The Barracuda Spam Firewall appliance is an integrated hardware and software solution for complete protection of your email server. With no per user license fee, the Barracuda Spam Firewall is the most affordable enterprise-class spam and virus protection solution available. It is compatible with all email servers and can fit into nearly any corporate or small business environments.

For larger organizations seeking a separate and more comprehensive approach to outbound email filtering, Barracuda Networks also offers the Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound Mode Product line. This provides more advanced outbound email filtering capabilities: including outbound email quarantine, email compliance filtering for corporate policies and government regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley, outbound keyword and regular expression scanning, and outbound whitelisting. line.

Full featured

Barracuda Spam Firewall includes all the features needed to eliminate your spam and completely protect your email server from all forms of attack. A single Barracuda Spam Firewall handles up to 30,000 active email users. Multiple units can be clustered together for even greater capacity and high availibility. Email may be blocked, quarantined, tagged, or delivered based on the preferences of the organisation or the individual user. Outbound filtering techniques include robust outbound email virus filtering, outbound attachment scanning, corporate disclaimer attachments, secure email relays for traveling or remote workers and support for both inbound and outbound SSL/TLS encryption.

Easy to deploy

Deploying the Barracuda Spam Firewall is extremely easy. There is no software to install, no modifications to your existing email systems. Most of our customers complete the plug and play installation in under 10 minutes.

The decision on what types of emails to block can be made either by the user or on a global corporate level. You have the flexibility to decide where you would like the decision to be made. There are optional quarantine mail boxes for users. Users can direct questionable email messages into the quarantine area for later review or just in case. The quarantine area can be enabled or disabled on a per user basis. This can greatly reduce the support load for a large organisation.

Ten defense layers

The Barracuda Spam Firewall design consolidates open source virus and spam solutions in conjunction with ten defense layers

Denial of service and security protection   IP block list   Rate control   Virus check with archive decompression   Barracuda virus check   User-specified rules   Spam fingerprint check   Intention analysis   Bayesian analysis   Rule-based scoring

The Barracuda Spam Firewall architecture optimizes the processing of each email for the performance to process millions of messages per day. Unlike software solutions, the Barracuda Spam Firewall reduces the load placed on the email server by off-loading both spam and virus filtering.

With no software to install and no modifications required to existing email systems, installation of the Barracuda Spam Firewall is quick and easy. Once installed, the system administrator uses the intuitive web interface for monitoring and maintenance. Maintenance is minimal, especially with the help of Energize Updates. These updates, automatically retrieved by the Barracuda Spam Firewall, enable maximum spam and virus protection at all times while eliminating administrative overhead. Updates are provided by Barracuda Central where engineers work around the clock monitoring the Internet for trends in spam and virus threats.

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Barracuda Spam Firewall – Outbound

The Barracuda Spam Firewall – Outbound is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that utilizes sophisticated email and policy management techniques for the protection of outbound email only. Available in five models, the Barracuda Spam Firewall – Outbound supports up to 30,000 active users and 1.5 million emails per day. In addition to the best-of-breed techniques utilized for outbound filtering in the full Barracuda Spam Firewall line, the Barracuda Spam Firewall – Outbound also offers quarantine functionality, email compliance filtering for corporate policies and government regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley, outbound keyword and regular expression scanning, and outbound whitelisting to ensure that all outgoing email is legitimate and virus-free. With no per user licensing fees, the Barracuda Spam Firewall – Outbound is the most affordable solution for businesses of all sizes that require a more comprehensive solution for outbound email protection

The Barracuda Spam Firewall– Outbound Mode is a powerful enterprise-class solution that provides outbound email protection in three key ways:

• Stops virus proliferation
• Enforces corporate policies
• Prevents spamming

No organization wants to be the source of viruses or spam. It not only puts a tremendous strain on the company's network, but it's also damaging to the organization's reputation. The Barracuda Spam Firewall– Outbound Mode ensures that all email leaving the network is virus-free and legitimate. It prevents people from unintentionally or intentionally using the organization's network to send viruses or spam.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall– Outbound Mode also helps ensure that employees are in compliance with government regulations and corporate information policies. With laws that now govern how or when companies are able to disseminate sensitive information, it is critical for companies to monitor emails for regulatory compliance. But even absent such regulations, it makes good business sense to enforce corporate information policies and protect intellectual property from being inappropriately disseminated.

Protection Against Spam Proliferation

In the last year a growing number of spam operations have employed unsuspecting open relays to send spam. This practice often goes unnoticed by the IT staff until problems, such as server overload or blacklisting, disrupts regular email communication. The Barracuda Spam Firewall – Outbound Mode uses advanced rate control features to thwart Zombie PCs and alert the IT staff of the affected organization any time a large quantity of email attempts to leave the network. The hijacked machine can then be shut down before the bulk of spam is sent. In addition to rate controls, the Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound Mode also uses domain restrictions, IP restrictions and user authentication to prevent outbound spam.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall – Outbound Mode is easily deployed and quickly installed. It is compatible with all email servers and can fit into nearly any corporate or small business environment. It can replace any existing outbound mail relay and sits between your client machines and the Internet. It can also be used by remote workers as a reliable mail relay.

Affordable

The Barracuda Spam Firewall– Outbound Mode is the most affordable solution for outbound email protection. With no per user license fees. The Barracuda Spam Firewall– Outbound Mode is available in five models and supports from 1,000 to 30,000 active users.

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