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Barracuda Email Gateway Breach: 5 Things To Know
Kyle Alspach
The attacks exploited a ‘critical’ vulnerability in the company’s on-premises Email Security Gateway that has now been patched.
The Cloud Alternative
For Barracuda, a major source of growth has been around helping customers to transition to Microsoft 365 cloud-based email, CEO Hatem Naguib told CRN in a March interview. “We’ve been very successful at protecting our customers as they migrate to cloud. And for many of our customers, their first migration is the Office 365 journey,” he said.
“We’ve been providing them the security [including] what we used to do in the old email gateway — when your email comes in, we’ll check it and [determine if] it’s a good email or a bad email. But now there’s a far more sophisticated set of security tools that leverages all of the components around where your data is sitting, who’s sending you what emails, at what time,” Naguib told CRN in March. “We’ve leveraged extensively, for a long period of time, machine learning and AI capabilities to help predict when customers were going to get [business email compromise] attacks … And more and more of our customers continue to adopt the solutions to prevent account takeover and the type of phishing attacks that they’re seeing. But also the ransomware, which is just completely dominating the small to medium enterprises.”
Ultimately, the company’s cloud email security platform “for us continues to expand and grow,” he said. “And it’s not just email now — it’s all collaboration. And it continues to be a really key component for what we drive for our customers.”
