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Enhancements to Barracuda Web Application Firewall Streamline On-Premises Central Management | |
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 01:46:43 PM | |
Latest Version Includes Support for SAML and JSON Payload Inspection Campbell, Calif. (June 24, 2015) – Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA) - Press Release Highlights:
“As virtualization continues to foster dispersion of applications and data, we have seen our customers distribute security enforcement points across different parts of the network and across data centers,” noted Stephen Pao, GM Security, Barracuda. “While security enforcement points disperse, IT operations managers continue to express their desire to manage those dispersed enforcement points from a single pane of glass. The enhancements made to Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda Control Server came from direct customer feedback around many of these use cases.” Streamlined Centralized Management Across Clusters and Data Centers The latest version of Barracuda Web Application is designed to work with the latest enhancements to the Barracuda Control Server, available for on-premises deployments as a virtual appliance. The Barracuda Control Server provides a scalable, centralized console for unified management, control, and visibility across multiple Barracuda appliances and virtual appliances. Highlights of the latest Barracuda Control Server release include:
Enhanced Support for SAMLv2 Access Control In addition to application security, the Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides a front end for access control to web applications, including single-sign on and multi-factor authentication. Last October, Barracuda announced the ability for the Barracuda Web Application to federate identity with Microsoft Azure AD, a SAML-based identity provider. To further increase compatibility with additional SAML use cases, the latest version of Barracuda Web Application Firewall adds additional capabilities. Highlights include:
These new capabilities allow the Barracuda Web Application Firewall to extend beyond the simpler SAML use cases for Azure AD to support other SAML identity providers including Microsoft ADFS and Swiss ID. Enhanced JSON Payload Inspection Changes in web programming techniques used in cloud, SaaS, and mobile applications continue to challenge traditional service-oriented architecture (SOA) gateways and intrusion detection systems (IDS). In particular, increased use of JSON and REST based technology has changed both the usage and interaction over customarily used Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transactions. The latest version of Barracuda Web Application Firewall enhances its ability to secure JSON payloads, to provide comprehensive security for REST APIs and dynamic web applications. |