Identity security is becoming a critical priority as organizations face a growing wave of AI-driven and credential-based attacks. Barracuda Networks has announced the acquisition of Evo Security, a move aimed at delivering complete identity resilience through its BarracudaONE platform. The acquisition strengthens Barracuda’s identity security portfolio by adding advanced identity and access management capabilities designed specifically for managed service providers (MSPs).
Barracuda has acquired Evo Security, an IAM provider built for MSPs.
The deal expands BarracudaONE with PAM, access control, and identity protection.
Partners gain a unified multi-tenant platform for identity resilience.
The platform now combines IAM, PAM, identity threat detection, and response.
Barracuda is positioning the acquisition for the AI-driven cybersecurity era.
Existing Evo Security customers will continue to receive support.
The acquisition integrates Evo Security’s identity solutions into the BarracudaONE platform, creating a broader identity security architecture that includes privileged access management, access control, identity protection, and identity threat detection and response. Barracuda says the combined platform will provide MSPs with a single environment for managing identities across multiple customer organizations.
By consolidating these capabilities, Barracuda aims to reduce the operational complexity that many organizations face when deploying separate identity security tools.
Evo Security was designed specifically for MSP operations and offers a multi-tenant identity platform that combines multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), help desk verification, RADIUS, and privileged access management through a single dashboard and agent. These capabilities are intended to help MSPs securely manage large numbers of identities across diverse customer environments.
According to Barracuda, integrating Evo Security into BarracudaONE allows partners to deliver complete identity resilience without stitching together multiple products from different vendors.
Barracuda is framing the acquisition around the rise of identity-centric attacks accelerated by AI technologies. The company highlighted the need to protect both human and non-human identities as autonomous AI agents and machine identities become more common in enterprise environments.
"In the agentic AI era, protecting both human and non-human identities is imperative for delivering cyber resilience."
— Rohit Ghai, Chief Executive Officer, Barracuda
Barracuda also noted that existing enterprise identity solutions can be difficult for MSPs to scale across thousands of customer environments, creating an opportunity for a more integrated and partner-focused approach.
The combined platform will add several identity-focused capabilities to BarracudaONE, including:
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Access control
Identity protection
Identity threat detection and response
Multi-factor authentication
Single sign-on
Help desk verification
RADIUS authentication services
These additions complement Barracuda’s existing security offerings across email protection, backup, extended detection and response (XDR), and zero trust access.
Identity and access management remains one of the fastest-growing segments of cybersecurity spending, with analysts projecting continued double-digit growth. Barracuda believes the acquisition positions BarracudaONE as a comprehensive partner-first platform for organizations looking to strengthen identity-driven cyber resilience.
As AI increases the speed and sophistication of credential theft, privilege misuse, and identity-based attacks, cybersecurity vendors are increasingly investing in unified identity security architectures that can provide visibility, automation, and threat response across the full attack chain.
The acquisition of Evo Security represents a significant step in Barracuda’s strategy to build a more integrated cybersecurity platform for MSPs and their customers. By bringing IAM and PAM capabilities directly into BarracudaONE, the company is aiming to simplify identity security operations while strengthening protection against the growing wave of AI-driven identity threats.
Evo Security consolidates IAM and PAM into a single, multi-tenant platform tailored to the unique operational needs of MSPs. Evo combines MFA, SSO, Help Desk Verification, RADIUS, and Privileged Access Management – including technician and end user elevation – into one agent and one dashboard. At Evo, Managed Security Starts with Identity. For more information, visit www.evosecurity.com.
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