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Press ReleaseSalvation Army Wages War on SpamInternational charity installs Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall to block unwanted Spam e-mail on its Lotus Notes Servers London, England - 20th August 2004 The Salvation Army has installed Barracuda Spam Firewalls from Computer Communications Limited (CCL) to solve its spam and virus problems in a move that has already saved money. The international charity ditched Surfcontrol at the end of June in favour of the Barracuda solution, with a total project cost of less than an upgrade to its previous system.
The Barracuda Spam Firewalls, installed at The Salvation Army's London IT centre, filter email for the organisation's 35,000 Lotus Notes Users, worldwide. The system is so efficient that a single appliance is currently handling the load, with ease, whilst the second and third appliances provide load sharing and fail-over redundancy. The total cost of the three units was less than the annual maintenance cost of the previous solution.
CCL, www.ccl.co.uk based in Romsey, Hampshire, supplied the Barracuda appliances, which use ten different techniques to filter spam and viruses, including advanced Bayesian analysis to spot patterns as well as keywords. In addition, the system can learn from users who reject email as spam. The Salvation Army reports that in the first month there have been no "false positive" blocks - nothing is being stopped that shouldn't be.
"Content control is critical to our organisation," commented Mark Calleran, Head of IT Worldwide at The Salvation Army. "More than most, we need to protect our users from inappropriate and offensive content, as over a quarter of our employees are ordained ministers of the Church."
"The experience has been excellent," added Calleran. "CCL has been very responsive. The product is incredibly powerful and yet simple. And we have slashed the cost of Spam and virus filtering, which is very important to us as a charity."
The Barracuda appliance is a dedicated SMTP e-mail filter, and very easy to deploy, says Calleran. "It only took five minutes to slot the hardware into the system rack and to configure on the primary domain."
The Barracuda Spam Firewall is an innovative hardware and software design incorporating reliability and resilience from the ground up to ensure it is always up and running. Each appliance can handle a massive amount of email, over 10 million messages a day, significantly reducing the load on e-mail servers.
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, intention analysis, spam rule-based scoring, and Bayesian analysis.
In addition, users have a part to play in spam prevention. Should any spam slip through the net, users can update the Barracuda appliance, which can either tag (as a warning) or block further emails to other users. Tagged and blocked emails are quarantined but can still be viewed by the users if they wish - a simple web browser connection to the appliance allows users to check their dubious messages.
Contacts for information: Peter Linton
Dennis Armstrong
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Computer Communications Limited, 9 Mount Temple, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 5UW