Re: SPAM/spyware appliances or services

[CAROLE CARMODY <Carole_Carmody () BLOOMFIELD EDU>]

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-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Hunter, Laura E.
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:21 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
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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