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Michael Hughes Named To CRN's 20 Channel Chiefs To Watch List

The 20 Channel Chiefs To Watch In 2014 list recognizes an elite subset of these channel executives who are poised to make their mark on their channel organizations and on the industry at large this year.

Barracuda Receives Top Honors at SC Magazine Awards Dinner in Three Categories

Barracuda earns winning vote in three categories at the 2014 SC Magazine Awards.

Best Web Application Firewall: Barracuda Web Application Firewall 

Best Customer Service: Barracuda Customer Service and Support 

Best SME Security Solution: Barracuda Spam Firewall 

Barracuda Named To Info Security Products Guide's Grand Trophy Winners

Barracuda takes home five awards in the 2014 Info Security Products Guide's Global Excellence Awards. 

2014 Info Security's Global Excellence Award: Social Media, Web Filtering, and Content Security Gold Winner: Barracuda Web Filter version 7.0

2014 Info Security's Gobal Excellence Award: Storage and Archiving Gold Winner: Barracuda Backup 5.4 

2014 Info Security's Global Excellence Award: Best Security Hardware Product Bronze Winner: Barracuda Firewall version 6.1 

2014 Info Security's Global Excellence Award: Innovation in Cloud Security Bronze Winner: Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Cloud Edition 

2014 Info Security's Global Excellence Award: Web Application Security Bronze Winner: Barracuda Load Balancer ADC version 5.1 

Barracuda Voted Best Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

Barracuda voted Best Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery at the 7th Annual 2013 Reseller Choice Awards.

Barracuda Achieves Top Honors from IT Professional Magazine

Barracuda NG Firewall - "Product of the Year 2013" in UTM/Firewall category 

Copy by Barracuda - "Product of the Year 2013" in Cloud category 

Barracuda Web Application Firewall Receives Five-Star Rating from SC Magazine

SC Magazine commended the Barracuda Web Application Firewall for offering customers a strong feature set, indicating that “the tool sports an extensive feature set, including most of the functionality one would expect in an application firewall and a few that raise this product above most others.”

Barracuda Named Finalist In Five Categories For The 2014 SC Magazine Awards

Best SME for Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall

Best Email Security Solution for Barracuda Email Security Service

Best Web Application Firewall for Barracuda Web Application Firewall

Best UTM for Barracuda Firewall

Best Customer Service for Barracuda Customer Support and Service

Barracuda Named a 2013 Tech Innovator by CRN

Barracuda Backup recognized as one of the most innovative products in hardware and software

Barracuda Message Archiver and Barracuda Web Filter Selected Winners

Barracuda Message Archiver and Barracuda Web Filter were selected winners in Tech & Learning magazine’s 31^st Annual Awards of Excellence in the Best Upgraded Products category. 

ChannelPro Network Bronze Readers' Choice Award Best Security Hardware Vendor

Barracuda Networks has been recognized by ChannelPro Network with a Bronze Readers' Choice Award - the Best Security Hardware Vendor category

ChannelPro Network Bronze Readers' Choice Award in Best Email Security Vendor

Barracuda Networks has been recognized by ChannelPro Network with a Bronze Readers' Choice Award - the Best Email Security Vendor category

Barracuda's Leigh Malizia-Carlson Recognized by CRN as One of the Top Women of the Channel

Hard Work in the Channel Earns Well-Deserved Recognition for Barracuda's Leigh Malizia-Carlson

Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall - Voted WindowsNetworking.com Readers' Choice Award Winner - Anti Malware Hardware

Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall was selected the winner in the Anti Malware Hardware category of the WindowsNetworking.comReaders' Choice Awards.

CRN's 2013 Partner Program Guide

Barracuda Networks, today announced it has been recognized with a five-star rating in CRN's 2013 Partner Program Guide for its world-class partner program. The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes an elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

Info Security Products Guide 2013 Global Excellence Gold Award for the Barracuda Web Filter

Barracuda Web Filter honored as Gold winner in the 9th Annual 2013 Security Industry’s Global Excellence Award for best Security Hardware Product

SC Magazine 2013 Excellence Awards for Best Customer Service and Support

Barracuda Networks Named as SC Magazine’s 2013 Excellence Award for Best Customer Service

SC Magazine 2013 Readers Trust Awards for Barracuda Web Application Firewall (Best Web Application Firewall)

A Panel of SC Magazine Readers Selects Barracuda Networks as Winners for Best Web Application Firewall

SC Magazine 2013 Readers Trust Awards for Barracuda Email Security(Best Email Security)

A Panel of SC Magazine Readers Selects Barracuda Networks as Winners for Best Email Security.

Barracuda Web Security Solutions Named Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Web Security Products 2011-2012 Vendor Analysis

Barracuda Networks was praised for supporting all major features of secure Web gateways: URL filtering, antimalware, social media/Web 2.0 controls and content inspection.

Barracuda Networks Collects Five 2013 SC Magazine Award Nominations

1. Barracuda Email Security named Finalist in the 2013 SC Magazine Awards for the Best Email Security Solution.
2. Barracuda Web Security named Finalist in the 2013 SC Magazine Awards for the best Web Content Management Product.
3. Barracuda Networks Customer Service named Finalist in the 2013 SC Magazine Awards for the Best Customer Service.
4. Barracuda Web Application Firewall named Finalist in the 2013 SC Magazine Awards for the best web application firewall
5. Barracuda SSL VPN named Finalist in the 2013 SC Magazine Awards for the best IPSC/SSL VPN.

Barracuda NG Firewall named “Champion” in Infotech’s Vendor Landscape: Next Generation Firewalls report.

The Barracuda NG Firewall was recognized for its centralized management and offering flexibility of hardware, software and virtual appliance deployment methods.

Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall - 2012 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards, Best Messaging Product, Bronze

Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice award programs recognize the hottest products on the market for the current year.

SC Magazine Awards the Barracuda Web Application Firewall a Five-Star Rating

The Barracuda Web Application Firewall was applauded for offering customers a quick and pain-free configuration process as well as for having a strong feature set at an affordable price.

Barracuda Web Application Firewall – Best of Web Application Firewalls 2012, Bronze

Readers vote on the best Web Application Firewalls products in 2012: Standalone Web application firewalls and WAFs that are part of application acceleration/delivery systems.

Best of Web Application Firewalls 2012 (Bronze)

The Barracuda Web Application Firewall won the bronze, garnering strong rating for its ability to block intrusions, attacks and unauthorized network traffic.

Best of Email Security 2012 (Bronze)

Readers awarded the bronze to the Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall, giving the product high marks for ease of installation, configuration and administration.

Best of Enterprise Firewalls 2013 (Silver)

Grabbing the silver is the NG Firewall from Barracuda. Available in hardware and virtual form factors, the product provides standard network firewall, IPS and VPN capabilities, in addition to application control, AV, antispam, Web filtering and NAC enforcement.

Barracuda Web Application Firewall Named Innovator in Info-Tech Research Group's Application Delivery Controller Report

The Barracuda Web Application Firewall was praised as an "Exemplary Performer" in securing servers and securely delivering critical applications for enterprises.

Barracuda Networks Receives IT Industry’s 2012 World’s Best Award for Barracuda Web Filter and Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Vx

The Network Products Guide, the industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named the Barracuda Web Filter and the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall winners of the 7th Annual 2012 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards. The Barracuda Web Filter was acknowledged in the IT Products and Services for Education category while the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall won in the Email Security Management category. This recognition from Network Products Guide honors achievements in every facet of the IT industry. Winners from all over the world were honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 during the 7th annual dinner and presentations, held concurrently with the Interop, Las Vegas tradeshow.

Barracuda Networks Finalist in Three Categories- Storage Awards

With three finalist nominations in the following categories: Email Archiving & Compliance Product of the Year, DR & Backup Product of the Year, and Storage Magazine Solution of the Year.

Barracuda NG Firewall - Best Enterprise Firewall

The Barracuda NG Firewall offers powerful next-generation firewall capabilities in addition to integrated content security, network access control, roles-based administration and multitenancy, VPN capabilities, web filtering, IPS and malware protection. This complete feature set combined with competitive pricing offers the customer a more complete, powerful, all-in-one solution that ultimately reduces operating expenses and administrative overhead. In addition, Barracuda Networks provides superior technical support to its customers.

Barracuda Networks Spam & Virus Firewall 300 review

Even after you’ve factored in the additional costs of the Energize Updates subscription, Barracuda’s Spam & Virus Firewall 300 is still pretty good value. It’s easy to deploy and delivers a superb spam detection rate straight out of the box.

Barracuda Networks Wins Gold Windows IT Pro Community Choice Award Best Hardware: Appliance

The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall won gold in the Hardware Compliance category of the Community Choice Awards. “Our 2011 Community Choice awards continued to see a surge in community participation and we also added valuable, in-the-trenches insight regarding winning products from our reader community. We’re proud to now share this invaluable information with our Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine communities. Our winners should be extremely proud of this recognition from our editorial experts and the recognition that they stand out among their peers.”said Jason Bovberg, senior editor, Windows IT Pro

Barracuda Networks Wins Silver Windows IT Pro Editor's Best Award Best Hardware: Networking

The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall won gold in the Hardware Compliance category of the Community Choice Awards. “Our Editors’ Best Awards allow to us leverage our contributing editors’ expertise and provide well-earned recognition to products that exceed industry standards,” said Jason Bovberg, senior editor, Windows IT Pro. "Our winners should be extremely proud of this recognition from our editorial experts and the recognition that they stand out among their peers.”

Best Web Application Firewalls 2011: Barracuda Web Application Firewall: Gold Winner

Barracuda Networks’ Web Application Firewall appliance line takes a big bite out of the competition, earning the gold. Information Security readers credited Barracuda for its ease of installation, configuration and administration, plus its ability to spot and block known attacks and its frequent detection updates. According to Campbell, Calif.-based Barracuda, its enterprise WAF product stands (or swims) above competitors not only for its attack-mitigation features, but also for its custom response capabilities, its feature-rich application delivery platform, and its ease of management, reporting and alerting.

Barracuda Networks Web Application Firewall- Best Buy

Five Star Rating for:Solid, easy-to-configure web application protection.For its excellent feature set and ease of use, we make this one our Best Buy.

Best Messaging Security Products 2011: Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall - Silver Winner

Readers gave the silver to Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall, rating the product highly for its ability to detect and block spam, phishing attempts, viruses and spyware in messaging traffic. They also liked its integration with existing messaging applications and end-user transparency/ease of use. They feel they’re getting their money’s worth with the product. The Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall works to block spam and viruses while also providing outbound filtering to prevent loss of confidential or sensitive data. It provides 12 layers of defense, including IP reputation analysis, virus scanning, Bayesian analysis, and sender authentication.

Barracuda Networks Spam & Virus Firewall: Five-Star Review

We find this product to be a good value for the money. This appliance can provide some excellent functionality once it is up, configured and finetuned.

Barracuda NG Firewall – Extreme Versatility

"The Barracuda NG Firewall F400 is a highly flexible, multipurpose security device that can work as a replacement for a number of stand-alone appliances. What’s perhaps its most interesting feature, the NG F400 can perform intrusion prevention and application profiling, and it can handle extremely detailed settings for application and access use. These can be customized on a per-user basis for both wired and wireless connections."

Best of Interop- Security: Barracuda Web Security Flex

Barracuda Web Security Flex received the Best of Interop Award for Security. Barracuda Web Security Flex reduces management complexity, security concerns and overall costs with a variety of deployment methods. Deployment flexibility enables organizations to choose any combination and to make changes – at no cost – as the network grows and needs evolve. This flexibility allows organizations to focus on providing strong protection against the latest Web attacks and threats and not on technology deployment limitations.

Winner in Anti-Spam Hardware Category of Readers' Choice Awards: Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall

Leading Windows Networking resource site, WindowsNetworking.com, announced today that Barracuda Spam Firewall was selected the winner in the Anti Spam Hardware category of the WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Awards.

