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Connect your Barracuda Web Application Firewall so Myrmex can read its configuration, review its security services, help you tune protection, and — with approval — apply changes. Myrmex reaches the appliance’s REST API through a Collector on your network, in real time.

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What Myrmex Can Do

Read & troubleshoot

Query services, security policies, protected applications, and health on demand — read-only diagnostics.

Hardening audit

Run a Security Posture audit against the WAF’s configuration.

Protection tuning

Review rule sets and security policies, and propose adjustments to reduce false positives.

Change on approval

Apply policy and service changes through the REST API, with your approval.

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Before You Start

  • A Collector deployed on a network that can reach the Barracuda WAF management interface over HTTPS. See Deploying the agent.
  • The REST API enabled on the WAF, and the management port confirmed (default 8000).
  • An administrator account Myrmex can use to authenticate (a read-only role is enough for analysis; a read-write role is required to apply changes).

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Step 1 — Create the Credential in Barracuda

The credential Myrmex needs is a WAF administrator username and password, used to obtain a REST API session token.
1

Enable the REST API

In the WAF web interface, open ADVANCED → System Configuration, show the advanced settings, and enable the REST API. Note the management port (default 8000).
2

Choose or create an admin account

Use an existing administrator, or add a dedicated one scoped to what Myrmex should do — a read-only role for analysis, or a read-write role to allow changes.
3

Record the credentials

Note the username and password — you’ll enter them in Myrmex.
Prefer least privilege: start with a read-only account, and only grant read-write once you want the agents to apply changes.

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Step 2 — Add the Integration in Myrmex

From the Directory, choose Add Integration → Barracuda WAF, then fill in:

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Connect

Click Connect to validate the REST API session and finish. The Barracuda WAF then appears under Environment → Integrations, and you can start asking Hydra about it in the Workspace.
Your credentials are stored securely and resolved server-side — they never pass through the AI, and Myrmex reads the appliance on demand rather than storing its data.