Barracuda Awards and Certifications

Barracuda was recognized as the Silver Winner for Best Email Security Vendor. Winners of the ChannelPro Readers’ Choice Awards were selected by readers of ChannelPro magazine and visitors to the magazine's website.

Comparably's Best Leadership Teams award is based on how employees rate and approve of the job their worldwide leadership team is doing, and Barracuda was one of the top 100 large companies, ranking 66.

Joelle Cangelosi, Partner Enablement Team Lead, Barracuda MSP, was named as one of CRN's 2022 Rising Female Stars Of The IT Channel. This list honors up-and-coming, talented women in the IT channel whose contributions are shaping the future of the IT channel.

Midsize Enterprise Services (MES), a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Barracuda on its 2022 MES Matters – Key Vendors Serving the Midmarket list.

Barracuda’s Secure SD-WAN solution, CloudGen WAN, was selected as the winner for the category Best Cloud Security Solution, beating out competitors such as CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Aqua Security.

Barracuda previously won this award, which recognizes outstanding email security solutions and services, in 2020. It is being recognized again this year for Barracuda Email Protection, complete protection for Microsoft 365 email and data stops all 13 email threat types.

Barracuda was named as a finalist for the category, Best use of Machine Learning, for the artificial intelligence and machine learning used in Barracuda Email Protection to protect against phishing, impersonation, and account takeover. 

This category recognizes solutions that “ensure the privacy of sensitive messages, limit the repercussions of email forgery, and manage other aspects of safeguarding email within the organization.” For >Barracuda Email Protection, judges pointed to the powerful artificial-intelligence engine used to detect and stop spear-phishing attacks in real time, and the way it integrates with Microsoft 365.

A new category added for the 2022 awards, Security Marketing Campaign of the Year highlights  companies  that found ways to creatively communicate the benefits of IT security. Barracuda is being recognized for its Ransomware 123 campaign, which advised customers on the three areas they need to focus on to avoid paying a ransom.

This award recognizes companies for stellar support and service. Barracuda won this category in the 2021 awards, and the judges pointed to similar strengths this year. 

CRN has included Karlene Alameda, Cynthia Klocke, Jenna Renaud, and Kelli Tolbert of Barracuda on its 2022 Women of the Channel list. This annual list recognizes the unique strengths, vision and achievements of female leaders in the IT channel. 

CRN has included Sara Ferreira, Jayne Haggard, and Erin Crowley of Barracuda MSP on its 2022 Women of the Channel list. This annual list recognizes the unique strengths, vision and achievements of female leaders in the IT channel. 

Barracuda Secure Connector was named as a winner in the 2022 IoT Evolution Industrial IoT Product of the Year Awards. The award honors the best, most innovative products and solutions powering the Industrial Internet of Things. 

Barracuda was selected as an award winner in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Spring 2022.

Barracuda was selected as an award winner for Best-of Security Awareness Training in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Spring 2022.

Barracuda was selected as an award winner for Best-of Phishing Simulation and Testing in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Spring 2022.

Barracuda was selected as an award winner for Best-of DMARC in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Spring 2022.

Barracuda was selected as an award winner for Best-of Email Archiving in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Spring 2022.

Comparably’s Best Departments awards measures how employees from specific departments rate their workplace experiences, and Barracuda was one of the top 50 for companies and in the Best Sales Teams category, ranking 24.

Barracuda was selected as one of the top 50 large companies with a global footprint and more than 500 employees, and ranked 37 for Best Global Company Culture in 2022. 

CRN has again recognized Barracuda with a 5-Star rating its annual Partner Program Guide. The 5-Star rating is awarded to an exclusive group of companies that offer solution providers the best of the best, going above and beyond in their partner programs.

Barracuda CloudGen Access for MSPs was named a winner in the 2022 TMCnet Remote Work Pioneer Awards.  The award honors companies whose software and other solutions support the massive increase in remote working brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

CRN has named Barracuda to its annual Security 100 list for the sixth year in a row. This list recognizes leading IT channel security vendors. Barracuda was recognized in the Web, Email and Application Security category.

For the 10th year in a row, Neal Bradbury, SVP of Barracuda MSP was named to the CRN Channel Chiefs list, which is published annually and recognizes leading IT channel vendor executives who continually demonstrate outstanding leadership, influence, innovation, and growth.  

Barracuda has been honored by Comparably with for its culture. Barracuda was selected as one of top 100 large companies with more than 500 employees and ranked 88 for the fourth quarter of 2021 award for Best Company Culture.

Barracuda has been recognized as the overall winner in the Data Protection and Management category of CRN’s 2021 Products of the Year.

