Are you Cloud Ready?

You have probably noticed that organisations are increasingly reviewing 'when' they move to the cloud, not 'if'. They understand the efficiency and scalability benefits cloud can bring to their applications and services, and are keen to take full advantage.

What they may not be thinking hard enough about, however, is how they are going to secure those applications and services once they are in the cloud.

Of course, the big public cloud providers, like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, secure their cloud platforms to protect them against breaches and service failures. But once you set up your own instance in a public cloud, it's up to you to make sure that doorway into your applications is secure — just as you do, when you run applications on physical hardware. 

Barracuda is right behind you!

In order to get cloud ready, you need to be ready to talk about cloud security, migrating to the cloud should encourage you to think differently about your security provider. 

At Barracuda, we have tools and information to help you get started and thinking about security in a new way. 

For example, we recently launched Barracuda’s unique new offering, ensuring you are ‘Cloud Ready’, with the introduction of a new bundle combining an on premise NextGen Firewall with a free of charge 90-day licence for the cloud equivalent. The bundle puts you in a position to take your first steps and test out applications in the cloud, without making an additional investment in a cloud security product. 

Now we have gone even further and expanded our Cloud Ready program to offer every organisation a free 90-day cloud license for Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda NextGen Firewall on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Azure).

These award-winning network and application security solutions are available as pay-as-you-go (PAYG) licenses directly through the AWS Marketplace and the Azure Marketplace. Barracuda’s Cloud Ready network and application security solutions can be natively deployed and fully integrated with AWS and Azure to amplify all the key benefits of the cloud through auto-scaling, templated configurations, bootstrapping, data-logging and more. 

Helping organisations to get cloud ready with Barracuda

At Barracuda, we are the leader in public cloud security, with award-winning firewalls available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. More than 50 of the Fortune 1000 companies trust Barracuda firewalls to protect and connect their cloud workloads and applications. As part of the shared security responsibility model, Barracuda products complement existing cloud services to allow customers to deploy a more robust security architecture and a seamless experience across cloud and on-premises environments.

For many organisations, moving to the cloud can start with a transition to Microsoft Office 365. Our security and data protection solution for Office 365 provides multiple layers of security and makes email archiving simple, in addition to cloud to cloud backup, including backing up SharePoint Online.

All in all, now is the perfect time to have the cloud security conversation, and make sure you are cloud ready.  Talk to the team at Barracuda, we were named 2016 Microsoft Azure Certified ISV Solution Partner of the Year, and we are a Microsoft Gold Application Development Partner. Additionally, we are an AWS APN Advanced Technology Partner and have achieved AWS Security Competency certification, which means our solutions are well architected and pre-qualified by AWS.

Read About Barracuda's Cloud Ready Program