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Founded in 1996 as the "Information Security" division of Galix Technologies, LOOPHOLD Security Distribution is a leading Value Added Distributor (VAD) of “Information Security” products for the enterprise market.

Our successful partnerships with industry leading vendors has enabled us to have early access to the latest “Information Security” technologies, thus allowing us to offer “best-of-breed” solutions to the market place in South Africa and other African countries.

All of our products are available through our extensive network of Channel Partners. These organizations have substantial “Information Security” skills on staff, and thoroughly understand our products. Where necessary, we assist our Channel Partners, by sharing with them our broad “Information Security” business and technology expertise.

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Martin Tassev
MD of Loophold
Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall targets service providers, enterprises PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 28 January 2010 09:53
LOOPHOLD Security Distribution, the local distributor of Barracuda Networks products in southern Africa, has announced the addition of new features to the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall that are targeted at larger service provider and enterprise customers. These include delegated administration for multi-tenant services, new administrative roles for help desk personnel, and enforcement of granular site-to-site email encryption policies.
Says Martin Tassev, MD of LOOPHOLD Security Distribution: "The new features allow increased customisation, simplified administration and reduces overall costs. These additional features make the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall an ideal and affordable multi-tenant solution for larger organisations that require flexibility and increased efficiency."
Delegated domain administration enables customers of service providers offering spam and virus filtering services based on Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewalls to customise their own filtering policy, deliver blocked email and run traffic reports. Individual domain administrators can also delegate responsibility to their own help desk employees to support their own user populations. By delegating administrative tasks, service providers can reduce their own help desk costs while offering more flexibility to their end customers.
Delegated domain administration is available with Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall 600 models and higher, while Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall 300 models and higher will now feature domain help desk roles.
Formerly restricted to global policy management, the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall now enables administrators to specify email encryption requirements between specified sender and recipient domains, enabling administrators to force encryption between close business partners, while allowing unencrypted communication with others.
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is available in eight models and supports up to 100,000 active users with no per user licensing fees. Its architecture leverages 12 defence layers: denial of service and security
protection, rate control, IP analysis, sender authentication, recipient verification, virus protection, policy (user-specified rules), Fingerprint Analysis, Intent Analysis, Image Analysis, Bayesian Analysis, and a Spam Rules Scoring engine. In addition, the entire Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall line features simultaneous inbound and outbound email filtering with the inclusion of sophisticated outbound email filtering techniques, such as rate controls, domain restrictions, user authentication (SASL), keyword and attachment blocking, triple-layer virus blocking, and remote user support for outbound email filtering. The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall's layered approach minimises the processing of each email, which yields the performance required to process millions of messages per day.