Administration is easy with an intuitive web interface and free, cloud-based central management. Consistent user interfaces and common administrative workflows, provides traffic optimization, security and connectivity in a simple and affordable, cloud-managed solution.
Application Visibility and Control
The Barracuda NextGen Firewall X-Series analyzes network traffic up to Layer-7, leveraging advanced fingerprints to identify applications and content traffic. Based on the fingerprints, a flexible set of actions, including allowing, blocking, resetting, and redirecting connection attempts and traffic can be defined. A library of hundreds of applications is currently fingerprinted. Furthermore, granular policies can be set for specific application features (e.g., limiting audio calls on Skype). These fingerprints are dynamically updated so that security policies and signatures remain up-to-date.
Active Connections and Real-Time Control
An insightful dashboard interface provides an overview of the active connections for a network. With this interface, real-time actions can also be taken. When resource-intensive applications are preventing business-critical activities like VoIP conference calls, administrators can take immediate action to either end a connection or regulate its bandwidth.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IPS)
The Barracuda NextGen Firewall X-Series Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) strongly enhances network security by providing complete and comprehensive real-time network protection against thousands of network based threats, vulnerabilities, exploits, and exposures in operating systems, applications, and databases to prevent network attacks such as:
- SQL injections and arbitrary code executions
- Access control attempts and privilege escalations
- Cross-Site Scripting and buffer overflows
- Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
- Directory traversal and probing and scanning attempts
- Backdoor attacks, Trojans, rootkits, viruses, worms, and spyware
The Barracuda NextGen Firewall X-Series provides advanced attack and threat protection features such as:
- Stream segmentation and packet anomaly protection
- TCP split handshake protection
- IP and RPC defragmentation
- FTP evasion protection
- URL and HTML decoding
The Barracuda NextGen Firewall X-Series is able to identify and block advanced evasion attempts and obfuscation techniques that are used by attackers to circumvent and trick traditional intrusion prevention systems. The IPS can also be used in combination with SSL Inspection.
As part of the Barracuda Energize Updates subscription, automatic signature updates are delivered on a regular schedule or on an emergency basis to ensure that the Barracuda NextGen Firewall X-Series is constantly up-to-date.
Quality of Service (QoS) and Traffic Prioritization
Granular QoS settings enable an organization to set bandwidth policies for applications, services, and users. In addition, traffic prioritization can be set to ensure that latency-sensitive or business-critical applications are always given priority. Pre-built policies enable organizations to immediately begin implementing one of eight pre-defined bandwidth policies. Pre-defined policies can easily be customized to individual customer needs.