Best Messaging Security Products: Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall

SILVER Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Barracuda Networks This year's second place finish goes to Barracuda Networks' Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall. Respondents were impressed with the intangible features of this product, recognizing its return on investment and vendor service and support as high points. But its technical features are also strong: According to readers, it trailed Google only slightly in the categories of spam detection and blocking, and end-user transparency. Also of note were its solid scores for comprehensive and flexible reporting.

Winner in Anti-Spam Hardware Category of Readers' Choice Awards: Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall

Barracuda Spam Firewall was selected the winner in the Anti Spam Hardware category of the WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Awards. Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper and SonicWALL Email Security were runner-up and second runner-up respectively.

Barracuda SSL VPN Wins 2010 SC Magazine Reader Trust Award

The Barracuda SSL VPN was chosen as the Best IPSec/SSL VPN by the Reader Trust Voting Panel – comprised of security and technology experts from large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets – representing the wide distribution of SC Magazine readers. With an unprecedented number of entries submitted, the 2010 SC Awards was the most competitive in the program’s history.

“We are pleased to receive this esteemed recognition for the Barracuda SSL VPN, one of Barracuda Networks latest product lines,” said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. “We thank the readers of SC Magazine, many of whom are loyal Barracuda Networks customers, and the judging panel for their continued confidence in our complete portfolio of security, storage and networking solutions.”

The Barracuda SSL VPN is an integrated hardware and software solution enabling secure, clientless remote access to internal network resources from any Web browser. Designed for remote employees and road warriors, the Barracuda SSL VPN provides comprehensive control over file systems and Web-based applications requiring external access. The Barracuda SSL VPN integrates with third-party authentication mechanisms to control user access levels and provides single sign-on.

2010 SC Awards Program Shortlists Three Barracuda Networks Products

Three Barracuda Networks products have been named finalists in the 2010 SC Awards program: the Barracuda SSL VPN in the Best IPsec/SSL VPN category; the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall in the Best Messaging Security Solution category and the Barracuda Web Application Firewall in the Best Web Application Security Solution category. This is the sixth consecutive year that Barracuda Networks and its products have been named finalists in the Reader Trust Award competition, which honors best-in-class security products and services.

The three products were selected from more than 600 entries submitted in more than 31 technology categories. All finalists will be reviewed and winners will be chosen by the Reader Trust Voting Panel – comprised of security and technology experts from large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets – representing the wide distribution of SC Magazine readers.

"To be recognized by such a distinguished awards program again this year is an honor and tribute to Barracuda Networks’ commitment to provide our customers with powerful solutions that meet their security needs,” said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks.

As the industry’s preeminent awards program, the annual SC Awards has recognized security’s key contributors and outstanding products for more than a decade. The SC Awards are designed to honor the professionals, companies and products that help fend off the myriad security threats confronted in today's corporate world. Individuals, brands and solutions recognized in the program address not only the security challenges prominent today, but also the emerging threat landscape of tomorrow.

Winners of this year’s SC Awards will be announced at a gala dinner and award ceremony to be held in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

About SC Magazine
SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought-leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies. Besides the monthly print magazine and daily website, the brand’s portfolio includes the SC Awards, SC Directory, SC Magazine Newswire and the annual SC World Congress conference and expo.

Barracuda Web Application Firewall Wins Gold in Reader's Choice Awards for Web Application Firewalls

The Barracuda Web Application Firewall was selected by the readers of Information Security Magazine as the best Web Application Firewall, beating Citrix and F5.

Information Security: 2009 Reader’s Choice Awards – September 2009:

GOLD: Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Barracuda Networks

If application developers don't employ secure coding practices, a Web application firewall can help pick up some of the slack, protecting against unseen flaws that attackers can exploit with SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting or worse. In fact, that's why readers gave the Barracuda Web Application Firewall top honors this year, citing the device's particular effectiveness in detecting and reporting known attacks and vulnerabilities. Ease of installation also scored high with readers.

Barracuda Networks Wins the 2009 Network Products Guide “Best Products and Services Award” for Best in Email Archiving and Best in Web Filtering

The Barracuda Message Archiver 450 and Barracuda Web Filter 310 were named winners of Network Products Guide “2009 Best Products and Services Award” in the email archiving and Web filtering categories.

The annual Network Products Guide “Best Products and Services Award” honors go to products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide.

A complete and affordable email archiving solution, the Barracuda Message Archiver is designed to effectively index and preserve all emails, achieve legal and regulatory compliance needs, and make more efficient use of storage technology inside the IT organization.

Barracuda Networks Wins 2009 SC Magazine Reader Trust Award for Best IM Security Solution

The annual SC Magazine Awards program recognizes companies and products for outstanding achievement in information technology (IT) security.

The Barracuda IM Firewall won SC Magazine’s 2009 ‘Reader Trust Award’ in the Best IM Security Solution category. SC Magazine readers, representing IT’s most knowledgeable security professionals, selected the Barracuda IM Firewall from among the industry’s leading solutions.

2009 Tomorrow's Technology Today Award for Best Web Site Security: Barracuda Web Application Firewall

Securing and managing enterprise Web applications through an intuitive real-time user interface

CURRENT THREAT SCENARIO
Traditionally, system administrators lock down host computers through a network firewall in order to ensure network security. However, a typical network firewall cannot restrict traffic to HTTP and HTTPS, as this traffic can contain command exploits leveraging vulnerabilities in the Web application itself. These exploits can result in data leakage, site defacement and other attacks by hackers that compromise both the privacy and integrity of vital data. Businesses of all sizes that operate their own Web applications should ensure that their Web sites are protected against application vulnerabilities by augmenting their security practices with a Web application security solution.

Tomorrow's Technology Today - Web-Site Security

WHAT DOES THIS TECHNOLOGY DO?
The Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides complete protection of Web applications and is designed to enforce policies for both internal and external data security standards, such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). In addition, the Barracuda Web Application Firewall 460 and higher models feature a comprehensive set of application delivery capabilities designed to improve the performance, scalability and manageability of today’s most demanding data center infrastructures.The major capabilities and benefits of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall include:

• Comprehensive Web Site Protection: The Barracuda Web Application Firewall proxies all Web traffic, providing complete protection in front of your Web sites. Web site protection capabilities include: HTTP protocol compliance, protection against common/high-visibility attacks, protection against attacks based on session state, online form field validation, outbound data theft protection, Web site cloaking, anti-Web crawling and application denial of service (DoS) protection, as well as fine-grain controls.
• Application Access Control: The Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides PKI support to provide certificate verification and prevents cookie tampering to ensure hidden or read-only form fields are not changed by the user.
• Application Delivery and Acceleration: In addition to the security and access control benefits of Barracuda Web Application Firewall, there are also additional operational capabilities. Capabilities include SSL offloading, SSL acceleration, load balancing and high availability.
• Logging, Monitoring and Reporting: The Barracuda Web Application Firewall features advanced capabilities to provide immediate feedback to operations teams that deploy, manage and secure mission critical applications. Besides a system log, Web firewall log, traditional Web log and audit log, the Barracuda Web Application Firewall also provides specific reports relevant to PCI compliance.

Conclusion:
The Barracuda Web Application Firewall protects Web applications and Web services from malicious attacks, increasing the performance and scalability of these applications. The Barracuda Web Application Firewall offers every capability needed to deliver, secure and manage enterprise Web applications from a single appliance through an intuitive, real-time user interface.

Barracuda Web Filter 310 Receives "SC Magazine Recommended" Rating

The Barracuda Web Filter 310 received the "SC Magazine Recommended" and a five-star rating in the magazine's group test of Web content management products.  SC Magazine named the Barracuda Web Filter 310 “a highly capable web and application filter with protection from malware at an affordable price for any environment, all of which makes the Web Filter 310 our Recommended product.”

For the full review, please visit the SC Magazine Web site.

Barracuda Web Site Firewall 460 Receives 5 Stars and “Best Buy” Rating from SC Magazine’s Firewalls Group Test

The Barracuda Web Site Firewall 460 received the “Best Buy” rating by SC Magazine, as one of the best firewall solutions. SC Magazine named the Barracuda Web Site Firewall 460 “a feature-rich product at a low cost, making it our Best Buy.”

For the full review, please visit the SC Magazine Web site.

Trio of Barracuda Networks' Products Named Finalists in 2009 SC Awards Program

Three Barracuda Networks’ products have been shortlisted in the 2009 SC Awards program: the Barracuda IM Firewall in the Best Instant Messaging Security Solution category; the Barracuda Web Filter in the Best Web Filtering Solution category and Barracuda Web Site Firewall in the Best Web Application Security Solution category. This is the fifth consecutive year that Barracuda Networks and its products have been selected as finalists in this prestigious industry awards competition.  

The three products were selected from more than 600 entries submitted in more than 30 technology categories in the Reader Trust Award competition, which honors best-in-class security products and services. Winners will be chosen by a panel of readers that represent the circulation of SC Magazine.  The Reader Trust Voting Panel is comprised of a cross-section of SC Magazine readership that is comprised of large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets.

In 2008, the Barracuda IM Firewall was named the  Best Instant Messaging Security Solution and the Barracuda Spam Firewall received the Best SME Security Solution in the SC Awards 2008 program.  Winners of this year’s SC Awards will be announced at a gala dinner and award ceremony to be held in San Francisco on April 21, 2009.

Barracuda Message Archiver Receives Linuxworld Product Excellence Award

The Barracuda Message Archiver was awarded the “Product Excellence Award” for “Best Messaging Solution” at Linuxworld 2008 in San Francisco.

Judged by a group of respected industry experts managed by LinuxWorld.com, the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards recognize product and service innovations by LinuxWorld® and Next-Generation Data Center™ (NGDC™) Conference & Expo exhibitors.

Barracuda Spam Firewall Wins 2008 SC Magazine’s Excellence Award

The annual SC Magazine Awards program recognizes companies and products for outstanding achievement in information technology (IT) security.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall won SC Magazine’s 2008 ‘Excellence Award’ in the Best SME Security Solution category. Nominated for consideration, entries are evaluated by a panel of 18 leading chief security officers from major corporations and large public sector organizations.

Barracuda IM Firewall Wins 2008 SC Magazine’s Reader Trust Award

The annual SC Magazine Awards program recognizes companies and products for outstanding achievement in information technology (IT) security.

The Barracuda IM Firewall won SC Magazine’s 2008 ‘Reader Trust Award’ in the Best Instant Messaging Security Solution category. From more than 600 entries received in more than 30 technology categories, winners were determined through voting by the publication’s readers. Readers selected products that they felt was most effective at addressing their day-to-day problems.

Barracuda Web Filter Wins Gold in Readers’ Choice Awards for Web Security Gateways

Web Security Gateways

Gold Award: Barracuda Web Filter
In a market where most Web security gateways have the common features of spyware protection, content filtering and application controls, differentiators are integration, installation and configuration. And that’s just where readers rated Barracuda Networks’ Barracuda Web Filter highest. The product also received high scores for ROI. “With the Barracuda Web Filter, you don’t have to maintain five or six different servers. Simply, you have one appliance that can be installed in 10 minutes,” says Barracuda Networks product manager Sean Heiney.

System updates are made hourly by Barracuda Central, an operations center that allows engineers to catalog browsed Web sites and provide spyware protection. The product’s URL blocking is bolstered by a URL database with more than 50 site categories. The Barracuda Web Filter, which integrates with popular LDAP directory servers like Microsoft Active Directory, also has no per user license fee. “We sell them a box. It has a recommended capacity, but they can have as many users as they’d like,” Heiney says.

