Barracuda is getting into the Web application security business. The security vendor has acquired Santa Clara, California’s NetContinuum, a vendor of Web firewall appliances.

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Barracuda is getting into the Web application security business. The security vendor has acquired Santa Clara, California’s NetContinuum, a vendor of Web firewall appliances.

Barracuda already sells Web filtering devices that prevent Web surfers from visiting malicious sites, but the NetContinuum products can be used to protect Web sites themselves.

With about 80 employees, NetContinuum had been in business since 1999 selling pre-configured security servers, or appliances, that help protect sites from Web-based threats such as cross site scripting or SQL injection attacks.

Barracuda, which is best known for its spam filtering products, had actually concluded the purchase in mid-August, but it was not publicly disclosed at the time, said Dean Drako, the company’s president and CEO. Drako would not say what Barracuda paid for NetContinuum.

    * Protection against common attacks
    * Outbound data-theft protection
    * Web site cloaking
    * Advanced learning modes
    * Granular policies secure HTTP traffic
    * Traffic Management
    * SSL Acceleration

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