Barracuda Networks Acquiring PhishLine

Barracuda Networks, Inc. has acquired PhishLine, LLC, with SaaS platform for social engineering simulation and training.

Combining Barracuda’s AI-driven protection against phishing and spear phishing with PhishLine’s platform gives customers comprehensive defense against email-borne targeted attacks and social engineering.

Email remains the most targeted threat vector and one that requires protecting targeted employees, applications, and data. With this acquisition, Barracuda offers a solution against email-borne targeted attacks and social engineering.

Highlights include:
• Comprehensive email protection – Barracuda provides customers protection against email-borne threats to their businesses, including email security, data resiliency, and BC.
• Protection for people, brands, and businesses – The breadth of Barracuda’s security portfolio and AI platform integrated with PhishLine’s aggregated data insights and training capabilities creates a combination to protect customers’ technical assets, people, brands, and businesses.
• Continued email security innovation leadership – Barracuda adds AI to address spear phishing and cyber fraud. The PhishLine capabilities offer customers the ability to improve security process, accuracy, and effectiveness.
• Protecting customers of all sizes – Barracuda’s solutions are full featured, yet simple, making them suited to protect organizations of all sizes.

PhishLine is recognized as a Visionary within Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training (1) based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute. It has three issued and eight pending patents for its SaaS platform, which includes multi-variable attack simulations across email, text message, voice, and USB/mobile media; data capture, analytics and reporting; and continual, complex analysis of employee performance.

(1) Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training, Joanna G. Huisman, October 26, 2017 ($1,995, 23 pages)