Barracuda Spam Firewall Wins Silver in Readers’ Choice Awards for Email

Email

SILVER AWARD: Barracuda Spam Firewall
Barracuda Spam Firewall snagged the silver medal, winning high marks from readers in several categories. The appliance scored high in its ability to block spam and malware, integration with existing applications, end -user transparency, and ease of installation and administration. The device, which comes in seven models, provides integrated antispam, antivirus, anti-phishing, and antispyware protection. It uses several techniques to protect an email server, including IP reputation analysis, sender authentication, user-specified policies, Bayesian analysis, and rule-based scoring. End -user control features allow for fine tuning and enhanced accuracy.

A single Barracuda Spam Firewall handles up to 30,000 active mail users; multiple units can be clustered for high availability. All models include outbound filtering techniques such as attachment scanning, virus filtering and rate control to ensure outgoing email is legitimate.

A system administrator monitors and manages the applications via a Web interface, and Barracuda’s security operations center continuously updates the firewall with spam and virus definitions.

Barracuda Web Filter Receives 5 Stars and “Recommended” Rating from SC Magazine’s Web Filtering Group Test

Barracuda Networks received for the second year in a row the “Recommended” rating by SC Magazine, as one of the best Web Filtering products. SC Magazine considered the Barracuda Web Filter a “solid device with some very nice features” and gave a verdict of: “This is a jewel for small- and mid-sized enterprises. For its high value and affordability in most environments, we rate this product as Recommended.”

More details at SC Magazine's Web site

Barracuda Spam Firewall Named “Most Popular Product” at NetAdmin World Awards

Prior to NetAdmin World Magazine’s 5th Annual China Network Technology Summit, readers of the magazine voted on the best solutions that most effectively address today’s networking issues.  With readers consisting of tens of thousands of IT administrators, they cast 30,000 between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31 to select the Barracuda Spam Firewall as the “Most Popular Product” in the anti-spam category.

“It is an honor for NetAdmin World readers and attendees to recognize the Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda Load Balancer for its leading anti-spam and load balancing technology,” said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks.  “As one of our important markets in Asia, this recognition highlights our ability to address top security challenges for businesses in China.”

Barracuda Load Balancer Wins “Technology Innovation” Award at NetAdmin World Awards

During the NetAdmin World Magazine’s 5th Annual China Network Technology Summit in Beijing , attendees selected the Barracuda Load Balancer for its “Technology Innovation” award based on product design, user experience, technology innovation, management and cost effectiveness.  From a full product spectrum of products, including network, security, storage and WAN optimizer products, the Barracuda Load Balancer was honored for its ability to provide a cost-effective load balancing solution to SMEs.

“It is an honor for NetAdmin World readers and attendees to recognize the Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda Load Balancer for its leading anti-spam and load balancing technology,” said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. “As one of our important markets in Asia, this recognition highlights our ability to address top security challenges for businesses in China.”

SC Magazine Names Barracuda IM Firewall and Barracuda Web Filter as Finalists in its Reader Trust Awards

The annual SC Magazine Awards program recognizes companies and products for outstanding achievement in information technology (IT) security. The Barracuda IM Firewall and Barracuda Web Filter were both selected as finalists in SC Magazine’s 2008 ‘Reader Trust Award’ category.

From more than 600 entries received in more than 30 technology categories, finalists were determined through voting by the publication’s readers. Readers selected products that they felt was most effective at addressing their day-to-day problems.

“SC Magazine readers have voted to recognize the efforts of companies such as Barracuda Networks whose products are in the trenches with them on a daily basis, helping them in the battle for a more secure enterprise,” said Illena Armstrong, editor in chief of SC Magazine. 

SC Magazine Names Barracuda Spam Firewall as a Finalist in its annual Excellence Awards

The Barracuda Spam Firewall was selected as a finalist for the SC Magazine’s 2008 ‘Excellence Award’ in the Best SME Security Solution category.

“This year’s SC Magazine Awards finalists, including Barracuda Networks, represent the best of the security industry,” said Illena Armstrong, editor in chief of SC Magazine. “Our judges recognize that these companies provide businesses with the best tools in the industry to fight the battle for a more secure enterprise.”

The annual SC Magazine Awards program recognizes companies and products for outstanding achievement in information technology (IT) security. Nominated for consideration, entries are evaluated by a panel of 18 leading chief security officers from major corporations and large public sector organizations.

Barracuda Web Filter Wins “Best Of Connections 2007”

Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro announced its “Best of Connections 2007” winners on Nov. 7 at the Connections 2007 show in Las Vegas.  The Barracuda Web Filter tops the Windows category.

“This is the first year of this awards program and were thrilled by the high quality of the entries we received,” said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategic director.  “While we had many worthy products, the winners clearly demonstrated their products’ strategic importance to the market, their competitive advantages and the value they provide to customers.”

Barracuda Web Filter Named “Best Of Connections 2007” Finalist by Windows IT Pro

Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro has announced that Barracuda Networks’ Barracuda Web Filter was named as a finalist for the magazine’s “Best of Connections 2007 Awards” in the Windows category. The overall winner will be announced at the Connections 2007 show in Las Vegas on Nov. 7.

“This is our first year for the Best of Connections program and we were extremely pleased with the more than 60 entries received.  After technical evaluation of all nominated products, we chose18 finalists, based on strategic importance to the market, competitive advantages and value to the customer,” said Michael Otey, technical director for Windows IT Pro.

Barracuda Spam Firewall Named 2007 Community Choice Award Winner by Windows IT Pro for Second Year in a Row

Campbell, Calif., August 1, 2007 – Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading provider of network security appliances, today announced that the Barracuda Spam Firewall was once again named as the “Community Choice Awards” winner in the “AntiSpam Solutions for Business” category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro.

“The 2007 Community Choice Awards continue our tradition of honoring those products that our readers tell us are most worthy of recognition,” said Kim Paulsen, group publisher of Windows IT Pro. “These are hardware, software and services that measure up where it counts most – in the businesses, agencies and institutions that rely on them to deliver what they promise.”

Windows IT Pro forums and several Windows user groups were asked to vote on their product preferences in 12 broad technology categories. 

“The voters are tough, in-the-trenches critics,” Paulsen continued. “They demand solid value and performance from the products they use and put those products to the test day after day.  Community Choice award winners can feel proud that the products and services they develop have earned the respect and recognition of the IT world's most knowledgeable and exacting professionals.”

“It is always an honor for the Barracuda Spam Firewall to be recognized by Windows IT Pro readers,” said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. “By taking the time to voice an opinion, it shows that our customers enthusiastically trust and rely on Barracuda Networks for comprehensive and powerful protection against spam, viruses and other Internet security threats.”

About the Barracuda Spam Firewall
The Barracuda Spam Firewall is available in seven models and supports from 50 to 30,000 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, dual 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.

About Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda Networks is a leading provider of network security appliances for comprehensive email, Internet and IM protection.  Its products protect over 40,000 customers around the world, including Adaptec, Caltrans, CBS, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM, NASA, Pizza Hut, Union Pacific Railroad Company and the U.S. Treasury Department.  The Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound protect organizations against spam, viruses and violations to e-mail security policy.  The Barracuda Web Filter offers comprehensive content filtering and complete network protection against spyware, malware and viruses.  The Barracuda IM Firewall is the only all-in-one gateway solution for IM traffic management and security.  The Barracuda Load Balancer offers easy to configure, secure and comprehensive IP network traffic management across multiple servers.  Barracuda Networks is a privately held company with headquarters in Campbell, California.  Barracuda Networks has offices in eight international locations and distributors in over 80 countries.  More information is available at www.barracuda.com.

Barracuda Networks Founders Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 Award Recipients in Northern California

Barracuda Networks, Inc. founders, Dean Drako, Zach Levow and Michael Perone, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 Award in the Networking and Communications category in Northern California.  According to Ernst & Young, the award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses.  Drako, Levow and Perone were selected by an independent panel of judges and the award was presented at an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year gala event at the San Francisco - Fairmont Hotel on June 29, 2007. 

Barracuda Networks, Inc., was co-founded by Drako, Levow and Perone, in 2002 with a mission to provide powerful solutions suitable for the largest of businesses, yet that have the ease of use and affordability that smaller businesses demand. With this combination of power, ease of use and affordability, Barracuda Networks’ products – the Barracuda Spam Firewall, Barracuda Web Filter, Barracuda IM Firewall and Barracuda Load Balancer – continues to win wide acclaim from customers as well as within media and analyst circles.   A key component to the company’s success and to its products’ effectiveness is Barracuda Networks unsurpassed ability to protect its valued customers from the latest spam, spyware, virus and other IT infrastructure threats.

Barracuda Networks’ flagship products protect more than 40,000 customers globally, including Adaptec, Caltrans, CBS, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM, NASA, Pizza Hut, Union Pacific Railroad Company and the U.S. Treasury Department.  As a global technology provider, Barracuda Networks has been recognized as the number one supplier of email protection in the U.S.A., Japan, China, Canada and the U.K..  In May 2007, Barracuda Networks was honored as one of the top 50 medium-sized “Best Places to Work in the Bay Area 2007” by the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal, the San Francisco Business Times and the East Bay Times.

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program celebrates its 21st anniversary this year and continues to honor entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. 

As a Northern California award winner, Drako, Levow and Perone are now eligible for consideration for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2007 national program.  Award recipients in several national categories, as well as the overall national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award recipient, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California on November 17, 2007.  The national Entrepreneur Of The Year celebration is part of Ernst & Young’s Strategic Growth Forum.  The overall national Entrepreneur Of The Year award recipient is then considered for the world event held in Monte Carlo.

CRN Test Center Awards the Barracuda Web Filter with a “Recommended” Rating, 5 Tech Stars and 4 Channel Stars

There's no question that spyware is bad. At the very least, it hogs network bandwidth, and at worst, it gives remote control of the computer to a third party. So what's a proactive IT administrator to do?

Barracuda Networks' Web Filter 310 uses content filtering and application blocking to protect networks from viruses and spyware. Originally called the Barracuda Spyware Firewall, the company renamed the product to reflect its extensive feature set and capabilities. Despite being heavy on the features, (Barracuda) Web Filter 310 remains easy to use and fully customizable.

The appliance prevents new spyware and virus infections from penetrating the network. It takes a multilayered approach to blocking spyware sites, downloads and protocols. For example, spyware is automatically blocked if it comes from a URL previously determined to be malicious.

Barracuda (Networks) has identified 57 predefined categories ranging from blatant offenders such as porn sites to less-blatant ones such as gambling sites. Along with reputation scoring, (Barracuda) Web Filter blocks sites using domain names, predefined categories, URL patterns and MIME type. (Barracuda) Web Filter also performs binary content scanning on all files coming in to detect spyware in realtime.

Priced at $1,999, Barracuda Web Filter was a snap to deploy and performed well without complexity. Since it can be placed in front of or behind the firewall, CRN Test Center engineers installed the unit in front of the firewall for testing purposes. The appliance blocked Web sites that had embedded spyware or tried to download spyware onto the test computer. Even better, the appliance detected spyware as it was phoning home on the test machine and prompted engineers to download and run the Barracuda Spyware Removal tool, an ActiveX control tool. By making the tool immediately available to the user as soon as the infection is detected, the problem is resolved quickly. In addition, because it's an online tool, administrators do not need to preload the tool on all affected client machines.

Although the device's strength lies in blocking spyware, it also blocks unauthorized Web sites, viruses, adware, malicious Web content and unauthorized applications. (Barracuda) Web Filter 310 can also block peer-to-peer services, IM, file downloads, Web-based e-mail, music sites, proxies and chat sites.

Barracuda (Networks) managed to avoid a common trap that other vendors blocking sites based on URL patterns and domain names often fall into: Engineers noticed that while the Barracuda Web Filter blocked porn sites, the appliance allowed oft-banned yet innocent to pass through, such as breast cancer education sites or sites that have trigger words embedded within their otherwise innocuous names.

This product also can set up and enforce Internet usage policies, such as restricting access to certain sites and limiting personal surfing during work hours. The system is LDAP-enabled, giving administrators a way to create and assign policy-driven rules based on individual users or group accounts.

