modus™ Competitive Grid

Compare Vircom's modus™-based Email Security products

See how modus™ technology stands out from the competition in this 2009 Comparison Guide.


Vircom Barracuda Networks GFI Cisco
Product name modusGate™,
modusGate™ Appliance (m150, mBlade™)		 Barracuda Spam Firewall GFI Mail Security + Mail Essentials IronPort C-Series (C160, C360, C660)
Type of solution
Appliance  
Software    
Virtual Machine (VM)      
Installation
No software installation  
Self installation with Quick Start Guide    
Professional Services installation for custom deployments      


Vircom Barracuda Networks GFI Cisco
Product name modusGate™
modusGate™ Appliance (m150, mBlade™)		 Barracuda Spam Firewall GFI Mail Security + Mail Essentials IronPort C-Series (C160, C360, C660)
Administration
Reports
Details
  • System Status (Hardware)
  • System activity (connections, queues and status of services)
  • Performance Profile
  • System Info (version & update information for modusGate, SCA™, OS and virus definitions)
  • Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly Statistics
  • Mail Filter Statistics (Threats Breakdown, Virus, Phishing, Spam, In/Out email trends and threats detection and more)
  • Security/Recipient/Disk Usage Statistics
  • Hourly/Daily Mail Statistics
  • Performance Statistics
  • System activity (connections, queues and status of services)
  • Inbound Email Statistics (Blocked, Virus, Quarantined)
  • Viruses blocked
  • Inbound email traffic
  • Outbound email traffic
  • Total inbound and outbound email traffic
  • Processed emails
  • Blocked emails
  • In/Out Mail Trends
  • In/Out Threat Detection
Spam filtering training Automatic updates Training required Training required Automatic updates


Vircom Barracuda Networks GFI Cisco
Product name modusGate™
modusGate™ Appliance (m150, mBlade™)		 Barracuda Spam Firewall GFI Mail Security + Mail Essentials IronPort C-Series (C160, C360, C660)
Filtering features
Advanced proprietary spam filtering      
Standard spam filtering  
Details Advanced proprietary SCA™ (Sequential Content Analyzer) scan engine and Bayesian Filtering Standard Bayesian Filtering Standard Bayesian Filtering Proprietary SenderBase system plus Bayesian filtering
Anti-Virus engines McAfee, Norman Open Source and Proprietary engines Norman, BitDefender, McAfee, Kaspersky, AVG Sophos
Image spam Proprietary OCR and fingerprint analysis No Proprietary
Advanced spam blocking
  • Real Time Blacklists
  • Spoofing
  • Phishing
  • SPF
  • Reverse DNS Lookup
  • Anti-Virus
  • Blacklisting
  • Whitelisting
  • Block Scan Attack
  • SMTP Authentication

  • Spoofing
  • Phishing
  • Anti-Virus

  • SPF
  • Whitelisting
  • Custom Blacklisting
  • DNS Blacklisting
  • Bayesian Header Checking
  • Keyword checking
  • New senders

  • Adaptive scanning uses multiple criteria.


Vircom Barracuda Networks GFI Cisco
Product name modusGate™
modusGate™ Appliance (m150, mBlade™)		 Barracuda Spam Firewall GFI Mail Security + Mail Essentials IronPort C-Series (C160, C360, C660)
Other features
DOS (Denial of service)  
Outbound message filtering
Email encryption  
Outbound email auto-whitelisting  
Supports foreign language spam
Identifies directory harvesting
BATV (Bounce Address Tag Validation)    
DKIM (Domain Key Identified Mail)  
Built in Scripting Language (Sieve)      
Notes and comments Appliances may be clustered for greater capacity. Enterprise-class solution mBlade™ also available with processing power of up to 17 million messages per day. Appliances can be clustered for greater capacity, entry level appliances support up to 500 active users and high-end model supports up to 30,000 users. Straightforward entrylevel solution that is extensible to allow for some growth. Enterprise-level appliance based solution. Offers performance of more than 1 million messages per hour.

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