FeatureAs a company that started off as an anti-spam specialist, Barracuda Networks has stayed true to its roots and email security remains a core part of its solution portfolio. The capabilities of Barracuda Email Security extend far beyond those of traditional email security products as it includes powerful, advanced features such as AI and machine learning to identify and block new and evolving email threats.
A result of the pandemic has also been the shift towards delivering services to employees and customers via applications. Consequently, the volume of attacks such as credential stuffing has scaled significantly.
This makes the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, WAF and Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service offerings especially relevant to businesses. These solutions protect applications, APIs, and mobile app backends against a variety of attacks including the OWASP Top 10, zero-day threats, data leakage, and application-layer denial-of-service, DoS, attacks.
A result of the pandemic has also been the shift towards delivering services to employees and customers via applications.
By combining both positive signature-based policies with robust anomaly detection capabilities, they can defeat against today’s most sophisticated attacks.
With the rapid and large-scale shift towards remote and hybrid working models, businesses needed to deliver secure, reliable, and fast access to cloud and on-premises applications and workloads from any device and location.
Recognising this trend, in the last quarter of 2020, Barracuda acquired Fyde, an innovator in Zero Trust Network Access, ZTNA. This enabled the company to expand its Barracuda CloudGen SASE platform with ZTNA capabilities that address 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.
Developing vertical specific skillsets will be of tremendous value to channel partners.
Partners need to identify and approach businesses that have rapidly pivoted toward digital services over the last 12 months as many of these efforts were rushed and were therefore likely to have introduce security vulnerabilities. The channel can then focus on educating these customers about the implications of their larger attack surface and then take measures needed to actively address these gaps.
Given that certain verticals have lagged broader regional digital transformation trends, identifying these, and developing vertical specific skillsets will also be of tremendous value to channel partners.
Barracuda Networks’ solutions protect applications, APIs, and mobile app backends against a variety of attacks.
