Jon's Network

Barracuda Networks has acquired Purewire, which offers a web security service. This will be the second service product Barracuda offers, the first being their backup service.

I had never heard of Purewire until today. There are a couple of demos about their web security service available here. They offer the same protection strategy as something like McAfee’s Web Gateway (Webwasher) but probably with less management overhead. In my experience, Webwasher was only a good fit for a large shop with the resources to fiddle with it all the time. With Purewire, Barracuda may be able to offer state-of-the-art web filtering to customers of all sizes with a “turn-key” implementation and management.

There are many, many alternatives for a web security service, but none with the marketing footprint of Barracuda, so this should be good.

via Securosis