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Barracuda Spam and Virus Protection - 2010-11-15

Benson & Associates is pleased to offer a new level of security for your hosted email. Barracuda Spam and Virus firewall provides a powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solution for complete protection of an organization's email infrastructure. It eliminates spam and virus intrusions while safeguarding an organization's reputation through content inspection based on policy for both inbound and outbound email. Outbound filtering also prevents confidential or sensitive information from being purposely or inadvertently leaked outside the organization.

  • Anti-spam
  • Anti-virus
  • Anti-spoofing
  • Anti-phishing
  • Anti-spyware (Attachments)
  • Denial of Service
  • Data Leak Prevention

The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall protects your email server with twelve defense layers:

  • Network Denial of Service Protection
  • Rate Control
  • IP Reputation Analysis
  • Sender Authentication
  • Recipient Verification
  • Virus Scanning
  • Policy (User-specified rules)
  • Spam Fingerprint Check
  • Intent Analysis
  • Image Analysis
  • Bayesian Analysis
  • Rule-based Scoring

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

In addition, all Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall models include essential outbound filtering techniques including attachment scanning, virus filtering, rate controls and encryption. These features help organizations to ensure that all outgoing email is legitimate and virus-free.

Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is continuously updated with the latest spam and virus definitions every hour keeping maintenance to the unit at a minimum and eliminating administrative overhead. Updates are provided by Barracuda Central, an advanced 24/7 security operations center that works to continuously monitor and block the latest Internet threats.

If you would like more information on how Benson & Associates can provide you with the best Spam and Virus Firewall product available on the market, or if you have any questions related to the security of your email infrastructure, please call our Helpdesk at 403.247.1664 or 1.877.247.1664.