Overview
ManageEngine Log360 seamlessly integrates with Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF) to collect, parse, store, analyze, correlate, and archive its logs for effective log management, enhanced security visibility, threat detection, investigation, and compliance. With this capability of Log360, organizations can strengthen their cybersecurity posture while simplifying security operations and compliance reporting.
How Log360 collects and analyzes Barracuda WAF logs
Log360 simplifies Barracuda WAF log management by providing flexible collection methods and intelligent processing capabilities.
Collection methods:
- Syslog-based collection: Log360 collects logs from Barracuda WAF using syslog over UDP or TCP, typically over port 514. This agentless, standards-based approach ensures easy deployment across network environments for secure, real-time log forwarding.
Log360's Barracuda log ingestion capabilities
Log360 collects and analyzes Barracuda WAF logs from a variety of sources, offering comprehensive visibility into web application security and system activity:
- Access logs: Tracks all incoming HTTP requests, user interactions, URLs accessed, and response status codes.
- Firewall logs: Monitors actions related to blocking or allowing traffic based on WAF rules, rate limits, and geolocation policies.
- Threat detection logs: Captures alerts for attempted attacks, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other web threats. Includes logs related to intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS) events and antivirus detections performed by the WAF.
- Configuration change logs: Records administrative actions and policy changes, enabling change tracking and audit readiness.
- System logs: Provides insights into the operational health of the WAF, including performance metrics, uptime status, and hardware or software issues.
Barracuda WAF security events monitoring
Log360 tracks essential Barracuda WAF events, including:
- Web traffic analysis: Allowed, blocked, and filtered requests
- Alerts for detected threats and attacks: SQL injection, DDoS, XSS, IDS/IPS events, and antivirus detections
- Configuration changes and administrative actions: Changes made to WAF policies and settings
- System performance and operational status: Uptime metrics, resource utilization, and system health
- VPN logon events: Successful and failed remote access attempts
- Firewall account management events: User, admin, and group account activities
- Firewall policy and rule changes: Modifications to access control and security rules
Key benefits of Barracuda WAF monitoring
- Web layer threat visibility: Gain centralized insights into threats targeting your web applications—such as SQL injections and protocol violations—captured by Barracuda WAF.
- Application layer auditing: Track user sessions, blocked or allowed requests, and abnormal access patterns to strengthen application layer security posture.
- Configuration change monitoring: Detect and audit critical configuration or policy changes on the WAF that could expose applications to risk.
- Cross-platform threat correlation: Correlate Barracuda WAF events with logs from other sources (e.g., firewalls and servers) to uncover multi-stage attack campaigns.
- Compliance support: Capture and retain WAF activity logs essential for demonstrating compliance with standards like the PCI DSS, HIPAA, and the GDPR.
- Custom alerting and dashboards: Build alerts and visualizations around WAF traffic patterns, security events, or policy violations for focused security operations.
Addressing key Barracuda WAF security challenges
| Challenges |
How Log360 helps |
| Web application security monitoring |
Log360 continuously monitors and analyzes web traffic, enabling real-time detection and mitigation of malicious attacks targeting web applications. |
| Regulatory compliance |
Automates audit trails, generates compliance reports, and maintains detailed logs of firewall configurations and access events to support standards like the PCI DSS. |
| Incident response and forensics |
Provides contextual log analysis to quickly identify attack vectors, correlate Barracuda WAF events with other sources, and accelerate security investigations. |
The Log360 advantage: Beyond Barracuda WAF logs
Log360’s true power lies in its unified platform approach. By integrating Barracuda WAF logs with other data sources, Log360 offers:
- Cross-platform correlation: Correlate Barracuda WAF logs with logs from other security devices, systems, and applications (e.g., firewalls, servers, and databases).
- Integrated UEBA: Enhance detection of sophisticated insider threats with user and entity behavior analytics.
- Threat intelligence: Automatically enrich Barracuda WAF logs with global threat feeds to identify malicious IP addresses, domains, and other indicators.
- Centralized management: Manage, analyze, and report on all security logs from a unified console.
Explore Barracuda WAF use cases
See detailed examples of how Log360 captures and analyzes Barracuda WAF logs to deliver actionable insights into web application security and firewall behavior.
