Barracuda Web Application

Firewall: Secure High Business

Impact Applications
Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Every day, companies are moving more and more of their applications to the public cloud. However, exposing
these applications to the outside world makes them vulnerable to data breaches and defacement.

80%

of vulnerabilities are
web-based*

75%

of cyberattacks target
web applications**

Common malicious attacks:

SQL injection

12B

malicious ad
impressions per year+

$3.8M
average cost of
a breach++

Cross-site scripting

Application DDoS

*The SANS Institute. **Gartner. +Online Trust Alliance 2013. ++Ponemon Institute 2015.

Essential Protection for Web Applications

Extra protection necessary for companies:

With highly specialized LOB applications, such as manufacturing

Highly reliant on web traffic, such as digital marketing
Handling highly sensitive data, such as financial services
With specific compliance requirements, such as healthcare

Web Apps

Mobile Apps

API Apps

Best Practices
Pain points:
How can I meet regulatory and compliance requirements for my business-critical applications deployed in a
public cloud?
How do I protect my applications and services that reside in the cloud, such as SharePoint, ADFS, API services, etc?

Best practices:
Deploy Barracuda Web Application Firewall to protect High Business Impact Applications
Place a Barracuda Web Application Firewall in front of your application server to inspect traffic, preventing targeted
application attacks such as OWASP Top 10, Application DDoS attacks, Web Scraping and more
Provide an additional security layer for SharePoint. Integrate with ADFS, and provide SSO services
for maximum security
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How to Deploy Barracuda Web Application Firewall for SharePoint Applications
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Deploy a WAF or
a WAF instance

Configure VM

Configure your
Barracuda WAF
virtual machine
Deploy WAF

Expose Endpoints

Expose endpoints
directly through
the Barracuda Web
Application
Firewall

Configure Service

Monitor Traffic

Configure service
in WAF instance
Select pre-defined
SharePoint
security policy

Review traffic logs

Secure endpoints
and fine tune
SharePoint
security policy

Dynamic Scaling in Azure

Auto-Scaling Group

Server 1

Azure LB
Barracuda WAF Cluster

Dynamic Scaling

Protect multiple applications with single cluster of WAFs

Provide load balancing and maintaining persistence
for multiple servers
Scale Barracuda Web Application Firewall
as your needs increase or decrease
Protect Application 1 with N number of servers with
single cluster of WAF
Utilize classic (ASM) and resource manager
(ARM) environments

Server N

Web Application Firewall - Unified Security Platform for Your Web Applications

Comprehensive
Protection

Proactive Defense
Mechanism

Data Loss
Prevention

Transparent
Authentication

Protect sensitive information from

being exposed at the server
and control access based on location

With Geo-IP control, admins are able

to either deny or provide access to
certain geographies

Create custom patterns to prevent the

loss of sensitive data, such as social
security and credit card numbers

Single sign-on to multiple applications

improves employee productivity
by eliminating multiple
authentication sessions

Why Barracuda
Barracuda Networks, Inc., the leader in the security space, provides security and storage solutions to 150,000 companies globally.
Barracuda is the only security solutions provider that utilizes classic (ASM) and resource manager (ARM) environments.

Learn More

How to Publish and Secure SharePoint Apps in Azure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKJcmmLGV_o&list=PLax08icbJM__
v66PqG3vzXP6nB0z0WGUY&index=10

Secure High Business Impact HBI Application in Azure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Asqg1rV-UY&list=PLax08icbJM__v66PqG3vzXP6nB0z0WGUY&index=8

Hands-On Deployment of WAF to Secure SharePoint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4QDRFaU02o&list=PLax08icbJM__
v66PqG3vzXP6nB0z0WGUY&index=9

www.barracuda.com/products/webapplicationfirewall
www.barracuda/azure

Hands On Deployment of WAF to Secure your High Business Impact Applications

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyd-l8z6gYM&list=PLax08icbJM__v66PqG3vzXP6nB0z0WGUY&index=7

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