Barracuda Networks has acquired Evo Security, an identity and access management (IAM) provider focused on managed service providers (MSPs), in a move the company says will expand identity security capabilities within its BarracudaONE platform.
The announcement positions the deal as a step toward consolidating identity-related controls into a single platform for partners, including privileged access management (PAM), access control, identity protection, and identity threat detection and response. Barracuda said the combined offering is intended to give MSPs a multi-tenant environment to manage identities across multiple customer environments.
In the press release, Barracuda Chief Executive Officer Rohit Ghai linked the acquisition to growing attention on identity risks, including attacks involving both human and non-human identities. “Existing enterprise identity solutions are complex, costly and fail to meet the needs of MSPs that must scale to securely manage millions of identities across thousands of customer environments,” Ghai said. “As AI accelerates the speed and scale of identity-centric attacks, this combination is uniquely positioned to help organisations big and small stay ahead of these threats.”
Evo Security Chief Executive Officer and founder Michael Roth said the company was built to address MSP identity challenges and that joining Barracuda would broaden its reach. “Our identity-first approach was designed from day one for MSP operations, and now, together with BarracudaONE, we can bring modern identity security, privileged access management and automation to far more partners and the customers they protect,” Roth said.
Barracuda also outlined a “four-layer” identity security architecture it says will be delivered through BarracudaONE following the acquisition. The elements listed include preventing identity and privilege misuse, reducing broad network access, protecting Microsoft Entra ID from disruption through backup, and detecting identity-based attacks through managed detection and response capabilities.
The company said Evo Security’s team has joined Barracuda and that Evo Security technology will be embedded into BarracudaONE. Barracuda said it will continue to support Evo Security’s existing MSP customers as the platform expands.