Next: The Bottom Line The (Barracuda) Web Filter appliance does not have separate management software but relies on a Web interface to the administration console. Once the appliance is configured during initial setup with an IP address, gateway and DNS information (using a monitor, keyboard and mouse plugged directly into the unit), administrators access the console via a Web browser from any computer on the network. The console, laid out in multitabbed Web pages, is packed with features, and almost every option can be customized. Administrators can immediately test changes made to filtering categories, whitelists and blacklists from within the console.

The most recent firmware update, version 3.1, expands the unit's reporting capabilities. Under this version, administrators can view log history and see reports on user behavior, historical traffic patterns, bandwidth usage, domain requests and Web site categorization. Designed to store approximately six months of traffic history, (Barracuda) Web Filter also can drill down from summary reports for further analysis. Administrators can enable syslog messages through the Web console to log what happens to each traffic request performed by users to a text file.

For existing customers running (Barracuda) Web Filter with pre-3.1 firmware, the upgrade is very straightforward. The Test Center received a pre-3.1 appliance and upgraded to 3.1 using the admin console within minutes.

Capacity varies by the model in the Barracuda Web Filter family. The (Barracuda) Web Filter 310 can support 200 concurrent users, making it ideal for SMBs or branch offices. The high-end 910 model can support 4,500 concurrent users and has hot-swappable RAID and power supplies.

Barracuda Central, the company's technology center, automatically pushes down hourly updates of antispyware rules on to the unit. Energize Updates, as they are called, include databases for spyware removal, signature, Web sites and protocols, as well as antivirus definitions and content filters. As a troubleshooting feature, the unit also can open up a tunnel session with Barracuda Central.

Measuring 16.7 inches wide x 1.7 inches high x 14 inches deep, the steel-black unit is emblazoned with a blue panel in the front corner. It is 1U high, comparable to competitive products. Weighing 17 pounds, the appliance is sleek and attractive.

The 310 model comes with ports for connecting a standard VGA monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, a serial port, several USB ports and three Ethernet ports. One Ethernet port is located at the back of the unit and is used specifically for management. The LAN and WAN ports are located at the front of the unit. The front panel also contains the power button, the reset button and five indicator lights marking power, disk activity, cleaning activity and data transmission.

The company is channel-friendly, claiming more than 90 percent of its sales are driven through partners. Its channel program has five levels. There are no requirements to join at the lowest level, but there are high revenue goals to sustain the top-level discounts.

Barracuda (Networks) estimates a 10 percent margin at the low end for solution providers. Other revenue opportunities include ongoing subscriptions. Partners interested in reselling premium services are required to undergo training.

All resellers can offer basic support, but only certified resellers can offer in-depth support. Otherwise, Barracuda (Networks) handles the rest of technical support, including on-site premium programs. It also has an instant replacement service, where the new unit is shipped next business day.

Barracuda Networks Voted One of the “Best Places to Work in the Bay Area” for 2007

In the “most competitive” annual employee survey of 464 local companies, Barracuda Networks was honored as one of the top 50 medium-sized “Best Places to Work in the Bay Area 2007” by the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal, the San Francisco Business Times and the East Bay Times.  Companies were evaluated based on employee responses to a survey of topics, ranging from work climate and culture to management practices and job satisfaction.

Star Power: Redmond Readers' Choice Awards 2007

You voted for our annual Best of the Best and the results are in: Find out which products you’ve chosen as the cream of the crop.

Life certainly is not getting any easier for those of you battling down in the IT trenches. You have to get all the pieces working smoothly together, as well as keep the trains running on time, protect your systems from outside threats and from within your own network, be ready to produce a year’s worth of e-mail archives on demand, and do so on a budget that has most likely been cut or -- if you’re lucky -- stayed the same since last year.

The Readers’ Choice Awards highlight the tools you use to get all that done. Your voice has been fairly consistent from year to year. Many of the same solutions that have won in previous years fill out this year’s roster of honorees. In short, it seems like you’ve found what works and you’re sticking with it. That sentiment was frequently echoed with comments like Neal Zimmerman’s thoughts on Microsoft Operations Manager: “It’s a familiar product with a long history.”

Once again, there were many close races between third-party tools in the bread-and-butter categories like network management, application management, performance management and general network monitoring. Microsoft still dominates many of these categories, but it’s comforting to see several solid alternatives still remain.

The virtual server and virtual PC categories weren’t as close as they’ve been in previous years. No longer running neck and neck or trading the lead with Microsoft, VMware took both categories by a healthy margin.

The one single product that earned the greatest number of votes this year was Mozilla’s Firefox browser. Looks like from here on in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 will have its work cut out for it if it plans to continue its domination of the browser wars.

Ghost, which won the largest number of individual votes the last two years, was the second highest vote-earner this year. It’s still far and away the favorite tool for disk imaging, though, especially with the release of the Ghost Solution Suite 2.0.

Overall, Symantec is the preferred alternative in most of the security, storage and backup categories. The company won in Drive Imaging, Anti-Virus Tool, Backup, Storage Management and Disaster Recovery. It placed in Compliance Tools, Group Policy Manager, Firewall (both hardware- and software-based), Intrusion Prevention System and Secure Messaging Tool. You can bet Redmond is keeping a careful eye on Cupertino.

So without further ado, let’s take a look at the winners of this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards.

Management Muscle
Once again, Microsoft’s management tools earned sweeping victories in the fundamental management and monitoring categories. The company took top honors in not one, but two categories for Best Network Management Product. Microsoft Systems Management Server collected 16 percent of the votes and Microsoft Operations Manager (known as “MOM,” and soon to be renamed System Center Operations Manager) earned 15.4 percent.

Financial dynamics aside, ease of integration is the key issue most often cited for using Microsoft’s system management tools. “[MOM] is highly extensible for application, server and network management,” says independent consultant Luke Edson.

“MOM 2005 has been a great asset,” says Christopher Owens, IT manager at the Southeast Missouri Community Treatment Center. “Being a single IT guy for 22 servers, it’s certainly helped me narrow down problems and take care of them before they get bigger. I plan on installing System Center Operations Manager as soon as possible.”

As you might expect, many organizations on Software Assurance or some other license arrangement find it most cost-effective to run an all-Microsoft shop. That being the case, we established the ISV Winner award (see “Survey Methodology”) to level the playing field as best we can and recognize the most viable alternatives for network monitoring and management.

HP OpenView still has many fans for being a flexible system. OpenView garnered 8.8 percent of the vote to take the ISV Winner award for Best Network Management Product. “It maps all applications to specific hardware and provides a true picture of what is impacted from an incident,” says John DelRey of the Bank of New York.

Cliff Brown of Micro Area Networks prefers OpenView for its scalability, relatively small footprint, openness to existing networks and ease of operation. “I was able to navigate OpenView within a few minutes due to its front-end layout,” he says. Rounding out the category is Cisco Systems LAN Management Suite, earning 8.1 percent of the votes, and the Altiris Management Suite, taking 7.3 percent.

Microsoft also dominated Best Application Management Product, with MOM taking 26.8 percent of the votes. “It provides solid information. It’s a familiar product with a long history,” says Neal Zimmerman, an independent trainer who runs NJZ Training Services.

The ISV Winner is LANDesk with 8.5 percent. Stephen Kulyk of UPS Freight appreciates LANDesk’s ease of use and bandwidth throttling during deployment. Novell’s ZENworks placed with 6.4 percent and ScriptLogic’s Desktop Authority MSI Studio finished third, garnering 4.7 percent of the votes.

The Best Performance Management Product is MOM, with 27.2 percent. HP’s OpenView also emerged as the ISV Winner in this category with 8.2 percent of the votes. SolarWinds’ Orion Network Performance Monitor earned 8.0 percent and NetIQ’s AppManager captured 6.8 percent.

Continuing its reign, MOM remains the Best General Network Monitoring Tool, with a 16.8 percent tally. This category’s ISV Winner is Cisco Systems, with its Syslog Analyzer earning 8.5 percent of the votes.

“Cisco does networking better than anyone,” says Billy Collins of Aaron Nickel Homes. Independent consultant Joe Reddix appreciates Syslog Analyzer’s richness of features. Also in this category is HP’s OpenView Operations for Windows, gathering 8.1 percent of the vote, with IBM’s Tivoli NetView grabbing 5.3 percent.

Come Together
Interoperability continues to be a big issue. Getting Windows to play nice and cohabitate with Linux and Unix isn’t always easy, but there are several strong tools that are helping ease that pain.

The MKS Toolkit wins here with a commanding 19 percent of the votes. This one is Cliff Brown’s favorite solution. “One word: Unix. Make that four words: architectural support for Windows.” Centrify’s DirectControl earned 7.9 percent of the votes and Centeris’ Likewise was right behind with 7.8 percent.

The race for Best Bandwidth/Traffic Monitoring Product was fairly close. Lightspeed Systems Total Traffic Control won with 14.1 percent of the vote. Network Instruments Observer was a step behind with a 12.2 percent share and Argent Guardian earned 11.7 percent.

Web usage monitoring is another critical, yet contentious, issue. Some companies monitor their employees’ browsing habits and some do not. The Best Web Usage Monitor this year is Websense Enterprise with a strong 25.1 percent of the votes. “It’s the best engine for discovering Web page content and blocking accordingly,” says Benjamin Crill of Core BTS.

SurfControl Web Filter earned 16.7 percent and has a solid core of fans. “It generates accurate and timely reports that can be used for traffic management as well as disciplinary activities related to employee use violations, among others,” says independent consultant Chris Apgar.

The full Websense Security Suite also placed in this category with 6.0 percent. Some readers simply question the overall value of Web monitoring. “None of these products are great. They all have issues,” says Prescott Small, IT manager at a manufacturing firm. “Websense just has the fewest problems.”

Watching budget dollars means knowing where every piece of equipment is located. That’s easier said than done, especially when dealing with multiple locations and platforms. The Altiris Asset Management Suite is the favored Asset Management/ Resource Inventory Product with 20 percent of the votes. Novell Asset Manager came in with 9.3 percent, and Altiris Inventory Solution earned 6.5 percent of the votes. Readers like how it doesn’t bog you down while it’s working. “[Inventory Solution] does a good job of taking the inventory without taking too many available resources,” says Phil Murphy of BrassCraft-Thomasville.

The Best License Management Product is another Microsoft-dominated category, with Microsoft Systems Management Server gathering a whopping 39.2 percent of the votes. The Altiris Compliance Suite is the ISV winner with 11.4 percent. Altiris Provisioning Suite is next with 4.4 percent, followed by iInventory with 3.9 percent

NetIQ’s Security Compliance Suite continues to be the preferred set of compliance tools, an increasingly important part of any company’s infrastructure. NetIQ won with 14.5 percent. Symantec’s BindView collected 9.9 percent and Shavlik NetChk Compliance took 8.8 percent.

The virtual races have taken an interesting turn. VMware this year edged ahead in what has historically been a neck and neck race with Microsoft. This year’s Best Virtual Server Product is VMware GSX Server with 42.8 percent. Microsoft’s Virtual PC followed with 32.6 percent. VMware’s ESX Server is also in there with 6.4 percent.

“[ESX Server] is still the leading product and with good reason,” says Brent Eads, a consultant with Employee Technology Solutions Inc. “It works extremely well.”

The Best Virtual PC Product is VMware Workstation by a hefty margin, bringing in 45 percent of the votes. Microsoft Virtual PC pulled in 34.1 percent, with SWsoft’s Virtuozzo earning 1 percent.

Microsoft, however, still has its loyal legions on the virtual front. “Virtual PC is a good all-around product,” says BrassCraft-Thomasville’s Murphy. “I didn’t like VMware Workstation for the fact that you have to buy it, plus it appeared to be a bit more complicated to configure and use.”

The Best Non-Microsoft Browser is also the product that earned the single highest number of votes: Firefox collected a commanding 69.2 percent.

