Barracuda Email Security Gateway

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All of our shared hosting packages (both linux hosting and windows hosting) are secured by the industry-leading protection against spam, viruses and advanced malware—including zero-day ransomware and other threats provided by the Barracuda Email Security Gateway (Barracuda ESG and formerly known as Barracuda Spam Firewall).

Barracuda Comprehensive Protection

Active as a gateway cluster both incoming and outgoing e-mails are filtered with the specific additions and fine-tuning tailored at our customer’s regional and language settings.

Outbound filtering prevents data loss, and optional 96-hour email spooling in the Barracuda Cloud ensures continuity in case of email server downtime.

Comprehensive protection for the long term

The Barracuda Email Security Gateway includes spam and virus blocking, data protection, email continuity, DoS prevention, encryption, and policy management—combined to deliver a complete solution. As new requirements emerge, it is automatically updated with new capabilities to ensure continuous protection.

Barracuda Common Threat Vectors

Complete email threat protection

Barracuda Layered Threat Protection

The Barracuda Email Security Gateway provides multi-layer security, email continuity, and data leakage prevention. Advanced Threat Protection combines behavioral, heuristic, and sandboxing technologies to protect against zero hour, targeted attacks and ransomware.


Technical Specifications


Comprehensive Protection

  • Spam and virus filtering
  • Prevents spoofing, phishing, and malware
  • Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS) protection
  • Directory harvest protection
  • Outbound email filtering

DLP and Reputation Loss

  • Maintain compliance
  • Prevents reputation loss and block-listing
  • Pre-defined filters (e.g., HIPAA, credit card, and U.S. Social Security Numbers)

Advanced Policy Control

  • IP and content-based filtering
  • Bulk email categorization
  • Content encryption
  • Sender/recipient filtering
  • RBL and DNSBL support
  • Keyword blocking
  • Character-set blocking
  • Reverse DNS blocking
  • URL pattern and category blocking
  • TLS encryption policy
  • Secondary authentication

Sender Authentication

  • SPF and DomainKeys
  • Emailreg.org
  • Invalid bounce suppression

Spam Filter

  • Rate control
  • IP reputation analysis
  • Fingerprint and image analysis
  • Rules-based scoring algorithms
  • Barracuda Anti-Fraud Intelligence

Virus Filter

  • Triple-layer virus blocking
  • Integrated Exchange AV Agent
  • Decompression of archives
  • File type blocking
  • Barracuda Antivirus Supercomputing Grid
  • Advanced Threat Protection to protect against ransomware, zero hour and targeted attacks

Control Panel & Administration

  • Web-based interface
  • User account administration
  • Reports, graphs, and statistics
  • LDAP interface
  • Multiple domain support
  • Secure remote administration
  • Delegated domain administration
  • Delegated help desk role
  • Email spooling
  • Configure backup to cloud
  • User-based filtering
  • Individual spam scoring
  • Personal allow and block lists
  • End-user quarantine and digest emails
  • Outlook
  • Bayesian analysis