Barracuda Adds Analytics to Secure SD-WAN

Barracuda today added analytics to its next-generation firewall that also includes SD-WAN capabilities. The new security analytics platform, Firewall Insights, ingests and analyzes information from all Barracuda CloudGen Firewalls deployed in an organization’s network — hardware, virtual, or cloud-based deployments. “This could be hundreds or thousands of locations,” said Mike Goldgof, senior director of product marketing at Barracuda. And then it provides insights including dynamic availability information on SD-WAN connections, transport data, security, and web- and network-traffic details. The platform also includes automation for tasks like scheduling, gathering, consolidating, and analyzing data produced by these firewall appliances. And users can customize reports that can include all or just a subset of the deployed firewalls.The new analytics extends Barracuda’s capabilities when it comes to securing SD-WAN, Goldgof said. The company’s CloudGen Firewall, launched in 2017, provides both connectivity over WANs and connectivity to the cloud as well as next-generation firewall capabilities.