Web security is today’s must-address issue
It is difficult to safeguard all Web users from phishing, malicious Javascript, worms, and other attacks since users access the Web not only through desktop computers, but also through equally vulnerable notebook computers - from inside and beyond the corporate perimeter.
No single product has been able to protect all classes of Web users until now. Barracuda Web Security Flex delivers leading Web security to all users with the flexible architecture, unified management and commercial terms that let administrators focus on providing comprehensive Web security rather than dwelling on technology or costs.
Layered Real-Time Threat Protection
- Anti-virus signatures update continuously for fast response to new and known threats
- Advanced heuristics block unknown Web viruses and spyware
- AJAX-aware analysis detects malicious Web apps and script-based attacks
- HTTP behavior analysis and intrusion detection block botnet communication, spyware and rogue anti-virus
- Advanced Anti-Spam Intelligence protects against blended email and Web threats
- Web filtering and application control for Web apps like IM, VoIP, P2P file sharing and streaming media
- Advanced policy management for Web filtering like file and content type control, data leak prevention and restrictions on bandwidth and time.
Customize Security Coverage to Any Environment
Barracuda Web Security Flex delivers state-of-the-art Web security through three deployment options that you administer through one management portal. For corporate and branch office deployments, gateway Web security appliances (hardware or virtual) integrate with enterprise directory services, like Active Directory, behind the firewall to enable user and group-based policy control. A pure SaaS Web security service provides Web security for remote office and home-based users. Software agents extend security to mobile users’ laptops. Administrators can select any deployment option or any combination of deployment options to satisfy their exact Web security needs.
Unified Management and Reporting
The cloud-based management portal lets multiple administrators configure Web usage rules, monitor Internet access and generate detailed reports across all three deployment options. The dashboard gives Administrators a quick snapshot of aggregated traffic. Administrators can also drill down through levels of increasingly granular data.
Driving Out Deployment Risk
With Barracuda Web Security, the economics center around the size of the user population protected, rather than the specifics of the deployment. Even when additional gateway hardware is required for deployment, costs involve a simple one-time setup fee. There are no additional recurring charges associated with the maintenance of that hardware. There are no additional software license fees for agents. When needs change, you can easily add or remove deployed components. Barracuda Web Security Flex pricing effectively ends acquisition risks.
Revolutionary Cloud-Based Web Security Offering
Phishing, malicious Javascript, worms, and other Web-based threats make Web security today's must-address issue. In the past, protecting Web users against malware and enforcing Web usage policies inside the corporate perimeter as well as protecting users outside the perimeter at remote offices and with mobile laptops meant deploying separate technologies for each user class. Deploying mixed technologies often results in coverage gaps and difficult administration and reporting as well as other problems.
Barracuda Web Security Flex is a revolutionary offering that lets network professionals focus on the Web security they need instead of specific technologies. Barracuda Web Security Flex delivers advanced cloud-based malware protection, URL filtering and application control with the flexible deployment options needed to cover all users in unique enterprise environments regardless of location and mobility status - under a cloud portal for centralized management and reporting.
Advanced Malware Protection and Content Filtering
Barracuda Web Security Flex delivers state-of-the-art Web protection and filtering:
- Anti-virus signatures that update continuously for fast response to new and known threats
- Advanced heuristics block unknown Web viruses and spyware
- AJAX-aware analysis detects malicious Web apps and script-based attacks
- HTTP behavior analysis and intrusion detection block botnet communication, spyware and rogue anti-virus
- Advanced Anti-Spam Intelligence protects against blended email and Web threats
- Web filtering and application control for Web apps like IM, VoIP, P2P file sharing and streaming media
- Advanced policy management for Web filtering like file and content type control, data leak prevention and restrictions on bandwidth and time
Flexible Deployment Options
Barracuda Web Security Flex offers four deployment options to ensure total coverage. For corporate and branch office deployments inside the firewall, gateway appliances - hardware or virtual - integrate with enterprise directory services, like Active Directory, to control user and group-based policies. A pure SaaS Web security service provides malware protection and Web filtering without directory service integration for main offices, remote offices and home-based users. Software agents extend malware protection and Web filtering to mobile users' laptops. Administrators can select any combination of deployment options to satisfy their exact Web security needs.
Centralized Administration, Management and Monitoring
With Barracuda Web Security Flex, administration is amazingly simple; set up a rule through the cloud portal and Barracuda Web Security Flex automatically adds the rule to SaaS, appliances and software agent deployments. The dashboard gives administrators a quick snapshot of aggregated traffic across all deployments. Administrators can also drill down through multiple levels of increasingly granular data for all locations and deployment options. Barracuda Web Security Flex unifies all management and reporting functions across all locations, user classes, and deployment options for superior ease of use.
Driving Out Deployment Risk
Barracuda Web Security Flex's, economics are based on the number of users protected independent of the specifics of the deployment. Even when additional gateway hardware is required for deployment, costs involve a simple one-time setup fee. There are no additional recurring charges for the maintenance of that hardware. There are no additional software license fees for agents. When needs change, you can easily add or remove deployed components. Barracuda Web Security Flex pricing effectively ends acquisition risks.
