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Now Available: CloudGen WAF on Google Cloud Platform

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Barracuda is excited to announce the newest development in its public cloud story, as the CloudGen WAF (Web Application Firewall) has joined the CloudGen Firewall for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) on July 19th. Most organizations today choose their infrastructure on a per-app basis, and the adoption of GCP has been growing rapidly. By extending its legendary CloudGen WAF to GCP, Barracuda enables customers to improve the security, availability, and performance of their applications deployed on GCP.

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Jonathan Bregman
http://www.barracuda.com

Barracuda recognized in latest Forrester Wave

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Every IT vendor has an opinion on IT analyst firms. Some call them charlatans; others call them oracles. Say what you want about IT analyst firms,  they are still an important part of the landscape. IT decision makers often look to them for data, advice, and/or validation, as the analyst voice can lend credibility and recognition to a vendor’s solutions and strategies for their given market and broaden that message to a larger audience.

It is for these reasons that Barracuda is proud to be recognized as a Strong Performer in the latest Forrester Web Application Firewall (WAF) Wave, published by Amy DeMartine. You can read the press release here, and download a complimentary copy of the report at https://barracuda.com/WAFWave.

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Anthony Kros

Anthony (Tony) Kros is the Analyst Relations Manager for Barracuda.  Connect with him on LinkedIn here.

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Barracuda Networks Rated Highest in Inaugural Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Enterprise Network Firewalls Market Note

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Barracuda Networks has been included in the inaugural “Gartner Peer Insights: Voice of the Customer: Enterprise Network Firewalls Market” note with the highest overall customer rating, in five of the six featured categories, including Overall Customer Rating (4.67 out of 5).  

Gartner Peer Insights is a powerful tool for end users to read about and learn from their peer’s experiences across all major segments of IT. Independently validated by Gartner, the leading IT Market Research and Advisory firm, Peer Insights users recognized Barracuda Networks for its Barracuda Cloud Generation Firewall with the highest overall customer rating, and as the highest rated for Product Capabilities (4.81 out of 5), Evaluation and Contracting (4.59 out of 5), and Service and Support (4.85 out of 5).

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Anthony Kros

Anthony (Tony) Kros is the Analyst Relations Manager for Barracuda.  Connect with him on LinkedIn here.

https://www.barracuda.com

Barracuda Web Application Firewall is now available as-a-Service

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We are excited to announce that Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service has joined our award-winning Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF) lineup. Customers can now deploy web application security as a cloud-delivered solution, in addition to our physical, virtual, and CloudGen editions. You can see the press release here, and watch the video here.

According to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), there were over 53,000 incidents and 2216 confirmed data breaches in 2017. Of these, 50% involved organized criminal groups and 12% identified as nation-state or state-affiliated. The complete demographics are on page 5 of the DBIR.

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Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda.  In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams.  Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years.  She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration.  She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Connect with Christine on Twitter or LinkedIn.

https://blog.barracuda.com

Will you be at RSA Conference 2018?

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It's RSA Conference time again in the US, and Barracuda would love to see you there.

Visit @barracuda booth #4708 North Hall at @rsaconference expo, 4/16 to 4/19 for info on how we help protect you from social engineering attacks.Click To Tweet

The RSA Conference is an annual opportunity to learn about new approaches to info security, discover the latest technology, and interact with top security leaders and pioneers.   The conference is full of hands-on sessions, keynotes and informal gatherings with people from around the United States and the world.

Our security and public cloud experts will be at RSA all week to show attendees how we leverage human and artificial intelligence to fight social engineering on multiple fronts.  We'll also be talking about how Barracuda solutions help customers with public cloud security, data protection, and compliance.

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Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda.  In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams.  Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years.  She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration.  She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Connect with Christine on Twitter or LinkedIn.

https://blog.barracuda.com

Sentinel Stops Attacks in All Languages

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Sentinel's AI has been developing rapidly in the last few months. In December, we added support for detecting web service impersonations and targeted phishing attacks. In these attacks, the attackers impersonate popular web services (Outlook, Docusign, Dropbox, Apple, UPS, etc.), and ask the recipient to click on a link. The link will typically take the recipient to a sign-in page that looks exactly like a sign in page of the impersonated web service. The goal of the attackers is to steal the credentials of the recipient, and to use those for infiltrating internal IT systems and launch subsequent attacks. Sentinel can stop these attacks by understanding that the email is impersonating a widely-used web service (e.g., Dropbox), but is not sending the email from an address associated with the web service (e.g., dropbox.com), and the links within the email have nothing to do with the domain of the web service.

