Barracuda Spam Filter
With our award winning Barracuda Spam Filter from Barracuda Networks we stop an average of 1 million spam and virus infected messages daily.
The Barracuda eliminates 98% of spam. It saves you and your employees the headache of deleting all those annoying junk from your inbox. We are now offering the Barracuda for $100/year with a $50 setup fee. Believe me, it's worth it. We install it for you so you don't have to change a thing!
When you subscribe to this service it will protect your entire domain including every e-mail account you have now and create in the future.
As a customer there is nothing for you to install or configure and no wasting more time setting up rules. We have done all this for you!
You owe it to yourself, save money and time.
Barracuda Frequently Asked Questions
How does the Barracuda Spam Firewall protect against email threats?
The Barracuda Spam Firewall, an integrated hardware and software solution, uses a multilayered approach to provide the most comprehensive email protection available against spam, viruses, spoofing, phishing and spyware attacks. An added benefit of the Barracuda Spam Firewall is the optimized processing of each email to maximize performance and capability to filter millions of messages per day.
How is email filtered?
Deployed at the network perimeter, all incoming email must pass through all 12 defense layers of the Barracuda Spam Firewall before any of it can reach the intended recipients. The defense layers are grouped into two main classes: connection management, which involves dropping incoming mail connections before receiving messages, and mail scanning, which analyzes messages upon receipt. During the filtering process, emails are checked for new and familiar spammer attacks, viruses, and customized administrator policy violations. Based on administrator and user preferences, spam can be tagged, quarantined or blocked.
How does the Barracuda Spam Firewall protect against virus threats?
The Barracuda Spam Firewall provides comprehensive protection against virus threats through three powerful layers. The first layer consists of a well-respected open source virus scanning engine. The second layer is a proprietary virus engine maintained by Barracuda Central, an advanced 24/7 security operations center that works to continuously monitor and block the latest Internet threats. The third layer is Barracuda Real-Time Protection, a set of advanced technologies that enable Barracuda Spam Firewalls to immediately block the latest virus, spyware and other malware attacks as they emerge without having to wait for a signature to be downloaded onto the Barracuda Spam Firewall.
Will I receive a high number of false positives using a Barracuda Spam Firewall?
With no tuning, the Barracuda Spam Firewall is set to minimize false positives, typically at 0.01 percent or less - one of the lowest false positive ratings in the industry. As with any solution that allows for user customization, each customer's false positive return will vary depending on how the administrator tunes the unit (i.e. a stricter spam score setting may result in more false positives).
Protection Against Email-borne Threats
The Barracuda Spam Firewall provides comprehensive protection against the most current email-borne threats that can cripple your network if left unprotected. With our proprietary twelve-layer defense system, the Barracuda Spam Firewall optimizes performance of your email server while utilizing the following protections:
- Anti-spam. The algorithms and methods used by the Barracuda Spam Firewall are the most comprehensive and most advanced in the industry at detecting and filtering spam resulting in the lowest rate of false positives. Barracuda Networks Predictive Sender Profiling looks beyond the reputation of the sender and digs deeper into the spam campaign itself to identify anomalous activity.
- Anti-virus. By utilizing triple layer virus blocking, decompression of archives and file type blocking, the anti-virus engine in the Barracuda Spam Firewall provides complete virus protection. When new spam and virus outbreaks occur, Barracuda realtime protection will block these threats in real-time.
- Anti-spoofing. This technology prevents the use of forged or "spoofed" sender addresses on unsolicited email. The anti-spoofing feature also allows larger organizations to specify a list of IP addresses that are allowed to have a "From" address that appears from inside the organization to support multiple sites and multiple email servers.
- Anti-phishing. The Barracuda Spam Firewall provides robust protection against phishing schemes which are often used to gather confidential information about an organization or its individual users.
- Anti-spyware. (Attachments) - All attachments are scanned and any spyware executables are detected and eliminated immediately.
- Denial of Service Protection. Rate controls are utilized to stop denial of service attacks as well as dictionary based spam attacks. These rate control systems are integrated and automatic in the Barracuda Spam Firewall.
