Barracuda NG Firewall Vx
It is one of the easiest too amongst Barracuda NF Firewall hardware solutions with comprehensive and advance features and with same powerful technology and it is suited for those enterprises where standards related with hardware platform are changing and virtual environments are deployed. Besides IPS and VPN technologies and powerful network firewall, Barracuda NG Firewall Vx is integrated with next generation of firewall technology with comprehensive features including web filtering, anti-virus/spam, network access control enforcement, Layer 7 application control, availability and traffic flow optimization across WAN.
Technology
Barracuda NG Firewall Vx is easy-to-use, user-aware next-generation firewall application, which is designed to control threats, enforce policies and to optimize traffic flow in the network; which results in more secure and reliable wide area network by strongly integrating following features onto a single platform:
• Layer 7 Application Control
• Firewall
• IPS
• VPN
• Web Filter
• SSL VPN
• SSL Security
• WAN Optimization
• Industry Leading Central Management
Because of the industry leading centralized management visibility of the entire network feature and other added benefits, it reduces additional staff cost along with administrators overhead.
Features
Layer 7 Application Control
Even harder to find traffic through “safe” ports/protocols such as HTTP by advanced and sophisticated application is identified through Barracuda NG Firewall Vx as it is integrated with Layer 7 Application Control. P2P (peer-to-peer) and IM (instant messaging) application are often responsible for opening network backdoors for spreading malicious content and that is why ultra-reliable application control for policy enforcement is required. Barracuda NG Firewall Vx enables enforcement of policy based on group affiliations, locations, time of day and user IDs; which help administrators in providing full application and user awareness across entire organization network environment. Major policy actions include blocking, throttling, reporting, and enabling/disabling of specific application features.
Barracuda NG Firewall Vx is commonly deployed within virtual server environment to fight against threats; where as Barracuda NG Firewall is engineered to be utilized across entire enterprise. It is a cost effective way of hosting many firewalls on a single hardware platform and by saving hardware maintenance costs along with power consumption and powerful central management offered by Barracuda NG Control Center enhances the concept at lowest cost. In order to support users from scattered locations through virtual server environment, Vx versions are mostly deployed.
Administrators can control and manage security, content, traffic management policies from a single location through Barracuda NG Control Center Vx; its centralized management of security and content policies offers number of added benefits, including:
• Robust security approach & policy enforcement across whole enterprise
• Logging, accounting and reporting across multiple gateways in real-time
• Keeps history and rollback of configuration and changes across the network comprehensively
• Keeps comprehensive centralized versioning control of anti-spam, anti-virus, web-filters and network access control updates.
Easy to Use
Being supported on all popular virtual hypervisors like VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, Barracuda NG Firewall Vx virtual appliance is VPN certified for interoperability with IPsec standards complaint solutions. Encapsulation of entire virtual appliance, including hardware and software configuration and application modules is done for easy installation. Same intuitive user interface is applied for all hardware appliances for configuration and administration once the virtual appliance is deployed.
Administrative overheads are reduced and maintenance for the units are kept to minimum by consciously updating Barracuda NG Firewall with latest IPS, application control and URL filter definitions through Barracuda Network Energize updates. Barracuda Central is always engaged in providing updates about security operations center which is working continuously to monitor and block newest web-based threats.
Affordable
Same flexibility and affordability of Hardware version of Barracuda NG Firewall is achieved through Barracuda NG Firewall VX without per-user or per-server license fees.
Models
VF100
| 100 Number of IPs |
| 2 Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
| Firewall |
| VPN |
| IPS |
| Layer 7 Application Control |
| Traffic Intelligence |
| WAN Optimization |
| Online web Filter |
| Spam Filter |
Optional Features |
| NG Web Filter |
| NG Malware Protection |
| NG Secure Web Proxy |
VF1000
| Unlimited Number of IPs |
| 2 Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
| Firewall |
| VPN |
| IPS |
| Layer 7 Application Control |
| Traffic Intelligence |
| WAN Optimization |
| Online web Filter |
| Spam Filter |
Optional Features |
| NG Web Filter |
| NG Malware Protection |
| NG Secure Web Proxy |
VF2000
| Unlimited Number of IPs |
| 4 Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
| Firewall |
| VPN |
| IPS |
| Layer 7 Application Control |
| Traffic Intelligence |
| WAN Optimization |
| Online web Filter |
| Spam Filter |
Optional Features |
| NG Web Filter |
| NG Malware Protection |
| NG Secure Web Proxy |
VF25
| 25 Number of IPs |
| 2 Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
| Firewall |
| VPN |
| IPS |
| Layer 7 Application Control |
| Traffic Intelligence |
| WAN Optimization |
| Online web Filter |
| Spam Filter |
Optional Features |
| NG Web Filter |
| NG Malware Protection |
| NG Secure Web Proxy |
VF250
| 250 Number of IPs |
| 2 Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
| Firewall |
| VPN |
| IPS |
| Layer 7 Application Control |
| Traffic Intelligence |
| WAN Optimization |
| Online web Filter |
| Spam Filter |
Optional Features |
| NG Web Filter |
| NG Malware Protection |
| NG Secure Web Proxy |
VF4000
| Unlimited Number of IPs |
| 8 Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
| Firewall |
| VPN |
| IPS |
| Layer 7 Application Control |
| Traffic Intelligence |
| WAN Optimization |
| Online web Filter |
| Spam Filter |
Optional Features |
| NG Web Filter |
| NG Malware Protection |
| NG Secure Web Proxy |
VF50
| 50 Number of IPs |
| 2 Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
| Firewall |
| VPN |
| IPS |
| Layer 7 Application Control |
| Traffic Intelligence |
| WAN Optimization |
| Online web Filter |
| Spam Filter |
Optional Features |
| NG Web Filter |
| NG Malware Protection |
| NG Secure Web Proxy |
VF500
| 500 Number of IPs |
| 2 Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
| Firewall |
| VPN |
| IPS |
| Layer 7 Application Control |
| Traffic Intelligence |
| WAN Optimization |
| Online web Filter |
| Spam Filter |
Optional Features |
| NG Web Filter |
| NG Malware Protection |
| NG Secure Web Proxy |
VF8000
| Unlimited Number of IPs |
| 16 Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
| Firewall |
| VPN |
| IPS |
| Layer 7 Application Control |
| Traffic Intelligence |
| WAN Optimization |
| Online web Filter |
| Spam Filter |
Optional Features |
| NG Web Filter |
| NG Malware Protection |
| NG Secure Web Proxy |