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Protection at the data plane

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“The number of records breached due to misconfigured cloud servers, in particular, shot up by 424 percent compared to the previous year,” IBM concluded in its X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2018.  It’s a sobering statistic – but not one which surprises us.

As one of Microsoft’s top security providers, we’ve protected a lot of Azure workloads.  As an AWS supplier with two security competencies, we’ve protected a lot of AWS workloads.  So as they say in those catchy insurance commercials, we know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Barracuda and Microsoft – Pure Gold

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Microsoft has just launched another partnership tier – Gold ISV – and Barracuda has achieved this latest Microsoft competency.   We have been a Gold Application Development Partner since the partnership tiers were first formed, and last year we became a Gold Cloud Platform partner. 

Barracuda public cloud teams are excited to announce that Barracuda has achieved the Microsoft Gold ISV competency. Barracuda is also a Gold Application Development and Gold Cloud Platform Partner.Click To Tweet

While it’s always great, of course, to be recognized by Microsoft, this is also important for our partners and customers because it demonstrates our ongoing commitment and relationship with Microsoft.  We work closely across many different departments and engineering groups at Microsoft to ensure our solutions remain cutting-edge and provide great value to our customers.  With a company as large as Microsoft – they have 131,000 employees and recorded sales of $110 Billion last year – this is no easy feat, but we are passionate about this relationship – and very proud to be recognized as “Gold” in these three key categories.

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Azure Networking Update: New features, deeper Barracuda partnership

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Yousef Khalidi, Microsoft CVP, Azure Networking, penned a blog post on Monday announcing a wide range of new features for Microsoft Azure including  100 Gbps (fastest connectivity in public cloud), availability of branch connectivity, new cloud-native security capabilities, and application performance services. Many of these new features will be discussed during Microsoft Ignite 2018, and more information can be found in the Azure Networking booth at Ignite (Booth AIC288).

Barracuda has worked closely with @Microsoft over the past several years to ensure our that our public cloud solutions are the perfect fit for @Azure' ~Rich TurnerClick To Tweet

These new features are part of the Azure mission, per Yousef, to “provide comprehensive networking services that are easy to deploy, manage, scale, and monitor. Customers continue to ask for better ways to connect to the cloud, better protection of their cloud workloads, optimal application performance delivery, and more comprehensive monitoring services.”

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Barracuda extends enhanced network security with support for Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN

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Barracuda has enjoyed a rewarding relationship with Microsoft over the years. From our early successes as the first and only Microsoft Azure Certified security solution in the Azure Security Center to our ISV Partner of the Year Award to our recent Partner Advisory Council and Cloud Summit, we've worked with Microsoft to provide the most secure and robust solutions to keep our mutual customers safe. Today we're excited to announce Barracuda CloudGen Firewall support for Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN) service.  The press release for this announcement is here.

What does Barracuda support for Azure vWAN mean?

The Microsoft Virtual WAN service provides large-scale connectivity, unified network and policy management, and optimized routing using the Microsoft global network. With this option, customers have more choice and flexibility in how they implement large-scale branch connectivity. 

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Barracuda Web Application Firewall-as-a-Service Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

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As a key provider of security solutions to Microsoft Azure customers, Barracuda today announced the availability of its Web Application Firewall-as-a-Service in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Barracuda customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.

Organizations have relied on Barracuda’s CloudGen WAF – including advanced bot protection, proactive DDoS protection, and deep integration with DevOps toolchains – for securing applications in their hybrid/cloud datacenters for years. When they want to migrate applications, or build new apps in the public cloud, and they desire a Software-as-a-Service solution, their options that provide similar levels of control have been limited until now. That has led to under-secured web applications across hybrid environments, despite the original goal of faster time to market, agility, and cost-efficiency.

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Barracuda PAYG Licensing now available in Microsoft Azure Government Marketplace

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Microsoft has just released hourly VM licensing availability (also known as PAYG or pay-as-you-go) licensing for Azure Government Marketplace, which serves users in federal, state, local and tribal U.S. governments. 

Microsoft Azure Government offers level 5 DoD approval, hybrid flexibility, and the broadest compliance with the most certifications of any cloud provider.  The platform is offered exclusively to governments and is operated by screened US citizens.  This limited access platform was made available to government consumers in December of 2014, but Barracuda has been a part of this space since its beta launched in March of that year. 

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Join us at Microsoft Build 2018

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Barracuda will be presenting at Microsoft Build – their ultimate developer conference focused on cloud, artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and more. This year’s Build is May 7-9 in Seattle, and it an opportunity for the development community to learn about Microsoft’s latest solutions and initiatives as well as hear best practices from their peers.

Itay Bleier from Barracuda’s Sentinel group will be presenting at a partner showcase meant to demonstrate our partnership with Microsoft and how we leveraged the GraphAPI to build Sentinel.  Sentinel is Barracuda’s ground-breaking solution to proactively combat spearphishing attacks.  If you’re attending build, don’t miss Itay’s session! 

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Azure Cloud Integration with OMS and ASC

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With OMS support for the Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF) and the Barracuda NextGen Firewall (NGF), customers can now stream log data from their firewall to Microsoft OMS in Azure for further analysis. By adding Log Analytics service in the OMS Workspace, you can connect your firewalls to the Workplace and enable syslog streaming. Profiles are defined to specify the log file types to be transferred/streamed. By configuring Azure OMS as the log stream destination, all selected log files are then streamed to Azure OMS, where they can be stored, analyzed, and processed.

Customers can now stream log data from Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda NextGen Firewall to OMS in AzureClick To Tweet

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

OMS and Azure Security Center – either, or both?

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Barracuda recently announced OMS support for its Cloud-Ready firewalls, the Barracuda Web Application Firewall and the Barracuda Next-Gen Firewall. OMS (Operations Management Suite) is designed to provide a range of features: provide immediate insights across workloads; operational intelligence when it matters to explore, analyze, and take action to respond faster to security threats; help deliver continuous IT services and remediate issues quickly at scale; and ensure availability of apps and data. Barracuda firewalls feed logs into OMS so the intelligence our firewalls capture about data movement, security, and management can be included in OMS’ larger view of the customer’s Azure infrastructure.

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Are You Cloud Ready? Q & A – Does Your Cloud Provider Recommend the Solution?

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Note: This is the fifth and final post in a multi-part blog series on Cloud Ready security questions. You can follow the entire Security Questions series here, and follow the Barracuda Cloud Ready blog here.

In this final edition of our Cloud Ready blog series, we take a look at why it’s important to know if your current security vendor’s solution is recommended by the cloud provider that you’ll be using. This might seem like an obvious step to take, however, too many vendors place claims about being prepared to secure cloud workloads yet complications arise once you’re already too invested. So, let’s talk about it as we address our final question from the list:

10. Does your public cloud vendor recommend the solution?  

Amazon’s EC2 might be a decade old, but the cloud remains a nascent, rapidly growing, and evolving entity. Customers are also beginning to look at the different cloud providers from the standpoint of traditional strengths and weaknesses, regardless of how valid those comparisons may be in today’s multi-cloud world.

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.