Re: SPAM/spyware appliances or services

["Fretz, Kerry" <fretzk () PHILAU EDU>]

We bought Barracuda over a month ago and we couldn't be happier.
Faculty and Staff have approached us and asked what we did to cut down
on the spam.  We also have the 400 series and after some tweaking, it's
been absolutely great!  Our spam totals have been hovering around 80%.

Kerry Fretz
Manager, Network & Systems
Philadelphia University


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of CAROLE CARMODY
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:58 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] SPAM/spyware appliances or services

I want to echo this message.  WE LOVE OUR BARRACUDA!  Our network admin
is ecstatic and the faculty and staff are happy.  We have the 400 series
and we do a little tweaking but don't have the staff to do much and it
is wonderful!

Carole Carmody, Ph.D.
Assoc. VP for IT
Bloomfield College
Bloomfield, NJ 07003

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Hunter, Laura E.
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] SPAM/spyware appliances or services

I'm running a Barracuda spam appliance in front of my Exchange box, and
I
love it love it love it.  It's one of the lower-end models because I'm
only
supporting a departmental email server, but I can't say enough good
things
about its performance.  Installing and configuring it took about an
hour,
and it's blocking an average of 75% of incoming mail traffic to my
server on
a given day.  There's an option for individual user whitelist/blacklist,
but
I find that the default settings have been effective enough that I
haven't
needed to deploy that feature yet.

I believe that our larger UNIX mail servers are running some flavor of
spamAssassin, which also seems to be working pretty well.

******************************************
Laura E. Hunter
Microsoft MVP: Windows Server - Networking
TSS Support-on-Site
Student Financial Services
University of Pennsylvania

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Dobbins [mailto:dobbins () ND EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:15 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] SPAM/spyware appliances or services
>
> Am curious to know who's using an appliance or an external service (as
> distinct from software running on the MTA) to aggressively
> filter spam for
> their campus.  Additionally, do any of you employ products
> which filter
> spam from email traffic as well as filter spyware from HTTP;
> who's using what?
>
> --
>
>    ------------------------------------------------------------
>    Gary Dobbins, CISSP -- Director, Information Security
>    University of Notre Dame, Office of Information Technologies
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