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Washington State University Successfully Deploys Barracuda Spam Firewall 600
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2004-08-25
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University Selects Award-Winning Spam Solution to Help Reclaim Control of Email for Students, Staff and Faculty.
Barracuda Networks today announced that Washington State University successfully deployed the Barracuda Spam Firewall 600 and as a result has regained control of its email network for more than 25,000 students, staff, and faculty users across all four WSU campuses.
WSU's search for a spam and virus solution came shortly after its Advisory Committee on Computing and Telecommunications subcommittee for Computer and Network Security (UACCT-CNS) released a report in February 2004 that forecast that as much as 50 percent of incoming email to the network was spam. Additionally the University was hit by several spam harboring virus attacks that brought the University's mail systems to a grinding halt.
WSU needed a solid, scalable solution in order to effectively defend the more than 150,000 email addresses served by the network's mail aliasing system. Following full deployment of the Barracuda Spam Firewall solution, WSU experienced an immediate drastic decrease in the amount of spam entering the network.
"Spam costs the sender very little to send and the university has a variety of easily accessible directories, so we have been a prime target for spam," said Julio Valdes, WSU enterprise administrator. "Barracuda Networks had the right combination of device features, personal support and price, all of which were driving factors behind our choice. We looked at many solutions, but ultimately the Barracuda Spam Firewall delivered the most capable spam and virus solution at a price that was not going to exhaust our budget."
With no per user licensing fees, the Barracuda Spam Firewall family of solutions is the most cost effective solution available today. This pricing model is crucial to educational institutions, such as WSU, that often operate on limited IT budgets.
"Organizations are quickly learning that while spam and viruses are an expensive threat to their networks, fighting these attacks does not have to be," said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. "WSU turned to us to get a highly robust and scalable solution that is fairly priced and that sidesteps all of the management and configuration roadblocks that typically come with software or outsourced solutions."
The Barracuda Spam Firewall 600 supports 25,000 active users and blocks up to 25 million messages per day. It features RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), a high reliability design and applications programming interfaces for automating configuration.
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