The Barracuda Spam Firewall delivers powerful, easy to use, and affordable enterprise-class spam and virus protection. Barracuda Networks is the worldwide leader in plug and play appliances that protect email infrastructure.

A single Barracuda Spam Firewall can handle up to 25,000 active email users and 25 million email messages per day, providing a powerful, enterprise-class solution. Multiple units can be clustered together for even greater capacity and high availability. Its architecture leverages open source virus and spam solutions in conjunction with ten defence layers:

The Barracuda Spam Firewall architecture optimises the processing of each email, thus ensuring the performance to process millions of messages per day. Unlike software solutions, the Barracuda Spam Firewall reduces the load placed on the email server by off-loading both spam and virus filtering.

With no software to install and no modifications required to existing email systems, installation is extremely easy, typically taking less than 10 minutes. Once installed, the system administrator uses an intuitive browser based graphical interface for monitoring and maintenance.