| Every one of us knows how spam impacts us. Every | | | | them real time. Consequently we have consistently |
| day we either get a ton of spam - or if we're fairly | | | | been a first responder when some of the most |
| well protected by spam filters - only a few pieces.Like | | | | malicious 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 I | | | | networks."This is one beautiful little machine. A |
| get a lot of email from marketing types which I want | | | | Barracuda Spam Firewall can support from 1,000 to |
| to receive. And the spam filtering software is not very | | | | 30,000 active users. It can usually be installed in less |
| sensitive to my needs. Even white-listing doesn't | | | | than five minutes and receives automatic hourly |
| always work. So, I prefer to get all that spam and just | | | | updates for new forms of spam and viruses. It has a |
| delete it.Now this solution can work for me despite the | | | | 10 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 different | | | | service and security protection, IP block list, rate control, |
| story. If you have a relatively large internal network | | | | virus check with archive decompression, proprietary |
| with even a modest number of email users, you're | | | | virus check, user specified rules, spam fingerprint |
| looking at a major problem. And the more users you | | | | check, Intent Analysis, spam rule-based scoring, and |
| have, the worse the problem is.Sure, you can put up | | | | Bayesian analysis. Plus it also does both inbound and |
| software on the mail server. Works, kind of. But pretty | | | | outbound email filtering with the inclusion of |
| soon you may find you need to upgrade the mail | | | | sophisticated outbound email filtering techniques (just in |
| server. And that's after you already put it on a | | | | case you've got a spam zombie on board or |
| stand-alone machine.Rather than continuing to buy | | | | somebody's got an infected PC).However, it isn't |
| ever more expensive software to run on a machine | | | | exactly cheap. Still, when you consider the time, |
| that keeps needing to be upgraded, you might want to | | | | bandwidth, user frustration and potential hardware |
| think about a dedicated anti spam appliance.To give | | | | upgrade costs, the price may look a lot more |
| you some idea of what's possible let's take a look at | | | | reasonable. You can check it out at you are in the |
| Barracuda Networks dedicated anti spam appliance. All | | | | market for an anti-spam appliance, the Barracuda |
| you need to do is put this baby in front of your mail | | | | Spam Firewall isn't your only choice. The impact of |
| server. I say baby, advisedly because this one will learn | | | | spam on internet businesses - even those who |
| by doing and by training provided by your users.Dean | | | | primarily use it for just email - is so great that a simple |
| Drako, CEO of Barracuda Networks said, "Bayesian | | | | search for "anti spam appliance" will find you a number |
| filtering is still one of the most accurate defenses | | | | of alternatives to examine. Even McAfee is getting into |
| against spam. The new plug-ins allow users to directly | | | | the anti spam hardware game.I'm hoping that it won't |
| train the Bayesian filter, making the Barracuda Spam | | | | be too long before I can pick up a Bayesian multi-level |
| Firewall even more accurate based on the users | | | | anti spam, anti virus firewall appliance for my home PC |
| individual email preferences. Viruses and other threats | | | | that keeps me safe and cuts my need to delete |
| can infect the network quickly if they are not stopped | | | | without deep-sixing the email I want or costing me |
| at the network edge. With Intent Analysis our | | | | more than I can afford. I suspect it's on the |
| customers have an advantage over these threats | | | | way.Copyright 2005 Richard KeirRichard writes in a |
| because the Barracuda Spam Firewall is able to block | | | | variety of areas involving eBusiness and the internet. |