Network Security & Firewalls

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall | The first cloud-generation firewall

More and more companies all over the world adopt and integrate public cloud offerings into their network. But "before you can work in the cloud, you have to get to cloud" has never been more true than today.

Shifting workloads to cloud based services, regardless if Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) exposed a different set of requirements WAN edge and network security devices today need to address: Optimizing connectivity for business critical applications, enforcing higher security levels than ever and reducing cost by moving away from expensive MPLS lines.

Because traditional WAN edge and security products did not adapt to these new challenges, a new set of solutions enabling cost efficient connectivity across the cloud-enabled WAN has emerged: SD-WAN.

However, SD-WAN typically does not address securityrelated aspects. It is considered more like a connectivity solution that works besides the security solution - at best. Just like different species.

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is the first to combine full next-generation security with the connectivity optimization and cost savings potentials of a full SD-WAN solution onto one single easy to manage hardware, virtual or cloud based appliance. CloudGen Firewall improves site-to-site connectivity and enable uninterrupted access to applications hosted in the cloud all while simplifying the administration of network operations for enterprises and managed services providers.

CloudGen Firewall achieves this by tightly integrating a comprehensive set of next-generation firewall technologies, including layer 7 application profiling, intrusion prevention, web filtering, advanced threat and malware protection, spam protection, and network access control. Yet on top of these cutting-edge next-generation firewall capabilities, CloudGen Firewall's highly resilient VPN technology combined with intelligent traffic management and WAN compression capabilities allow customers to save line costs and increase overall network availability.

All pieces of the solution are centrally manageable across all platforms and release versions, reducing ongoing administrative overhead and ensuring policy compliance and enforcement across the wide area network.

The first cloud-generation firewall

More and more companies all over the world adopt and integrate public cloud offerings into their network. But "before you can work in the cloud, you have to get to cloud" has never been more true than today.

Shifting workloads to cloud based services, regardless if Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) exposed a different set of requirements WAN edge and network security devices today need to address: Optimizing connectivity for business critical applications, enforcing higher security levels than ever and reducing cost by moving away from expensive MPLS lines.

Because traditional WAN edge and security products did not adapt to these new challenges, a new set of solutions enabling cost efficient connectivity across the cloud-enabled WAN has emerged: SD-WAN.

However, SD-WAN typically does not address securityrelated aspects. It is considered more like a connectivity solution that works besides the security solution - at best. Just like different species.

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is the first to combine full next-generation security with the connectivity optimization and cost savings potentials of a full SD-WAN solution onto one single easy to manage hardware, virtual or cloud based appliance. CloudGen Firewall improves site-to-site connectivity and enable uninterrupted access to applications hosted in the cloud all while simplifying the administration of network operations for enterprises and managed services providers.

CloudGen Firewall achieves this by tightly integrating a comprehensive set of next-generation firewall technologies, including layer 7 application profiling, intrusion prevention, web filtering, advanced threat and malware protection, spam protection, and network access control. Yet on top of these cutting-edge next-generation firewall capabilities, CloudGen Firewall's highly resilient VPN technology combined with intelligent traffic management and WAN compression capabilities allow customers to save line costs and increase overall network availability.

All pieces of the solution are centrally manageable across all platforms and release versions, reducing ongoing administrative overhead and ensuring policy compliance and enforcement across the wide area network.

Benefits at a glance

Consolidated security without compromise: All CloudGen Firewall models and deployment options provide comprehensive next-generation firewalling including application control and user awareness, full mail & web security gateway functionality, malware protection, botnet and spyware detection, typosquatting & link protection, sandboxing (Advanced Threat Protection), URL filter, and file type policy enforcement. All this combined with unbeatable network security and packed into a single, powerful appliance. The tight integration of web security and network security features enables advanced functionalities, such as prioritizing certain application traffic based on user/group info and time information, and allowing certain applications to go out via predefined uplinks only

Cloud ready: The ongoing shift of IT workloads to cloud services in order to increase flexibility and reduce costs requires a reliable, cost-effective extension of the company WAN to the cloud. This applies to headquarters as well as direct Internet breakouts at every branch location. CloudGen Firewall models come fully featured for all common cloud IaaS providers, as virtual appliances, and in a variety of hardware appliances for even small offices. Hybrid WAN and cloud-only networks can thereby also benefit from CloudGen Firewall.

Securing the industrial internet of things

Properly managing enterprise networks is critical to key business operations as more businesses adopt industrial internet of things (IIoT). As these networks grow larger and more complex, it's important to implement robust security and performance of endpoint devices. Barracuda Secure Connector appliances are an essential tool for optimizing the performance, security and availability of IIoT deployments.

Securing the industrial internet of things

Barracuda Secure Connector appliances are designed and built from the ground up to provide comprehensive, nextgeneration security while being simple to deploy and maintain, and highly scalable. Need to connect micro-offices, point of sales and machine-to-machine business? With Secure Connector you're all set.

Easy to setup and maintain: Secure Connector

The Secure Connector is a hardware appliance purpose-built to be an on premises connectivity device that ensures high-performance and tamper-proof VPN connections to protect the data flow and, thus, guarantee data continuity.

Next-generation security and connectivity enforcement

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall acts as the connectivity and security enforcement hub for the data stream. CloudGen Firewall provides full next-generation firewall functionality and can be run on VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, or KVM environments as well as directly in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform.

Grows with your needs

Integration within the Barracuda Firewall Control Center architecture ensures that your deployment can grow with your needs without technical or financial trapdoors.

The template-based configuration in combination with zero-touch deployment ensures easy rollout of additional devices and maintain compliance without the need of trained IT personnel on the ground.

About Barracuda Web Application Firewall

The Barracuda Web Application Firewall blocks an ever-expanding list of sophisticated web-based intrusions and attacks that target the applications hosted on web servers and the sensitive or confidential data to which they have access. Placed between the Internet and web servers, the Barracuda Web Application Firewall scans all inbound web traffic to block attacks and scans outbound traffic, providing highly effective data loss prevention.

The Barracuda Web Application Firewall simplifies application security so you can focus on your business. Its comprehensive feature set, versatile deployment options, and ease of use lets you automate many application security tasks, whether your web infrastructure lives onsite, in a virtualized environment, or in the cloud.