The new era of hybrid cloud demands end-to-end, unified and holistic security strategy 

Parag Khurana, Country Manager, Barracuda Networks (India)

New products and solutions

We recently expanded capabilities of Barracuda Cloud Application Protection, a platform for Web Application and API Protection, to protect businesses against OWASP vulnerabilities such as bad bots and supply chain attacks. We also expanded our cloud-native SASE platform to streamline Secure SD-WAN, Firewall-as-a-Service, Zero Trust Network Access, and Secure Web Gateway functionality and incorporate secure connectivity to industrial IoT devices, which solves several common security, connectivity, and scalability challenges that businesses are facing in this age of digital transformation. We have added a new regional data centre in India to secure our customers’ data to meet their compliance requirements with Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup. 

Impact of disruptive technologies in the future of work 
In this new era of cloud-only and hybrid cloud deployment models, organisations need an end-to-end, unified and holistic security strategy. Since the threat landscape is ever-changing, more threat vectors emerge to slip through traditional defense lines of email, cloud services and web applications, businesses must opt for a security strategy that aligns with business priorities and protects corporate data and people. 

Adopting working arrangements to flexibly meet business needs  
Technology like collaboration tools, cybersecurity solutions, cloud-based apps, and other remote IT services has become essential for companies to let their employees work from anywhere or everywhere. These tech tools can facilitate streamlined communication between team members, training and productivity. Leaders and managers can interact, monitor, manage, encourage and inspire their employees from any part of the world with the help of this technology, allowing businesses more flexibility to decide their preferred work mode that can fit it their business needs and functions.