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GUEST RESEARCH: Automated email inbox rules are a useful and familiar feature of most email clients. They help people manage their inboxes and the daily flood of wanted and unwanted communications by enabling them to move emails to specific folders, forward them to colleagues while they’re away, or simply delete them.

GUEST OPINION: VPNs – virtual private networks – have been relied on by organisations for many years, a popular option for providing secure access to corporate data from a remote device that could be running over an insecure link, such as a home or public Wi-Fi network. A VPN carries the user’s data in an encrypted tunnel, masks their IP address and hides details of their browsing activity from their internet provider, or anyone seeking to view it.

GUEST CASE STUDY: In the first half of 2023, Barracuda Managed XDR collected almost a trillion customer IT events, among which it detected and neutralised thousands of high-risk incidents.

GUEST RESEARCH: In 2023, artificial intelligence and generative AI have dominated headlines, and their impact is starting to make its mark on ransomware attacks ― for example with AI-enhanced phishing attacks to gain access to target networks and AI-powered automation for greater reach.

GUEST RESEARCH: Extortion attacks, which are an increasingly common form of email scams, threaten the victim with compromising information, such as an embarrassing photo, and request payment in a cryptocurrency to prevent the information from being released. Attackers often purchase victims’ login credentials or find them through data breaches to “prove” that their threat is legitimate.

GUEST RESEARCH: Attackers are quick to exploit new opportunities for attack. The reporting of the Log4J bug in December 2021, for example, is believed to have led to a 150% increase in exploit activity the following year. However, an analysis of Barracuda’s threat detection data shows that attackers rely extensively on long established approaches and home in on weaknesses that have often also been around for years.

Barracuda Networks, Inc., a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced Siroui Mushegian as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO). Mushegian brings more than 20 years of executive and IT leadership experience to Barracuda and has successfully built strong operational environments that eliminate technology silos and deliver measurable business outcomes.

COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced a new platform called Barracuda SecureEdge, a SASE solution that helps make hybrid and remote work easier to secure.

COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions has announced several strategic channel roles to strengthen the partner experience and help drive success within the channel ecosystem. These investments include new channel roles, additional resources for partner enablement, and an expanded global footprint.

COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today introduced new Application Protection plans to make it easy for customers to protect websites, applications, and APIs with comprehensive enterprise-grade protection. The new plans combine Machine Learning (ML)-powered web application, API, DDoS and bot protection with Zero Trust security to help prevent today’s most complex threats.

GUEST RESEARCH: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today published its 2023 Email Security Trends report that shows how email-based security attacks affect organisations both in Australia and around the world.

GUEST OPINION by Stefan van der Wal, Consulting Solutions Engineer, EMEA, Application Security, Barracuda Networks:

Security specialist WatchGuard Technologies has appointed Simon Yeo to the role of senior vice president of operations.

Barracuda Cloud Application Protection strengthens web application and API security, adds account takeover protection, boosts client-side supply chain attack protection, and includes new technology integration with Venafi

COMPANY NEWS:  Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced that it is strengthening its MSP security offering with new offerings designed to help MSPs build advanced, security-centric services for their customers.

COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider for cloud-enabled security solutions, furthered its commitment to deliver leading email security solutions which are easy to buy, deploy, and use with the announcement today of three new Email Protection plans which scale to meet customers’ evolving threat protection needs. Barracuda’s comprehensive solutions combine gateway and API-based AI technology to detect and remediate threats and reduce the risk that a malicious attack succeeds by immediately and automatically eliminating the user’s ability to view or launch flagged emails. 

Cloud-native network detection and response provider ExtraHop has appointed Tanya Hovagimian as the company’s first Australia and New Zealand channel manager.

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COMPANY NEWS:  Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider for cloud-enabled security solutions, today announced that it has been recognised as a Challenger in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Security.

According to Gartner, “The web application and API protection market is composed of two main segments: WAAP services and WAAP appliances. Security and risk management leaders should favor WAAP that provides easy-to-consume controls and more specialised protections against advanced bots and evolving API attacks.”¹

Barracuda delivers a:web application security platform that protects hosted web applications, secures APIs and mobile apps, defends against DDoS attacks, and enables automation for organisations integrating security into their existing CI/CD processes.

“This is the fifth year in row that Barracuda has been named a Challenger, and we believe this continued recognition illustrates our commitment to continually make security easier for our customers,” said Tim Jefferson, SVP of Engineering for Data Protection, Network and Application Security at Barracuda. “At Barracuda, we want to deliver enterprise-level application security with consumer-level ease of use, making it easier for customers to protect their organisation from evolving threats like bot attacks, API attacks, supply chain attacks, and more.”

According to a Barracuda customer case study, “Compared to the other solutions we looked at, WAFas-a-Service was very simple to set up and manage,” said Kieron Prince, L&Q’s Cloud and Infrastructure Lead. “I was already budgeting for having to hire another network engineer just to take care of a new firewall appliance, so the SaaS model starts off with a big advantage in terms of cost. And yet, despite being really easy to use, it’s fully capable. It certainly ticked all the boxes on our checklist.”

Get the report: https://www.google.com/url?q=https

Get more information about Barracuda CloudGen WAF:https://www.google.com/url?q=https

Get more information about Barracuda Cloud Application Protection:  https://www.google.com/url?q=https

Download Bot Attacks: Top Threats and Trends: https://www.google.com/url?q=https

Read the blog: https://cuda.co/49836

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Get more information about Barracuda CloudGen WAF: https://www.barracuda.com/products/webapplicationfirewall

Get more information about Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service: https://www.barracuda.com/waf-as-a-service

Get more information about Barracuda Cloud Application Protection: https://www.barracuda.com/cap

Download Bot Attacks: Top Threats and Trends: https://www.barracuda.com/bot-threat-report

Read the blog: https://cuda.co/49836

¹ Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Security” by Jeremy D'Hoinne, Adam Hils, Rajpreet Kaur, John Watts, Published 20 September 2021.

This Magic Quadrant was named as Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls till 2020.  Barracuda was referred to as Barracuda Networks in the report till 2018

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About Barracuda

At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 200,000 organisations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level. For more information, visit https://www.barracuda.com/

COMPANY NEWS:  Barracuda Networks, a leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions, today announced a cloud-native SASE platform that enables businesses to control access to data from any device, anytime, anywhere. The platform brings together Secure SD-WAN, Firewall-as-a-Service, Zero Trust Network Access, and Secure Web Gateway technology from Barracuda to achieve SASE convergence.

Email mailboxes at thousands of organisations have been hit by more than 12 million spear phishing and social engineering attacks between May 2020 and June 2021, according to a new report on email security.