Layer 8 and Barracuda Appliances

Layer 8 has extensive experience in all aspects of implementation design, installation, and maintenance of the full range of Barracuda’s award winning appliances.

Rated "best of class", Barracuda appliances are powerful, easy to use and affordable solutions for businesses that are looking to provide a security-focused approach to Web & SPAM filtering, IM Management and Load Balancing.

Reclaim your network with Barracuda products and Layer 8’s expertise by gaining enterprise-class results for small business prices.

Barracuda Spam Filter

The Barracuda Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution designed to protect your email server from spam, virus, spoofing, phishing and spyware attacks. It leverages 12 comprehensive defense layers to provide industry-leading defense capabilities for any email server within large corporate or small business environments.

As the #1 most widely used spam filtering appliance, and winner of numerous industry honors, leading organizations around the world continue to trust Barracuda Spam Firewalls for complete protection against Spam and its resource demanding consequences.

Barracuda Web Filter

The Barracuda Web Filter is designed to enforce organizational Internet usage policies through content filtering, application blocking, and best-of-breed spyware protection. It also facilitates automatic removal of spyware from previously infected Windows PC’s with the integrated Barracuda Spyware Removal Tool.

Having just received 5 of 5 stars, and SC Magazine’s “recommendation” for its performance, feature set, cost and ease of use, the Barracuda Web Filter is one content filtering solution that organizations of all sizes cannot afford to overlook.

Barracuda IM Filter

The Barracuda IM Firewall is the first complete IM solution to provide both IM Server and IM Gateway technologies to help organizations secure, log, and manage the use of instant messaging on their networks. The Barracuda IM Firewall is easy to set up and rollout to your users. Installing a unit inline takes just minutes. Once connected, all public IM traffic is captured and logged to an internal database. With an intuitive user interface for maintenance and monitoring, the Barracuda IM Firewall is a virtually administration-free solution.

Barracuda Load Balancer

Designed to achieve high availability and security objectives, the Barracuda Load Balancer integrates server load balancing and network intrusion prevention into an affordable and easy to use network appliance. For applications requiring persistence, the Barracuda Load Balancer can maintain state using client IP addresses or Layer 7 information such as client cookie, depending on model. It can also be used to provide Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) for multi-site redundancy.