“Firefox has less problems and less security risks than IE,” says Gamal Herbon of InterComputer. “It’s easier to use, has better features and doesn’t try to take over the world.” Netscape Navigator earned 6.0 percent.

SQL users have a clear favorite when it comes to tools to help them get the most out of SQL Server. The Best SQL Tool is Sql Power Tools with 24.7 percent. Quest Spotlight on SQL took 8.9 percent, and Red Gate Software 7.1 percent.

Installation and Administration
The act of getting your systems ready for a new rollout or upgrade is going to be front of mind this year with so many organizations getting ready for Vista. It’s just a matter of whether you plan to do it now or later. These tools will help ease the transition, software distribution, software packaging and drive imaging -- all essential tasks for deploying or upgrading your systems.

Drive Imaging
Once again, Symantec’s Ghost Suite leads this category by a huge margin. It wins this year with 55 percent of the votes. “It puts me in control and allows me to install unsupervised,” says Bruce Norris, IT manager for a government agency. “It also has low bandwidth usage.” Acronis True Image showed it still has a solid base, grabbing 14.3 percent. Altiris Migration Suite earned a 5.1 percent vote.

Server Migration
Altiris Deployment Solution is also well suited for server migration, winning this category with 14.8 percent of the votes. Quest Software Migration Suite for AD/Exchange was a hair behind with 14.5 percent. The Altiris Client Management Suite also placed with a 6.5 percent vote.

Group Policy Manager
Obviously, Microsoft is going to be the best at managing Group Policy, but there are several solid alternatives. Microsoft wins here with a sweeping 41.6 percent. Leading as the ISV Winner is ScriptLogic with Active Administrator, earning an 8.8 percent vote. NetIQ’s Group Policy Administrator got 5.8 percent and Symantec’s BindView brought in 3.5 percent.

Disk Defragmentation and Drive Monitoring
Diskeeper wins this category again this year with a 29.6 percent vote. “It does the job and each version gets better,” says Barry Cohen of the Edison Group. Within viewing distance is Winternals Defrag Manager with 21.8 percent, with Raxco PerfectDisk finishing a more distant third with 5.8 percent. There figures to be much more room for both Diskeeper and Raxco in next year’s competition, as Winternals was sold to Microsoft late last year.

Remote Troubleshooting
This category was a fairly close race. Altiris Carbon Copy wins with an 11.1 percent share of the vote. NetSupport Manager was second with 9.2 percent and Netopia Timbuktu brought in 8.1 percent.

Network Automation and Batch Processing
ScriptLogic Desktop Authority is the clear winner here, bringing in 20.5 percent of the vote. Readers like the “one-stop shopping” aspect of a comprehensive tool like Desktop Authority. “It pretty much does everything from one console, and it’s very easy to use,” says Russ Johnson of the Family Health Center of Battle Creek, Mich. HP OpenView Operations for Windows crossed the line second with 12.4 percent, and MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers was third with 5.6 percent.

Scripting
Scripters are an intensely loyal lot. Once they’ve found a tool that works, they’re not likely to change. Sapien maintains its lead this year with PrimalScript gathering a 16.4 percent vote. “It’s fantastic for debugging scripts,” says Rajni Mistry of Titanium Solutions Ltd. “It gives you total control.” iTripoli Admin Script Editor is close behind with 10.4 percent of the votes, and XLnow OnScript brought in 7.5 percent.

Patch Management
For something as critical as patch management, Microsoft Software Update Services is proving tough to beat, winning a 42.5 percent share. Shavlik Technologies is the ISV winner with its HFNetChkPro earning 7.4 percent. Altiris Patch Management Solution brought in 5.8 percent and PatchLink Update earned 3.2 percent.

Safe and Secure
Terrorists, spam, viruses, worms, spyware and malicious employees: they all know more ways to kill you than you know ways to die, and these threats seem to multiply every day. You need a solid security infrastructure to keep today’s threats at bay -- in both the physical and virtual worlds.

Firewall: Hardware-based
The Cisco Systems PIX series has proved it can consistently evolve and continues to win in this market. It wins here with a 38.8 percent vote. Ease of use, ease of integration and its position as the de facto industry standard were all frequently cited as reasons for choosing Cisco. “Cisco has been in the game a long time and knows what to do when protection is needed,” says Bud Moore of the Tracer Corp. SonicWALL’s TZ and Pro series firewalls brought in a 10 percent vote, while Symantec’s Velociraptor earned 7.7 percent.

Firewall: Software-based
Microsoft’s ISA Server is the clear winner with 22.2 percent of the votes. After ISA Server’s dominance as a software firewall, Check Point and Symantec are in a fairly close matchup, earning 15.8 and 14.5 percent, respectively. Check Point, emerging as the ISV Winner, wins points for being easy to remotely manage, says Ralph Hoefelmeyer. McAfee Personal Firewall Plus brought in 8.3 percent.

Intrusion Detection System
Cisco Systems’ Cisco Secure IDS is a decisive winner with 20.9 percent of the votes. Open source alternative Snort brought in a 13.1 percent vote. BlackICE Pro, from Network ICE, earned 6.8 percent.

Intrusion Prevention System
Cisco Systems also takes the IPS category with its Cisco Security Agent bringing in a 15.4 percent vote. Network Associates IntruShield is up next with 7.3 percent. The next spot is a tie between Symantec ManHunt and Internet Security Systems, each earning a 5.1 percent vote.

Smart Card/Biometric/Two-factor Authentication System
RSA ran away with the votes for Best Smart Card Authentication System with its SecureID earning 35.3 percent. It helps that they’ve been around for such a long time and have refined the product and developed a solid reputation. “They’re a trusted vendor and it’s a workable product that limits false positives and false negatives,” says independent consultant Chris Apgar. DigitalPersona brought in 3.5 percent and the next place was a 3.2 percent tie between ActivCard Trinity and Griffin Technologies SecuriKey Pro.

Secure Messaging Tool or Service (Spam and Content Filtering)
Microsoft Exchange Server takes this category with a 17.6 percent vote. The ISV Winner is Symantec with a 7.8 percent vote. Microsoft Antigen (now Forefront) earned 4.7 percent and Barracuda Networks’ Spam Firewall brought in 3.8 percent.

Anti-Virus
Symantec also took a commanding lead in the anti-virus category, thanks to its Anti-Virus tool, which earned 33.8 percent of the vote. “It catches virtually all viruses in real-time and requires very little maintenance,” says Dan Roach, IT manager with Dunn Engineering Associates. McAfee’s GroupShield took 14.9 percent and Trend Micro 11.4 percent.

Anti-Spyware
McAfee takes top honors here with 15.1 percent of the votes, with Trend Micro Anti-Spyware trailing closely behind with a 12.1 share. Webroot places again with a 9.7 percent vote.

To Store and To Protect
Storage and backup are two other areas in which Symantec is particularly strong. The Cupertino-based company won or placed repeatedly in the three key categories of backup, storage management and disaster recovery.

Backup System
Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec cleaned up in this category with 28.2 percent of the vote. The company also took the next spot with Symantec/ Veritas NetBackup earning 11.8 percent. The final spot was a tie between CA BrightStor Enterprise Backup and Acronis True Image, each earning 5.8 percent.

Disaster Recovery Product
Symantec/Veritas took the top two spots here with Backup Exec in first with a 15.4 percent of the vote and NetBackup with 9.3 percent. Winternals Recovery Manager got 6.7 percent.
 

Barracuda Spam Firewall Wins 2007 Lotus Advisor Editors' Choice Award

For the second year in a row, the Barracuda Spam Firewall received Lotus Advisors Editors’ Choice distinction in the “Administration” category. Lotus Advisor Magazine named the Barracuda Spam Firewall editors’ choice in the “Administration: Email Security” category based on its multi-layer defense system, hourly updates and aggressive pricing.

Barracuda Web Filter Receives 5 Stars and "Recommended" Rating from SC Magazine’s Web Filtering Group Test

This product was one of the two best of those we reviewed. It is solid, easy to use and well documented. The Barracuda Web Filter blocks access to websites based on content, content category, domain or URL. Supplied as an appliance, this is an attractive proposition for the enterprise market, designed for simple administration and high throughput.

The device provides a wide variety of internet access options, allowing real granularity when it comes to policy development and application. For example, employees may be grouped, with each team having different web access rights.

Barracuda Web Filter belongs to the class of products referred to as "clientless". This means there is no client software required on the user's desktop or laptop. We found the tool's performance to be first rate, with filters available for URLs based on category, pattern, domain or specific URL.

It integrates with the SafeSurf rating standard, providing protection when using typical image search tools. It can block selected file types, instant messaging and other applications.

The appliance’s dash board is comprehensive and easy to read. It provides all the information needed to manage Web Filter. There are numerous reports that cover virtually every aspect of the product's performance. Detailed logs are also available. In addition to web content filtering, Barracuda's device offers spyware and malware filtering.

The documentation is complete, well-organised and easy to use. The quick-start guide is clear and covers initial deployment. All the material includes plenty of screen shots and diagrams to assist in configuration, deployment, policy development and administration.

Barracuda Web Filter is well supported. The documentation is available on the company's website, which also features a technical forum, frequently asked questions section, configuration tips and forms to request a trouble ticket. Email and phone support is available 24/7.

Priced at the low end of the spectrum for this type of product, Barracuda Web Filter is an excellent value for organisations of just about any size. We liked this product a lot and we recommend it for its performance, feature set, cost and ease of use.

Barracuda Spam Firewall 900 Named “Product of the Year” in Exchange Server Security

Barracuda Spam Firewall 900's high marks for ease of integration, ease of use, functionality and support -- and a perfect score for performance -- earned it the Gold Award in SearchExchange.com's Exchange Server Security Products of the Year 2006 category.

Based on open source solutions, Barracuda Networks Inc.'s Internet gateway product uses a combination of software and hardware to ward off a wide variety of messaging security threats. Its architecture protects against spam, viruses, spoofing, phishing, spyware and denial-of-service attacks. In addition, it offers sophisticated outbound email filtering techniques, such as rate controls, domain restrictions, user authentication, keyword and attachment blocking and dual-layer virus blocking.

Barracuda Spam Firewall 900 can generally be installed in five minutes in front of the Exchange server, and it will update itself hourly to block new forms of spam and viruses. It also includes these features:

• 300 GB storage capacity for quarantined messages
• Four CPUs for high-volume email processing
• Advanced capabilities, including redundant hot-swap power supplies and dual-gigabit Ethernet ports
• Multiple RAID disk arrays for greater performance

These features give Barracuda Spam Firewall 900 scalability and performance that can keep up with the demands of just about any company's email system.

Pricing: Barracuda Spam Firewall 900 costs $29,999 per appliance with no per-user fees, and $6,599 for an annual update service.

SC Magazine Names Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda IM Firewall Finalists in its Reader Trust Award Competition

SC Magazine Names Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda IM Firewall Finalists in its Reader Trust Award Competition

The Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda IM Firewall were both selected as finalists in SC Magazine's annual ‘Reader Trust Awards,' voted on by more than 9,000 of the publication’s readers. This marks the fourth consecutive year that the Barracuda Spam Firewall has been selected as a finalist in the Best Email Security Solution category. The Barracuda IM Firewall was selected as a finalist in the Best Instant Messaging Security Solution category.

Two Barracuda Networks Products Named 2006 Readers’ Choice Award Winners by Windows IT Pro

Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 1, 2006 – Barracuda Networks, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class application security appliances, today announced that its Barracuda IM Firewall and Barracuda Spam Firewall were named winners in the “IM Solution”and the “Antispam/Mail Server” categories of the 2006 Windows IT Pro Readers’ Choice Awards.

“The 2006 Windows IT Pro Readers' Choice Awards continue our tradition of honoring products that our readers tell us are most worthy of recognition,” said Kim Paulsen, publisher of Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro. “These are the hardware, software, and services that measure up where it counts most – in the businesses, agencies, and institutions that rely on them to deliver what they promise.”

