Tag: Barracuda

Barracuda’s email system exploited for seven months

Posted on June 1, 2023 by - News

Barracuda Networks has disclosed that a zero-day vulnerability in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances had been exploited for at least seven months.

According to Barracuda’s investigators, the vulnerability CVE-2023-2868 was first exploited in October 2022 to introduce backdoors into some ESG appliances, allowing attackers to gain continued access to the devices. Barracuda’s investigations discovered that information had been stolen from some of the compromised appliances.

The security flaw was not spotted until 19 May, when suspicious traffic emanated from some ESG appliances. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant helped find the vulnerability and all ESG appliances were patched on 20th May, with attackers’ access to the compromised devices blocked on 21 May.

Barracuda merges MSP and channel partner programmes

Posted on May 12, 2023 by - News

Barracuda is merging its MSP and channel partner programmes.

The outfit’s VP of partner ecosystems Jason Beal said many vendors in the industry had legacy programmes that were tailored to a resale business.

Using diversified partner models enabled the creation of a global programme that recognised partners who are reselling technology and providing professional services, those that are serve up managed services or co-managed models.

Barracuda wanted to update the programme to recognise this diversification of its business models, he said.

Barracuda snaps up Billante

Posted on December 16, 2022 by - News

Barracuda Networks has appointed Joe Billante as its new chief financial officer after half-inching him from eBay.

Billante has been at eBay for 13 years in several businesses, finance, and analytics executive leadership roles.

Before this Billante spent 11 years at General Electric in several finance roles, including CFO for a $1bn international division of GE Healthcare.

Barracuda CEO Hatem Naguib said: “We are excited to have Joe on our team, with his deep expertise in business strategy, financial integrity, stakeholder engagement, and operational excellence.”

Barracuda warns that digital transformation requires better security

Posted on May 23, 2022 by - News

Barracuda president and CEO Hatem Naguib said that his outfit’s moves in the digital transformation industry have been validated over the lat two years.

He said that digital transformation made customers realise that traditional security was not cutting the mustard and they needed a much more elevated level of security. ”

Speaking to the gathered throngs at Barracuda Discover22 Naguib said that the market has “fundamentally changed”.

“Customer’s environments have become far less centralised and far more distributed. Now they have to worry about cloud access, individuals being at home and having an online presence. Nobody buys on-prem software anymore’ and there is a proliferation of SaaS and SASE,” he said.

KKR snaps up Barracuda

Posted on April 13, 2022 by - News

Private equity powerhouse KKR is acquiring email security provider Barracuda Networks from another private equity outfit, Thoma Bravo.

Barracudafocuses on serving small- and medium-sized enterprises with a broad suite of cybersecurity offerings, including email protection, application security, network security and data protection. It also has a partner program for MSPs. Barracuda, founded in 2003, has about 200,000 customers worldwide, according to a company press release.

Barracuda acquires SKOUT security

Posted on July 2, 2021 by - News

Cloudy Barracuda Networks has snapped up SKOUT Cybersecurity, which provides cyber-as-a-service software for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and provider of an extended detection and response (XDR) platform and service.

The idea is that Barracuda can enter the fast-growing XDR market with a solution optimised for MSPs. Barracuda recently bought Zero Trust Access provider Fyde and all this adds to Barracuda’s prior integrations with Open XDR platforms.

Barracuda  Senior Vice President and General Manager Brian Babineau said: “MSPs must be able to protect their customers’ end users, their devices, and the data they are accessing with these devices against increasingly sophisticated threats. To achieve this level of protection for their customers, and themselves, MSPs are transforming their businesses into ”security-centric” operations.”

Remote work and security is the new black, says Barracuda

Posted on June 25, 2021 by - News

A global survey of 419 managed service providers (MSPs) conducted by Barracuda Networks finds that remote work and security are emerging as a primary driver of new business in the last year.

A full 85 percent of MSPs said there was an opportunity to grow their business in 2021 because the overall market was not saturated. More than half of MSPs (59 per ent) have expanded their services portfolios in the past 12 months, with some security service being the most frequently added.

Backup and recovery (90 percent), endpoint security (82 percent), email security (80 percent) and network security (80 percent) are the top four managed services most commonly provided, with email security, endpoint protection and network security among the services in highest demand in 2021, according to survey respondents. However, since the start of the pandemic, backup and recovery (48 percent), business applications (39 percent) and email security (39 percent) are cited as seeing the most increase in demand.

In terms of new opportunities, 90 percent of the respondents cited remote work as their most lucrative opportunity, followed by security at 80 pe cent, the survey finds.

Lots of opportunities for MSPs, says Barracuda

Posted on June 1, 2021 by - News

There are shedloads of opportunities coming up for MSPs in the coming year, according to a Barracuda report.

