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Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading cybersecurity company providing complete protection against complex threats, today announced the appointment of Peter Alexander as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Alexander brings more than 25 years of experience driving growth for leading technology companies, including Fastly, Check Point, Harmonic, and Cisco. As CMO, Alexander is responsible for scaling Barracuda’s market growth strategy and execution.

COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced the launch of the Barracuda Partner Sales Engineer Community, an enablement and rewards program for value-added resellers, managed service providers, distributors, systems integrators, and more. New to the Barracuda Partner Success Program, the Barracuda Partner Sales Engineer Community provides exclusive access to training labs, scanning tools, and live Barracuda product demos and sandboxes to expand technical expertise and help customers understand and strengthen their cybersecurity defences. Partners are also eligible for exclusive rewards and benefits and can collaborate with peers.

GUEST RESEARCH: Barracuda threat analysts have uncovered phishing attackers exploiting content creation and collaboration platforms widely used by schools, graphic designers and businesses. The findings are published in a new blog post.

GUEST RESEARCH: Cybersecurity is an ever-evolving field, and as new solutions are introduced to better detect and defend against cyberthreats, attackers in turn need to adapt their tactics to try and evade those solutions.

GUEST RESEARCH: This year’s annual review of ransomware attacks looks at the threat from two perspectives.

GUEST RESEARCH: Barracuda Networks, a leading provider of cloud-first security solutions has released new research showing that lateral movement is the clearest sign of an unfolding ransomware attack, catching just under half (44%) of incidents. A quarter (25%) of incidents were detected when the attackers started writing or editing files, and 14% were unmasked by behavior that didn’t fit with known activity patterns. The findings are included in Barracuda’s annual Threat Spotlight on ransomware, which explores the main ransomware attack patterns over the last 12 months.

GUEST RESEARCH: Phishing attacks featuring an advanced, stealthy technique designed to exfiltrate a wide range of sensitive information have been observed by Barracuda threat analysts.

GUEST RESEARCH: Phishing attacks featuring an advanced, stealthy technique designed to exfiltrate a wide range of sensitive information, according to a new blogpost from Barracuda Networks.

COMPANY NEWS: Organisations with several thousand employees or more are the most likely to be affected by lateral phishing, where attacks are sent to mailboxes across the organisation from an already compromised internal account, according to a new Threat Spotlight from Barracuda. Lateral phishing accounts for just under half (42%) of targeted email threats against organisations with 2,000 employees or more, but just 2% of attacks against companies with up to 100 employees.

COMPANY NEWS: In a novel attack technique, cybercriminals are abusing legitimate URL protection services to hide malicious URLs in phishing emails, according to a new Threat Spotlight from Barracuda Networks.

GUEST RESEARCH: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today published Email Threats and Trends, Vol. 1, which shows that over the last 12 months business email compromise attacks have increased to account for 10.6% of email-based social engineering. Conversation hijacking has risen by 70% since 2022, despite being a resource-intensive approach for attackers.

COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced that Geoff Waters has been appointed chief revenue officer. Geoff will lead worldwide sales and partnerships, helping Barracuda accelerate growth in markets around the world.

GUEST RESEARCH: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today published The Evolving Landscape of the MSP Business 2024 report, which shows how managed service providers (MSPs) around the world are embracing marketplaces and artificial intelligence (AI) to better meet customer needs, but worry about their lack of knowledge about AI and its applications.

GUEST OPINION: The security end goal for all organisations is cyber resilience. Effective prevention and detection measures are, and will remain, a critical cornerstone of security strategies, but companies shouldn’t stop there. What matters is how the organisation prepares for, withstands, responds to, and recovers from an incident. And this depends on people and processes as much as it does on technology.

COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced the addition of an innovative new artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to the Barracuda Partner Portal, bringing partners powerful search and enablement capabilities. Barracuda AI Assistant will enhance the partner experience and ease-of-use of the partner portal, and it will help partners save time and improve productivity. This addition makes Barracuda one of the first security vendors to harness the capabilities of AI within a partner portal to provide this level of support.

COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced that Neal Bradbury has been elevated to the role of chief product officer. In this new role, Neal will lead a unified product, engineering, and advanced technology team to steer the vision for Barracuda’s comprehensive cybersecurity platform and drive customer-centric innovation across the entire portfolio. The platform is designed to protect customers across all attack surfaces including email, networks, data, and applications.

GUEST OPINION: Remote desktop software allows employees to connect into their computer network without being physically linked to the host device or even in the same location. This makes it a useful tool for a distributed or remote workforce. Unfortunately, remote desktop software is also a prime target for cyberattack.

GUEST RESEARCH: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, has today published the CIO report: Leading your business through cyber risk, which explores the top governance challenges facing companies trying to manage cyber risk and boost their cyber resilience. The report offers practical tools such as a checklist template, created with Barracuda’s own IT and security leadership, to help companies navigate their way to resilience.

GUEST OPINION: Imagine you're a security analyst in the security operations center (SOC) of a global extended detection and response (XDR) service, providing the first line of defense for multiple organisations. Every day, you're bombarded with alarms and events, piecing together for each organisation the puzzle of potential threats across their network and endpoints, cloud assets, applications, email, and servers. What happens when one or more of the puzzle pieces are missing?

GUEST OPINION: The generative AI models that today power chatbots, online search queries, customer interactions, and more are known as large language models (LLMs).