Barracuda Cloud DDoS Prevention
Barracuda Cloud DDoS Prevention provides essential protection against disruptive denial-of-service attacks, ensuring your business remains accessible to customers and employees.
- Continuous Monitoring: Access to real-time threat detection and analysis to identify and respond to DDoS attacks.
- Automated Mitigation: Coverage for immediate, automatic traffic scrubbing and attack neutralization.
- Network Availability: Protection against downtime and service interruptions caused by volumetric or application-layer attacks.
- Reputation Protection: Entitlement to safeguard your brand and customer trust by maintaining service uptime.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Barracuda Cloud DDoS Prevention is a cloud-based service designed to defend your organization's internet-facing applications and services from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. It provides always-on protection, automatically detecting and mitigating malicious traffic before it can impact your network performance or availability.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to ensure their critical business operations, websites, and online services remain accessible. It integrates with existing network infrastructure to provide a vital layer of security without requiring significant on-premises hardware investment.
- Always-On Protection: Defends against a wide range of DDoS attack vectors 24/7.
- Automated Mitigation: Instantly identifies and neutralizes malicious traffic.
- Scalable Cloud Infrastructure: Leverages Barracuda's global network to absorb massive attack volumes.
- Low Latency: Minimizes impact on legitimate user traffic.
- Simplified Management: Easy to deploy and manage, reducing operational overhead.
Ensure your business stays online and accessible with Barracuda Cloud DDoS Prevention, offering enterprise-grade protection without the enterprise complexity for SMB and mid-market teams.
What This Solves
Automated DDoS Attack Mitigation
Enable teams to automatically defend against volumetric and application-layer denial-of-service attacks. Streamline incident response by neutralizing threats before they impact service availability.
cloud-hosted applications, web servers, public-facing APIs, e-commerce platforms
Ensure Continuous Service Availability
Automate the protection of critical business applications and websites from disruptive attacks. Maintain uninterrupted service delivery to customers and internal users, safeguarding revenue streams.
online portals, SaaS applications, customer-facing websites, critical business systems
Protect Brand Reputation and Trust
Protect your organization's reputation by preventing service outages that can erode customer confidence. Maintain a reliable online presence and demonstrate commitment to service continuity.
customer support portals, online transaction systems, brand websites, user authentication services
Key Features
Always-on cloud scrubbing centers
Automatically detects and mitigates DDoS attacks of any size, ensuring continuous availability of your services.
Wide range of attack vector coverage
Protects against volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks, offering comprehensive defense.
Low latency for legitimate traffic
Minimizes impact on normal user experience by only filtering malicious traffic.
Automated detection and response
Reduces the need for manual intervention, speeding up mitigation and minimizing downtime.
Subscription-based cloud service
Provides scalable, cost-effective protection without significant upfront hardware investment.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require continuous availability for online banking, trading platforms, and customer portals to maintain trust and comply with strict regulatory requirements.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure uninterrupted access to patient portals, telehealth services, and critical medical systems to deliver timely care and comply with HIPAA.
Retail & Hospitality
E-commerce sites and booking platforms in retail and hospitality depend on constant availability to process transactions and serve customers, directly impacting revenue.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies need to provide reliable access to public services, information portals, and citizen-facing applications, often under strict uptime mandates.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a DDoS attack?
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic. This can lead to service unavailability for legitimate users.
How does Barracuda Cloud DDoS Prevention work?
This service routes your internet traffic through Barracuda's global network of scrubbing centers. These centers analyze incoming traffic in real-time, identify and filter out malicious DDoS attack traffic, and forward only legitimate traffic to your network.
Is this service suitable for SMBs?
Yes, Barracuda Cloud DDoS Prevention is designed to be accessible and effective for SMBs and mid-market companies, offering enterprise-grade protection without the complexity or cost of on-premises solutions.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.