Tech vendor Unikal leverages outsourced SOC to gain multiple benefits

Businesses with fewer than a thousand employees typically lack the resources to stand up an effective security operations center (SOC), or, in most cases, even a cybersecurity department.

At the same time, the number of cyberattacks that target these organizations is surging, with a reported 80% of US companies under 500 employees having suffered at least one security or data breach in 2023. 

These attacks are increasingly sophisticated, and keeping them at bay requires an increasingly sophisticated system for 24/7 monitoring, detection and response.

Managed XDR

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Unikal’s CIO, Aaron Anciones García, described the basic problem concisely:

“Our customers are mainly SMBs of under 1000 employees, but we have lots of 50-300 employees. They’re concerned about ransomware, of course, and data theft. But they don’t have a cybersecurity department.” — Aaron Anciones García, CIO, Unikal

Recognizing that threat detection and response were not only out of his customers’ reach but also taking up far too much of Unikal’s own resources, Aaron began seeking a way to outsource these tasks. And based on Unikal’s longstanding reseller relationship with Barracuda, he looked into Barracuda Managed XDR.

“We did the PoC, we bought the solution, and now we’re selling it a lot to our customers. The beauty of it is that, if you’re an SMB, you don’t need an [in-house] security specialist. The XDR solution is the specialist.”— Aaron Anciones García, CIO, Unikal

Human-AI partnership

Barracuda Managed XDR is powered by our 24/7 SOC, which combines deep human expertise with cutting-edge automation and artificial intelligence to monitor networks, accurately detect security incidents, and respond to them in seconds. 

While providing enterprise-grade security to Unikal’s small and mid-size business customers, Aaron also uses Barracuda Managed XDR to improve and streamline his own company’s security.

“We used to have four or five tools, each with different configurations, and we wasted a lot of time configuring and running playbooks. Now we can cover the network, endpoints, servers and also Microsoft 365 via a single solution.” — Aaron Anciones García, CIO, Unikal

Wide range of benefits

Boosting Unikal’s security-business revenue and streamlining its own security are just two of many benefits that Aaron ascribes to Barracuda Managed XDR, including opening up new markets and growth opportunities, and making customer interactions easier and more engaging.

Get the full case study and see for yourself why MSPs, technology resellers and resource-constrained organizations of all types can gain multiple benefits from Barracuda Managed XDR.