Barracuda’s The Evolving Landscape of the MSP Business report, claims that the appetite for managed services is stronger than ever, with many survey respondents identifying managed services as the biggest sales opportunity in the coming year.

The report said that that to seize this opportunity, MSPs can identify areas in which to focus their growth and expand their offerings. This is particularly key for those that are in the early stages of their journey or those that were forced down a specific route due to the demands of the pandemic.

Barracuda spoke to more than 400 partners from across the globe, with the combined answers indicating similar challenges for MSPs worldwide when it comes to service provisioning and meeting the complex needs of their customers. Data from the study also indicates that security remains the number one concern for customers and the leading driver for seeking out managed services.

Barracuda improves managed services

Posted on March 15, 2021 by - News

Barracuda has announced enhancements in its managed services by adding more functionality into the mix that MSPs can pitch to customers.

The fish-themed outfit has extended CloudGen Access for MSPs, announced updates to its RMM platform and added multi-tenant management and monthly pricing to the mix to make life easier for MSPs.

The muchly alliterative Barracuda Veep Brian Babineau said that by enabling MSPs to adopt a security-centric operational model, his company was  helping mitigate the security risks associated with the work-from-anywhere approach and creating new business opportunities

The firm has also renamed its Managed Workplace offering “Barracuda RMM”, with the latest version providing integration with its Intronis Backup solution as well as improved Microsoft patch management capabilities.

Barracuda snaps up Fyde for its Zero Trust capabilities

Posted on November 12, 2020 by - News

Barracuda has acquired Fyde to give its CloudGen SASE platform  Zero Trust Network Access capabilities.

The Fyde solution is available immediately as Barracuda CloudGen Access to businesses of all sizes. It will be available in the coming weeks for Managed Service Providers.

Fyde’s  Zero Trust solution claims to enable secure, reliable, and fast access to cloud or on-premises applications and workloads from any device and location. Fyde’s ZTNA solution addresses the security risks associated with traditional remote access by continuously verifying that only the right person, with the right device, and the right permissions can access company resources. The solution is ideal to connect users directly to cloud-native and legacy corporate applications deployed in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Barracuda teams up with Toshiba Tec on managed services

Posted on October 14, 2020 by - News

Barracuda MSP solutions will be offered as part of Toshiba Tec’s expansion of its managed IT services offering.

Toshiba Tec provides industry-targeted solutions, enabling organisations in document management, critical information, and cost and resource efficiency, it claims, which it delivers via a direct sales force as well as an indirect dealer network of over 130 UK resellers.

Toshiba  Sales Director Ben Gaston said that managed services have long been at the core of his outfit’s offering, so it was a natural progression to move into managed IT services, a market which we are focussed on positively disrupting to offer real help to our customers.

“This extension to our portfolio was a logical progression in our aim to better support businesses and lift their operational burdens.The natural next step was to enhance our excellent service delivery by adopting responsibility for our customer’s wider IT infrastructure. Fast forward to today and Barracuda MSP are now helping us take this to the next level.”

Moves towards cloud email is a security opportunity

Posted on June 18, 2019 by - News

Security outfit Barracuda has been asking around and thinks that moves towards Office 365 have created a channel opportunity.

Barracuda international operations’  Chris Ross said that it had surveyed its own partners and 75 percent said that they had customers who had suffered from the growing problem of email account takeover and 57 percent had customers that had seen their brand impersonated negatively.

Managed services is the number one revenue opportunity

Posted on May 23, 2019 by - News

Managed services are the number one revenue opportunity, which offers the highest potential revenue according to a new Barracuda report.

To coincide with the second ever MSP Day, which celebrates the changes and challenges faced by the managed services industry, Barracuda MSP has today released its latest The Evolving Landscape of the MSP Business Report 2019.

Barracuda sees growing MSP momentum

Posted on March 15, 2019 by - News

Barracuda said that it is seeing growing momentum in the MSP market.

Barracuda Networks CEO BJ Jenkins, said his outfit’s MSP portfolio approach, led by security, has been successful in the marketplace and is a key growth area for the company. Barracuda grew its international MSP partner base nearly 300 percent over the past two years, and most importantly, the number of MSPs using multiple Barracuda solutions increased 34 percent year-over-year, as of February 2019.

Avast teams up with Barracuda

Posted on February 11, 2019 by - News

Cybersecurity outfit Avast and the cloudy security company Barracuda Networks have teamed up.

Under the deal, Barracuda will become a master reseller of Avast Business CloudCare, Avast Management Console and Avast Antivirus Security solutions.

Kevin Chapman, General Manager of Avast Business, said that SMEs are underserved by the market as security systems tend to be targeted to the needs of larger enterprises.

Barracuda will acquire the Managed Workplace business (a Remote Monitoring and Management Solution – RMM) from Avast to continue developing the platform and offer its MSP partners a security-centric RMM solution.