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Barracuda Networks
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is a complete, easy-to-use email security solution that deploys in minutes and works with the existing email infrastructure to offload spam and virus scanning from the email server. Also counters spoofing, phishing, and denial of service (DoS) attacks.
The Barracuda Web Filter is an integrated content filtering, application blocking and malware protection solution that is powerful, easy to use and affordable for businesses of all sizes. It enforces Internet usage policies by blocking access to Web sites and Internet applications that are not related to business, and it easily and completely eliminates spyware and other forms of malware from your organization. No more productivity loss trying to repair computers or make computers usable again.
The Barracuda Message Archiver is a complete and affordable email archiving solution, enabling you to effectively index and preserve all emails, enhance operational efficiencies and enforce policies for regulatory compliance. By leveraging standard policies and seamless access to messages, email content is fully indexed and backed up to enable administrators, auditors and end users quick retrieval of any email message stored in an organization’s email archive.
The Barracuda Web Application Firewall is a complete and powerful security solution for Web applications and Web sites. The Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides award-winning protection against hackers leveraging protocol or application vulnerabilities to instigate data theft, denial of service or defacement of your Web site. Also offers load balancing and SSL offloading and acceleration.
The Barracuda SSL VPN is an integrated hardware and software solution enabling secure, clientless remote access to internal network resources from any Web browser. Designed for remote employees and road warriors, the Barracuda SSL VPN provides comprehensive control over file systems and Web-based applications requiring external access. The Barracuda SSL VPN integrates with third-party authentication mechanisms to control user access levels and provides single sign-on. Supports LDAP and RSA SecurID.
The Barracuda IM Firewall is an all-in-one instant messaging solution for archiving, filtering content, and managing policies to ensure secure and encrypted IM communications, and complying with industry and government regulations. The IM Firewall also checks for viruses and malware and can be used to archive messages for compliance purposes.
The Barracuda Web Application Controller provides award-winning protection from all common attacks on Web applications, including SQL injections, cross-site scripting attacks, session tampering and buffer overflows. As a full proxy, the Barracuda Web Application Controller inspects both request and response traffic, providing the capabilities to not only block inbound attacks, but also to cloak your Web site from hackers and filter outbound traffi c to prevent potential sensitive data leakage, such as credit card numbers or Social Security numbers. In addition, the Barracuda Web Application Controller secures applications from unauthorized user access through integration with common authentication services, such as LDAP and RADIUS servers, and can provide full PKI infrastructure for use with client certificates.
Barracuda Backup Service is a complete and affordable data backup solution. The Barracuda Backup Server provides a full local data backup and is combined with a storage subscription to replicate data to two offsite locations. This approach provides the best of both worlds – onsite backups for fast restore times and secure, offsite storage for disaster recovery. Block level deduplication is applied inline to reduce traditional backup storage requirements by 20 to 50 times while also reducing backup windows and bandwidth requirements.
The Barracuda Link Balancer routes and manages traffic across multiple Internet connections. Designed to scale for high bandwidth requirements and provide business continuity for an organization, the Barracuda Link Balancer optimizes the use of multiple Internet links, such as T1s, T3s, DSL and cable connections from one or multiple Internet service providers.
The Barracuda Load Balancer is a scalable and comprehensive solution for distributing network traffic across multiple servers. The Barracuda Load Balancer offers network administrators reliability, speed and security through session persistence with cookie data, SSL acceleration and network intrusion prevention.