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WatchGuard Names Simon Yeo Senior Vice President of Operations

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

SEATTLE, Jan. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WatchGuard® Technologies , a global leader in unified cybersecurity, announced today it has hired Simon Yeo as the company’s new senior vice president of operations.

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  • SEATTLE, Jan. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WatchGuard® Technologies , a global leader in unified cybersecurity, announced today it has hired Simon Yeo as the company’s new senior vice president of operations.
  • In this role, Yeo will oversee WatchGuard’s information technology systems and infrastructure, security, and cloud operations.
  • “Simon brings a depth of tech industry expertise to WatchGuard and a leadership style that focuses on people, collaboration and integrity,” said Prakash Panjwani, CEO of WatchGuard Technologies.
  • We are thrilled to welcome Simon to the WatchGuard leadership team.”
    Prior to joining WatchGuard, Yeo was the CIO at Barracuda Networks for six years.

Barracuda Networks named a Visionary in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls

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Thursday, December 22, 2022

CAMPBELL, Calif., Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barracuda Networks, Inc, a trusted partner and leading provider for cloud-first security solutions, today announced that it has been recognized as a Visionary in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

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  • CAMPBELL, Calif., Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barracuda Networks, Inc, a trusted partner and leading provider for cloud-first security solutions, today announced that it has been recognized as a Visionary in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls , based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.
  • According to Gartner, "By 2026, over 30% of the new deployments of distributed branch-office firewalls will be of firewall-as-a-service offerings, up from less than 10% in 2022.
  • Get the new Gartner report: www.barracuda.com/reports/network-firewalls-mq
    Get more information about Barracuda CloudGen Firewall: https://www.barracuda.com/products/cloudgenfirewall
    Get more information about Barracuda CloudGen WAN: https://www.barracuda.com/products/cloudgenwan
    Download The state of industrial security in 2022: https://www.barracuda.com/netsec-report-2021
    1Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, Rajpreet Kaur, Adam Hills, Thomas Lintemuth, December 19, 2022.
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Veza Named a 2022 Gartner® Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Veza , the identity-first security platform for data, today announced it has been named a 2022 Cool Vendor in the Cool Vendors in Identity-First Security report by Gartner.

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  • Veza , the identity-first security platform for data, today announced it has been named a 2022 Cool Vendor in the Cool Vendors in Identity-First Security report by Gartner.
  • This report recognizes Cool Vendors that demonstrate innovative ways of identifying real-time security risks, remediating identity threats and avoiding system outages.
  • To us, it is a privilege to be recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in identity-first security, said Tarun Thakur , co-founder and CEO, Veza.
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Barracuda honored by Comparably for Best CEO

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

CAMPBELL, Calif., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barracuda Networks, Inc., a trusted partner and leading provider for cloud-first security solutions today announced it has been again honored by Comparably and has been recognized as one of the top 100 large companies with the best CEO. Barracuda ranked 100 for this quarter's Best CEO award, which is based on how employees rate and approve of the job their CEO is doing.

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  • Barracuda ranked 100 for this quarter's Best CEO award, which is based on how employees rate and approve of the job their CEO is doing.
  • "As CEO, it's an honor to lead Barracuda and be in a position to see how all of our teams are working together to keep our customers safe from ever-increasing cybersecurity threats," said Hatem Naguib, CEO at Barracuda.
  • "The best leaders value the well-being of their employees and inspire others to succeed, and that's what Hatem brings to Barracuda," said Diane Honda, Chief Administrative Officer, Global Head of HR, and General Counsel at Barracuda.
  • Barracuda Networks, Barracuda and the Barracuda Networks logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Barracuda Networks, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.

Barracuda appoints new Chief Financial Officer

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

CAMPBELL,Calif., Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barracuda Networks, Inc.,a trusted partner and leading providerofcloud-first security solutions, today announced Joe Billante as its new Chief Financial Officer.

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  • CAMPBELL,Calif., Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barracuda Networks, Inc.,a trusted partner and leading providerofcloud-first security solutions, today announced Joe Billante as its new Chief Financial Officer.
  • "I am very proud to join the Barracuda team and excited for the business opportunities ahead.
  • Barracuda provides customers and partners with the solutions needed to protect their businesses from an increasingly complex security environment," said Joe Billante CFO of Barracuda.
  • Barracuda Networks, Barracuda and the Barracuda Networks logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Barracuda Networks, Inc. in the U.S., and other countries.

MarketStar Welcomes Ezra Hookano as Senior Vice President of Indirect Sales

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MarketStar , the pioneer of B2B sales and revenue acceleration, welcomes Ezra Hookano as Senior Vice President, Head of Indirect Sales .

