Barracuda Networks

American software company

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2024 Barracuda Networks acquired Fyde.
August 2022 KKR completed the purchase of Barracuda Networks.
April 2022 KKR announced signing an agreement to purchase Barracuda Networks from Thoma Bravo for about $4 billion.
July 2021 Barracuda Networks acquired SKOUT Cybersecurity.
2019 Emailreg.org announced it was no longer accepting new customers but would continue services for existing customers until further notice.
February 2018 Thoma Bravo completed the acquisition of Barracuda Networks.
January 2018 Barracuda Networks acquired PhishLine.
November 2017 Barracuda Networks purchased Sonian and announced its acquisition by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo, LLC.
November 2017 Thoma Bravo announced a $1.6 billion buyout to take Barracuda Networks private.
November 2015 Added a new Next Generation Firewall to its firewall family.
October 2015 Barracuda Networks acquired Intronis.
2014 Barracuda Networks purchased C2C Systems UK.
November 2013 Went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CUDA.
April 2013 Barracuda Networks acquired SignNow.
January 2013 Researchers discovered an undocumented backdoor in Barracuda Networks' firewall, VPN, and spam filtering equipment that allowed remote access to sensitive information. The backdoor was secured shortly after the announcement.
2012 Became a co-sponsor of the Garmin-Barracuda UCI ProTour cycling team.
November 2012 William 'BJ' Jenkins joined the company as president and CEO, previously an executive at EMC.
July 2012 Dean Drako resigned as CEO, remaining on the board of directors. At this time, the company had achieved profitability, 30% annual growth, 150,000 customers, nearly 1,000 employees, 10 offices, and business in 80 countries.
June 2012 Signed a lease for a 45,000 square foot office complex in downtown Ann Arbor, previously used as the Borders headquarters.
April 10 2010 A blog entry alleged that Barracuda Networks' SPAM blocking deliberately targeted non-spamming IP addresses to encourage signup for their email whitelisting service Emailreg.org.

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