Barracuda earns CRN and MES recognition for email security innovation and midmarket impact

New industry honors highlight Barracuda’s continued innovation in email security and commitment to midsize businesses

Key takeaways

• Barracuda Email Protection was named a finalist in the 2026 CRN Tech Innovator Awards Email and Web Security category.
• The recognition highlights Barracuda Email Protection’s AI-powered approach to detecting, preventing and remediating advanced email threats.
• Barracuda was also named to the 2026 MES Midmarket 100, underscoring its commitment to helping midsize businesses strengthen cyber resilience.
• Together, these honors reflect Barracuda’s focus on delivering innovative, easy-to-manage cybersecurity solutions for partners and customers.

We are excited to announce that Barracuda has once again been recognized by The Channel Company, earning multiple distinctions in the 2026 CRN Tech Innovator Awards and securing a place in the 2026 MES Midmarket 100. These honors highlight our continued commitment to delivering cybersecurity solutions that help partners and customers strengthen cyber resilience, simplify security operations and stay ahead of evolving threats.

Barracuda Email Protection named CRN Tech Innovator Awards finalist

The annual CRN Tech Innovator Awards celebrate technology vendors that are driving meaningful innovation across the IT channel. The awards recognize solutions that stand out for their technological ingenuity, unique capabilities, and ability to address real-world customer and partner challenges. This year, Barracuda Email Protection was named a finalist in the Email and Web Security category, recognizing the solution’s AI-powered approach to helping organizations detect, prevent and remediate advanced email threats.

“The 2026 CRN Tech Innovator Awards finalists represent the most forward-thinking offerings shaping the future of the IT channel,” said Jennifer Follett, Vice President, U.S. Content, Executive Editor, CRN, The Channel Company. “Each finalist brings a clear vision to market, addressing real-world challenges while delivering measurable value to partners and customers alike. We congratulate this year’s finalists on their commitment to innovation, partner success and meaningful impact across the technology ecosystem.”

AI-powered email protection for evolving threats

Email remains one of the most targeted attack vectors for organizations of all sizes, with cybercriminals using phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, malicious links, QR codes, and AI-generated social engineering to bypass traditional defenses. At the same time, security teams and MSPs are being asked to stop more sophisticated attacks without adding complexity, headcount or manual work.

Barracuda Email Protection is designed to close those gaps with AI-powered, full-lifecycle email security for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Built on the BarracudaONE® platform and powered by Barracuda IQ™, it helps organizations detect, prevent and automatically remediate advanced email threats before, during, and after delivery. By combining behavioral AI, natural language processing, social graph analysis, real-time URL inspection, and threat intelligence, Barracuda helps identify threats that legacy filters and native cloud controls can miss.

The solution also helps reduce operational burden through automated incident response, post-delivery remediation, account takeover protection, domain fraud protection, and centralized visibility. When a threat is discovered after delivery, Barracuda can help remove malicious messages across affected mailboxes quickly, limiting exposure and reducing the time teams spend on manual investigation and cleanup.

This continued recognition from CRN underscores Barracuda’s commitment to delivering innovative email security that is powerful, easy to deploy and built for the way modern organizations and partners operate — helping them protect users, secure communications and strengthen cyber resilience against today’s most persistent email-borne threats.

Barracuda named to the 2026 MES Midmarket 100

In addition to our Tech Innovator Awards recognition, Barracuda has been named to the 2026 MES Midmarket 100, a list that honors forward-thinking technology vendors serving the unique needs of midsize organizations. The list highlights companies that provide products and services specifically designed to help midmarket businesses grow, innovate and operate more securely.

Midmarket organizations often face enterprise-level threats without enterprise-sized security teams or budgets. Barracuda remains focused on helping these organizations achieve strong security outcomes with solutions that are easy to deploy, manage and scale.

Being included in the MES Midmarket 100 reinforces our longstanding commitment to supporting midsize businesses and the partners who serve them with effective, accessible cybersecurity solutions.

Looking ahead

We are honored to be recognized by both CRN and MES Computing and grateful to our customers, partners and employees who make these achievements possible.

Innovation remains at the core of everything we do. As we continue to expand our cybersecurity platform and services, our focus remains unchanged: helping organizations of all sizes stay protected, resilient and prepared for whatever comes next.