Model Specifications
Virus and Malware Protection
- Signature-based anti-virus detection
- Heuristic malware analysis
- Real-time script interpreting and AJAX analysis
- Monitors HTTP traffic for bot signatures
- Threat intelligence detection of botnets, exploit kits and rogue anti-virus
Application Control
- Control and reporting of over 50 Web-based applications
- Communications and instant messaging clients
- Peer-to-peer/file-sharing software
- Streaming media
- Control of various browsers
Deployment Options
- Cloud filtering via direct proxy or transparent forwarding
- Barracuda Web Security Gateway for on-premises integration and policy enforcement. Available as:
- Hardware appliance (6 models)
- Virtual appliance
- Barracuda Web Security Agent - enforced policy control and protection for laptop and desktop computers
- Barracuda Web Security Service for BlackBerry - integration with BlackBerry Enterprise Server
- Barracuda Web Security Service for ISA Server - plug-in for seamless integration with Microsoft ISA Server
Enterprise Integration
- Integrated authentication and group lookup
- Transparent user identification
- Role-based administration
- Directory service integration with Active Directory and LDAP
- Automated or manual directory upload
- Multiple proxy configurations - direct/explicit or transparent
- WCCP and policy-based routing
Barracuda Web Security Agent
- Enforces policy and security protection through the service
- Tamper-resistant to prevent user bypass or reconfiguration
- Silent install for enterprise deployment
- Supports user - and group-based policies
URL and Content Filtering
- Real-time page content analysis and reputation scoring
- 67 categories organized in seven supercategories
- Whitelist and blacklist by domain
- File type/extension and Web content type filtering
Web Acceleration
- Collaborative caching for accelerated content delivery
- Local object caching for local bandwidth savings
Policy Management
- Rules apply globally or to users, groups or IP addresses
- Complex rules combining multiple restriction and exception types
- User-controlled rule execution order
- Customizable block pages and alerts
- Blocking override by password
- Coaching, or soft-blocking, to warn users
- Establish usage thresholds by schedule, bandwidth, requests or browsing time
Reporting
- Comprehensive Web-based reporting across entire organization
- Graphical dashboard summary
- Customizable summary and detailed reports
- Immediate interactive reports or scheduled delivery
- User-based browsing time reports
- Real-time, interactive forensics log reporting
- Exportable to PDF, XML or CSV
- Drill-down reporting to navigate to more detail
Barracuda Web Security Flex leverages cloud technology to provide advanced Web protection and policy enforcement through flexible deployment options that let you custom tailor coverage for all of your users regardless of their location or mobility.
Virus and Malware Protection
- Anti-virus signatures that update continuously for fast response to new and known threats
- Advanced heuristics block unknown Web viruses and spyware
- AJAX-aware analysis detects malicious Web apps and script-based attacks
- HTTP behavior analysis and intrusion detection block botnet communication, spyware and rogue anti-virus
- Advanced Anti-Spam Intelligence protects against blended email and Web threats
- Advanced policy management for Web filtering like file and content type control, data leak prevention and restrictions on bandwidth and time.
URL and Content Filtering
- Real-time page content analysis and reputation scoring
- Filters Web pages in sixty-seven categories organized into seven supercategories
- Whitelist and blacklist by domain
- File type/extension and Web content type filtering
Application Control
- Control and reporting of over fifty Web-based applications
- Communications and instant messaging clients
- Peer-to-peer and file-sharing software
- Streaming media
- Controls multiple browsers
Deployment Options
- Cloud Security Service - direct proxy or transparent forwarding
- Web Security Gateway - hardware or virtual appliances for policy enforcement on site, local caching, directory integration
- Web Security Agent - tamper-resistant client software enforces user and group policies through the Cloud Security Service. Silent install for enterprise deployments.
Centralized Policy Management
- Rules created in the central management portal automatically propagate to all deployment options
- Rules apply globally or to users, groups or IP addresses
- Complex rules combine multiple restriction and exception types
- User-controlled rule execution order
- Customizable block pages and alerts
- Blocking override by password
- Coaching, or soft-blocking, to warn users
- Establish usage thresholds by schedule, bandwidth, requests or browsing time
Centralized Reporting And Monitoring
- Comprehensive Web-based reporting across the entire organization through cloud service, gateway (virtual appliances and hardware appliances) and software agent deployment options
- Graphical dashboard summary
- Customizable summary and detailed reports
- Immediate interactive reports or scheduled delivery
- User-based browsing time reports
- Real-time, interactive forensics log reporting
- Exportable to PDF, XML or CSV
- Drill-down reporting navigates to levels of increasingly granular detail
Easy and flexible deployment is a principle strength of Barracuda Web Security Flex. Recognizing that networks are all different, it is painful and expensive to modify an existing network topology to accommodate a security solution. The Flex is designed to fit any deployment scenario for any organization of any size.
The deployment options range from simply pointing your browsers to the cloud-based service, or to the onsite appliances that are deeply integrated into your directory services and software agents to filter laptops. All the deployment choices can be centrally managed and monitored through a simple cloud-based interface.
Direct to Service
The simplest way to use
Barracuda Web Security Flex is to directly proxy your Web traffic to the cloud-based content filtering and malware protection service. This can be done with browser proxy settings or by transparently forwarding traffic from any network firewall or proxy that supports forwarding to an upstream proxy.
Web Security Gateway
The Barracuda Web Security Gateway is an on-premises solution that, integrates with your directory service for group-based policies and caches static Web content locally to save bandwidth. The gateway can be configured either to provide local security and policy enforcement or forward traffic to the cloud-based Web filtering service. Gateway appliances are managed and configured through the cloud-based central management and reporting interface. The Barracuda Web Security Gateway is available as a hardware appliance or as a virtual appliance.
Web Security Agent
The Barracuda Web Security Agent protects remote and roaming users by enforcing all Web traffic from laptops through the cloud-based content filtering and malware protection service. The Barracuda Web Security Agent is a lightweight, tamper-proof client available for Microsoft Windows laptops and desktops.
Flexible Deployment
Barracuda Web Security
Flex allows the flexibility to combine deployment options to suit the specific need of each location. The cloud-based central management and reporting interface makes it easy to specify a uniform Web usage policy and monitor Web access across all the users.
