UNIVERSITY STOPS EMAIL THREATS BEFORE THEY ARRIVE ON CAMPUS PROTECTING USERS AND DATA, BOTH COMING AND GOING “Phishing was our biggest problem,” said Clandis Smith, Network Administrator at Lincoln Memorial University. “Phishing emails got through our Barracuda filtering solution and tempted students, faculty, and staff to click on malicious links.” Phishers blatantly threatened users through impostor emails that supposedly came from the university’s IT department. Emails would tell users that they had exceeded their email limits or that their mailboxes would be shut down unless they clicked a link. When they clicked, the link took them to an outside web page asking for their logins and passwords. From there, phishers used the credentials to send spam emails, which put Li

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