Barracuda Networks Offers Free Access to Industry's Most Comprehensive Real-Time Block List.Barracuda barracuda, slender, elongated fish of tropical seas. Barracudas have long snouts and projecting lower jaws armed with large, sharp-edged teeth. They are ferocious, striking at anything that gleams, and are considered excellent game fishes. Reputation Block List (BRBL BRBL Beinecke Rare Book Library (Yale University) BRBL Brewer's Blackbird (bird species Euphagus cyanocephalus) ) Now Available to Email Administrators for Widespread Protection Against Latest Spam, Viruses and Other Email Threats CAMPBELL, Calif. -- Barracuda Networks Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a privately held company providing firewall products to block e-mail spam, viruses, spyware, load balancing and instant messaging software. Barracuda Networks was established in 2002[1] Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, today announced it is making the Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL) available to email administrators as a free service. Designed to be the most comprehensive database of IP addresses that have been identified as sources of spam and other email threats, the BRBL is derived from the Barracuda Reputation System and is generated automatically from Barracuda Networks' expansive spam data collection. The Barracuda Reputation System is a compilation of the most sophisticated IP analysis techniques and is one of 12 defense layers included in the Barracuda Spam Firewall. "As the worldwide leading provider of email and content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. appliances, Barracuda Networks has access to the largest corpus of email and threat data," said Dean Drako, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Barracuda Networks. "This gives us a broad view of the threat landscape and enables us to provide protections to our customers before outbreaks occur. We are pleased to make some of Barracuda Networks' spam fighting expertise available to the public in an effort to further our mission of reducing the volume of spam and other email threats worldwide." How IP Addresses Are Classified Most IP addresses on the BRBL are listed as a result of directly sending spam or viruses to the Barracuda Reputation System's detectors. The Barracuda Reputation System detects spam using honeypots - special addresses created to receive only spam and do not belong to any real user - and through analysis of captive spyware protocol activity. The BRBL can receive queries in real-time from registered email servers throughout the Internet using standard DNSBL (DNS BlackList or DNS Blackhole List) A system for identifying spammers based on their IP addresses. Most mail servers are able to query a DNSBL to determine if a specific IP address is on the list. communications protocols. Using the BRBL responses, email administrators can configure their email systems to identify, tag, score or block incoming connections from IP addresses which have been involved in spam campaigns. "Barracuda Central, our security center which monitors the Internet for the latest email and Web threats on a 24-by-7 basis, captures data from two billion spam messages on average per day," said Drako. "From this diverse set of data we are able to identify some of the most egregious spam activity and very quickly take action to make sure that the spammer's IP address is blocked. By opening the BRBL to the public, organizations across the globe will be able to quickly identify spam operations at the connection layer and stop spam in its tracks." For more information on the BRBL and to register for access, please visit www.barracudacentral.org. About Barracuda Central Barracuda Central is the 24x7 security center operated by Barracuda Networks to monitor and block the latest Internet threats. Data collected at Barracuda Central is analyzed and used to create definitions for automatic Energize en·er·gize v. en·er·gized, en·er·giz·ing, en·er·giz·es v.tr. 1. To give energy to; activate or invigorate: "His childhood Updates that fuel the Barracuda Networks products. BarracudaCentral.org is dedicated to providing technical insight for security professionals. By sharing data, BarracudaCentral.org aims to build a strong community to collectively fight the latest Internet threats. About Barracuda Networks Inc. Barracuda Networks Inc. is the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances. Barracuda Networks also provides world-class IM protection, application server load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , Web application security, and message archiving See e-mail archiving. appliances. Coca-Cola, FedEx, Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , L'Oreal, and Europcar, are amongst the 70,000 organizations protecting their networks with Barracuda Networks' solutions. Barracuda Networks' success is due to its ability to deliver easy to use, comprehensive solutions that solve the most serious issues facing customer networks without unnecessary add-ons, maintenance, lengthy installations or per user license fees. Barracuda Networks is privately held with its headquarters in Campbell, Calif. Barracuda Networks has offices in eight international locations and distributors in more than 80 countries worldwide. For more information, please visit www.barracuda.com. |
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