Barracuda Web Security and Filtering Reviews

The most valuable features are Barracuda's policies for filtering various websites according to the organization's policies and blocking traffic for any P2P application like torrents. We discourage torrents, though a lot of people want to use them. The torrent application doesn't require any admin privileges. You can run it on your system. Barracuda is good at blocking torrent activity.

Apart from that, considering other tier-one applications, like Next-Generation Firewall, they also have web security in-built within their appliances or applications. Barracuda is still lagging behind in features like that, so they need to update if they want to be in the top spot.

Other features I'd like to see in Barracuda Features are ease-of-use for remote users. If you are a roaming user using an organization laptop, the organization has the right to apply the policy. When you are on-premises, you are opening the policy, not out-of-premises. The application that Barracuda Web Security Gateway provides is pretty clumsy and not very easy to work with, and they need to develop that. Either they provide a test platform that redirects the traffic or vice versa.

Moreover, the database is pretty average. Barracuda needs to enhance the database to stop unsolicited traffic. Reporting also needs to be quicker than it is. Barracuda doesn't give you any flexibility to provide reports to higher management. Organizations like us need to do a lot of reporting. When we submit our quarterly report, other appliances allow us to customize or get the reports in a way Barracuda can't because it is rigid with its reporting. Barracuda needs to give users the flexibility to create their reports. The reports offered by the solution are just fine. Finally, acceleration. Right at this moment, most websites are dynamic. For example, organizational websites get updated once a month. If Barracuda can help reduce bandwidth usage and accelerate browsing performance by analyzing these sorts of sites and doing their catching technology work accordingly.

Barracuda should also include DNSSEC, which offers strong protection for web security and is offered by competitors. Barracuda should also up their game for scanning and sandboxing. Likewise, their signatures need augmented intelligence or machine learning because you won't always be able to appraise things, and sometimes you have to go beyond that. You need to block it through its behavior.

We use the solution for its web-based cybersecurity features.

The solution helps users with quick web filtering through the DNS portal. It allows them to filter, block, or restrict specific websites or URL paths. Also, it enables blocking a few users on Facebook and allowing particular users. They can access activity logs based on user, domain, categories, and locations to identify suspicious activity around the system.

Its reporting feature is easy to use, interactive, and multi-layered. The users can generate reports based on web activity and usage in terms of time. Also, it has in-built alerts to communicate in case of any issues. In addition, it integrates with many solutions, including Barracuda Firewall and Barracuda Email Security, etc.

We use Barracuda Web Security and Filtering to protect web applications on-prem and in the cloud.

I like the simplicity of the entire solution itself. The solution is very simple to use and implement. Barracuda Web Security and Filtering is a good product for simplicity and delivery.

We used Barracuda Web Security Gateway for web filtering.

I like that it does a lot of malicious content and is easy to manage. There are a lot of checkboxes, and you can add your own URLs or get it preconfigured.

I recently deployed a PDF version for a customer, the most recent one. 

What I found to be most fascinating and valuable are the filtering paths which provide similar access for allowing administrators to filter unwanted sites. 

Our primary use case for Barracuda Web Security Gateway is filtering our staff's web traffic and generating reports on their usage. It is a huge benefit to be able to see their user activity. It ensures that we can control which sites they visit and prevent any potential threats from web traffic.

I have found the most valuable the ability to have insight into our web traffic and control its flow.

We're using it for web filtering and blocking of sites that we don't want to allow traffic to. 

For the most part, it's working okay.

It's the ease of use in either blocking or whitelisting a web address. That is the plus.

I would have to say for the Web Filter, the best features for me are the application control, content filtering and the ease of use configurations. This helped because we needed to use of all of these in order to provide a secure solution against application threats and web content threats and we could configure the appliance to do this easily.

A good example would be that we needed anti malware and content filtering along with bandwidth management, the Barracuda solution helped me to consolidate this and optimize our network. We also found that with the granular control we could block things strategically and allow administrators to optimize our bandwidth usage. The Barracuda solution has improved the way we function by consolidating threat management and network optimization in one standalone appliance.