Barracuda Secure Connector receives 2022 IoT Evolution Industrial IoT Product of the Year Award

We are excited to share that Barracuda has received a 2022 IoT Evolution Industrial IoT Product of the Year Award from IoT Evolution World.

The Barracuda Secure Connector IOT security solution has been honored for exceptional innovation. “The solutions selected for the Industrial IoT Product of Year Awards represent the diverse range of innovation driving the multi-billion dollar IoT market today. It is my honor to congratulate Barracuda for their innovative work and superior contribution to the rapidly evolving IoT industry,” said Moe Nagle, Senior Editor for IoT Evolution World.

At Barracuda we strive to build world-class security solutions for industrial IoT and operational technology use cases. Being awarded as the only IT firewall vendor proves that we have the right solution to meet the industry’s requirements with the benefit of a scalable solution that can easily manage thousands of edge devices and the full next generation firewall security feature set based on 20 years of experience in the market.

About Secure Connector

The ultra-compact Barracuda Secure Connector appliance reliably connects remote devices via multiple uplinks for uninterrupted operation. This makes it easy to securely and easily connect industrial internet of things (IIoT) devices and micro-networks to a corporate data center or public cloud. With the Barracuda solution, thousands of Secure Connector appliances securely connect to a Barracuda CloudGen Firewall or the CloudGen WAN service in Microsoft Azure, where the security policy  including application control, SCADA protocol detection, virus scanning and IPS, and  even advanced threat protection is enforced.

At the same time each Secure Connector provides easy-to-deploy edge computing capabilities especially for industrial use cases. By combining connectivity, security, and edge compute capabilities, the Barracuda solution solves the main challenges of today’s industrial IoT projects. Barracuda customers have already successfully deployed thousands of Secure Connectors to enable predictive maintenance, supervision of building management systems, power grid monitoring, device consolidation, and even prefiltering of log data to avoid cloud ingress cost, just to name a few.

Firewall Control Center manages the configuration of all Secure Connectors, licenses and updates centrally, and provides scalability without security headaches.

Read more about the solution here.

What our customers think

We wanted to share an example of an IoT deployment with Barracuda Secure Connector. Our customer TEST-FUCHS is a specialist in tailor-made test systems and is a manufacturer of components for civil and military aerospace applications. They securely connect stationary and mobile test equipment and also protect their own operational technology in manufacturing using Barracuda solutions.

“Barracuda Secure Connector solutions made it easy for us to implement device connectivity and IoT-platform connectivity across our products.” said Ulrich Poeschl, Chief Information Security Officer at TEST-FUCHS.

Get the full case study here.