Barracuda Malware Protection for Barracuda CloudGen Firewall VF1000

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Barracuda firewalls are built on proven technologies to ensure real-time network protection against a broad range of threats. The Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is a stateful firewall that provides network segregation and malformed packet detection, along with effective protection against Dos and DDoS attacks.

Barracuda combines deep packet inspection (DPI) and behavioral traffic analysis to reliably detect and classify thousands of applications and sub-applications, regardless of advanced obfuscation, port hopping techniques, or encryption. This lets you block unwanted applications for defined user groups, enable or disable specific application sub-functions such as Facebook Chat or YouTube Postings, and to intercept SSL-encrypted application traffic delivered via HTTPS connections.

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall makes it easy to limit access to certain network resources to certain users or user groups. It supports authentication of users via a wide range of authentication schemes, and lets you define and enforce user-aware firewall rules.

CloudGen Firewall includes an intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS) that strongly enhances network security by providing complete and comprehensive real-time network protection against a broad range of network threats, vulnerabilities, exploits, and exposures in operating systems, applications, and databases. IDS/IPS prevents network attacks such as SQL injections and arbitrary code executions, access control attempts and privilege escalations, crosssite scripting and buffer overflows, directory traversal, probing and scanning attempts, backdoor attacks, Trojans, rootkits, viruses, worms, and spyware.

Built-in web filtering enables highly granular, real-time visibility into online activity broken down by individual users and applications. This lets you create and enforce effective Internet content and access policies. It improves user productivity, blocks malware downloads and other webbased threats, and simplifies regulatory compliance by blocking access to unwanted websites and servers.

With the optional Malware Protection module enabled, the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall uses two fully integrated antivirus engines to shield your network from malicious content by scanning web content (HTTP and HTTPS), email (SMTP, POP3), and file transfers (FTP and Secure FTP). With advanced heuristics and regular updates, Malware Protection lets you detect new malware and other potentially unwanted programs even before signatures are available.

Barracuda's CloudGen Firewall accelerates content inspection and minimizes latency thanks to its Single Pass Mode architecture. Traffic is inspected only once inside the firewall, with no need for handoff to a proxy. This means that you never have to make the difficult choice between optimal performance and robust security.

Finally, with Barracuda's proprietary high-performance Transport-Independent Network Architecture (TINA) VPN protocol, you can encrypt all traffic from end to end.

Specification Summary