Barracuda

Avast looks to Barracuda strategic partnership as first step in collaborations with RMM vendors

February 4, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

Barracuda will also resell Avast’s anti-virus solutions to their MSPs, which is a major extension of Avast’s go-to-market, and one they are looking to replicate with other RMMs. They are also planning a major solution announcement around RSA a month from now.

Barracuda acquires Managed Workplace from Avast and will resell Avast Antivirus

February 4, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

Barracuda and Avast announce a new partnership which adds the ability to resell Avast’s anti-virus solution to Barracuda’s own portfolio. Barracuda will actually acquire the Managed Workplace RMM business, which should be a better fit with their MSP business than it was at Avast. Barracuda also stated its commitment to retain the Managed Workplace presence in Ottawa, where it originally began as Level Platforms.

Barracuda beefs up Total Email Protection bundle with new Forensics and Incident Response capability

January 17, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

This is the first new capability Barracuda has added to the Total Email Security bundle since they created it last fall, and they say that others are on the way.

Barracuda makes three e-mail solutions available on a single SKU

September 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Barracuda also related their latest Threat Spotlight, which found that account takeover incidents, which are addressed by the Barracuda Sentinel solution that is part of the bundle, are increasing in frequency.

Soft launch of Managed Phishline builds on Barracuda MSP Momentum

August 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Barracuda made Managed Phishline, an MSP-focused version of the technology they acquired from Phishline this year, available to MSPs in July.

Barracuda unveils PhishLine offering for mid-size organizations

June 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Barracuda has released a version of the PhishLine social engineering simulation offering they acquired early this year that is targeted at the 1000 seat market and under, with the big difference from the enterprise version coming from the removal of industry-specific customization options.