BarracudaONE® Named Best Unified Cybersecurity Platform by The Hacker News

2026 Cybersecurity Stars Award Honors Barracuda’s Innovative Platform for Advancing Cyber Resilience News highlights:

• BarracudaONE wins Best Unified Cybersecurity Platform in The Hacker News 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards.
• Recognition underscores Barracuda’s integrated platform approach to strengthening resilience and reducing complexity for all size organizations and MSPs.
• Latest advancements include Integrated Email Protection, delivering continuous, full‑lifecycle defense across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barracuda Networks, Inc., the cyber resilience platform leader making security easy for all size business, today announced that the BarracudaONE® cybersecurity platform has been named Best Unified Cybersecurity Platform in The Hacker News 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards. The recognition highlights Barracuda’s innovative, integrated platform strategy and its impact in helping resource‑constrained organizations and MSPs strengthen cyber resilience.

The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards honor leading organizations, solutions and teams advancing the cybersecurity industry through technical excellence, innovation and measurable impact. Winners are selected by an independent panel of judges based on innovation, effectiveness and industry contribution.

“The threat landscape is shifting at unprecedented speed, from email and identity-based attacks to the emerging risks created by generative AI,” said Neal Bradbury, Chief Product Officer at Barracuda. “Defending against this new era of cyber risk requires platforms that are integrated, intelligent, open, and easy to use. Organizations shouldn’t have to choose between strong security and operational simplicity. By applying advanced intelligence across the platform, we’re helping teams strengthen resilience and respond faster with confidence.”

A Unified Platform Built for the AI Era

BarracudaONE delivers unified protection, detection and response across email, data, networks, applications, identity, and endpoints — strengthened by integrated Managed XDR and 24/7 managed SOC expertise to surface the highest risk signals and help teams act quickly and confidently. By consolidating capabilities into a single platform, it reduces blind spots and eliminates the operational burden created by fragmented security tools, improving visibility, simplifying day‑to‑day security management and giving customers and partners greater control over their environments.

The platform’s open ecosystem and APIs integrate seamlessly with existing tools and workflows, preserving prior investments while enabling orchestration across the broader environment. BarracudaONE shows how risk evolves over time, helps teams prioritize effectively and converts technical insights into measurable value and ROI.

Built on the Barracuda IQ™ engine and enriched by one of the industry’s largest threat intelligence datasets, the platform continuously refines detection and response. Barracuda’s Bailey™ AI assistant provides clear explanations and guided actions that help teams onboard quickly, scale operations with ease and maintain oversight of every automated decision.

Among the platform’s latest advancements is Barracuda Integrated Email Protection, an evolution in email security for the agentic AI era. It continuously detects, reevaluates and automatically remediates evolving threats, including those that emerge after delivery, and strengthens Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace with high-efficacy, full-lifecycle protection and resilience.

Industry Recognition for Innovation and Impact

“We're pleased to recognize Barracuda as the winner of Unified Cybersecurity Platform at the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards. BarracudaONE brings together email, network, application, identity, data, and endpoint security in a single platform, helping teams reduce the complexity that comes from using many separate tools,” according to The Hacker News. “We appreciate their work to help mid-market organizations manage their security more effectively with a unified approach.”

About Barracuda

Barracuda is a leading global cybersecurity company delivering complete resilience made easy to buy, deploy and use through a partner-first model. Our intelligent BarracudaONE platform provides cyber resilience across email, data, applications, networks, and managed XDR within an open ecosystem. Trusted by hundreds of thousands of organizations and partners worldwide, Barracuda delivers industry-leading solutions and support, powered by people and enhanced by AI, for all size business.

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