This capability has also greatly expanded the volume of attacks Sentinel detects in different languages. We see attackers use the native language of the recipient to try to trick them to click on a link, whether it's German, Spanish, Dutch or Mandarin. We are happy to announce that Sentinel stops attacks in all languages, and our AI can effectively support customers in all regions of the world. In order to stop these types of impersonation attacks, the AI does not rely on any text-specific characteristics of the email, which allows it to work with any language.

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Asaf Cidon

Asaf Cidon is vice president of content security services at Barracuda Networks. In this role, he is one of the leaders for Barracuda Sentinel, the company's AI solution for real-time spear phishing and cyber fraud defense. Barracuda Sentinel utilizes artificial intelligence to learn the unique communications patterns inside customer organizations to identify anomalies and guard against these personalized attacks. Asaf was previously CEO and co-founder of Sookasa, a cloud storage security startup that was acquired by Barracuda. Prior to that, he completed his PhD at Stanford, where his research focused on cloud storage reliability and performance. He also worked at Google’s web search engineering team. Asaf holds a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion.

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Cloud misconceptions still pervasive in 2018

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While a few years ago “cloud” was a bit of a buzz word, cloud adoption has since become mainstream. These days, most organisations – ranging from large to small – use it to a certain extent.

Yet still misconceptions remain about the technology. In particular, on how best to secure it.

We wanted to lift the lid on these misconceptions, so in February 2018 we conducted some global research. As part of this, we asked 164 respondents in EMEA about their experiences and attitudes when it comes to security in the cloud. Here are some of the standout findings:

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Chris Hill

Director, Public Cloud Business Development, Barracuda Networks

Chris Hill is an experienced, IT Executive, since 2016 he has been working to develop the Public Cloud Business across EMEA for Barracuda Networks. Chris has spent 28 years in IT and has worked at SanDisk and Emulex. He has experience in EMEA direct and indirect Sales, Managerial and Technical environments.

How will you celebrate World Backup Day?

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World Backup Day (WBD) is March 31, which means it's a good time to be thinking and talking about backup, data protection, and recovery.

WBD history

World Backup Day was founded in 2011 by Youngstown State University student Ismail Jadun, after he and his fellow “redditors” were discussing the need for backups.  He decided that the day before April Fool's Day was the perfect time to spread the word about protecting data, and he started the official website.

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Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda.  In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams.  Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years.  She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration.  She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Connect with Christine on Twitter or LinkedIn.

https://blog.barracuda.com

Thinking Unconventionally — Four Steps to Mitigate Risk

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Taking a conventional approach to security typically refers to “keeping the bad stuff out” of your network, meaning blocking malicious content such as spam, viruses, malware, DDoS attacks, or any number of other common threats. However, if you truly want your organization to be secure in today’s landscape, you also need to proactively assess your security posture and focus on mitigating risk. This will not only reduce the probability of an attack actually happening, but it will also enable the ability to remediate and recover your business quickly in the event of exposure.

So, how do you take this approach?

Mitigate the risk posed by targeted email attacks

Spear phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks are highly targeted and researched attempts where criminals typically attempt to defraud individuals and lead them to transfer money or share credentials. In these attacks, criminals engage in casual conversation with victims through email in an attempt to gain the users’ trust before actually doing anything malicious. In many cases, criminals gather background information on victims through social media, which helps make their efforts more convincing.

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Sanjay Ramnath

Sanjay is a 20 year veteran in technology and has a passion for cutting edge technology and a desire to innovate at the intersection of technology trends. He currently leads product management, marketing and strategy for Barracuda’s security business worldwide. Connect with him on LinkedIn here.

https://www.barracuda.com

Configuring and Managing the Barracuda WAF solution with Puppet

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Configuring and Managing the Barracuda WAF solution with Puppet

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Introduction

Automating the management of network devices is extremely crucial in agile environments and Puppet modules can be used build on the existing framework using the Puppet Device feature to provide support for administering the Barracuda WAF.

There is no need to install an agent on the WAF with this approach, and takes advantage of the Puppet Device subcommand that’s operated from a standalone Puppet Agent that communicates with the Barracuda WAF REST API v3.

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Aravindan Anandan
http://www.barracuda.com