Readers were asked to vote on their product preferences in 12 broad technology categories. More than 5,200 readers chose the best among more than 750 products and services.

“The IT pros who voted in this year's awards are tough, in-the-trenches critics,” Paulsen continued. “They demand solid value and performance from the products they use and put those products to the test day after day.”

“It is an honor to have both the Barracuda IM Firewall and the Barracuda Spam Firewall, named Readers’ Choice Winners,” said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks. “By voting for these products our customers demonstrate that no matter what the network application is, they continue to trust and rely on Barracuda Networks for powerful protection against spam, viruses and other Internet security threats.”

About the Barracuda IM Firewall
The Barracuda IM Firewall is the first and only all-in-one instant messaging appliance to incorporate an IM server with native consumer IM traffic filtering, IM archiving and policy management technologies in an easy-to-use and affordable solution, creating a secure and seamless channel for rapid business communication. Available in five models, the Barracuda IM Firewall supports up to 7,000 users in a single system. Organizations with more than 7,000 users can combine multiple Barracuda IM Firewalls serving distinct user segments to provide private and secure IM communication across very large communities. With no software to install, no modifications required to the network and an intuitive user interface for maintenance and monitoring, the Barracuda IM Firewall is easy to install and virtually maintenance-free. Hourly Energize Updates are made automatically by Barracuda Central so that the Barracuda IM Firewall remains up-to-date with the most effective methods to identify and control public IM traffic and to combat ever-changing virus variants.

About the Barracuda Spam Firewall
The Barracuda Spam Firewall is available in six models and supports from 1,000 to 30,000 active users with no per user licensing fees. The Barracuda Spam Firewall can be installed in front of the email server in typically less than five minutes and is automatically updated hourly to block new forms of spam and viruses. Its architecture leverages open source spam and virus solutions in conjunction with ten defense layers: denial of service and security protection, IP block list, rate control, virus check with archive decompression, proprietary virus check, user specified rules, spam fingerprint check, Intent Analysis, spam rule-based scoring, and Bayesian analysis. 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, dual 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. Unlike software solutions, the Barracuda Spam Firewall reduces the load placed on the email server by off-loading both spam and virus filtering. Barracuda Networks also offers the Energize Update subscription service to automatically update the Barracuda Spam Firewall with the latest spam rules and virus definitions.

About Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda Networks is the leading provider of enterprise-class application security appliances for comprehensive email, Internet and IM protection. Its products protect over 40,000 customers around the world, including Adaptec, Caltrans, CBS, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM, NASA, Pizza Hut, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and the U.S. Treasury Department. The Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda Spam Firewall - Outbound protect organizations against spam, viruses, and violations to email security policy. The Barracuda Web Filter, formerly known as the Barracuda Web Filter, offers comprehensive content filtering and complete network protection against spyware, malware and viruses. The Barracuda IM Firewall, is the only all in one gateway solution for IM traffic management and security. Barracuda Networks is a privately held company with headquarters in Mountain View, California. Barracuda Networks has offices in eight international locations and distributors in over 43 countries. More information is available at www.barracuda.com .

About Windows IT Media
Penton’s Windows IT Media, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, includes flagship print publication Windows IT Pro. First published in 1995, Windows IT Pro is the editorial leader in its field and has a paid subscription base of 110,000. The magazine is published in 13 languages and has an international reach into 160 countries. Windows IT Pro UPDATE, the group’s flagship email newsletter, is the only e-newsletter to make BtoB Magazine’s Media Power 50 list. For more information visit: www.windowsitpro.com/pressroom, and www.windowsitmedia.com.

Barracuda Networks Selected by AlwaysOn as AO100 Private Company Award Winner

Barracuda Networks was chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. Barracuda Networks was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial panel based on a set of five criteria - technology innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.

GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice: Barracuda Spam Firewall 400

Barracuda Spam Firewall 400 Wins "Reviewer's Choice" Award from GCN Magazine The Barracuda Spam Firewall 400 represents the right way to build an appliance-based email firewall. It was the only unit in this review that was truly plug-and-play and was up and running with a live mail stream in less than five minutes.

Barracuda Networks Listed as a Red Herring Top 100 Winner

Barracuda Spam Firewall named “Readers’ Choice” by Redmond Magazine

Barracuda Networks Named a Finalist for the “Red Herring 100 North America” Awards

Barracuda Web Filter Wins Best Security Solution Award at LinuxWorld

Mountain View, Calif., April 13, 2006 – Barracuda Networks, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions, today announced that the Barracuda Web Filter was named Best Security Solution in the “LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards” at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston earlier this month. The Barracuda Web Filter was selected for this distinction over solutions from Configuresoft and Novell.

Built on a hardened Linux platform, the Barracuda Web Filter is the first focused gateway appliance for comprehensive content filtering and powerful spyware, malware, and adware protection. Available in five models, the plug-and-play appliance combines preventative, reactive and proactive measures to form a complete anti-spyware and Web content filtering solution for businesses of all sizes. In addition, the Barracuda Web Filter also offers the powerful Barracuda Spyware Removal Tool. This latest enhancement extends the Barracuda Web Filter’s ability beyond detection, identification and blocking of spyware at the gateway, to now include removal of malware from previously infected desktop computers.

“The Barracuda Web Filter truly advances the state of spyware defense by providing protection at the gateway and at the desktop,” said Mark Hinkle, editor-in-chief of LinuxWorld Magazine. “This multi-faceted approach to spyware protection and content filtering makes it one of the most powerful spyware solutions available today, and the ideal selection for the ‘Best Security Solution.’”

“LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award” winners were selected by a panel of experts at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Awards were given to products that demonstrated ease of configuration, scalability to task and price performance among other criteria. Featuring no per user license fees, the Barracuda Web Filter is the most affordable anti-spyware solution available, with prices starting at $1,599. In addition, the Barracuda Web Filter saves time and money by eliminating the productivity losses incurred with anti-spyware desktop software solutions that require individual downloading and maintenance on each PC.

“This award underscores the Barracuda Web Filter’s ease-of-use, performance, and affordability, all of which are elements that continue to make the Barracuda Web Filter a successful and powerful network security solution for businesses worldwide,” said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks.

Also at the show the Barracuda Spam Firewall 900 was listed as one of three finalists in the Best Messaging Solution category. The Barracuda Spam Firewall 900 is the latest edition to the award-winning Barracuda Spam Firewall product line and offers the largest quarantine storage capacity and the fastest throughput available for an email gateway appliance.

About the Barracuda Web Filter
Available in five models, the Barracuda Web Filter combines preventative, reactive and proactive measures to form a complete anti-spyware and content filtering solution for businesses of all sizes. Unlike the widely available desktop software solutions, the Barracuda Web Filter is easily installed and does not require the additional time, money or resources necessary for downloading and maintaining software on each individual PC. The comprehensive feature set enables the Barracuda Web Filter to block spyware downloads, prevent viruses, stop access to spyware Web sites and filter Web content. In addition, the Barracuda Web Filter can identify spyware-infected desktops, alert the administrator and enable users to remove spyware from infected Windows computers with the Barracuda Spyware Removal Tool. Hourly Energize Updates are made automatically by Barracuda Central so that the Barracuda Web Filter can block the ever-changing virus and spyware variants.

About Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda Networks is the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions for comprehensive email protection. Its flagship products, the Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda Spam Firewall – Outbound, provide spam and virus protection for over 30,000 customers around the world, including Adaptec, Caltrans, CBS, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM, Knight Ridder, NASA, Pizza Hut, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and the U.S. Treasury Department. In addition, Barracuda Networks offers the Barracuda Web Filter for complete network protection against spyware, malware and viruses and the Barracuda IM Firewall, the only all in one gateway solution for IM traffic management and security. Barracuda Networks is a privately held company with headquarters in Mountain View, California. Barracuda Networks has offices in eight international locations and distributors in over 43 countries. More information is available at www.barracuda.com.

About IDG World Expo
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Barracuda Networks’ Executive Named to “Top 100 Channel Executives” list by VARBusiness

Barracuda Spam Firewall Named Editors’ Choice by Lotus Advisor Magazine

Mountain View, Calif., March 29, 2006 – Barracuda Networks, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions, today announced that its flagship product, the Barracuda Spam Firewall, received the 2006 Lotus Advisor Editors’ Choice Award in the “Administration: Messaging Management Tool” category. Lotus Advisor Magazine named the Barracuda Spam Firewall editors’ choice based on its comprehensive email protection features, aggressive pricing, and easy integration with IBM Lotus Notes and Web Access (iNotes) clients.

Lotus Advisor Magazine editors praised the Barracuda Spam Firewall for its ease of use and deployment noting that it “does 99.99 percent of the work for you, which is what an administrative tool is all about.”

In addition to working seamlessly with Lotus Notes, iNotes and Domino servers, the Barracuda Spam Firewall also offers a powerful plug-in for Lotus Notes. The plug-in enables individual users to designate emails as ‘spam’ or ‘not spam,’ as well as automatically builds personal whitelists based on previous emails sent and emails designated as ‘not spam’ by each user. These features allow Lotus Notes users to train the Barracuda Spam Firewall based on their individual email activity and preferences, and increases the Barracuda Spam Firewall’s already industry-leading spam blocking accuracy.

“More than 125 million email users worldwide are now using Lotus Notes, all of whom are bombarded with spam and viruses each day,” said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. “We are pleased that Lotus Advisor Magazine recognizes Barracuda Networks’ commitment to protecting our customers from these threats with the easy-to-use and powerful Barracuda Spam Firewall.”

Lotus Advisor Editors’ Choice Award winners were selected by a panel of Lotus software experts at Lotusphere 2006. Awards were given to the most innovative Lotus development and administrative tools. The winning products can be found online at LotusAdvisor.com and will appear in the May 2006 issue of Lotus Advisor Magazine.

“The editors of Lotus Advisor Magazine are pleased to acknowledge Barracuda Networks for its innovative product, the Barracuda Spam Firewall,” said John Hawkins, Lotus Advisor Magazine’s editorial director. “The award recognizes and celebrates strong tools and products for Lotus application architects, developers, and administrators.”

About the Barracuda Spam Firewall
The Barracuda Spam Firewall is available in six models and supports from 1,000 to 30,000 active users with no per user licensing fees. The Barracuda Spam Firewall can be installed in front of the email server in typically less than five minutes and is automatically updated hourly to block new forms of spam and viruses. Its architecture leverages open source spam and virus solutions in conjunction with ten defense layers: denial of service and security protection, IP block list, rate control, virus check with archive decompression, proprietary virus check, user specified rules, spam fingerprint check, Intent Analysis, spam rule-based scoring, and Bayesian analysis. 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, dual 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. Unlike software solutions, the Barracuda Spam Firewall reduces the load placed on the email server by off-loading both spam and virus filtering. Barracuda Networks also offers the Energize Update subscription service to automatically update the Barracuda Spam Firewall with the latest spam rules and virus definitions.

About Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda Networks is the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions for comprehensive email protection. Its flagship products, the Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda Spam Firewall – Outbound, provide spam and virus protection for over 30,000 customers around the world, including Adaptec, Caltrans, CBS, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM, Knight Ridder, NASA, Pizza Hut, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and the U.S. Treasury Department. In addition, Barracuda Networks offers the Barracuda Web Filter for complete network protection against spyware, malware and viruses and the Barracuda IM Firewall, the only all in one gateway solution for IM traffic management and security. Barracuda Networks is a privately held company with headquarters in Mountain View, California. Barracuda Networks has offices in eight international locations and distributors in over 43 countries. More information is available at www.barracuda.com.

