Barracuda, a cybersecurity company that builds email protection, network security and data protection products for managed service providers and their customers, has acquired Evo Security, an identity and access management startup that built its platform for MSP operations rather than large enterprises. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Evo Security's platform consolidates multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, privileged access management, help desk verification and RADIUS authentication into a multi-tenant environment designed for MSPs managing security across many customer accounts. The company's employees have joined Barracuda as part of the acquisition, and Barracuda said it will continue supporting Evo's existing MSP customer base as the technology is integrated into BarracudaONE.
The combined platform will connect Evo's identity tools with Barracuda SecureEdge Zero Trust Network Access, Entra ID Backup and Managed XDR, giving security teams one place to manage identity access, recover Microsoft Entra ID configurations after an incident, apply least privilege policies, and detect identity-driven threats across email, endpoints, cloud workloads and networks.
Rohit Ghai, CEO of Barracuda, described the gap the acquisition is meant to close: "In the agentic AI era, protecting both human and non-human identities is imperative for delivering cyber resilience. 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. We are thrilled to combine Evo Security's partner-first innovation with our vision of BarracudaONE and offer a complete, intelligent, easy, and open platform that closes this gap. As AI accelerates the speed and scale of identity-centric attacks, this combination is uniquely positioned to help organizations big and small stay ahead of these threats."
Michael Roth, founder and CEO of Evo Security, described what the acquisition gives his company access to: "We built Evo Security to solve the identity challenges MSPs face every day. Joining Barracuda gives us the scale, reach and resources to accelerate that mission globally. 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."
The acquisition follows a period in which identity has moved from a standalone IT function into a central element of security architecture. The growth of AI agents, cloud services and machine identities has expanded the number of accounts organizations must protect beyond what was typical when most identity platforms were built, a shift that has pushed vendors to consolidate identity, access control and threat detection into shared platforms rather than separate products.
