Cyber resilience platform, Barracuda, has announced the acquisition of Evo Security, an identity and access management (IAM) provider for MSPs.
The move is set to expand the organization’s BarracudaONE platform, which provides cyber resilience across email, data, applications, networks, and managed XDR in an open ecosystem.
BarracudaONE expands across PAM, identity, and security response
By expanding BarracudaONE’s identity security capabilities, the company looks to create a partner-first platform that unifies privileged access management (PAM), access control, identity protection, and identity threat detection and response.
“In the agentic AI era, protecting both human and non-human identities is imperative for delivering cyber resilience,” said Rohit Ghai, Barracuda’s CEO.
“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. We are thrilled to combine Evo Security’s partner-first innovation with our vision of BarracudaONE and offer a complete, intelligent, easy, and open platform that closes this gap. As AI accelerates the speed and scale of identity-centric attacks, this combination is uniquely positioned to help organizations big and small stay ahead of these threats.”
A single platform for identity resilience
Partners will adopt a single multi-tenant environment to deliver complete identity resilience, and customers will gain modern protection without the operational burden of stitching together multiple tools.
The combination of Evo’s identity solutions and Barracuda’s identity-driven controls enables BarracudaONE to deliver a unified, end-to-end identity security architecture through a single platform.
The acquisition will enable BarracudaONE to deliver a four-layer identity security architecture to close commonly exploited gaps, including:
- Stopping identity and privilege misuse before it starts: Evo Security’s IAM tools enforce who can access what, when, and how across all facets of partner operations as MSPs struggle with uncontrolled privileges, user authentication, inconsistent access policies, and day-to-day operations required to manage identity. This eliminates standing privileges and facilitates authentication across all users, devices, and endpoints.
- Eliminating broad, risky access paths: Barracuda SecureEdge ZTNA replaces broad access with identity-driven, least privilege controls that simplify access management and contain threats.
- Protecting identity systems from disruption: Barracuda Entra ID Backup safeguards users, groups, policies, and configurations, enabling organizations to restore identity integrity quickly and maintain continuity.
- Detecting and stopping identity-based attacks in motion: Barracuda Managed XDR correlates signals across email, endpoints, network, and cloud to identify and disrupt identity-driven attacks before they spread.
“We built Evo Security to solve the identity challenges MSPs face every day,” said Michael Roth, CEO and Founder, Evo Security. “Joining Barracuda gives us the scale, reach, and resources to accelerate that mission globally. Our identity-first approach was designed from day one for MSP operations, and now, together with BarracudaONE, we can bring modern identity security, privileged access management and automation to far more partners and the customers they protect.”
Barracuda said it will continue to support Evo Security’s existing MSPs as the platform expands.
This news comes shortly after Barracuda announced a new Integrated Email Protection platform. Read more about how the platform protects against sophisticated AI-powered attacks.