CENTRAL NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service

Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service offers Advanced Bot Protection that uses machine learning to continually improve its ability to spot and block bad bots and human-mimicking bots — while allowing legitimate human and bot traffic to proceed with minimal impact.

Features

• OWASP Top 10 Protection
• API Protection
• Advanced Bot Protection
• Virtual Patching
• Reporting & Analytics
• Load Balancing
• Chaching and Compression
• Traffic Encryption
• Authorization
• CAPTCHA Challenges

Benefits

• OWASP Top 10 Protection
• API Protection
• Advanced Bot Protection
• Virtual Patching
• Reporting & Analytics
• Load Balancing
• Chaching and Compression
• Traffic Encryption
• Authorization
• CAPTCHA Challenges

• Education pricing available
• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at Sales@centralnetworks.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

245516591455868

Contact

Tamar Waite
01706747474
Sales@centralnetworks.co.uk

About your service

• Service categories:

  Applications

  Production and operations

  • Other operations
• Multi cloud support: No

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: Service is based on license model
• System requirements:
  • Per application license
  • Bandwidth allocation
  • Access to communicate with backend web server / system

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support response times: 4 hour response SLA
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Yes
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web chat support is accessible: Log and update Tickets, view incident information.
• Web chat accessibility testing: N/A
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: All Barracuda SaaS software comes with 24x7x365 support services included with the service. Premium support can be purchased at additional cost; https://assets.barracuda.com/assets/docs/dms/Barracuda_Premium_Support.pdf"
• Support available to third parties: Yes
• AI chatbot: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: All Barracuda customer have access to Barracuda Campus which documents both how to use the system and gives access to self paced video training. Customer may also purchase Professional Services direct from Barracuda to support installation and delivery of the solution. Professional Services are an additional cost.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: At end of contract Barracuda will destroy any data held within the system within 90 days of license expiry. If customer would like to extract data contract Barracuda Support or Account Manager to discuss options. Professional Services charges may apply for data extraction
• End-of-contract process: At end of contract Barracuda will destroy any data held within the system within 90 days of license expiry. If customer would like to extract data contract Barracuda Support or Account Manager to discuss options. Professional Services charges may apply for data extraction
• Documentation accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the documentation is accessible: At end of contract Barracuda will destroy any data held within the system within 90 days of license expiry. If customer would like to extract data contract Barracuda Support or Account Manager to discuss options. Professional Services charges may apply for data extraction

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
  • Other
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: No
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: All Barracuda customers have access to Barracuda Campus which documents both how to use the system and gives access to self paced video training. Customer may also purchase Professional Services direct from Barracuda to support installation and delivery of the solution. Professional Services are an additional cost.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: Yes
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Barracuda WAF as a Service has multiple monitoring mechanisms in place to ensure resilliance of services with auto scale capabilties. This ensures as load varies on the platform the correct services are allocated to ensure performance for each customer and across the platform.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Powerful graphical reporting provides immediate insight into threat activity, web traffic and regulatory compliance. More than 50 different pre-defined reports are available, which can be easily customized further, using numerous filters for attack types, traffic, time range, and more.; ; Generated reports are interactive, with drill-down capability. Reports span PCI compliance, security, audit, web traffic and geo-location analytics. They can be generated on-demand, or scheduled for periodic delivery to multiple recipients over email or FTP.
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
• Resource tagging: No
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Barracuda

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: None

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: No
• Datacentre security standards: Supplier-defined controls
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CREST-approved service provider
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: In-house destruction process
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Customers have the ability to export data user by user or may request services from Barracuda for bulk export
• Data export formats: Other
• Other data export formats: ZIP format
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats: ZIP format

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Barracuda Networks supply a service with an SLA of 99.9%. See link for latest SLA documentation; ; https://assets.barracuda.com/assets/docs/dms/Barracuda_WAFaaS_SLA_US.pdf
• Approach to resilience: Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service is designed and built with resillence in mind. Further Information is available upon request.
• Outage reporting: Customer may subscribe to outage notifications via SMS and Email for the relevant services. They can also view the outage status by visiting https://status.barracuda.com

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Other user authentication: Authentication is required to access the platform. This can be username and password with inbuilt MFA or syncronised with Azure AD
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Accsses is based on username and password with MFA. Access to functions is controlled via RBAC.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Description of management access authentication: Authentication is required to access the platform. This can be username and password with inbuilt MFA or syncronised with Azure AD

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards:
  • CSA CSM version 4.0
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
• Other security governance standards: SOC 2 Type 2
• Information security policies and processes: Please see below for overview of security standards; ; https://assets.barracuda.com/assets/docs/dms/Barracuda-WAF-as-a-Service-Security-Overview.pdf
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Details around policies and procedures are not published to the public. Information can be requested during procurment if required
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: Details around policies and procedures are not published to the public. Information can be requested during procurment if required
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: Details around policies and procedures are not published to the public. Information can be requested during procurment if required
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: If Barracuda becomes aware of any unlawful access to any Customer Data stored on Barracuda’s equipment or in Barracuda’s facilities that results in the loss, disclosure or alteration of Customer Data (each a “Security Incident”), Barracuda will promptly (1) notify Customer of the Security Incident; (2) investigate the Security Incident; and (3) take reasonable steps to mitigate the effects of, and minimize any damage resulting from, the Security Incident.; ; Customer must notify Barracuda promptly of any possible misuse of its accounts or authentication credentials or any security incident related to a Cloud Service.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: 7-14 days free trial - all features unlocked
• Link to free trial: https://www.barracuda.com/products/webapplicationfirewall#sticky-lead-h

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 0.25%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 0.5%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 0.75%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 1%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 1.25%
• Over £5,000,001: 1.5%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Citation
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Monday 19 May 2025
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: None
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification: Citation
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Friday 3 January 2025
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: None
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 79646496-1330-4827-b087-691615c42291
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: 106b321e-346f-4e5c-abd9-51b4fc523fa0
• Other security certifications: No

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

    • Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at Sales@centralnetworks.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.