Spam Firewall Outbound Model

        

The Barracuda Spam Firewall Outbound model is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that uses sophisticated email filtering and policy management to protect organizations from such risks. It's a powerful solution suitable for the largest of businesses, yet has the ease of use and affordability that smaller businesses demand.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound includes all the features needed to eliminate your outbound spam and protect against virus proliferation.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound 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.

Powerful, Enterprise-Class Solution

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

1. Stops virus proliferation
2. Enforces corporate policies
3. Prevents spamming

No organization, especially no ISP, 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.

Features	Model 200	Model 300	Model 400	Model 600	Model 800	Model 900
Active E-mail Users	1,000	2,000	10,000	25,000	30,000	45,000
Compatible with all Email Servers
Hardened and Secure OS
Journaling
Customizable Footer Attachments
Multi-Lingual Support
LDAP / Active Directory Integration
Outbound Quarantine
Syslog Support
Clustering
SNMP / API
Customizable Branding
Outbound model pricing is the same as the inbound model pricing. Please contact us for purchase inquiries.

Virus Outbreak Protection

The Barracuda Spam Firewall Outbound mode can identify users that have a virus and can stop it before it is disseminated, preventing viruses from being sent to users outside the corporate network. A variety of methods including dual layer virus blocking, file type blocking, and decompression of archives is used for such virus outbreak protection.

Multilingual Support

The Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound can detect and block outbound spam in more than ten languages and features a user interface available in Chinese (simplified and traditional), German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Czech and English.

Corporate and Regulatory Policy Enforcement

Organizations must make sure that intellectual property and other confidential information is protected. Heightened awareness surrounding government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, have increased the need for organizations to take a more proactive role in policing what information is disseminated through email.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall - Outbound mode is designed to enforce such policies through footer attachment, scanning and filtering, keyword and attachment blocking. In addition, the Barracuda Spam Firewall - Outbound mode enables the administrator or user to set quarantine parameters for questionable email that can be reviewed and released, or blocked as needed.

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.

Outbound mode Standard Deployment Configuration

The standard deployment configuration consists of a single email server and a single Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound. Simply connect the Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound to your network by assigning it a new IP address and changing your mail server's MTA to point to the Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound. Alternatively, you may block all outbound port 25 traffic on your firewall to only allow traffic from the Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound can also support multiple email servers and multiple domains and may be used in environments where there are multiple email server locations. We recommend a Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound for each location that contains an email server.