Competitive Grid

Compare Norman's Email Security products

See how Norman's technology stands out from the competition in this 2009 Comparison Guide.

	Norman	Barracuda Networks	GFI	Cisco
Product name	Norman Email Protection	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

	Norman	Barracuda Networks	GFI	Cisco
Product name	Norman Email Protection	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 NEP, 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

	Norman	Barracuda Networks	GFI	Cisco
Product name	Norman Email Protection	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.

	Norman	Barracuda Networks	GFI	Cisco
Product name	Norman Email Protection	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.