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What is Barracuda Web Security Gateway?
Barracuda Web Security Gateways now available in the 200 through 1000 series provide web content filtering as well as access and advanced threat protection, and are available as physical appliances, virtual appliances, or as a SaaS.
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What is Barracuda Web Security Gateway?
Barracuda Web Security Gateways now available in the 200 through 1000 series provide web content filtering as well as access and advanced threat protection, and are available as physical appliances, virtual appliances, or as a SaaS.
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What is Barracuda Web Security Gateway?
The Barracuda Web Security Gateway is designed to let organizations benefit from online applications and tools without exposure to web-borne malware and viruses, lost user productivity, and misused bandwidth. As a comprehensive solution for web security and management, it unites award-winning spyware, malware, and virus protection with a policy and reporting engine. Advanced features ensure that organizations adapt to emerging requirements like social-network regulation, remote filtering, and visibility into SSL-encrypted traffic.
Barracuda Web Security Gateway Features
- Supported: Hardened and Secure OS
- Supported: Content Filtering
- Supported: Advanced Policy Creation
- Supported: Network Threat Protection
- Supported: Spyware Removal
- Supported: Summary Reports
- Supported: Role-Based Administration
- Supported: Advanced Threat Protection
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Barracuda Web Security Gateway Competitors
- WebTitan DNS Filter
- Cisco
- McAfee
Barracuda Web Security Gateway Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Barracuda Web Security Gateways now available in the 200 through 1000 series provide web content filtering as well as access and advanced threat protection, and are available as physical appliances, virtual appliances, or as a SaaS.
WebTitan DNS Filter are common alternatives for Barracuda Web Security Gateway.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.4.
The most common users of Barracuda Web Security Gateway are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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The Barracuda Web Security Gateway has been widely used by organizations to efficiently control and manage web traffic. According to users, it offers effective protection against threats on applications and social media platforms, thanks to its real-time detection of untrustworthy content. The seamless integration with other Barracuda products enables maximum end-to-end protection, ensuring a comprehensive defense against web-borne malware and viruses. With the Barracuda Web Security Gateway, organizations can easily regulate access to websites and monitor user activities, such as the sites visited, time spent, and bandwidth utilized. The detailed reports generated by the Web Filter appliance allow for precise web usage tracking and enable the blocking or allowing of websites for different user groups within an organization. Additionally, IT teams rely on the Barracuda Web Security Gateway to block insecure email messages and guarantee secure email delivery. By effectively restricting access to malicious websites and logging web activity if required, the product provides an extra layer of security and compliance measures. It also grants flexibility in controlling access through options to allow or block specific sites. In various industries, such as retail, the Barracuda Web Filter is employed to limit internet access to certain websites while offering an intuitive interface for monitoring web browsing activities. Overall, this product offers essential features like content filtering, security measures, reporting capabilities, bandwidth usage control, and compliance enforcement that address the diverse needs of organizations across different sectors.
Seamless Integration with Other Barracuda Products: Users highly appreciate the seamless integration of this product with other Barracuda products, such as the Barracuda Web Application Firewall and the Barracuda Email Security Gateway. This integration allows for a comprehensive network security solution, which has been positively received by many reviewers.
Effective Bandwidth Management: The product effectively manages bandwidth, resulting in significant improvements in network performance. Reviewers have consistently mentioned how this feature has helped them optimize their network resources and achieve better overall performance.
User-Friendly Interface: The product boasts a user-friendly interface that receives praise from users across multiple reviews. Its intuitive design makes it easy to navigate through various settings and features, ensuring that users can quickly understand and utilize its functionality without any steep learning curve.
Confusing Rule Setup: Some users have found the process of setting up specific rules for a website or user to be confusing, requiring additional time and effort to navigate through the configuration settings.
Cost Prohibitive for Smaller Companies: According to some users, the Barracuda Web Security Gateway may be cost prohibitive for smaller companies due to its pricing structure, potentially making it less accessible for businesses with limited budgets.
Installation and Configuration Assistance Required: Several reviewers have expressed that proper installation and configuration of the software may require the assistance of an engineer, which could add complexity and extra costs to the implementation process.
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March 25, 2020
Barracuda WSG Rescued Us!
