The Barracuda Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software for a complete protection of your mail server. It is a simple, powerful solution used to eliminate spam and viruses from your organization by providing protection against spam, virus, spoofing, phishing, spyware and denial of service attacks.

The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is compatible with all email servers and can fit literally any organization. SMB is used by 10 employees and large enterprises with up to 200,000 employees. A single Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall can handle up to 100,000 active users of mail. You can deploy multiple units in cluster mode for high capacity and high availability.

The Barracuda Spam and Virus protects your mail server with 12 defense layers to provide the highest levels of industry protection. The architecture optimizes the processing of each email to maximize performance processing millions of messages per day. In contrast to software solutions, the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall reduces the load on mail server functions by downloading spam and virus filtering.

Additionally, all models of the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall include basic filtering techniques for scanning outgoing attachments and virus filtering. These features help organizations to ensure that all outgoing email is legitimate and virus free.

The installation of the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is quick and simple, with no software to install and no modifications necessary in the mail server. Once installed, the system administrator uses the intuitive web interface for monitoring and maintenance. 

With Barracuda Networks Energize Updates, the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is updated hourly with the latest spam and virus definitions thus achieving a minimum of maintenance of equipment and eliminating administrative burdens. Updates are provided by Barracuda Central, the security operations center that works continuously, 7x24, monitor and block the latest Internet threats.

Additionally, the solution Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is accessible as it has no per user licensing fees.