Local university looks to US-based IT Security brand for continuous Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection; Economic deployment model cited as Barracuda’s key selling point
KUALA LUMPUR, March 20, 2013 - Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), one of the fastest growing engineering universities in Malaysia, today announced that it had procured the Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF) from Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading US-based provider of security and storage solutions.
This procurement of the IT security is an upgrade from UniMAP’s initial instalment of the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall in 2008.
According to Nasrudin Abd Shukor, Director of UniMAP’s Information and Communication Technology Centre (ICT), the upgrade to Barracuda WAF was necessary to fortify the university’s protection for its information system.
“On average - every hour of the day, we were being subjected to five to 10 SQL injection attacks that were becoming a high risk to our confidential data. We needed a solution that could secure our network performance, scalability and ensure non-interruption for constant and reliable online access.”
UniMAP’s investment to upgrade to Barracuda WAF was completed in December 2012.
Thiban Darmalingam, Regional Manager for Barracuda in Malaysia.
In the past decade, UniMAP’s enrolment has increased by a massive 25 percent to the current 8000 students. The university required a solution that would be able to cater to its constantly growing faculty and student population across 30 different campuses.
“We decided to continue to engage Barracuda as they took the time to understand our security needs, recommended the right technology that suited our environment and continuously provided us with expert, helpful, and friendly support whenever we needed it,” explained Nasrudin.
An Economic Model for Future Growth
Besides Barracuda WAF’s state-of-the-art security architecture provided the much needed blocks for continuous cyber-attacks, malware and virus attacks; the ‘No Per-User / Per-Server fees’ was a key value to UniMAP as this procurement model for the IT security solution ensures that the university’s growing population does not create an inhibiting cost in the future.
“Barracuda was an obvious choice for us as the solution’s reverse-proxy architecture and single point protection ensured we had a high level of security for all our inbound and outbound Internet traffic as well as peer-to-peer interactions. The WAF’s real-time interface enables our team to easily manage and monitor all web applications across our network,” says Nasrudin.
Thiban Darmalingam, the Regional Manager for Barracuda in Malaysia says, “Barracuda has over 150,000 customers around the world, giving us incredible visibility to the changing threat landscape. Each day, thousands of new threats are discovered by our security analysis team, and our experts’ work 24x7 to monitor and block the latest Internet threats within minutes of discovery, WAF users will receive Energize Updates that will instantly deliver the needed protection to block these serious threats.”
He shares that WAF was suggested to UniMAP after a series of discussions and analysis on the current and future needs of the university.
“We wanted to make sure that their investment today will not burden the ever growing university while at the same time provided them with one of the best future-proof security solutions available in the market today,” he ends.
To learn more about Barracuda Networks web application delivery solutions, please visit https://www.barracudanetworks.com/waf.
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