Barracuda Spam Firewall Product Launch

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Barracuda Spam Firewall Firmware 3.3 Summary

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Barracuda Spam Firewall Firmware 3.3 Key Feature
Enhancements

• Activation System
• Basic Outbound Functionality
• Enhanced Bayesian Analysis
• Enhanced plugins for Outlook and Lotus Notes
• TLS/SSL Encryption
• Secure LDAP
• Quarantine Retention Policies
• Other enhancements
• GUI switch for Outbound Mode

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Activation System

• Informs Customer of subscription expiration dates
• Allows customer to order Instant Replacement
• Gives warning when expiration is within 60 days
• Reseller can renew during this period
• Provides on-line renewals after expiration
• Gives error when North America Unit is used
  outside of North America
• Requires Activation by reseller
• reseller must provide end user information during
  activation
• Supports sales through 2 levels of distribution

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Basic Outbound Functionality

• Basic Outbound Functions included in all
  Barracuda Spam Firewalls with free firmware
  upgrade
• Includes Spam Filtering with rate control
• Includes Virus Filtering
• Includes Attachment scanning
• Includes attaching a corporate disclaimer
  (footer)
• Allows relay function for traveling or remote
  workers
• Controlled by IP, Domain, or email address
• SASL Authentication with LDAP or SMTP Auth proxy
• Allows use of Barracuda Spam Firewall in single
  IP environments
• Supports inbound and outbound SSL/TLS encryption
• Basic Outbound does not include
• outbound quarantine
• HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley
• Keyword and regular expression outbound scanning
• Outbound white listing

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Enhanced Bayesian Analysis Plugins

• New Bayesian Algorithm for Global and Per-User
  Databases
• Includes Classification Statistics in Both Areas
• Supports all languages
• Tokenizing for Asian Languages
• Enhanced Outlook and Lotus Notes Plugin
• training for per user Bayesian
• automatic building of whitelist based on email
  sent
• Statistics for each users Bayesian database

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TLS/SSL Encryption

• Support for START TLS
• TLS/SSL encryption of outbound communication
  channel if destination supports it.
• This is a standard of the SMTP protocol
• Encrypts all email between two locations
• Email between Barracudas automatically encrypted
• Encryption supported from email clients and email
  servers sending to Barracuda as well
• Provides full path encryption
• Supported for both inbound and outbound email

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Secure and Enhanced LDAP

• LDAPSSL/TLS (out-of-band)
• LDAPS (in-band TLS) for the MSExchange
  Accelerator.

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Quarantine Retention Policies

• Admin-configurable retention policies
• based on time
• based on size of quarantine

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Other Features

• Email delivery status in the message log
• Quarantine ability for intent analysis
• Extra information in quarantine account view
  (such as number of messages, account size, oldest
  message)
• Multi-byte subject searching
• New "score range" filter for the Message Log
• Test Configuration button for user to check
  configuration
• Password reset
• Clustering robustness enhancements
• Proxy for Energize Updates

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Outbound Mode

• GUI switch between inbound and outbound mode
• Full Support to switch back and forth between
  modes
• Outbound mode whitelist of destination addresses
  to eliminate policy scanning
• Encrypted email support via SSL/TLS
• Relay controlled by
• SMTP Auth via LDAP and SMTP Auth Proxy
• Outbound delivery status in Message Log and
  syslog output
• Statistics, log and other features

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Firmware 3.3 Status

• In Beta test now
• Shipping after testing complete and quality is
  assured