Barracuda Secured: Innovations in Email Protection, Zero Trust Access, and Managed XDR

At Barracuda Secured.22 conference, Barracuda Networks, Inc. coming off its recent in person customer event, TechSummit22, kicks off Secured.22, the company’s annual, virtual WW customer conference, with several product announcements.

New capabilities protect vs.persistent and evolving threats like ransomware, and help customers solve complex digital business transformation challenges in the areas of Email Protection, Zero Trust Access, Managed XDR, and Data Protection.

The conference presented technical security scenarios that teach practitioners how to identify, prevent, recover, and respond to cybersecurity attacks. Each scenario included multiple sessions that cover the type of attack and why it happens, how it happens, and how to optimally use the firm’s products in preparation for and in response to the attack.

“At Secured.22, we’re sharing with our customers pragmatic security advice on how to protect their organizations in various technical scenarios, ranging from recovery from new ransomware variants to a day in the life of our Security Operations Center,” said Brian Babineau, CCO.

Alongside the conference, the company was announcing several products that help customers stay protected vs. the frequent and sophisticated cyberattacks.

Announcements include:

Zero Trust Access: as part of the firms SASE platform, Barracuda CloudGen Access includes web security to protect users no matter where they work.
Email Protection: now with Zero Trust Access, Barracuda Email Protection hardens the Microsoft 365 environment by continuously verifying and only allowing the right users to access the right resources.
XDR: integrated with CloudGen Firewall, MSPs can gain visibility and insights by offering 24×7 SOC services, and increase efficiency by reducing product silos, mitigating alert fatigue, and streamlining management of their customers’ environments.
Data Protection: Available, Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is transactable in Azure Marketplace. The company‘s Data Protection business momentum was boosted by the growth in its Cloud-to-Cloud Backup SaaS product line that protects data stored in Microsoft 365.

“Our conference spans IT security scenarios that cannot go ignored,” said Fleming Shi, CTO. “The announcements we’ve made today provide a broad set of capabilities across our email protection, Zero Trust, and XDR platforms to help customers proactively protect their businesses in today’s increasingly complex threat landscape while also helping to maintain user productivity.“

Resources:
Barracuda XDR
Blog: 4 ways Barracuda is helping customers accelerate digital business transformation
Blog: Enhancing security with Zero Trust Access
Blog: Expanded XDR capabilities strengthen Barracuda’s security offering to MSPs
Blog: Q&A: Barracuda Data Protection innovation and momentum