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Publishing SharePoint Server with Barracuda’s Application Delivery Controller The most cost-effective, integrated solution for secure, scalable, and efficient application delivery.
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Barracuda Networks Publishing Sharepoint Server with Barracuda’s Application Delivery Controller
Introduction Your company’s SharePoint Server document folders contain a great deal of corporate knowledge, ranging from simple meeting notes to highly-sensitive intellectual property. Some of it you’d like to share externally, but it would be distastrous if other pieces leaked. Publishing SharePoint sites, libraries, and applications can enable new levels of collaboration with business partners, and deliver productivity gains for both local and remote employees. However, when deploying an extranet or another external sharing resource, careful attention must be paid to ensure that only the right information is disclosed under appropriate circumstances. Without policies, content inspection, and infrastructure protection, open-access could turn into a compliance nightmare. The Application Delivery Controller The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC enables organizations to add scalability, redundancy, and security to applications in their data centers with a single, integrated and cost-effective platform. When used for controlling application delivery, it provides secure SharePoint Server access, high-performance and availability for multiple concurrent users, and granular policy control for filtering and protecting application traffic and content—all without breaking the IT budget. The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC will: • Enable granular policy enforcement for filtering and inspecting content • Deliver comprehensive application-layer security designed for SharePoint • Ensure that only authorized (authenticated) users can access company resources via SharePoint Server or Exchange Server frontend services (Office Web App servers) • Ensure content integrity by encrypting connections between the gateway, the server, and the client • Reduce IT administration overhead with easy-to-use tools • Protect fundamental IT infrastructure from attack via intrusions, exploits, or vulnerabilities with antivirus/anti-malware on incoming and outgoing content (file upload/download controls) Highlights Integrated platform for secure application delivery Enable higher employee productivity with unified, secure, and reliable remote access to corporate applications and data without exposing your IT infrastructure to attack. • Integrated secure application access solution • Constant protection from evolving threats • Comprehensive Data Loss Prevention (DLP) High performance in demanding environments Take full advantage of your enterprise network throughput and enable business continuity through high-performance services built on a scalable, high-availability architecture. • Continuous application service availability • Increased network performance and reliability • Accelerated remote access Easy to deploy and manage Reduce datacenter costs with simplified administration tools that help prevent exploits resulting from firewall misconfiguration. • Flexible, compliant all-in-one deployment • Simplify complex security management tasks • Cost-effective for businesses of all sizes
Barracuda Networks Publishing Sharepoint Server with Barracuda’s Application Delivery Controller
Secure Application Delivery Enhance productivity with SharePoint Server access. Provide employees, partners, and customers with high-performance, secure, and continuously available remote access to SharePoint Servers through the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC. Granular content controls and policy-based inspection on application and data traffic will help your organization maintain regulatory compliance by preventing unauthorized information usage. You’ll be able to block malicious threats with comprehensive network and application-layer security, anti-virus scanning, and protection from advanced attacks (such as the OWASP Top-10). Automated tools and templates simplify access configuration and integration with enterprise-class SIEM platforms helping administrators operate high-reliability infrastructure. With flexible deployment options that include globally-distributed load-balancing, clustering, and real-time traffic routing, users will never be without their critical enterprise information. SECURE • Native support for secure remote access to Microsoft Sharepoint Server with customizable protocol filtering and automated publishing rules. • Prevents layered attacks in email and document transfers by decrypting SSL content on-the-fly, performing deep application-layer inspection, and then re-encrypting the session. • Provides integrated zero-day protection against exploits and vulnerabilities with real-time anti-virus scanning, intrusion prevention, and network/web application firewall capabilities. SCALABLE • Optimizes traffic for content-heavy Microsoft applications such as SharePoint with server-farm load balancing, content-based routing, caching, and compression. • Adds performance and redundancy to geographically distributed SharePoint Server deployments through Global Server Load Balancing, high availability clustering, and scalable appliance hardware options. EFFICIENT • Easily integrates with established Microsoft infrastructure management processes—including Microsoft System Center—through support for Syslog, SNMP, and a web-based dashboard. • A unified console with comprehensive monitoring and automated reporting helps administrators build compliant remote access architectures for a wide variety of deployment scenarios, while simplifying overall management when publishing multiple Microsoft applications.
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Barracuda Networks Publishing Sharepoint Server with Barracuda’s Application Delivery Controller
Enterprise-Class Capabilities Unified, secure application access over reliable, scalable, and high-performance network services. Secure and reliable web-based access from any browser or device • Enable greater productivity with secure and appropriate access to application and data platforms from any location or device, without increasing your IT complexity. • Avoid service disruptions and protect your critical infrastructure from sophisticated Internet attacks with advanced application layer security that blocks evolving threats before they reach your network. • Prevent sensitive information from leaving your organization using comprehensive and granular content protection that helps you maintain regulatory compliance. Robust network and application-layer protection • Enhance application reliability and availability through integrated load balancing to provide high value IT services while controlling the integrity and flow of sensitive information. • Scale application and network services as your IT needs dictate with an advanced architecture that adds redundancy and easily handles changes in business conditions. • Accelerate users’ access using globally-distributed infrastructure with powerful hardware and software technologies for managing and optimizing network performance. Scalability and availability for application and network services • Deploy unified application acceleration and security where it matters most—close to the application resources—with flexible options that enable the application access you need at a cost you can afford. • Avoid costly downtime resulting from attacks or security breaches with easy-to-use tools that can help you reduce firewall configuration errors. • Reduce your overall IT costs with competitively priced solutions that are easier to use and maintain, resulting in lower training and management efforts.
Application Delivery with Barracuda Designed for today’s high-traffic data centers, the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is a high-performance application delivery controller that combines application acceleration, availability, and control with advanced security capabilities. Deployed by thousands of organizations worldwide, the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is a robust, proven solution that manages and secures billions of application transactions daily. It’s available as a multiport platform with fiber and copper network interfaces, as well as a virtual appliance. To learn more about upgrading your Forefront TMG installation to Barracuda’s Application Delivery Controller solution, visit www.barracuda.com/ADC. Or call 1-408-342-5400 or 1-888-268-4772 (US & Canada) to request a free 30-day trial.
About Barracuda Networks, Inc. Protecting users, applications, and data for more than 150,000 organizations worldwide, Barracuda Networks has developed a global reputation as the go-to leader for powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions. The company’s proven customer-centric business model focuses on delivering high-value, subscription-based IT solutions for security and data protection. For additional information, please visit www.barracuda.com.
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