About Advisor Media
Advisor Media provides the unmatched advice of top experts in a full range of media, including magazines, journals, e-mail newsletters, conferences, seminars, workshops, CDs, on-site training, and dozens of Web sites. The expertise presented by Advisor Media comes from hard-won hands-on involvement with the leading technology products and services, and technical and business practices. For more information, visit www.Advisor.com.

Two Barracuda Networks Products Named Finalists in the LinuxWorld Boston 2006 Product Excellence Awards

The Barracuda Web Filter and Barracuda Spam Firewall 900 were selected as finalists in the prestigious LinuxWorld Boston 2006 Product Excellence Awards in the Best Security Solution category and Best Messaging Solution category. Finalists were divided into 12 product categories, representing major areas of innovation in the Linux and open source community, and were selected by a panel of independent judges and industry experts in recognition of product innovation in open computing.

The Barracuda Web Filter was named a finalist in the Best Security Solution category based on its:

• Ease of configuration
• Suitability to task
• Price performance
• Ability to work in heterogeneous environments
• Customer acceptance

• Industry leadership and innovation
• Ease of configuration
• Scalability
• Flexibility
• Price performance

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Barracuda Spam Firewall Receives “2006 Products of the Year” Award From Two Leading Security Publications

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Barracuda Web Filter Named Antispyware “Product of the Year”

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SC Magazine Names Barracuda Networks a Finalist in Global Awards Competition

Barracuda Wins Best Web Application Firewall and Best Email Security

San Francisco, Calif., RSA Conference 2013 – Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading provider of security and storage solutions, today announced that it has been selected as the Reader Trust Award winner in the Best Web Application Firewall and Best Email Security Solutions categories at the 2013 SC Awards. Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda Email Security (comprised of both the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall and Barracuda Email Security Service) were chosen as some of the information security industry’s most effective solutions addressing today’s security challenges. The announcement was made on February 26, 2013, at the SC Awards Gala.

“We’re honored to be recognized for our strong set of solutions for both email security and Web application security,” said Steve Pao, vice president of product management at Barracuda Networks. “These awards are great examples of how Barracuda continues to innovate across multiple platforms and threat vectors to help keep our customers’ networks and data safe.”

Hundreds of vendors who offer products for the commercial, government, educational, nonprofit or other industries entered the Reader Trust Award competition. Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda Email Security were selected by a panel representing a cross-section of SC Magazine readership, comprised of large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets, including financial services, health care, government, retail, education and other sectors.

“These are two of the most watched award categories, as winners have to demonstrate a combination of functionality, manageability, ease of-use and scalability, as well as exemplary customer service and support to secure the vote of our readers,” said Illena Armstrong, VP of editorial, SC Magazine. “Congratulations to Barracuda Networks for representing industry leadership, not only to the SC Magazine editors but also to our readers.”

The SC Awards, now in its 16th year, is the premier recognition for information-technology (IT) security professionals and products that fend off the myriad security threats in today’s corporate world. The annual awards showcase the best solutions, services and professionals while recognizing achievement and technical excellence. SC Magazine distinguishes the achievements of the security professionals in the field, the innovations happening in the vendor and service provider communities and the fervent work of government, commercial and nonprofits. For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners, please visit www.scmagazineus.com/awards.

About Barracuda Networks, Inc.

Protecting users, applications, and data for more than 150,000 organizations worldwide, Barracuda Networks has developed a global reputation as the go-to leader for powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions. The company's proven customer-centric business model focuses on delivering high-value, subscription-based IT solutions for security and storage. For additional information, please visit http://www.barracuda.com or follow us on Twitter@barracuda.

About SC Magazine

SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies. The brand’s portfolio includes the SC World Conference and Expo, SC Congress Canada, SC Magazine Awards, SC Directory, SC Magazine Newswire and SC Magazine IT Security Executives Forums.

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Barracuda Spam Firewall wins "Best Product" award at CompTIA

The 2005 "Best of Breakaway" awards were selected based on the votes of chief information officers, chief technology officers, vice presidents and directors of technology from end-user corporations attending the CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) annual Enterprise Conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario in October 2005. The Barracuda Spam Firewall was voted "Best Product" by this distinguished group for its creative and innovative in hardware design.

CRN Magazine Lists Barracuda Networks Among Top 'Channel Stars'

Campbell, Calif., February 19, 2013 - Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security and storage solutions, today announced that its Chief Research Officer, Dr. Paul Judge, will present at the 2013 RSA Conference in San Francisco. Additionally Barracuda will have a booth on the RSAC Expo show floor demonstrating new technology and more.

Dr. Judge will present in session BR-R32: “SocialKlepto: Corporate Espionage with Fake Social Network Accounts,” on Thursday, February 28, at 9:20 a.m. in Room 306. In this session, Dr. Judge will demonstrate against real companies the SocialKlepto toolkit, a system built to achieve competitive intelligence by infiltrating competitors' networks. SocialKlepto determines every move competitors make using a controlled network of fake social network accounts, Web and public database search APIs, and big data analytics.

RSAC attendees should stop by booth #1147 to learn how Barracuda helps cloud-connected organizations scale their security along with their elastic infrastructures. This year, Barracuda will unveil a brand new firewall designed to fill the gap of next-generation firewall functionality in the midmarket. The new firewall will be demonstrated in the booth, along with new capabilities through strategic partnerships, one-on-one sessions with product management, and executive Q&A. 

Additionally, Barracuda will host an exclusive networking event, the Blind Tiger Party, on Wednesday, February 27, from 7:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. The location of this VIP event has not been publicly disclosed at this time. Members of the press, analysts, and Barracuda customers and partners are encouraged to request an entry code at http://www.blindtigerparty.com and follow along with updates on Twitter using hash tag #BlindTigerParty.

About RSA Conference
RSA Conference is helping drive the information security agenda worldwide with annual industry events in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Throughout its history, RSA Conference has consistently attracted the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for conference attendees to learn about IT security's most important issues through first-hand interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. As the IT security field continues to grow in importance and influence, RSA Conference plays an integral role in keeping security professionals across the globe connected and educated. The event will be held February 25 - March 1, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information about the event, please visit: http://www.rsaconference.com/events/2013/usa/index.htm.

About Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Protecting users, applications, and data for more than 150,000 organizations worldwide, Barracuda Networks has developed a global reputation as the go-to leader for powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions. The company's proven customer-centric business model focuses on delivering high-value, subscription-based IT solutions for security and storage. For additional information, please visit http://www.barracuda.com.

Barracuda Spam Firewall Wins W2Knews Tech Target Award

W2KNews Announces W2K Target Awards Monday June 6, 11:29 am ET

Annual awards highlight top "real-world" solutions in Windows utility tools

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2005-- (Microsoft Tech.Ed)-- W2KNews, the world's largest online newsletter dedicated to Windows NT/2000/2003 issues, announces the winners of the Sixth Annual Target Awards. The Target Awards are given to top Windows NT/2000/2003 utilities in 28 different categories through an online reader poll. Best of categories include Antispam, Antivirus, Antispyware, Active Directory Management, Vulnerability Scanners, Network Traffic Monitors and a number of other areas.

"The Target Awards represent our attempt to highlight the ultimate shortlist of the best tools that system administrators look for in a number of categories," says Stu Sjouwerman, editor-in-chief of W2KNews. "We congratulate this year's winners."

2005 W2KNews Target Award Winners

Barracuda Spam Firewall 400 Named "Editor's Choice" by Service Provider Weekly

Considering the low amount of administrative overhead, an excellent ROI based on the number of production hours saved by detecting unneccesary emails, we think that the Barracuda Spam Firewall 400 is worth consideration and receives a well-deserved Editor's Choice Award.

Barracuda Spam Firewall Wins Well-Connected Awards Honor: "Best Spam Prevention Solution"

Networld + Interop, Las Vegas, NV, May 4, 2005 - (Booth # 1019) Barracuda Networks, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions, today announced that the Barracuda Spam Firewall 300 has been awarded "Best Spam Prevention Solution" for the second straight year in the eleventh annual Network Computing 2005 Well-Connected Awards competition. The Barracuda Spam Firewall 300 bested SurfControl's RiskFilter and the Vircom modusGate v3.0 in this year's contest.

"We are honored to once again take home the esteemed Well-Connected Award for best anti-spam solution," said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. "The Well-Connected Award recognizes not only the superior performance of the Barracuda Spam Firewall, but also the ease of use and affordability that thousands of our customers worldwide have come to depend on."

Held annually by CMP Media LLC's Network Computing, the leading magazine for IT and networking professionals, the Well-Connected Awards recognize outstanding technology products and services and represent the very best products and services the technology industry has to offer in networking. Finalists and winners are chosen by the publication's technology editors, based on products that have been tested and evaluated in their real-world labs.

"The Well-Connected Awards are the only industry awards given by technologists based on real-world product testing and evaluation," said Fritz Nelson, vice president and group publisher of the Network Computing Enterprise Architecture Group. "These awards take the pulse of the technology industry and reflect the best of what IT has to offer. This is an important distinction from any other award program - the products selected in the Well-Connected Awards are unique because they have been graded with the same criteria IT professionals use to make purchasing decisions - truly the most outstanding products and services available."

The Well-Connected Awards are only for products that have been through analysis and testing by Network Computing in the previous year from May 2004 to May 2005. In the Network Computing comparative product review which included more than 30 other spam and virus solutions, the Barracuda Spam Firewall 300 was hailed as "one of the easiest products to get running and administer," and the product design was also lauded for its close "parallel to our ideal criteria for an enterprise-class spam filter - a free product that requires no administration and stops 100 percent of spam with no false positives." The Network Computing 2005 Well-Connected Award results were listed in the April 28 issue of the magazine and winners were honored this week at an awards ceremony held at Networld+Interop 2005 in Las Vegas.

Also this week, the Barracuda Spam Firewall was awarded the Network Magazine Innovation Award for "Security Product Breakthrough" for its appeal to "security and business types by combining an effective solution for spam and viruses in a low-cost appliance."

About Barracuda Networks, Inc. Barracuda Networks, Inc., is the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions for comprehensive email protection. It's flagship products, the Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda Spam Firewall - Outbound Mode, provide spam and virus protection for over 14,000 customers around the world, including Adaptec, Knight Ridder, CBS, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM, NASA, Pizza Hut, Union Pacific Railroad, and the U.S. Treasury Department. In addition, Barracuda Networks expanded its product portfolio in April 2005, launching the Barracuda Web Filter, the first true comprehensive anti-spyware and Web filtering gateway appliance. The Barracuda Web Filter combines preventative, reactive and proactive measures to form a complete anti-spyware solution for businesses of all sizes. Barracuda Networks is a privately held company with headquarters in Cupertino, California. Barracuda Networks has offices in eight international locations and distributors in over 35 countries. More information is available at www.barracuda.com.

About Network Computing For IT, by IT, Network Computing (www.networkcomputing.com), published by CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, New York, is dedicated to providing critical analysis of technologies, vendors and products to 220,000 IT managers and staff who are accountable for strategic technology purchase decisions. In 2003, Network Computing won a total of four awards from the American Society of Business Publications Editors (ASBPE), including a national award in the "Best Technical Article" category.

Barracuda Networks Receives Network Magazine 2005 Innovation Award for "Security Product Breakthrough."

Cupertino, Calif., April 27, 2005 - Barracuda Networks, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions, today announced that the Barracuda Spam Firewall has been awarded the Network Magazine 2005 Innovation Award for "Security Product Breakthrough."

"Network Magazine's mission is to look beyond the technologies and methodologies that are hot today, concentrating instead on the architectures that will dominate IT a couple years from now. Given that, the winners of the 2005 Innovation Awards are true innovators that we believe will change the rules of the game," said Art Wittman, editor-in-chief of CMP Media LLC's Network Magazine. "These are innovations that will enable IT organizations to substantially better meet the needs of their business."

More than 200 applications were submitted for the first annual Innovation Awards held by CMP Media LLC's Network Magazine. After five months of deliberation, awards were determined by the publication's technology editors who selected winners based on what they considered to be the most important technology innovations of the year.

