CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award Honors Barracuda for Advancing Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response Through AI, Automation, and Human Expertise
News highlights:
- Barracuda Managed XDR recognized as XDR Innovation of the Year in the 2026 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards.
- Delivers an agentic SOC that combines AI-powered threat detection, automated containment, and 24/7 SOC expertise as part of the BarracudaONE® platform.
- Delivers unified visibility and response across endpoints, email, identity, networks, cloud environments, and more than 60 third-party technologies.
CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#cybersecurity--Barracuda Networks, Inc., the cyber resilience platform leader making security easy for all size business, today announced that Barracuda Managed XDR has been named XDR Innovation of the Year in the 2026 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards.
As security environments become increasingly fragmented, organizations face growing challenges detecting and responding to threats across endpoints, email, networks, identity, and cloud services. Barracuda Managed XDR unifies security telemetry across the attack surface, helping organizations identify, investigate, and contain threats faster through AI-powered analytics, automated response, and 24/7 expert monitoring.
“AI is a force multiplier for both defenders and attackers. Security teams need more than another source of alerts. They need clarity, speed, and the ability to act before threats become incidents,” said Adam Khan, Vice President of Global Security Operations and AI Security, XDR/MDR, Office of the CTO, Barracuda. “Barracuda Managed XDR combines agentic AI analysis, automated containment, and 24/7 security expertise to help organizations understand threats across their environment, respond faster, and deliver real security outcomes while reducing operational burden.”
AI-Powered Detection and Response at Scale
The CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award recognizes Barracuda Managed XDR for its innovative approach to extended detection and response, combining AI-driven threat detection, real-time automated containment, and 24/7 security operations center (SOC) expertise in a single managed service. The solution helps organizations strengthen cyber resilience without adding operational complexity.
As part of the BarracudaONE platform, Barracuda Managed XDR ingests trillions of security signals and integrates with more than 60 third-party technologies. At its core is the Barracuda IQ™ AI engine, which powers AI-driven analytics, threat detection, and response across the platform. Combined with SIEM and SOAR capabilities and threat intelligence based on more than 13 billion indicators of compromise, it detects sophisticated threats including ransomware, account takeover, lateral movement, and cloud compromise. Automated Threat Response reduces the burden on IT and security teams by automatically isolating compromised devices, disabling hijacked accounts, and blocking malicious activity in real time, with no manual intervention required.
The service is backed by Barracuda's agentic SOC, where AI executes high‑volume detection, investigation, response, and continuous learning workflows at machine speed, while human analysts provide oversight, validation, and decision making. This operations model delivers a powerful blend of speed, scale, and precision – automating routine, low‑impact events end‑to‑end while escalating nuanced cases to expert analysts. The result is enterprise‑grade protection without the cost or complexity of customers or partners needing to run a 24/7 SOC, giving organizations faster threat containment and a modern, unified approach to defense.
“The Barracuda SOC jumps on every validated alert right away. They block the threat, notify me about what’s going on, and I can review it quickly,” said Thomas O’Halloran, Cybersecurity Engineer, St. Ann’s Community. “What used to take an hour or two now takes minutes. It drastically cuts down how much hands-on work I need to do, and that means I can spend more time on projects that support our core operations.”
About Barracuda
Barracuda is a leading global cybersecurity company delivering complete resilience made easy to buy, deploy and use through a partner-first model. Our intelligent BarracudaONE platform provides cyber resilience across email, identities, AI, data, applications, networks, and managed XDR within an open ecosystem. Trusted by hundreds of thousands of organizations and partners worldwide, Barracuda delivers industry-leading solutions and support, powered by people and enhanced by AI, for all size business.
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Contacts
Anne Campbell
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
978-328-1642
acampbell@barracuda.com