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We currently use the Barracuda Web Security Gateway across our entire company and organization. It allows our organization to benefit to use online applications, websites, tools, downloads, etc., without exposure to web-borne malware and viruses. We can control what areas or sites users are allowed to visit, as well as monitor user sites/domains visited, time spent, bandwidth used. For us, bandwidth can be easily consumed by a few users or a division and we always want to control it.
- Control of domains/sites allowed for access. We can be sure our users are not using their online activity to accidentally, or intentionally, to go to malicious, threatening, intolerance, hate, or pornography.
- Reporting is easy and informative. Reports allow you to summarize for specific time periods, and then drill down to see time spent, or bandwidth used.
- Blocking and/or allowing instantly for a specific user or groups is easily done and takes effect immediately.
- I don't think I have anything to mention here. The Barracuda Web Security Gateway does everything we need it to do.
- We had several of our divisions that we thought needed to increase their internet bandwidth, due to decreased speed and productivity. After installing the Barracuda Web Security Gateway, we realized we had some abusive behavior going on with online activity. We set some controls and the bandwidth usage decreased by at least 30%, allowing us to maintain the current bandwidth and not spending more money.
We previously had no web security at our company. This left everything open to malware and viruses. We had several PC's a month being infected. We thought it was mostly coming from spam email and we improved our spam detection, but soon we discovered the PC's were being infected because of online activity. Most of the time the user had no idea they were clicking on links that were malicious. This has all been mitigated with the Barracuda Web Security Gateway.
February 13, 2020
A sturdy and efficient web filter
Barracuda Web Security and Filtering is used across most of our company. It provides a layer of security needed by restricting access to websites that are malicious, or have their use prohibited on the company network. It can provide logs of web activity if required, so for example you can keep a track of anyone that has tried to access prohibited sites. There are a number of options available to allow/block sites, which can allow you to be quite flexible in access control.
- It can integrate with active directory to place restrictions based on a specific user or group if required - or alternatively to allow a user/group to access more on the web if needed.
- The application blocking features have been especially useful in our enterprise, and there is a large number of applications & web applications available to block/allow as needed.
- More configuration in the reporting options would be helpful; there are a number of reports available to run, however more options for customisation would be useful.
- The ability to add a list of domains/URL patterns to whitelist or block would be beneficial; while you can do a bulk edit, you can't just copy and paste the URLs in, you have to modify the line of text so that it matches the format, and adds it to the list. The ability to just import a list of addresses would be a huge time saver.
- It has helped to prevent employees browsing unsuitable sites on company time, which aids productivity.
- It has increased the security and safety of the network, which is a requirement of all of our customers, and also the laws that apply to our industry.
I've found Barracuda to be very customisable, which allows it to fill the security requirements more adequately than a more generic product would have been able to. We also use a combination of hosted and on-premise devices, and have found that there is no difference in terms of reliability; neither require frequent reboots, or much maintenance, other than standard updates, and modifications to the black/white lists.
August 30, 2019
Barracuuuuuuuuuuda keeps you protected
We use a Barracuda Web Filter at multiple locations here in the US. It is used to help prevent users from accessing malicious sites. It is also used to lock down different user groups from accessing certain websites and applications. This is done through the filter and Active Directory users and groups.
- Provides an easy to use weblog that is searchable by a number of different criteria.
- Blocks malicious sites and helps prevent malicious downloads.
- Gives you multiple ways to set up policies. You can use content filtering, block certain applications, certain domains, and web applications.
- Easy to export policy and import to another filter at a different location.
- There are 2 different policies; authenticated and unauthenticated. Sometimes the filter does not pick up the user that is logged in. When this happens, that user could potentially access sites that would normally be blocked.
- Sometimes blocking one thing could block something you need. We had an instance where we use remote software. We block BitTorrent but for some reason, the filter was seeing this remote software as BitTorrent traffic. I got support on the line and we were eventually able to figure out a solution.
- We put in certain applications. One of them is supposed to be blocked but a lot of the time it doesn't get blocked.
- It has helped block many spyware webpages.
- It has helped block malicious downloads.
- It has helped keep users from spending time on websites not related to work.
This is a different type of filtering than the Symantec. The Barracuda web filter does just that, filters web traffic. The Symantec filters the emails that come into the company so I do not really have something else to compare it to. Overall, I would say that this is a good solution and has done the job well.