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Barracuda NG Firewall
TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE 1
TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE 1
Application Control - Regain Control of the Network
By integrating Application Control into its core firewall engine, the Barracuda NG Firewall can identify and enforce security
policies on more sophisticated applications that may hide their traffic inside otherwise “safe” port/protocols such as HTTP.
Instant messaging (IM) and and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are particularly notorious for opening backdoors into the
network and spreading malicious content, thus ultra-reliable application control for policy enforcement is required.
The Barracuda NG Firewall provides a powerful and extremely reliable detection and classification of network traffic-based
applications and protocols by combining Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and behavioral traffic analysis - even if the protocols
are using advanced obfuscation, port hopping techniques, or encryption.
GRANULAR APPLICATION CONTROL
The Barracuda NG Firewall allows the creation of dynamic application policies and allows establishing acceptable use policies
for users and groups by application, application category, location, and time of day. In a nutshell it enables administrators to:
• block unwanted applications for certain users or groups
• control and throttle acceptable traffic
• preserve bandwidth and speed-up business critical applications to ensure business continuity
• enable or disable specific application sub-functions (e.g., Facebook Chat, YouTube postings, or MSN file transfers)
• intercept SSL-encrypted application traffic
Create granular application usage
polices based on applications, users,
groups, and time, regardless of source,
destination, port or protocol
Intuitive conguration
of applications objects
allows easy control and
enforcement of more
than 1,200 Web 2.0 and
business applications