the full anatomy in our BEC defence playbook.

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Does your firm's security match the trust your clients place in it? Talk to Cloud Armor about Barracuda email protection — deployed for consultancies, BFSI and pharma organisations across India, UAE and the US.