Barracuda Networks Honored in 2012 SC Magazine Reader Trust Awards
Campbell, Calif. March 1, 2012- Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security, application delivery and data protection solutions, today announced that it has won SC Magazine's 2012 Reader Trust Award for Best Enterprise Firewall. The announcement was made at the 15th annual SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, where Barracuda Networks is exhibiting.
Barracuda Networks won in the Best Enterprise Firewall category after proving the success and overall impact of the Barracuda NG Firewallto the Reader Trust Voting Panel, which is comprised of high-level IT security executives working for organizations across various markets. Products in the Enterprise Firewall category must be organizational firewalls, provide a mechanism to filter incoming and outgoing traffic based on port, protocol, source IP address, destination IP address and have the ability to terminate network traffic based on the aforementioned filtering criteria. Additionally, manageability, ease-of-use and scalability of the Firewall, as well as the customer service, were considered during the judging process.
"While the Barracuda NG Firewall has a rich heritage and
loyal customer following from its roots in Europe over 10
years ago, we are pleased with this recognition from the
SC Magazine Reader Trust panel as we have
brought this technology to the worldwide stage," said
Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for
Barracuda Networks. "As we have grown as a company,
beyond our roots in content security, we have been
excited to successfully extend our footprint into the
enterprise firewall arena."
"Our readers are on the front lines of information
security, and they have recognized Barracuda Networks'
Barracuda Web Security Flex and the Barracuda NG
Firewall as key tools for securing their organization,"
said Illena Armstrong, VP and editorial director, SC
Magazine. "Without leaders in innovation, like
Barracuda Networks, we would not be able to plan for the
future of enterprise security."
About the Barracuda NG Firewall
Beyond its powerful network firewall and VPN technologies, the Barracuda NG Firewall integrates a comprehensive set of next generation firewall technologies, including Layer 7 application profiling, intelligent traffic management, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, anti-virus, anti-spam and network access control.
The Barracuda NG Firewall has been shipping worldwide since February 2010 and is based on industry-leading technology, which has seen extensive adoption in many leading European enterprise organizations. Highlighted customers from the financial services, manufacturing and retail sectors include Hypo Group Estate Systems, EADS, Schenker DB, RHI and Strabag SE.
About Barracuda Networks Inc.
Barracuda Networks Inc. combines premises-based gateways
and software, cloud services, and sophisticated remote
support to deliver comprehensive security, networking and
data protection solutions. The company's expansive
product portfolio includes offerings for protection
against email, web and IM threats as well as products
that improve application delivery and network access,
message archiving and backup solutions. Coca-Cola, FedEx,
Harvard University, IBM, L'Oreal, and Europcar are
among the more than 130,000 organizations protecting
their IT infrastructures with Barracuda Networks' range
of affordable, easy-to-deploy and manage solutions.
Barracuda Networks is privately held with its
international headquarters in Campbell, Calif. For more
information, please visit www.barracudanetworks.com.
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