Advances in social networking like Facebook, Web applications like Twitter, and commerce sites like Craigslist and eBay present new security challenges to protect users from where they are going, what they are downloading and from anyone malicious or fraudulent with whom they are interacting online. Traditional anti-virus, Web Filtering and networking solutions can’t keep up. Barracuda Networks brings safety and trust back to these platforms.
The Barracuda Web Filtering Service, a cloud-based secure Web gateway, protects users from malware, phishing, identity theft, and other harmful activity online – in effect, providing a pure wire to the Internet. The service sits between a company’s network and the Internet to protect the company’s users as they conduct business-critical activities on the Web.

Specifically, it:
• Inspects outbound Web traffic for safety and compliance
• Analyzes Web site response traffic for malicious programs and untrustworthy users
• Provides global visibility through comprehensive and flexible reporting to the user level
• Protects users accessing the Web in the workplace, on laptops and via mobile devices

Easy to Use

The Barracuda Web Filtering Service offers a very clean and well organized policy and reporting interface that is easy to use. From the dashboard, administrators can view a consistent hyperlinked drill down into three levels of increasingly more granular data. The service simply organizes group-and user-based policies to ensure they are enforced.

Simple to deploy

The Barracuda Web Filtering Service offers a flexible range of easy deployment options. The service is designed to fit any deployment scenario for organizations of all sizes. The deployment options range from simply pointing your browsers to the cloud-based service to on site appliances deeply integrated into your directory services.

Advanced malware protection

The Barracuda Web Filtering Service combines multiple layers of threat protection to combat the most sophisticated Web attacks. The layers incorporate anti-virus signatures and object-based malware with advanced AJAX-aware analysis to detect malicious Web applications and script-based attacks. Additionally, the service uses HTTP HTTP-focused behavior analysis and intrusion detection to identify and block botnet communication, spyware and rogue AV.

Real-time consolidated reporting

The cloud-based service allows you to access reporting anytime, anywhere – across multiple locations, devices and users. The real-time consolidated reporting offers a wealth of security, compliance and usage information that can be scheduled or accessed in real time. Data storage is included for one year, with options for longer-term storage.

Features And Benefits

The Web is an integrated mix of interesting technologies that open the door to numerous security threats. The same things we get excited about happening on the Web are the very same things leaving a gaping hole in enterprise security. The Web is a serious threat to Internet users and corporate networks, and traditional URL filters can’t keep up.
Barracuda Networks helps you balance the need to protect sensitive information, enable access to dynamic Web 2.0 functionality, and control bandwidth. With the Barracuda Web Filtering Service, there is no equipment to maintain and pricing is easy and predictable. The service integrates multiple layers of advanced threat protection and compliance functionality to provide real-time defenses against a quickly evolving threat landscape.

Advanced Real-Time Threat Protection

The Barracuda Web Filtering Service combines sophisticated layers of threat protection:
• Anti-virus signatures, updated hourly, to provide a rapid response to new known security threats
• Object-based malware detection using string scanning and advanced heuristic technology to block unknown Web-based viruses and spyware
• AJAX-aware analysis detects malicious Web applications and script-based attacks
• HTTP-focused behavior analysis and intrusion detection identify and block botnet communication, spyware and rogue AV

Easy Administration, Flexible Deployment

The Barracuda Web Filtering Service offers flexible deployment options to protect users online, no matter where they are or how they access the Web. Deployment options range from simply configuring a Web browser to more advanced directory integration and transparent intercepting proxy configurations. As a cloud-based solution, the Barracuda Web Filtering Service is perfect for distributed locations, to centrally control and manage security and acceptable use policies from a single location with consolidated reporting across multiple locations, devices and users.

Comprehensive Compliance Enforcement and Reporting

The service enforces compliance across your organization, with centralized control of Web usage and global visibility of truly real-time, consolidated reporting. Our URL database is enhanced with real-time reputation scoring and content analysis. Several different levels of content filtering happen based on file types, content types and Web response content to provide a layer of data leak prevention to stop sensitive information from leaving your organization via Web traffic. The service also provides application and bandwidth control to manage access to various Web applications, including non-browser based Web applications such as instant messaging, VoIP, P2P file sharing and streaming media applications.

Protect Remote and Roaming Employees

Employees are just as likely to browse the Web from their laptop in a hotel, coffee shop or home as they are in the workplace. Existing Web security solutions require VPNs and bandwidth-hungry backhauling for some partial protection. The Barracuda Web Security Agent eliminates the burdens that current Web security solutions require and takes the performance and functionality of the Barracuda Web Filtering Service beyond the corporate perimeter. The Barracuda Web Security Agent enforces Web traffic through the Barracuda Web Filtering service for policy enforcement and security protection, and is tamper-resistant to prevent user bypass or reconfigure. Enterprises have an option for silent install and support for user- and group-based policies.