Barracuda antispamappliance

These are proberbly the company that bangs the loudest on the marketing drums. Atleast here in Europe they are the one company you can see everywhere. Barracuda also has features as an antispam, antivirus, antiphishing appliance. And can help your company filter e-mails based on the topics above.

The way the barracuda antispamappliance works is that you will have to train the barracuda appliance to find spam mails.

Antispam

The antispam part of the barracuda appliance was not the best antispam product that we tested. It might have been that we should have trained the appliance further to get an higher spam catching procentage.
But we followed the manual to the point in training but we still got the highest procentage of spam that went undetected through the antispamappliance and into our Exchange environment.
The good things about this antispam solutions was that it could perform filtering per users.
So we could lower the threshold of the accounts that just got spam.

Antivirus appliance

Barracuda antivirus part of the appliance uses 2 engines to perform the virus detection.
It also allowed you to block files.

Barracuda antispamappliance features

The larger models has connectors to Exchange/LDAP AD for getting information about users so that no e-mails has to be forwarded to the Exchange system if the users is not an valid user.
Every unit except the smallest has individual user settings aswell as quarantine.

Decision

We have to say that the Barracuda webinterface also had nothing special to offer. It's still a good product and it's at half the price of the rest of the products. So you can still buy the product and get a good product. But still......