Availability, uptime, and the ability to deliver application traffic securely without impacting the user experience is a critical requirement for application teams.
As applications grow in size and complexity, organizations need a comprehensive platform that can offer these capabilities and integrate into DevOps environments.
Deliver your applications securely
With SSL/TLS Offload, and the ability to customize ciphers and present a secure HTTPS front end, Barracuda Application Protection can secure your application traffic no matter where your application is hosted.
Enable continuous delivery with ease
The built-in Content Routing capabilities enable application teams to easily perform blue-green and canary rollouts without impacting application uptime.
Optimize and speed up application traffic
The built-in Content Delivery Network and features like caching and compression help application teams optimize their traffic and speed up delivery, improving customer experience.
“The solution has been fantastic. It’s automatically inspecting incoming requests and blocking malicious ones, but it’s also acting as a load balancer to keep site performance up.”
Ensure protocol security for your applications.
Barracuda Application Protection includes a hardened SSL/TLS stack that provides a secure HTTPS front end to your applications. With pre-built templates, you can immediately set up secure TLS ciphers and protocols for standards compliance with ease. In addition to HTTPS, Barracuda Application Protection can also offer a secure front end for HTTP/2 and WebSockets services.
Older applications often cannot be upgraded to support the latest protocols and ciphers. As a reverse proxy, Barracuda Application Protection can provide a secure front end with the latest protocols and offload this functionality from the applications, improving security while reducing performance overheads.
Reduce latency and improve customer experience.
Barracuda Application Protection comes with built-in load balancing, connection pooling, caching, compression, and content-routing capabilities. It also offers a Content Delivery Network (CDN) with over 100 points of resence (PoPs). All these capabilities ensure that traffic is served by the PoP closest to your clients with low latencies, and reduce the load on your applications. The end result is a significantly improved customer experience.
Enable secure access to your applications everywhere.
To ensure that only authorized personnel can access your application backends and data, Barracuda Application Protection solutions integrate with AD, LDAP, SAML, JWT, OpenID, and RADIUS, giving you granular control over which users and groups can access what data.
- SAML support provides a seamless single-sign-on (SSO) experience across your on-premises and cloud-hosted applications.
- Multi-factor authentication integrates with RSA SecureID, SMS PASSCODE, Duo, and others.
- Integration with Barracuda CloudGen Access provides zero-trust network access for added access control.
Automate and orchestrate application delivery and security.
Barracuda Application Protection integrates with many popular third-party DevOps tools to ensure CI/CD processes are fully automated. Full-featured REST API seamlessly integrates with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Azure ARM, AWS CloudFormation, and more. In addition, the content routing module further enables CI/CD rollout options such as blue-green deployments, canary rollouts and A/B testing. Barracuda Application Protection’s REST API is built on OpenAPI specifications, making it easy to create automation scripts, and the official GitHub page has code samples for popular platforms and use cases.
