Barracuda Web Security and Filtering

Threat Protection

Barracuda's Threat Protection feature actively secures your organization's network against various web-based threats including viruses, spyware, ransomware, and other malicious payloads. It continuously analyzes incoming web traffic in real-time to identify and block harmful content before it reaches end-users. This proactive protection addresses the critical business challenge of maintaining network security and safeguarding sensitive data from sophisticated external threats.

Application Control

The Application Control feature empowers administrators to precisely manage application usage within the organization. Administrators can allow, restrict, or block specific applications based on organizational policies or user roles. This feature solves the problem of productivity loss due to unauthorized or non-work-related application usage and reduces security vulnerabilities introduced by unmonitored applications.

Web Gateway

The Web Gateway serves as a secure entry point for all internet traffic entering and leaving your network. By centralizing web access control and security measures, Barracuda ensures all web requests are validated against established security protocols. This resolves the challenge of inconsistent security practices across multiple access points and ensures consistent enforcement of web usage policies.

API Access Management

API Access Management provides secure control and monitoring of API interactions within your environment. It helps administrators define who can access APIs, track usage patterns, and secure API endpoints from unauthorized access or misuse. This solves the critical challenge of protecting sensitive data exposed through APIs, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and improving overall API security posture.

SSL Monitoring

SSL Monitoring inspects encrypted (HTTPS) web traffic to detect threats that would otherwise remain hidden within encrypted sessions. By decrypting, inspecting, and re-encrypting SSL traffic transparently, this feature ensures comprehensive threat detection without disrupting user experience. This effectively addresses the challenge of hidden malware or malicious content within encrypted traffic streams.

Social Media Monitoring

Barracuda’s Social Media Monitoring enables organizations to monitor and regulate employee access to social media platforms to prevent productivity loss, data leakage, and exposure to harmful content or malware embedded in social media sites. Administrators can establish clear guidelines for permissible use while automatically enforcing these rules across the organization.

Reports

The Reports feature generates detailed insights into your organization's web traffic activities, usage patterns, threat detections, policy violations, and bandwidth consumption. Easy-to-read reports provide administrators with actionable intelligence for informed decision-making about policy adjustments or resource allocation, solving the challenge of visibility into web activity trends across the enterprise.

Policy Enforcement

Policy Enforcement automates the consistent application of organizational web usage policies across all users and devices connected to your network. It ensures compliance by automatically blocking or restricting access to websites or applications that violate established guidelines, solving the challenge of inconsistent enforcement leading to potential security risks or productivity issues.

Reporting (Analytics)

Reporting (Analytics) offers robust analytical capabilities that provide deep visibility into internet usage trends, threat occurrences, compliance adherence, and bandwidth utilization through intuitive dashboards and detailed metrics. It addresses the business need for comprehensive analysis of web activity data for strategic decision-making related to IT resource management and security improvements.

Bandwidth Monitoring

Bandwidth Monitoring tracks bandwidth consumption by individual users, groups, applications, or websites in real-time. Administrators can easily identify excessive bandwidth usage patterns or sources of network congestion and take corrective actions accordingly. This resolves challenges related to network performance degradation due to unmanaged or excessive bandwidth consumption.

Deployment

Barracuda offers flexible deployment options including hardware appliances, virtual appliances, cloud-based solutions, or hybrid configurations tailored specifically for your organization's infrastructure needs. Simplified deployment procedures minimize downtime and disruption during implementation while addressing the common administrative challenge of integrating new security solutions seamlessly into existing environments.

Policy Management

Policy Management allows administrators to easily create, modify, distribute, and manage comprehensive internet usage policies from a centralized console. The intuitive interface simplifies policy adjustments according to evolving organizational requirements or regulatory compliance obligations—solving the administrative complexity associated with maintaining current security policies across a large number of users.

Monitoring

The Monitoring feature provides continuous real-time visibility into current internet traffic conditions, system performance metrics, user activities, policy violations, threats detected, and overall system health status through a centralized management dashboard. It solves the