"We are thrilled to receive this recognition from such a highly regarded industry publication," said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. "Barracuda Networks' focus on product innovation continues to earn us industry-wide acclaim and, more importantly, creates a powerful spam and virus solution for our customers."

In Network Magazine's May 2005 issue, which features all Innovation Award winners, Technology Editor Andrew Conry-Murray touts the Barracuda Spam Firewall as a product that "speaks a language that appeals to security and business types by combining an effective solution for spam and viruses in a low-cost appliance." Innovation Award winners will be formally honored at a luncheon next week at Networld+Interop 2005 in Las Vegas.

"Innovation on its own means nothing unless it can be harnessed to deliver new or improved business strategies. The best innovations align technological creativity with business needs to create a business-optimized IT network," said David Greenfield, executive editor of CMP Media LLC's Network Magazine. "It's in this spirit that the editors of Network Magazine have come together to honor the most important and creative innovations of the year."

About Barracuda Networks, Inc. Barracuda Networks, Inc., is the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions for comprehensive email protection. It's flagship products, the Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda Spam Firewall - Outbound Mode, provide spam and virus protection for over 14,000 customers around the world, including Adaptec, Knight Ridder, Caltrans, CBS, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM, NASA, Pizza Hut, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and the U.S. Treasury Department. In addition, Barracuda Networks expanded its product portfolio in April 2005, launching the Barracuda Web Filter, the first true comprehensive anti-spyware and Web filtering gateway appliance. The Barracuda Web Filter combines preventative, reactive and proactive measures to form a complete anti-spyware solution for businesses of all sizes. Barracuda Networks is a privately held company with headquarters in Cupertino, California. Barracuda Networks has offices in eight international locations and distributors in over 35 countries. More information is available at www.barracuda.com.

About Network Magazine The award-winning Network Magazine (http://www.networkmagazine.com), published by CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, N.Y. is the one publication to consistently expose readers to emerging technologies, provide real-world examples of technology and product adoption, and explore the impact of cost justification, regulatory issues, and best practices. Network Magazine delivers 125,000 IT Architects who determine the technology choices of corporate America.

Barracuda Spam Firewall Selected as Well-Connected Award Finalist

For the second consecutive year, the Barracuda Spam Firewall has been selected a finalist in the eleventh annual Network Computing "Well-Connected" award competition. The Barracuda Spam Firewall was selected from the myriad of anti-spam solutions tested at the Network Computing Real-World Labs over the past year. Well-Connected award winners will be announced at an awards dinner on May 3 at N+I 2005 in Las Vegas.

Barracuda Spam Firewall named Finalist in SC Awards Best Anti-spam Category:

New Promotion Gives Current Google Postini Customers Flexible Options as the Postini Email Security Service is Shutting Down

Campbell, Calif., August 24, 2012 – Barracuda Networks Inc., the leading provider of security, networking and data protection solutions, today announced it is offering six months of free email security via the Barracuda Email Security Service and Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall. This featured transition plan is offered to customers who are looking to replace Google Postini, as Google is forcing customers to transfer their accounts to Google Apps.

Barracuda Networks is making this bold transition available on the heels of Google’s announcement that the company is retiring the Postini service by next year. According to an article on CNET1, Postini customers who choose not to transfer their accounts to Google Apps will see their Postini service terminated, leaving their inboxes open to spam, phishing attacks and other email-security threats.

"While Google is trying to push their customers to Google Apps, we recognize that many organizations want a choice," said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks. "Between our pure cloud solutions, our hardware appliance and our virtual appliance deployment options, we've found we can fit into just about any customer environment fulfilling a broad spectrum of privacy requirements. We welcome Postini customers to try Barracuda Networks’ email security solutions risk free for six months, particularly as they are going through this forced transition period."

Current Postini customers have the option to stay with Google by transferring their accounts to Google Apps for email security; however, they will be required to adopt a privacy policy and will reportedly lose features like email encryption2. Postini customers who need to renew in November are being notified of the switch this month, requiring them to adopt the new changes and giving them little time to make a decision.

Why make the switch?
In addition to the cost benefits of receiving six months of email security free of charge, Barracuda Networks makes the transition from Google Postini an easy one with multiple benefits:

• Controlled privacy – Customers concerned with privacy issues related to Google Apps can be assured that Barracuda Networks does not collect any information for the purpose of serving advertisements.
• Attractive pricing – Barracuda Networks is known for its cost-effective solutions, with all-inclusive pricing on email security, web security, application security, next generation firewalls, storage, backup and more. Both the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall and Barracuda Email Security Service provide more competitive pricing than Google Postini.
• Encryption and other advanced features – Barracuda Networks’ email security solutions include advanced features such as encryption and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for no additional charge.

Google Postini customers interested in taking advantage of the Barracuda Networks offer for free email security for six months can sign up at: https://www.barracudanetworks.com/postini

Connect with Barracuda Networks Online:

• Barracuda Networks YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/barracuda

• Barracuda Networks on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/barracudanetworks

• Barracuda Networks on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/barracuda

• Barracuda Labs on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/barracudalabs

Footnotes:

• CNET: Google to Retire Postini, Migrate Features to Google Apps –  http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57497844-93/google-to-retire-postini-migrate-features-to-google-apps/
• Support.google.com

http://support.google.com/postini/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2717451&topic=2717405&ctx=topic

Best Messaging Solution Finalist - LinuxWorld San Francisco

The Barracuda Spam Firewall 600 was selected as a finalist in the "Best Messaging Solution" category at LinuxWorld SF. LinuxWorld awards represent major areas of innovation in the Linux and open source community and finalists are selected by a distinguished group of IT and open source community experts.

This year at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, the show's Product Excellence Awards were managed by LinuxWorld Magazine in conjunction with IDG World Expo, the show's organizers. LinuxWorld Magazine put together for the awards a distinguished panel of judges, including: Kevin Bedell, editor in chief for LinuxWorld Magazine; Bill Claybrooke, LinuxWorld.com author and industry analyst at New River Linux; Gary Hein, vice president and service director for Application Platform Strategies at the Burton Group; Sam Hiser, marketing project co-lead for OpenOffice.org; Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Linux author, consultant and trainer and LinuxWorld Magazine's Gaming Industry Editor; Robin "Roblimo" Miller, editor in chief for OSDN; Paul Nowak, CIO for the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), Brian Proffitt, managing editor for Linux Today, LinuxPlanet and JustLinux; Stacey Quandt, industry analyst at Quandt Analytics; Bill Roth, senior technical evangelist at E.phiphany; Doc Searls, senior editor for Linux Journal; Leon Shiman, president of Shiman Associates and member of the Board of Directors for X.org; John Terpstra, mentor on the Samba Project; James Turner, senior editor for LinuxWorld Magazine; Maria Winslow, open source business analyst; and John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software Institute.

Barracuda Networks Wins Best of Show at Networld + Interop Japan.

On July 20, 2004, the Barracuda Spam Firewall was awarded the prestigious "Special Prize" in the Network/Communications Security category at the 2004 Networld + Interop Tokyo's Best of Show Competition.

Each year at Networld + Interop Tokyo, over 300 exhibitors compete for the coveted "Best of Show" competition awards. There are fifteen categories. The winner of each category is selected based on votes from show attendees and judging from industry experts.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall was selected as the Best of Show Network/Communications Security category competition winner based on its superior reliability and performance.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall wins the top pick by Network Computing

Network Computing editors invited 35 vendors of spam-filtering products to evaluate on architecture, management, end-user control, security and price, among other attributes. Of the 35 vendors invited, they tested products from 27, got usable results from 23, and include the Top 10 in this review. Barracuda Networks and the Barracuda Spam Firewall won the top pick. This is what they had to say ...

"Barracuda's was one of the easiest products to get running and administer. We simply logged on to the console and ran through a wizard to set initial IP information, then connected to the device through the Web interface to fine-tune the settings for our test. We set spam and virus definitions to update automatically every hour, but this configuration can be changed to suit your needs.

Once the accuracy test was finished, we disabled our default configuration for tagging and forwarding spam, activated antivirus scanning, and set up the built-in spam quarantine to send digests to users on a daily basis. We also set the spam-scoring thresholds to tag possible spam, quarantine likely spam, and delete definite spam. This took all of three minutes and didn't require a peek at the manual or a call to tech support.

Our tests convinced us that you don't even need an IT department to manage the Barracuda Spam Firewall. Barracuda's sales are mainly to SMBs because of low cost and ease of use, but Spam Firewall is also a favorite of large ISPs and higher education users because it is licensed per box rather than per user.

Spam Firewall has a feature called the Exchange Accelerator; this is an LDAP lookup that will work with any LDAP server. The Accelerator protects your mail server from dictionary attacks by using an LDAP query to check that the recipient of a new message has a mailbox on the mail server. If the LDAP query doesn't return a result, the appliance generates an NDR (nondelivery report) and returns the mail to the sender without wasting cycles on your mail server.

We easily set our own blacklists and whitelists. Also, when we deleted an entry from our spam digest, that message was used to train the Bayesian database to help increase accuracy. Barracuda told us that the product's next release, which should be available by the time you read this, will include user-settable quarantine thresholds."

Barracuda Spam Firewall Receives Well-Connected Awards Honor: "Best Spam Prevention Solution"

Networld + Interop, Las Vegas, NV, May 11, 2004 - Barracuda Networks, the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions, today announced that the Barracuda Spam Firewall 300 has been awarded "Best Spam Prevention Solution" in the 10th Annual Network Computing 2004 Well-Connected Awards Competition. This was the first year that spam solutions have been considered as a separate awards sub-category by the publication.

"The Well-Connected Awards are well respected in the high-tech and networking industries, and we are especially honored to receive the first Well-Connected Award presented to a spam solutions vendor," said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. "We recognize that the spam solutions market is crowded, so to receive this honor by such an esteemed publication demonstrates that we are the price and performance leader."

Held annually by CMP Media LLC's Network Computing, the leading magazine for IT and networking professionals, the Well-Connected Awards recognize outstanding technology products and services and represent the very best products and services the technology industry has to offer in networking. Finalists and winners are chosen by the publication's technology editors, based on products that have been tested and evaluated in their real-world labs. The awards are only for products that have been through analysis and testing by Network Computing in the previous year from May 2003 to May 2004. The Well-Connected Award results will be listed in the May 13 issue of the magazine.

"The Well-Connected Awards are the only industry awards given by technologists based on real-world product testing and evaluation. We view all products, technologies and services from the same perspective as our readers - our peers - do," said Fritz Nelson, vice president and group publisher of Network Computing Enterprise Architecture Group. "This is an important distinction from any other award program - the products selected in the Well-Connected Awards are unique because they have been tested over an enterprise by our editors themselves. They are truly innovative solutions that work."

Barracuda Spam Firewall A Finalist In The World's Leading Information Security Awards Program

Cupertino, Calif., March 22, 2004 - Barracuda Networks, the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions, today announced that the Barracuda Spam Firewall has been selected as a finalist in the Reader's Trust Anti-Spam category for the SC Magazine Global Awards 2004. Barracuda Networks was voted on by SC Magazine readers, which consist of IT executives and decision-makers at leading companies worldwide. The winner will be announced April 27 at a Gala Awards dinner to be held on the first evening of the Infosecurity Europe show in London.

Held annually by SC Magazine, the leading global magazine covering computer security, the Global Awards recognize those companies, products and services that the information security community has determined to be leaders in the field. With over 900 nominations in the SC Magazine Global Awards 2004 and over 300 individual companies participating, this is the world's leading awards program for the information security industry.

"The Barracuda Spam Firewall provides the strongest spam blocking and virus protection available at a price that is fair for the entire range of businesses," said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. "This recognition further proves that Barracuda Networks is a force to be reckoned with in the fight against spam and viruses."