The Barracuda NG Firewall and Barracuda NG Control Center are engineered to deliver enterprise-level network security gateway services at multiple locations. Available as a family of hardware and virtual appliances, the Barracuda NG Firewall leverages application visibility and user awareness to provide multilayered network and content security, optimize LAN and WAN performance and connectivity, and manage traffic and bandwidth intelligently.

Centralized management of multiple units through the intuitive Barracuda NG Control Center makes the Barracuda NG Firewall uniquely easy for enterprises to deploy, configure, and manage using minimal staff resources. And its simple, affordable pricing structure, with no per-user or per-feature license fees, delivers bottom-line benefits both up front and over the long term.

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Security for Dynamic Networks

The simultaneous explosions of remote users, new mobile devices, and evasive Web 2.0 applications have made today's networks more dynamic and amorphous. The Barracuda NG Firewall applies consistent and reliable security across networks whose boundaries are in flux, and which are exposed to novel threat vectors.

Secure the Network Edge The Barracuda NG Firewall detects and prevents network intrusions with the help of vast, up-to-date signature libraries. The Barracuda Labs threat research organization gathers real-time information from more than 150,000 customer sites, and uses it to create and distribute hourly updates to ensure networks are defended against the very latest threats.

Secure the Extended Network With the majority of network attacks now arriving via http traffic, Layer 7 application-aware web content filtering protects network assets and users from malicious online applications and websites, evasive Web 2.0-based attacks, SQL injections, and other web-borne malware or intrusions.

Secure Mobile Devices and Remote Users Barracuda Secure Browser and Web Security Agent apply content security and enforce access policies on mobile devices and remote laptops, even off the network. And built-in VPN capabilities—both SSL and IPsec—ensure secure remote access to network resources without complex client configurations.

Intelligent Traffic Management

The rapid growth of network traffic caused by mobile devices, online apps, social networking, and streaming media can strain networks’ bandwidth capacity, leading to degraded performance of business-critical applications and possible business disruptions. The Barracuda NG Firewall leverages application awareness to enable advanced, intelligent traffic-shaping and bandwidth management capabilities, to extend and preserve infrastructure capacity without major capital investment.

Link Aggregation and Failover Barracuda NG Firewall is able to transparently aggregate multiple Internet links of varying speeds—MPLS, T1, DSL, Cable, 3G—in order to eliminate the need for costly high-speed backup links. In case a link fails, automatic failover to remaining links means no business disruption. With the optional 3G modem installed, connectivity is retained even if a disaster cuts all the wired connections.

Dynamic Traffic Prioritization To ensure critical applications perform consistently, Barracuda NG Firewall allows users to define prioritization rules based on application, load, capacity, and more. For example, SAP and VoIP can get priority on MPLS lines, while email is routed to a T1 or DSL link. And if a link fails, automatic failover triggers the activation of new prioritization rules based on the remaining links.

Web Traffic Regulation The ability to create and enforce granular access policies—defined by application or feature, user or group ID, time, protocol, and other criteria—makes it easy to control bandwidth use while enabling productive use of web-based resources. Block inappropriate apps and content (e.g. adult sites), throttle inoffensive time-wasters (e.g. Facebook games), and allow access to business-related applications (e.g. corporate Facebook page).

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Centralized Management

The Barracuda NG Control Center is a separate appliance that provides a simple and intuitive management interface that centralizes control of multiple units in dispersed networks. With support for roles-based administration, it makes it easy to configure, manage, and instantly update many Barracuda NG Firewalls from a single location. Unlike some centralized management solutions, the Barracuda NG Control Center goes beyond firewall rules, letting you also configure network routing, VPN policies, user access policies, template-based configuration updates, and more—all from a single location, propagated throughout the network with just one click.