New Features Added to Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall

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The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution that offers email servers anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-spoofing, anti-phishing, anti-spyware, and Denial of Service protection. Yesterday Barracuda Networks Inc., announced new features that extend the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall’s capabilities. The enhancements ensure that confidential or sensitive information is not distributed outside the organization.

“It is crucial for organizations, especially within highly regulated industries, to have the ability to protect intellectual property and other sensitive information from being distributed,” says Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks. “The new Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall extends our powerful content scanning features and makes it easier for customers to manage both inbound and outbound email filtering from the same appliance.” 

How it works: the new Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall allows administrators to define policies to prevent confidential or sensitive information from leaving the organization. For example, hospitals and other healthcare organizations that must comply with HIPAA policies that mandate the confidentiality of sensitive patient information, such as social security or credit card numbers, as well as personal health information, can now apply pre-defined dictionaries to outbound email scanning to ensure compliance. In addition, administrators can set up separate rules for inbound and outbound filtering, and review the outbound email quarantine for any policy violations before delivery.

The company also announced administration enhancements that include increased granularity of its roles-based administration interface, enabling assignment of sender and recipient policies on a per-domain basis. The product is used by small organizations, as well as large organizations with as many as 200,000 employees. The enhancement is especially targeted to these larger organizations that need to delegate administration across different divisions and for service providers offering granular policy controls directly to their end customers. 

The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall firmware release 4.1 is available now.