Barracuda CloudGen Firewall WAF Google Cloud Level 1 Subscription
The Barracuda CloudGen Firewall WAF for Google Cloud provides Level 1 protection for your web applications, ensuring continuous availability and security for your business operations.
- Continuous Protection: Safeguards web applications against common and advanced threats 24/7.
- Optimized for Google Cloud: Seamlessly integrates with your existing Google Cloud environment.
- Subscription-Based: Flexible licensing model that scales with your needs.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Reduces risk of data breaches and application downtime.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Google Cloud is a subscription-based security solution designed to protect your web-facing applications from a wide range of threats. It offers essential protection against attacks like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and denial-of-service, ensuring the integrity and availability of your online services.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who are deploying applications on Google Cloud Platform. It fits into your cloud security stack, providing a critical layer of defense for your web servers and APIs without requiring extensive hardware management.
- Web Application Security: Defends against OWASP Top 10 threats and zero-day exploits.
- DDoS Mitigation: Protects against volumetric and application-layer denial-of-service attacks.
- API Protection: Secures your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious payloads.
- Centralized Management: Simplifies security policy enforcement and monitoring.
- Cloud Native Integration: Designed for optimal performance within the Google Cloud ecosystem.
Empower your business with robust web application security tailored for Google Cloud, delivered through a flexible subscription model.
What This Solves
Enable teams to protect web applications from common threats
Enable teams to automatically block common web attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Streamline security operations by offloading the detection and mitigation of known threats to a dedicated platform.
cloud-hosted applications, microservices architecture, API-driven services, containerized deployments
Streamline security for cloud-native applications
Streamline the deployment and management of web application security within your Google Cloud environment. Automate the enforcement of security policies to ensure consistent protection across all your web assets.
DevOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, multi-cloud strategies, Kubernetes environments
Automate protection against DDoS attacks
Automate the defense against volumetric and application-layer denial-of-service attacks that can disrupt service availability. Ensure business continuity by maintaining application uptime even during sophisticated attack attempts.
e-commerce platforms, SaaS applications, public-facing portals, critical business services
Key Features
Virtual Patching
Protect applications from newly discovered vulnerabilities immediately, even before code patches are available.
Bot Mitigation
Prevent malicious bots from scraping data, performing credential stuffing, or disrupting services.
Traffic Shaping
Control and prioritize network traffic to ensure legitimate user access and prevent resource exhaustion.
SSL/TLS Inspection
Inspect encrypted traffic for threats without compromising data privacy or performance.
Centralized Logging and Reporting
Gain visibility into security events and application traffic for auditing and incident response.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security to protect sensitive customer data and comply with regulations like PCI DSS, making robust WAF protection essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI) under HIPAA, necessitating strong defenses against web-based attacks that could compromise patient data.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses handle significant volumes of customer payment data and personal information, requiring WAFs to prevent breaches and maintain PCI DSS compliance.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle confidential client data, making them targets for attacks aimed at intellectual property theft or disruption, requiring secure web application access.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Web Application Firewall (WAF)?
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a security solution that monitors, filters, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web application. It protects web applications from attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and other common web vulnerabilities.
How does this WAF integrate with Google Cloud?
This WAF is designed to be deployed within the Google Cloud Platform, integrating with your virtual private cloud (VPC) and other cloud services. It acts as a protective layer for your applications hosted on Google Cloud.
What does 'Level 1 Protection' mean?
Level 1 protection typically refers to foundational security measures that address the most common and prevalent web threats. It provides essential defense against known attack vectors and vulnerabilities.
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.