SE Labs, an independent testing company based in the UK, announced the winners of their 2021 Annual Awards, and they named Barracuda as the winner of Best Email Security Service.

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup was recognized as a finalist in the Data Protection Software category of the 2021 CRN Tech Innovator Awards. 

Barracuda was included in CRN’s 2021 list of the 25 Hottest Edge Security Companies. CRN pointed to the Barracuda’s cloud-native SASE platform, which enables modern security architectures by allowing security inspection and policy enforcement in the cloud, as a deciding factor.

Barracuda won Data Protection Company of the Year at the 2021 Storage Awards. 

Barracuda won Cloud Enabler of the Year at the 2021 Storage Awards. 

Barracuda was selected as an award winner in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Fall 2021. 

Barracuda was selected as an award winner for Best-of Security Awareness Training in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Fall 2021. 

Barracuda was selected as an award winner for Best-of Phishing Simulation and Testing in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Fall 2021. 

Barracuda was selected as an award winner for Best-of Backup And File Archiving in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Fall 2021. 

Barracuda was selected as an award winner for Best-of Email Archiving in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Fall 2021. 

Barracuda was selected as an award winner for Best-of DMARC in Expert Insights' Best of Cybersecurity Awards for Fall 2021. 

Rachel Barnett, Sr. Manager, National Channel, Field Operations for Barracuda, has been recognized in CRN’s 100 People You Don’t Know But Should 20201. Every year, this list honors the people working tirelessly behind the scenes to support not only their partners, but the broader channel ecosystem.

Barracuda has been named a winner in the Support subcategory of Data Protection and Management category in the 2021 CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Awards. This award celebrates the company’s success and efforts in earning high solution provider satisfaction with the products and services it provides.

For the fifth year in a row, Barracuda was recognized as the Gold Winner for Best Email Security Vendor. Winners of the ChannelPro Readers’ Choice Awards were selected by readers of ChannelPro magazine and visitors to the magazine's website.

Karlene Alameda, Barracuda Field, Channel Marketing Manager, was named as one of CRN's 2021 Rising Female Stars Of The IT Channel. This list honors up-and-coming, talented women in the IT channel whose contributions are shaping the future of the IT channel.

Doris Au, Product Marketing Manager at Barracuda MSP, was named as one of CRN's 2021 Rising Female Stars Of The IT Channel. This list honors up-and-coming, talented women in the IT channel whose contributions are shaping the future of the IT channel.

In the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, Barracuda was recognized as a finalist in the Commercial Marketplace category. This is the second year in a row Barracuda was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in the Azure Commercial Marketplace.

Barracuda MSP was named Best RMM Vendor of the Year at the 2021 Channel Partner Insight North American MSP Innovation Awards, for our Barracuda RMM solution. Barracuda was selected as a winner among hundreds of entries from peers and competitors by an independent judging panel.

Barracuda was named a finalist for Best Customer Service in the 2021 SC Awards Europe.

CRN has included Rachel Barnett, Mimish Lesperance, Jenna Renaud, and Rachel Williams-Petit of Barracuda on its 2021 Women of the Channel list. This annual list recognizes the unique strengths, vision and achievements of female leaders in the IT channel. 

CRN has included Lindsay Faria, Jennifer Harrison, Kate Reuther, and Erin Shaw Crowley of Barracuda MSP on its 2021 Women of the Channel list. This annual list recognizes the unique strengths, vision and achievements of female leaders in the IT channel. 

Barracuda was among the companies invited to participate in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2021. In this evaluation, Barracuda was cited as a Leader in the category.

In the 2021 SC Awards, Barracuda won the Excellence Award for Best Customer Service. Winners in the Excellence Award category were selected by a panel of IT security experts from both the private and public sector.

CRN has again recognized Barracuda with a 5-Star rating its annual Partner Program Guide. The 5-Star rating is awarded to an exclusive group of companies that offer solution providers the best of the best, going above and beyond in their partner programs.

Barracuda has been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice in the 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Email Security report. This recognition is based on end-user feedback verified by Gartner.

CRN has named Barracuda to its annual Security 100 list for the fifth year in a row. This list recognizes leading IT channel security vendors. Barracuda was recognized in the Web, Email and Application Security category.

Both Chad Lindsey, who is Sales Vice President, Americas Channels & Field Operations at Barracuda, and Neal Bradbury, who is Vice President of MSP Strategic Partnerships at Barracuda MSP, made 2021 CRN Channel Chiefs list.

Barracuda was included in CRN’s list of the 25 Hottest Edge Security Companies. CRN pointed to the November launch of Barracuda CloudGen WAN and the November acquisition of Fyde as deciding factors.

Barracuda Essentials named overall winner in Email Security category of the 2020 CRN Products of the Year. The solution also won the following subcategories: customer demand, revenue and profit, and technology.

