Barracuda Web Application Controllers
Barracuda Web Application Controllers protect your Web site from attackers leveraging protocol or application vulnerabilities to instigate unauthorized access, data theft, denial of service or defacement of your Web site.
Unlike traditional network firewalls or intrusion detection systems that simply pass HTTP, HTTPS or FTP traffic for Web applications, Barracuda Web Application Controllers proxy this traffic and insulate your Web servers from direct access by hackers.
Are Your Websites Safe From Hackers?
Barracuda Web Application Controllers, including both the Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda Application Gateway, provide award-winning protection from all common attacks on Web applications, including SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting attacks, session tampering and buffer overflows. Barracuda Web Application Controllers are designed to combat all attack types that have been categorized as significant threats, including:
- Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- SQL injection flaws
- OS command injections
- Site reconnaissance
- Session hijacking
- Application denial of service
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- Malicious probes/crawlers
- Cookie/session tampering
- Path traversal
- Header tampering
- Information leakage
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Comprehensive Website Protection
As a full proxy, Barracuda Web Application Controllers inspect both request and response traffic, providing the capabilities to not only block inbound attacks, but also to cloak your Web site from hackers and filter outbound traffic to prevent potential sensitive data leakage, such as credit card numbers or Social Security numbers. In addition, Barracuda Web Application Controllers secure applications from unauthorized user access through integration with common authentication services, such as LDAP and RADIUS servers, and can provide full PKI infrastructure for use with client certificates.
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Optional Web Services Security Edition
With the optional Web Services Security Edition, Barracuda Web Application Controllers extend protection for traditional HTML Web applications to modern XML Web services applications. In addition to filtering attack traffic, Barracuda Web Application Controllers validate XML schema, SOAP envelopes and XML content to block policy violations in your Web services' application traffic.
Advanced Traffic Management & Acceleration
The Barracuda Application Gateway integrates traffic management capabilities, including caching, compression and load balancing. With the Barracuda Application Gateway, you can not only secure your Web applications but increase both their performance and availability as well.
A Single Solution to a Multifaceted Problem
Online Web-based applications are increasingly at risk from professional hackers who target such applications in order to commit data theft or fraud. Being compromised can damage an enterprise's reputation, result in loss of customers and impact the organization's bottom line.
In addition, companies that transact online are faced with a host of growing industry regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which mandates that all enterprise and Web applications handling credit card and account information must undergo an extensive and costly audit of custom application code. The alternative to satisfy PCI DSS compliance is simply installing a Web application firewall.
The combination of these factors along with banking industry PCI DSS compliance concerns, creates demand for a more technologically and cost-effective risk protection solution for online Web applications.
Learn more about the features of the Barracuda Web Application Controllers.
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