Barracuda Firewall Insights

Managing data flow and analysis

To maintain security and seamless, uninterrupted connectivity, you have to constantly analyze a vast stream of real-time data. You need to respond rapidly to constantly varying inputs about network traffic, bandwidth usage, line integrity, and much more. It’s the only way to continuously assess the effectiveness of your security measures and WAN performance. But manual processing of this growing flow of data is error-prone and costly.

Barracuda Firewall Insights automates your information retrieval and data-processing tasks. You respond faster and more accurately to changing conditions, and virtually eliminate the costs and overhead of complying with auditing and reporting requirements.

All the insights you need, now

Barracuda’s advanced security analytics platform gives you status overviews for your entire WAN, including details and availability information on SD-WAN connections, transport details, security, and web- and network-traffic details. You get exactly the information you need—choose from more than one hundred predefined reports, including summary statements, for areas like safety and liability, network activity, web activity, security, and productivity. You can customize any analytics task for individual timeframes, and you can include all or just a subset of the deployed firewalls. This lets you easily grant policy-compliant access to information to all management levels within a secure and trusted environment.

Intuitive analytics—automatic generation and delivery

Creating comprehensive overviews that visualize how the CloudGen Firewall protects and connects your networks has never been easier. The graphical user interface lets you quickly select from hundreds of predefined analytics options. With automatic report generation, Barracuda Firewall Insights allows you to schedule, gather, consolidate, and analyze data produced by all Barracuda CloudGen Firewall appliances deployed in your network. Various output formats for paper or web-based publishing ensure that the most accurate, up-to-date information is available for your strategic business decisions. Barracuda Firewall Insights lets you define lists of recipients with various levels of granularity for each analytic result.

Real-time dashboards provide actionable intelligence

Barracuda Firewall Insights provides real-time dashboards for overall WAN status, SD-WAN tunnel details, security, and general network status. It delivers valuable insights by automatically analyzing real-time information and log streams from all Barracuda CloudGen Firewall appliances. This lets you respond rapidly and effectively to changing conditions in order to maintain optimal connectivity, security, and performance.

Available dashboards

• SD-WAN dashboard
• SD-WAN tunnel status dashboard
• Security and web traffic dashboard
• Network traffic dashboard

General report types

• Customizable reports
• On-demand reports
• Scheduled reports
• Administrative reports
• Advanced reports
• Predefined productivity reports
• Predefined web activity reports
• Predefined safety and liability reports
• Predefined network activity reports
• Predefined threat and security reports
• Predefined infection activity reports
• Predefined traffic reports

Report output formats

• PDF
• HTML
• CSV
• Text

Report delivery options

• Externals server (FTP or SMB)
• Email
• Browser

Report specifics

• CloudGen Firewall dashboard
• Overview of allowed and blocked sessions along with an explanation
• Threats overview by user, source, and destination
• Web activity and productivity: Categories, users, and domains accessed by number of requests, bandwidth, and browse time
• Summary reports
• Safety and liability
• Network activity
• Threat summary
• Web traffic summary
• Total usage
• Safety and liability reports (based on user and requests)
• Traffic to adult-rated sites
• Anonymizer sites
• File-sharing and P2P
• Intolerance and hate
• Spyware
• Violence and terrorism
• Based on user and requests

• Security reports by subtype (based on user, time, source IP, and destination)
• ATP
• IPS
• Virus
• Malware
• Spyware
• Blocked file content
• Web activity reports for
• Accessed categories
• Browse time
• Domains
• Users
• Policy actions
• User agents based on time of day, sessions, bandwidth requests, source, and user
• Productivity reports on requests, bandwidth, and browse time for
• Facebook
• Gaming
• Streaming
• YouTube users by requests, bandwidth, and browse time
• OT, IIoT and SCADA reports
• Traffic summary
• Traffic per protocol
• SCADA traffic per hour or day (S7, DNP3, Modbus, IEC60870-5-104 traffic)

Deployment

Barracuda Firewall Insights is available as a virtual image for KVM, VMWare, and Hyper-V with the following requirements: