2026 SC Award winner Barracuda — Best Secure Messaging Solution

Companies across business, government, and industry face escalating threats that target email systems, including ransomware, business email compromise, account takeover, and increasingly sophisticated AI-generated phishing attacks designed to evade traditional defenses.

By offering comprehensive, multilayered protection that enhances the traditional email gateway with AI and advanced behavioral analysis across all types of customers, Barracuda won the Best Secure Messaging Solution category in the 2026 SC Awards for its Barracuda Email Protection product.

SC Awards Judge Chris Lambrou, chief information officer at Metro MLS in Milwaukee, said Barracuda delivered an excellent pitch and value proposition.

“They focus on a problem worth solving as phishing has become more and more sophisticated,” said Lambrou. “It truly represents a whole product mindset, ensuring technical support/implementation is also as important as the product.”  

Barracuda’s holistic approach means that that enterprise-grade features are integrated into every product for every customer. This eliminates the need for teams to manage disparate tools or sacrifice coverage because of budget or complexity. By making robust, scalable email security accessible to organizations of all sizes and industries, Barracuda Email Protection directly addresses one of the most urgent and pervasive risks facing organizations: threats to email systems.

The email protection product services more than 80,000 organizations worldwide, businesses that rely on it to secure their most critical communications channel. As one of Barracuda’s flagship products, the platform protects more than 1 billion emails every day, underscoring both its global reach and its ability to deliver reliable, enterprise-grade protection at scale to all types of customers.