Anti Spam at the Enterprise Level

Every one of us knows how spam impacts us. Everythem real time. Consequently we have consistently
day we either get a ton of spam - or if we're fairlybeen a first responder when some of the most
well protected by spam filters - only a few pieces.Likemalicious virus attacks have hit, saving our customers
a large number of people, I don't use any spam filters.from potentially devastating damage to their
Ah. You think I'm insane. But wait. My problem is that Inetworks."This is one beautiful little machine. A
get a lot of email from marketing types which I wantBarracuda Spam Firewall can support from 1,000 to
to receive. And the spam filtering software is not very30,000 active users. It can usually be installed in less
sensitive to my needs. Even white-listing doesn'tthan five minutes and receives automatic hourly
always work. So, I prefer to get all that spam and justupdates for new forms of spam and viruses. It has a
delete it.Now this solution can work for me despite the10 layer defense system beyond the use of open
time it takes to delete my daily overdose of spam.source anti spam and anti virus solutions: denial of
However, at the enterprise level, it's a whole differentservice and security protection, IP block list, rate control,
story. If you have a relatively large internal networkvirus check with archive decompression, proprietary
with even a modest number of email users, you'revirus check, user specified rules, spam fingerprint
looking at a major problem. And the more users youcheck, Intent Analysis, spam rule-based scoring, and
have, the worse the problem is.Sure, you can put upBayesian analysis. Plus it also does both inbound and
software on the mail server. Works, kind of. But prettyoutbound email filtering with the inclusion of
soon you may find you need to upgrade the mailsophisticated outbound email filtering techniques (just in
server. And that's after you already put it on acase you've got a spam zombie on board or
stand-alone machine.Rather than continuing to buysomebody's got an infected PC).However, it isn't
ever more expensive software to run on a machineexactly cheap. Still, when you consider the time,
that keeps needing to be upgraded, you might want tobandwidth, user frustration and potential hardware
think about a dedicated anti spam appliance.To giveupgrade costs, the price may look a lot more
you some idea of what's possible let's take a look atreasonable. You can check it out at you are in the
Barracuda Networks dedicated anti spam appliance. Allmarket for an anti-spam appliance, the Barracuda
you need to do is put this baby in front of your mailSpam Firewall isn't your only choice. The impact of
server. I say baby, advisedly because this one will learnspam on internet businesses - even those who
by doing and by training provided by your users.Deanprimarily use it for just email - is so great that a simple
Drako, CEO of Barracuda Networks said, "Bayesiansearch for "anti spam appliance" will find you a number
filtering is still one of the most accurate defensesof alternatives to examine. Even McAfee is getting into
against spam. The new plug-ins allow users to directlythe anti spam hardware game.I'm hoping that it won't
train the Bayesian filter, making the Barracuda Spambe too long before I can pick up a Bayesian multi-level
Firewall even more accurate based on the usersanti spam, anti virus firewall appliance for my home PC
individual email preferences. Viruses and other threatsthat keeps me safe and cuts my need to delete
can infect the network quickly if they are not stoppedwithout deep-sixing the email I want or costing me
at the network edge. With Intent Analysis ourmore than I can afford. I suspect it's on the
customers have an advantage over these threatsway.Copyright 2005 Richard KeirRichard writes in a
because the Barracuda Spam Firewall is able to blockvariety of areas involving eBusiness and the internet.