Web Application Security
Protect against all OWASP-listed attacks, including the “top 10” (SQL Injection, cross-site scripting, CSRF, etc.), and recent additions such as API protection. Advanced logging and reporting provides deep view into traffic and attack details, enabling administrators to block, throttle, redirect, or take several other actions to maintain complete protection.
Barracuda Advanced Bot Protection uses cloud based machine learning to provide
Bot spam detection — Reduce referrer spam and block comment spam
Credential stuffing prevention — Block credential stuffing to help stop account takeover attacks
Request risk scoring — Track and use advanced behavioral analytics to score incoming requests
Client fingerprinting — Track users with better fidelity than IP addresses
Build positive security profiles for applications by sampling web traffic from trusted hosts. Once enabled, the positive security profiles allow administrators to enforce granular whitelist rules on sensitive parts of the application. This greatly reduces the risk of attacks and helps prevent zero-day vulnerabilities.
Often the first step of a targeted attack is to probe public-facing applications to learn about the underlying servers, databases, and operating systems. Cloaking prevents attack reconnaissance by suppressing server banners, error messages, HTTP headers, return codes, debug information, or backend IP addresses from leaking to a potential attacker.
Encrypt URLs before they are sent to clients, and ensure the original URLs or the directory structure are never exposed externally to prying eyes*. End users of the web applications interact and navigate the site using only encrypted URLs, which are decrypted by the WAF. The decryption process immediately identifies URL query or parameter tampering, malicious content injection or blind forceful browsing attacks.
* WAF models 660 and above
Using client source addresses, organizations can control access to web resources. The Barracuda Web Application Firewall can control access based on GeoIP to limit access only to specified regions. It is also integrated with the Barracuda Reputational Database and can identify suspicious IP addresses, bots, TOR networks and other anonymous proxies that are often used by attackers to hide their identity and location. Once an IP address is identified as a risk, administrators have the ability to block, limit, throttle, or issue a CAPTCHA challenge before allowing access.
Integrations: MaxMind
Integrate with Barracuda Vulnerability Manager, Cenzic Hailstorm, HPE Security WebInspect, HPE Security Fortify On Demand, or IBM AppScan to automatically configure an application’s security template and protect against identified issues. All of this is automatic using the output data from the scanners (without any administrator intervention).
Barracuda Web Application Firewall also integrates with over 20 vulnerability scanners via Denim Threadfix integration.
Seamless integration with Barracuda Advanced Threat Protection (BATP) to provide security against advanced threats. Simply add BATP to the Barracuda WAF to block advanced zero-hour threats. By analyzing files in a CPU-emulation based sandbox, it can detect, and block malware embedded deep inside files uploaded to websites or web applications.
In addition to HTTP and HTTPS traffic processing, Barracuda Web Application Firewall can also inspect FTP and FTPS traffic and can be configured to allow/deny specific FTP commands. It also provides inspection capabilities for application protocols like XML and JSON and can be configured to proxy HTTP2 as well as HTML5 websockets traffic.
Protect against advanced application-layer DDoS (SlowLoris, RUDY and Slow Read attacks) attacks which are different from volumetric ddos attacks with heuristic fingerprinting and IP reputation to identify real users from botnet. Secure against application DDoS using a variety of risk assessment techniques such as application-centric thresholds, protocol checks, session integrity, active and passive client challenges, historical client reputation block lists, geo-location, and anomalous idle-time detection.
Volumetric DDoS attacks are on the rise because the computational resources that are available to attackers make it very easy to launch full scale attacks that can bring an entire network down. Many times, the entry point for these attacks are web sites of organizations that bear the brunt of the load. Barracuda WAF offers a subscription-based DDoS protection cloud service that scrubs traffic before it reaches the intended websites. This allows the cloud service to identify patterns of DDOS attacks in the connections and block them.