Barracuda Application Protection closes cloud security gaps for Sarpi Veolia

Sarpi Veolia is a large European company specializing in the treatment and recovery of hazardous waste, with many sites spread across the continent. Eddy Edouard, the company’s Head of Cybersecurity and Network, is leading its push to achieve a “Zero Data Center” architecture — in other words, to transition IT and data storage entirely to the cloud.

In the process, Eddy wanted to ensure improved security across all his systems.

“We need to secure our exposed resources, customer extranets, but above all keep good visibility on threats and attacks.”

— Eddy Edouard

As a longtime customer using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall to secure and optimize network connectivity, Eddy and his team decided to look into Barracuda Application Protection to provide additional security.

“We have been attacked in the past. Hackers ravaged two of our websites, and even though we had backups, it took us a week to check all the logs and make sure that the platform had not been compromised further. At the time, it was difficult to know where the attacks were coming from.”

— Eddy Edouard

Eye-opening proof-of-concept

Eddy suspected that they must be receiving more attacks, but he had no visibility into the nature or scale of the threat. So, he was surprised when, during a POC for Barracuda Application Protection, the product revealed a very large volume of attacks, of many different types, including brute-force, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), and SQL injections.

Following extensive penetration testing, Eddy’s team approved the purchase of a Barracuda Application Protection license and put the solution into full production.

“Thanks to Barracuda Application Protection, we can confidently put resources online that were previously only available internally. They are protected, and their access is limited to specific resources. And in our day-to-day work, we only have to deal with alerts.”

— Eddy Edouard

Check out the complete case study to find out about the full range of benefits that Sarpi Veolia enjoyed, from reduced IT overhead to improved peace of mind. And see how Barracuda Application Protection became a critical part of securing the company’s full-scale migration to the cloud.