Barracuda Web Security Service

Controllable, Scalable, Reliable.

With only virtual software installation, Barracuda Web Security Service offers industry-leading cloud based web filtering services ideal for scalable organizations with scattered employees; it let the administrator to safeguard users against aggressive malware through powerful SaaS web filter affordability & quickly while centrally managing user access to web content, applications, media, file types (MIME Types) and more stuff. It offers features for securing and managing off-network traffic via mobile devices – useful for schools and enterprises that rely on mobility.
Barracuda Web Security Services saves a lot of time of administrators which otherwise is spend in disinfecting computers individually. Higher rate of achievements and speed is acquired with the Intuitive dashboard; smart and interactive graphs let administrators to acquire organizational details including information about users, websites, applications, files, bandwidth and other factors that affect performance and user productivity from top to bottom levels easily and it doesn’t require database administrations for reporting purpose. It is built on a extremely scalable worldwide multi-tenant architecture which that provides advanced, fastest and reliable web filtration services to customers in fifty countries.

Security

Advanced techniques including threat intelligence using antivirus, heuristic analysis, AJAX analysis and real-time script interpretation by 24×7 operation center sense and hunk new and old threats with zero-hour response time.

Access

With the web filter, precise global policies are made that enforce appropriate use access framed by 95 content categories, groups and individual IDs, bandwidth, media and file types, applications and also with time of day.

Performance

Most reliable web filtration at industry’s lowest latency is achieved with the support of SaaS infrastructure, which intelligently distribute global traffic load amongst high-speed proxy nodes and traffic centers.

Mobile Devices

In order to enforce content filtration and access policies on iOS and smart phones which are off-network, Barracuda Safe Browser is included without additional cost and Web Security extends the protection to Windows and Max laptops.

Management

For consistent access policies, security profiles and reporting, single cloud portal is offered to administrators to manage all locations, users and deployment of option including optional agents and hardware gateways.

Streamlined

Barracuda Web Security Service makes is easy to provide and manage a safe, appropriate web environment from SaaS deployment to streamlined central management, reporting and administration.

Affordable

With no added costs of individual user licenses, agent licenses fees and gateway, it makes Barracuda Web Security Service one of the most affordable and easy-to-provision solution for web filtering.

Features

Web Usage and Security

Cloud based web-filtering like Barracuda Web Security Flex has additional advantages over other solutions when if come to managing web use and security at highly scattered distributed enterprises. Following are some of the features that describe why Barracuda Web Security Flex is the best solution for deploying Saas with web filtering program.

Mobile Device Security

Tracking mobile devices is one of the main issues that administrators face regularly and takes additional time as well; Barracuda Safe Browser and Security Agent resolve this problem and offer piece of mind by extending content security and access control off the networks boundary.

Without having to pay for the Web Security Service subscription, all mobility solutions redirected web requests through cloud-based content-filtering and access-regulation policies. Even mobile devices are out of reach and pairing with unknown and unsecured Wi-Fi networks, they are still protected and visible.

For securing and enforcing user or group policies when Windows and Mac laptop are connected with off-network, Web Security Agent is used and Barracuda Safe browser is used in iOS devices besides their default Safari browser.

URL and Content Filtering

URL and Content Filtering
Checking and monitoring websites content in real-time
Organize all 95 categories in 7 Super categories for easy marking
Based on domains, decide which site to blacklist and which to white-list
MIME type (file type) / extension based web-content filtering

Application Control
Proper control and logging of more than fifty web-based apps
IM clients and other forms of communications
Torrents, peer-to-peer and other file-sharing apps
Streaming media content
Multiple browser controlling

Application Control

URL and Content Filtering
Checking and monitoring websites content in real-time
Organize all 95 categories in 7 Super categories for easy marking
Based on domains, decide which site to blacklist and which to white-list
MIME type (file type) / extension based web-content filtering

Application Control
Proper control and logging of more than fifty web-based apps
IM clients and other forms of communications
Torrents, peer-to-peer and other file-sharing apps
Streaming media content
Multiple browser controlling

Advanced Malware Protection

Real-time updating Antivirus signatures that detect and remove new threads in the industry quickly
Advanced heuristics algorithms permits only safer content
URL tempering and AJAX-aware analysis detects malicious web apps and script-based attacks
Advanced intelligent spam filtering protect against malicious emails and web threads
Policy management for data leak prevention, content & file filtration and restrictions on bandwidth usage and time

Centralized Policy Management

Rules for propagating to all deployment options; cloud gateways & agents are created in Central management portal automatically
Rules are based on IP addresses, groups, users or for globally usage
Based on restriction and exception types – complex rules are encompassed
Rule execution order as per user-control
Alerts and block pages fully customizable
Restricting override by password
Warn users by temporarily or soft-blocking
Set usage thresholds by schedules, bandwidth, requests or based on browsing time

Central Reporting and Monitoring

By using cloud service, gateway (virtual and hardware appliances) and software agent deployment options, compile comprehensive web-based reports
Intuitive UI summary
Detailed reports along with customizable summary option
Browsing Time reports based on users
In-depth interactive log reporting in real-time
Feature to export in PDF, XML and CSV files
Option to navigate till granular details from top most levels

Administration

Deployment

Flexibility is one of the major reasons why a majority of administrators are turning towards Barracuda Web Security Flex for web content filtration and protection against malicious apps. This service was purposely engineered with mixed-technology to minimize time and performance of organizations with highly scattered user base. Option ranges from simply pointing users’ browsers to the cloud service, to deployments that use the cloud service, onsite gateways integration which directory services and software agents to filter mobile laptops. Management is completely transparent and monitoring is performed via intuitive dashboards.

Direct To The Cloud

Browser traffic is directly sent to cloud service via browsers proxy settings or through forwarding network traffic from firewall or proxies that support forwarding feature to an upstream proxy.

Web Security Gateway

In order to provide local group-based web policies integrated with directory services, Barracuda Web Security Gateway offers an optional hardware installed on-site; this also speeds up web content and save bandwidth through local caches. Traffic can be forwarded to cloud for filtering and local web security and policy enforcement can be achieved with Gateways and these gateways are managed centrally through cloud interface.

Web Security Agent

Barracuda Web Security Agent is temper-proof and lightweight client compatible with Windows and Mac machines and it can direct web traffic from mobile devices including laptops, smart phones and other remote clients to the cloud service for web filtration and these agents are managed through central cloud portal.

Flexible Deployment

Barracuda Web Security Flax’s flexible structure made it possible to combine different deployment option to meet requirements at each location in a scattered organization and central cloud interface make it easy to monitor web activities & to propagate uniform web policies across all users at different locations.