Barracuda named a Best Security Vendor of the Year finalist in CRN’s Best of the Channel Awards

Recognition highlights Barracuda’s continued commitment to partner success, cybersecurity innovation and helping MSPs deliver cyber resilience

Key takeaways

• Barracuda has been named a Best Security Vendor of the Year finalist in CRN’s 2026 Best of the Channel Awards.
• The award recognizes technology vendors that demonstrate excellence in delivering security-focused offerings through the channel.
• Barracuda’s recognition reflects continued investment in a partner-first, partner-only strategy, the BarracudaONE platform, managed security services, and partner-focused innovation.

We’re proud to share that Barracuda has been named a Best Security Vendor of the Year finalist in CRN’s 2026 Best of the Channel Awards. The annual awards program recognizes technology companies, teams and leaders that driving innovation, growth and success across the IT channel.

For us, this recognition is especially meaningful because it reflects something that has been at the heart of Barracuda’s strategy for years: helping partners succeed. As cyberthreats become more sophisticated and AI accelerates the speed and scale of attacks, MSPs and channel partners need security solutions that are powerful, easy to manage and designed to help them grow. That’s exactly what we strive to deliver every day.

Recognized for channel excellence

According to CRN, the Best Security Vendor of the Year award recognizes IT vendors that demonstrate overall excellence in channel partnership while delivering security-focused offerings through the channel.

Barracuda’s finalist recognition highlights a year marked by significant innovation and continued investment in our partner community. Over the past year, we have strengthened our partner-first, partner-only approach while expanding the capabilities available through the BarracudaONE® cybersecurity platform.

Designed specifically to help MSPs and channel partners simplify security operations and improve customer outcomes, BarracudaONE brings together protection for email, identity, data, applications, and networks through a unified platform experience.

Helping partners tackle today's security challenges

Security teams and MSPs face a difficult reality. Attackers are increasingly using AI to automate reconnaissance, generate convincing phishing attacks and scale their operations faster than ever before. At the same time, customers are looking to their trusted partners for guidance, protection and measurable security outcomes.

Our focus has remained on helping partners close that gap.

Recent innovations include expanded automation capabilities, deeper platform integrations, advanced AI-powered threat detection, managed XDR services, and a growing body of actionable threat intelligence through Barracuda Research. Together, these capabilities help partners protect customers more effectively while reducing operational complexity.

As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, Barracuda remains focused on helping partners thrive through innovation, simplicity and a relentless commitment to cyber resilience.

Being named a finalist for CRN’s 2026 Best Security Vendor of the Year award reinforces that mission and motivates us to continue delivering solutions that help partners protect customers, grow their businesses and stay ahead of emerging threats.