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  • OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MarketStar , the pioneer of B2B sales and revenue acceleration, welcomes Ezra Hookano as Senior Vice President, Head of Indirect Sales .
  • "We are excited to welcome a channel veteran like Ezra to MarketStar," said Paul Grant, MarketStar Chief Customer Officer .
  • As the global leader in full-funnel outsourced sales solutions, MarketStar accelerates growth through sales and customer success programs for many of the world's most innovative companies.
  • Through innovative sales solutions, MarketStar ( www.marketstar.com ) accelerates sales from lead to recurring revenue with business-to-business (B2B) direct and indirect sales programs.

Veza Announces Open Authorization API to Extend Identity-First Security Across the Enterprise Data Landscape

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Veza today announced that its Open Authorization API (OAA) is now public on GitHub for community collaboration, extending the reach of identity-first security across the enterprise.

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  • Veza today announced that its Open Authorization API (OAA) is now public on GitHub for community collaboration, extending the reach of identity-first security across the enterprise.
  • With Veza's Open Authorization API, customers can translate and visualize authorization metadata from any SaaS app, custom and in-house applications.
  • We specifically chose Veza because their Open Authorization API allowed us to connect to our custom internal applications, said Riaz Lakhani, CISO of Barracuda Networks.
  • Vezas Open Authorization Platform helped us extend that visibility to all the apps and data that matter most to us, like GitHub and Jira.

Barracuda helps customers optimize access to email security data with AWS

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

CAMPBELL, Calif., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barracuda Networks, Inc. a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced that Barracuda Email Protection works with Amazon Security Lake from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Barracuda Email Protection offers email security findings integrated with Amazon Security Lake. Combined, both offerings can reduce the complexity and costs for customers to access their security data from an email security solution and address a variety of security use cases such as threat detection, investigation, and incident response.

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  • Barracuda offers email security integrated with Amazon Security Lake to help customers reduce complexity with email security data.
  • Barracuda Email Protection can optimize and reduce costs for customers to access their security data from an email security solution and address a variety of security use cases such as threat detection, investigation, and incident response.
  • Using Barracuda Email Protection with Amazon Security Lake, data analysts and engineers can easily build and use a centralized security data lake to improve the protection of workloads, applications, and data.
  • Barracuda Email Protection customers can use Amazon Security Lake to build a security data lake from integrated cloud and on-premises data sources as well as from their private applications.

Barracuda strengthens channel leadership team with appointment of Jason Beal as VP Worldwide Partner Ecosystems

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Beal brings more than 20 years of channel leadership experience, with a focus on channel ecosystem launch, and development and expansion in cybersecurity businesses.At Barracuda, Beal will lead global channel strategy and development with a strong focus on driving growth across the Barracuda global partner ecosystem.

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  • Beal brings more than 20 years of channel leadership experience, with a focus on channel ecosystem launch, and development and expansion in cybersecurity businesses.At Barracuda, Beal will lead global channel strategy and development with a strong focus on driving growth across the Barracuda global partner ecosystem.
  • "I'm thrilled to join the Barracuda team and help drive the next phase of growth," said Jason Beal, VP Worldwide Partner Ecosystems at Barracuda.
  • Beal joins Barracuda from AvePoint, where he served as Senior Vice President, Global Channel & Partner Ecosystems, focused on implementing global channel strategy and their first global partner program.
  • Barracuda Networks, Barracuda and the Barracuda Networks logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Barracuda Networks, Inc. in the U.S., and other countries.

Ermetic Appoints Scott Hoard Head of Global Channel Sales

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Ermetic , the cloud infrastructure security company, today announced that Scott Hoard is the companys new Head of Global Channel Sales, and will manage the Ermetic Synergia Partner Program for IT service providers, systems integrators, consultants, MSPs/MSSPs and ISVs.

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  • Ermetic , the cloud infrastructure security company, today announced that Scott Hoard is the companys new Head of Global Channel Sales, and will manage the Ermetic Synergia Partner Program for IT service providers, systems integrators, consultants, MSPs/MSSPs and ISVs.
  • Scott has served in senior channel roles with Fortanix, Corelight, Kenna Security, A10 Networks, Barracuda Networks and Imperva.
  • Scott is a results-oriented channel leader who has built and managed successful partner programs for several large security vendors, said Toby Buschinni, CRO of Ermetic.
  • Scott Hoard joins Ermetic from Fortanix where he served Area Vice President of Americas Channels, and developed and led the companys Fortanix Partners First program.