Barracuda Spam Firewall Named 2008 Editor's Best Award Winner by Windows IT Pro Magazine
Campbell, Calif., Aug. 1, 2008 – Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced that its Barracuda Spam Firewall was named as a gold medal winner of the “2008 Editor’s Best Awards” in the hardware category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine.
“The 2008 Editor’s Best Awards utilize our editors' product knowledge and subject matter expertise to identify exceptional products that benefit the Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine reader communities,” said Jeff Lewis, group publisher. “Our editors selected winners based on the product's strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages and its value to the customer.
“Our editors are tough, in-the-trenches critics,” Lewis continued. “They demand solid value and performance from the products they select. Editor’s Best Award winners can feel proud that the products and services they developed have earned the respect and recognition of the Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine editorial staff.”
“The Barracuda Spam Firewall continues to successfully help thousands of companies worldwide to rid users’ inboxes of spam, viruses and other email threats,” said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks. “We are thrilled to accept this award from such a distinguished panel of industry insiders.”
About the Barracuda Spam Firewall
The Barracuda Spam Firewall is available in eight models and supports up to 100,000 active users with no per user licensing fees. Its architecture leverages 12 defense layers: denial of service and security protection, rate control, IP analysis, sender authentication, recipient verification, virus protection, policy (user-specified rules), Fingerprint Analysis, Intent Analysis, Image Analysis, Bayesian Analysis, and a Spam Rules Scoring engine. In addition, the entire Barracuda Spam Firewall line features simultaneous inbound and outbound email filtering with the inclusion of sophisticated outbound email filtering techniques, such as rate controls, domain restrictions, user authentication (SASL), keyword and attachment blocking, triple-layer virus blocking, and remote user support for outbound email filtering. The Barracuda Spam Firewall’s layered approach minimizes the processing of each email, which yields the performance required to process millions of messages per day. For more information on the Barracuda Spam Firewall, visit http://www.barracuda.com/spam.