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Barracuda Networks Introduces the Barracuda NG Firewall
February 04, 2010
Enterprise Firewall Platform Integrates Next Generation Firewall
Protection, Industry-leading Centralized Management Capabilities and
Optimization of Network Traffic Across WAN Link
Barracuda Networks has launched the Barracuda NG Firewall (not available in all regions),
a line of virtual and hardware appliances designed to protect
enterprise network infrastructure, improve site-to-site connectivity
and simplify administration of network operations. This product launch
is the first since Barracuda Networks’ successful acquisition of phion
AG, a leading firewall provider based in Austria in September 2009. | 
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“The
Barracuda NG Firewall platform was built from the ground up as a
project to manage more than 650 firewalls for a large Austrian banking
data center,” said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management
for Barracuda Networks. “With early development roots not only in
centralized configuration, policy and reporting, but also in
site-to-site WAN traffic management capabilities, the Barracuda NG
Firewall is designed to optimize both the availability and performance
of the WAN, with lower administrative overhead than incumbent
solutions.”
The Barracuda NG Firewall intelligently combines Web and email
filtering, intrusion prevention, Layer 7 application profiling, and
network access control into a platform that can be centrally managed,
across all enterprise network locations, including remote, home and
branch offices, as well as regional headquarters and datacenters.
Centralized security management and content policy provides a number of benefits including:
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Consistent security posture and policy enforcement across the enterprise
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Real-time accounting and reporting across multiple gateways
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Comprehensive history and rollback of configuration and policy changes across the network
IDC
research has shown that a majority of enterprises feel it is important
to consolidate existing point products such as firewall, intrusion
prevention and anti-malware into a single solution.*
“Barracuda Networks comprehensive product portfolio satisfies the Web
and messaging security needs of numerous enterprise and SMB customers,
worldwide,” said Charles Kolodgy, IDC research director, Security
Products. “To improve management, reduce costs, and consolidate
security, customers have been turning to comprehensive products that
integrate numerous security features into an integrated platform.
Barracuda Networks is meeting this demand with the Barracuda NG
Firewall, which implements phion's proven and advanced technology. This
network security product will open up new opportunities for their
worldwide channel and help Barracuda Networks to penetrate and win more
enterprise business.”
Intelligent Traffic Management
With the Barracuda NG Firewall, administrators can control
application-level routing and prioritization of traffic across multiple
links, tunnels and traffic conditions. To back up WAN connections,
Barracuda NG Firewall appliances support a variety of links via most
including T1/T3, DSL, ISDN, and 3G wireless mobile data standards. In
the event of a WAN link loss VPN traffic is automatically reprioritized
over the remaining WAN links. Barracuda NG Firewall appliances support
the traditional IPSec protocol for cross vendor compatibility.
Flexible Remote Access Options
Barracuda NG Firewall appliances support multiple remote access
options, including a light VPN client, a fully managed VPN client and a
fully integrated SSL VPN. Network access controls enforce client
security policies, including operating system patch level, desktop
malware protection and personal firewall configuration.
Heritage Customers Place Confidence in Barracuda Networks
Although primarily known in EMEA, phion has a customer base of more
than 1,000 customers and over 100,000 licensed VPN users at locations
worldwide. One such customer, Austria-based RHI AG, which specializes
in the field of refractory products and services for customers in the
steel, cement, lime, glass, nonferrous metals, environment, energy and
chemicals industries, is a large enterprise customer with more than 130
phion netfence appliances deployed across 84 locations worldwide. The
primary product selection criteria for the company was driven by both
technical and budgetary factors, including a means to decrease IT
operating costs as well as to obtain secure, centralized management
across the entire network.
“Within the first two months of deployment we had already realized
dramatic cost savings per location as well as increased network traffic
bandwidth,” said Gottfried Hofreither, CIO of RHI. “In addition we have
secured a solution that allows for traffic prioritization and routing
in case of a connectivity loss.”
With the acquisition of phion by Barracuda Networks, Hofreither is
confident that the high levels of service and support he has
experienced with the phion team will be further enhanced by Barracuda
Networks’ wide international presence and strong track record for
technical excellence. RHI’s operations in the Americas include 25
locations across South America, Mexico, the United States and Canada,
supported by 40 appliances.
“Barracuda Networks is a highly reputable company throughout the world,
known for its security expertise,” said Hofreither. “We are convinced
that with Barracuda Networks as the new company behind our firewall
infrastructure, we will be well-served and supported for many years to
come.”
For more information, please visit www.barracuda.com/ng.
