Barracuda Networks has acquired managed service provider-focused identity and access management specialist Evo Security, expanding its BarracudaONE platform to offer a more comprehensive identity security platform for channel partners.
The acquisition adds privileged access management, identity protection, and identity threat detection capabilities to BarracudaONE, giving MSPs a unified platform to manage identity security across multiple customer environments.
Barracuda chief executive Rohit Ghai said the acquisition addressed a gap in the market for MSPs that need enterprise-grade identity protection without the complexity of traditional identity platforms.
“In the agentic AI era, protecting both human and non-human identities is imperative for delivering cyber resilience,” Ghai (pictured) said in a statement.
“Existing enterprise identity solutions are complex, costly and fail to meet the needs of MSPs that must scale to securely manage millions of identities across thousands of customer environments.”
According to Ghai, combining Evo Security’s technology with BarracudaONE will deliver “a complete, intelligent, easy, and open platform” capable of helping organisations defend against increasingly sophisticated identity-based attacks.
Under the expanded platform, BarracudaONE will combine Evo Security’s identity and access management tools with Barracuda’s existing zero-trust network access, Microsoft Entra ID backup, and managed extended detection and response capabilities. The company said the integrated approach will enable partners to enforce least-privilege access, protect identity infrastructure, back up identity configurations, and detect identity-driven attacks from a single multi-tenant platform.
Evo Security founder and chief executive Michael Roth said joining Barracuda would enable the company to accelerate its global expansion.
“We built Evo Security to solve the identity challenges MSPs face every day,” Roth said.
“Joining Barracuda gives us the scale, reach and resources to accelerate that mission globally.”
Barracuda said Evo Security’s team has joined the company, and its technology will be integrated into BarracudaONE, while existing Evo Security customers will continue to be supported throughout the transition.
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