Re: SPAM/spyware appliances or services

["Flagg, Martin D." <FlaggMD () HIRAM EDU>]

Barracuda we love it, a lot of Bang for the Bucket, pardon the cliché. 


Martin D. Flagg
Network Engineer/Administrator
Hiram College
PH:  330-569-5376
FAX: 330-569-5462
email: flaggmd () hiram edu
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If you lend someone $20, 
and never see that person again,
it was probably worth it.


 


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Fretz, 
Kerry
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:03 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] SPAM/spyware appliances or services

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-----
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.

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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?
>
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>
>    ------------------------------------------------------------
>    Gary Dobbins, CISSP -- Director, Information Security
>    University of Notre Dame, Office of Information Technologies
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