Barracuda CloudGen WAN has been recognized as a finalist in the Networking – SD-WAN category of the 2020 CRN 2020 Tech Innovator Awards.

Barracuda Message Bus was named a finalist in the MSP Technology category of the CRN 2020 Tech Innovator Awards.

Barracuda won Platinum in the category for web application firewalls in the Security-Insider Reader’s Choice IT Awards 2020.

In the CYBERSECasia Awards 2020, Barracuda was recognized for Best Web & Email Security. The CybersecAsia Awards recognizes Asia’s leaders in cybersecurity for the critical roles played and the huge advances and innovations made over the last two years.

Chad Lindsey, Sales VP, Americas Field Operations for Barracuda, has been recognized in CRN’s 100 People You Don’t Know But Should 2020. This annual list pays tribute to the below-the-radar best and brightest who power the channel every day.

Barracuda was recently included in CRN’s 2020 Cloud Partner Programs Guide. This annual list identifies industry-leading cloud technology vendors with innovative partner programs that empower and accelerate the growth of solution providers’ cloud initiatives.

Barracuda has been named a winner in the  the Product Innovation subcategory of Data Protection Software category in the 2020 CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Awards. One of the most prestigious honors in the IT industry, the award acclaims the company’s success and efforts in earning high solution-provider satisfaction with the products and services it provides to their channel partners.

In the ChannelPro Network 2020  Readers' Choice Awards, Barracuda was recognized as the Gold Winner for Best Email Security Vendor. Winners of the ChannelPro Readers’ Choice Awards were selected by readers of ChannelPro magazine and visitors to the magazine's website.

In the ChannelPro Network 2020  Readers' Choice Awards, Barracuda was recognized as the Bronze Winner for Best Endpoint Security Vendor. Winners of the ChannelPro Readers’ Choice Awards were selected by readers of ChannelPro magazine and visitors to the magazine's website.

In the 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, Barracuda was recognized as a finalist in the Commercial Marketplace category. Barracuda was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in the Azure Commercial Marketplace.

Barracuda Email Security Gateway was included in the Trust Radius short list of the 2020 Top Rated Email Security Gateway Software.

In its 2020 MSP Innovation Awards, Channel Partner Insight recognized Barracuda with the award for Best Security Offering.

Barracuda Total Email Protection, which bundles four industry-leading solutions in a single package, was recognized for providing comprehensive protection against business email compromise, account takeover, and CEO fraud.

Barracuda Sentinel was described by judges as an “Excellent use of ML”, with one commenting, “What Barracuda do in this space is exceptionally important and offering a critical layer of email protection.”

Barracuda Secure Connector appliances earned the title of Highly Commended in the Best IoT/IIoT Security Solution category in the SC Awards Europe 2020. Judges described it as a “great fully integrated end-to-end solution for secure connectivity,” with “good awareness of customers' emerging needs at scale.

CRN has named Karlene Alameda, Field and Channel Marketing Manager at Barracuda, to its 2020 Women of the Channel list. Each leader on this annual list is recognized for her contributions to channel advocacy, channel growth, and visionary leadership.

This annual guide identifies the strongest and most successful partner programs in the channel today. The 5-Star rating recognizes an elite subset of companies that offer solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

CRN recognized Barracuda in the Web, Email and Application Security category of its 2020 Security 100 list. The companies on the list have demonstrated innovation and creativity in product development as well as a strong commitment to delivering those offerings through a vibrant channel of solution providers.

CRN recognized Ezra Hookano, Vice President of Channels at Barracuda, on its 2020 Channel Chiefs list. Honorees are selected based on their professional achievements, standing in the industry, dedication to the channel partner community, and strategies for driving future growth and innovation.

‘Software Innovator of the Year’ is awarded to the supplier who delivered the most innovative software in 2019, as product and/or as a service. A key criterium is that the software allows users to truly strengthen their business. Barracuda won the award for Total Email Protection.

As an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network, Barracuda been recognized for Security Competency, Marketplace Seller, Public Sector Partner, AWS GovCloud (US), and Authority to Operate.

Barracuda Cloud Security Guardian won Cloud Security Innovation of the Year in the 2019 SEC Awards.

CRN's 2019 Tech Innovator Awards honors the vendors drawing the roadmap for the future of IT and empowering solution providers with truly differentiated offerings. Barracuda Cloud Security Guardian was named a finalist in the Cloud Security category. 

Barracuda was again recognized for having a five-star award-winning program in CRN's annual guide to cloud partner programs. CRN’s Cloud Partner Program Guide highlights companies that have evolved their partnering strategies to meet new cloud challenges.