Barracuda Adds to Cybersecurity Platform & Partner Program

Barracuda Networks has announced advancements to its BarracudaONE cybersecurity platform and its Barracuda Partner Success Program.

Accelerating innovation to boost cyber resilience

The cybersecurity company is strengthening resilience across email, network access, and generative AI usage with the BarracudaONE updates.

The platform delivers cyber resilience for MSPs and their customers through an open ecosystem. Among the latest advancements for the BarracudaONE platform include:

• Email security for Google Workspace: Barracuda Email Protection builds resilience against phishing, account takeover, and other cyberattacks with expanded impersonation protection and automated incident response. Organizations will get consistent compliant email security across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, reducing risk, complexity, and recovery time.
• Network edge security: Barracuda SecureEdge Access introduces a cloud-delivered, fully integrated secure service edge solution that combines secure internet access, zero-trust application access, firewall-as-a-service, and visibility and policy controls for generative AI. This streamlined offering enhances defense across distributed environments while reducing risk, complexity, and tool sprawl.
• Generate AI risk visibility: Barracuda AI Security provides sage, compliant oversight of generative AI usage. Free within BarracudaONE, the new capability provides visibility into shadow AI activity, risk scoring, and policy enforcement to block or redirect noncompliant use. Centralized, multi-tenant dashboards help organizations reduce data exposure and improve AI governance.

Enhancing partner growth: Partner Success Program changes

The Barracuda Partner Success Program will now deliver new benefits, incentives, and tools to help partners accelerate growth and profitability.

The program rolls MSPs and resellers into one unified, flexible program and includes a new fit-for-purpose model that supports multiple routes to market and makes it easier for partners to grow with BarracudaONE.

“Email and identity-based attacks are intensifying at an unprecedented pace, and generative AI is introducing an entirely new layer of risk,” said Rohit Ghai, CEO at Barracuda. 

“With our newest BarracudaONE and partner program enhancements, we’re accelerating innovation and delivering on our commitment to provide a platform that is easy to buy, deploy, and use, as well as being partner-first and partner-only. We’re harnessing AI to empower organizations to keep pace with a rapidly evolving threat landscape and build lasting resilience with confidence.”

The partner program features new “boost benefits” designed to maximize value based on a partner’s chosen route to market, along with a refreshed rebate structure to drive predictable profitability. 

An overhauled certification curriculum and the new Barracuda Mastery Program also help deepen technical expertise and sharpen service differentiation.

Further, new Partner Success teams and high-value support plans will debut in the coming months to boost partner engagement and accelerate customer outcomes.

Barracuda adds AI to partner portal and marketing capabilities

Additionally, a new AI-powered partner portal will deliver an integrated experience for all partner types, providing partners with:

• guided onboarding 
• automated deal registration 
• data-driven dashboards 
• personalized learning paths 
• simplified MDF tracking 
• streamlined access to co-brandable assets and enablement resources

AI-driven marketing automation capabilities are under development to help partners scale their go-to-market efforts.

“Barracuda continues to demonstrate what a true partner‑first model looks like,” said Lawrence

Troemel, managing partner and president at NobleTec LLC. 

“The modernization of its partner program reflects a deep understanding of how today’s MSPs operate. The new tiering model and AI‑enabled partner portal give our teams clearer pathways to differentiate, accelerate service delivery, and drive measurable customer value.”

These updates to BarracudaONE come as ransomware incidents become increasingly driven by firewall exploits. Read more from Barracuda’s latest report, which found that in 2025, 90 percent of ransomware incidents exploited firewall vulnerabilities and compromised accounts.