This Add-On Subscription enables the following advanced security capabilities on the Barracuda Web Application Firewall's hourly (PAYG) instances

Barracuda Advanced Bot Protection

More than half of internet traffic is generated by automated bots. A significant part of this automated traffic is malicious – either bots that scrape and steal your data for profit, or automated attacks to compromise your web applications. Protect your websites from content scraping, data theft, and non-human traffic that slows the overall availability of your web applications. The Barracuda WAF advanced bot detection technologies can distinguish between bad bots from good bots. Advanced Bot Protection uses cloud based machine learning to provide bot spam detection, credential stuffing prevention, request risk scoring and client finger printing.

Barracuda Advanced Threat Protection

Malicious actors utilize file upload feature of web applications to inject files containing malware. Secure your web applications against malware infected files by validating file uploads against Barracuda Advanced Threat Protection service. Barracuda ATP is a multi-layered service that we add to our security platforms. These layers combine behavioral and heuristic technologies to protect against zero-hour and targeted attacks.