[IMGate] Re: CNET: A shifting landscape for e-mail security
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:17 -0600, Len Conrad wrote: A shifting landscape for e-mail security By Joris Evers http://news.com.com/A+shifting+landscape+for+e-mail+security/2100-7350_3-6147760.htmlhttp://news.com.com/A+shifting+landscape+for+e-mail+security/2100-7350_3-6147760.html Great article S Companies such as http://www.proofpoint.com/Proofpoint and http://www.barracudanetworks.com/Barracuda Networks could be acquisition targets, Christy said. Anyone in this space who is not public would like to be acquired, he said. The number of companies active in the space has decreased from about 150 in 2003 to about 75 now, said Dean Drako, CEO of Mountain View, Calif.-based Barracuda Networks, a venture-backed maker of antispam appliances. Yet Drako believes the market won't consolidate at the pace that pundits have proclaimed. For what it's worth I have been using the barracuda box, along with a couple of Imgates, it's a nice robust GUI interface alternative to Imgate but still has shortcomings, reports, hardware expense etc. -- Andrew P. Kaplan www.cshore.com The world says that time is money, I say that time is life -- The Rebbe
[IMGate] Re: CNET: A shifting landscape for e-mail security
For what it's worth I have been using the barracuda box, along with a couple of Imgates, it's a nice robust GUI interface alternative to Imgate but still has shortcomings, reports, hardware expense etc. In the same way IMGate has succeeded so well the MX front-end for in tandem with Imai/declude/sniffer/AV, IMGate also fronts ANY content scannner, like Barracud, and allows the purchase/subscription of much smaller barracuda than if the Barracuda had to handle then entire volume by itself. IIRC, a Barracuda 800's first year purchase+subscripton is $25K. Len
[IMGate] Re: CNET: A shifting landscape for e-mail security
Agreed in the old days a person would build a Imgate box to offload the work of their expensive windoze box. Now they can use an Imgate box to save thousands of dollars and put it infront of a cudda 400 (cost $4,000) instead of buying a 600 ($9000). That leaves lots of money to give to Len for the postfix/bsd challenged. You would only need to run a few RBL's and one filter 12230 RBL korea.services.net 23873 RBL list.dsbl.org 32005 ACL unauthorized relay 205831 ACL to_recipients_dead 298095 TOTAL Advanced IMGates slices the traffic into restrictions classes where more aggressive but safe filtering can be applied. Len
