Barracuda Energize Updates provide your Barracuda Networks appliance with the protection from the latest Internet threats. Our team at Barracuda Central continuously monitors the Internet for new trends in network security threats and develops strategies to mitigate those threats. Depending on the appliance, Energize Updates include the appropriate definitions for spam, virus, content categories, spyware filter, intrusion prevention, IM protocols, policies, security updates, attacks and document formats. Updates are delivered on an hourly basis to ensure you always have the latest definitions and the most comprehensive protection.

Barracuda Energize Updates subscriptions must be purchased with any Barracuda Networks appliance to provide complete protection from the latest Internet threats. Energize Updates subscriptions also provide:

- Basic Support which includes email support 24x7 and phone support between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm Monday through Friday in the USA (Pacific time zone), Japan time zone, China time zone, and United Kingdom time zone. Note that Barracuda Technical Support will take and respond to support calls 24x7 from Basic Support customers when we are not servicing other customers.
- Firmware Maintenance which includes new firmware updates with feature enhancements and bug fixes as they are made available.
- Security Updates to patch or repair any security vulnerabilities.
- Optional participation in the Barracuda Early Release Firmware program.

Features:

To provide you with maximum protection against spam, spyware, and viruses Barracuda Networks maintains Barracuda Central, a powerful operations center. Our engineers at Barracuda Central work day and night to continuously monitor the Internet for new trends and develop new ways to counteract any new threats. By spotting these types of trends early on, the team at Barracuda Central can then quickly develop new and improved detection and blocking techniques.

The new spam-blocking updates, spyware protection updates, and virus definitions are automatically updated to your Barracuda Networks' product through the Barracuda Energize Updates.

Barracuda Central employs a number of techniques to make sure that your Barracuda Networks' product is fighting the right threat the right way. We use many of our own techniques and our own tracking systems, but we also use public efforts. We verify all of our solutions and ensure that they meet Barracuda standards. You can depend on the Barracuda Networks' Spam Firewall and the Barracuda Web Filter to provide reliable, comprehensive spam, spyware, and virus protection.

Spam Updates

Using a variety of technologies, the team at Barracuda Central monitors the Internet for the latest spam methods. With this information, engineers quickly create appropriate spam-blocking techniques that are tested for effectiveness and reliability. These new techniques are then delivered to all Barracuda Spam Firewalls throughout the world.
In addition the team at Barracuda Central updates its list of known spammers and uses that list to further ensure that you have full spam protection.
All spam-blocking updates, including new spam-blocking techniques and new lists of known spammers, are provided to Barracuda Spam Firewall customers through the Barracuda Energize Updates subscription service. Updates are automatically and securely loaded into your Barracuda Spam Firewall. No intervention is required.

Spyware Updates

The team at Barracuda Central continuously monitors the Internet for the latest spyware threats. Once a new spyware threat is discovered, engineers quickly create appropriate detection and blocking techniques that are tested for effectiveness and reliability.
All spyware updates, including new spyware detection and blocking techniques as well as new lists of known spyware Web sites, are provided to Barracuda Web Filter customers through the Barracuda Energize Updates subscription service. Updates are automatically and securely loaded into your Barracuda Web Filter.

Virus Updates

The team at Barracuda Central not only monitors the Internet for spam attacks they also monitor for new viruses. With each new virus, the Barracuda Central team creates a new virus definition so the Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda Web Filter can identify the virus and block it from reaching your Network.
Virus definitions are constantly being updated to Barracuda Spam Firewall, Barracuda Web Filter, and Barracuda IM Firewall customers through the Barracuda Energize Updates subscription service. Updates are automatically and securely loaded into the Barracuda products.

Content Filter Category Updates

Barracuda Firewall products include comprehensive Web site categories for filtering non-productive and offensive websites. These categories classify millions of Web sites. Updates to theses categories and Web sites are provided hourly via the Barracuda Energize Subscription service.