How does the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall protect against email threats?
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall, an integrated hardware and software solution, uses a multilayered approach to provide the most comprehensive email protection available against spam, viruses, spoofing, phishing and spyware attacks. An added benefit of the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is the optimized processing of each email to maximize performance and capability to filter millions of messages per day. Behind the industry-leading initiatives of Predictive Sender Profiling and Barracuda Real-Time Protection are 12 explicit defense layers including: Denial of Service and Security Protection, Rate Controls, IP Reputation 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. More information on the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall defense layers can be found on the Spam Defense Layers page in our Technology section.
