Webinar: How Sparc Group secures rapid expansion

Growing fast through rapid acquisitions can bring major IT and security headaches. Integrating so many diverse infrastructures into a unified network can easily get out of hand.

“My main focus from the beginning was to secure users, data, and resources within Sparc Group as we grew. Back then we had around 28 companies and 14 suppliers, and I realized that things were going to be almost impossible to manage”

— Daniel Ekroth, CIO, Sparc Group

Daniel knew coming into the job that he wanted to implement modern Zero Trust security across the group’s fast-growing family of companies.

“I knew that if we were to get control of this environment, given the pace we were acquiring companies, we needed to set up as our own internal security supplier to our portfolio companies. Barracuda was a very natural choice for me as I’d worked with them before.”

— Daniel Ekroth, CIO, Sparc Group

The Zero Trust approach

Daniel is part of the leading edge of thinking about security from a Zero Trust point of view. Zero Trust is not so much a set of protocols, as an approach to security from the mindset of “never trust, always verify.”

At an upcoming webinar, Daniel and Barracuda Consulting Solutions Architect Stefan van der Wal will describe, together, how they were able to make Daniel’s vision a reality.

Barracuda’s interconnected, comprehensive portfolio of security products, platforms, and services appealed to Daniel as a way to successfully implement a system-wide Zero Trust security infrastructure that would scale as easily and as rapidly as Sparc Group was growing.

The full suite

Daniel and his team used a variety of Barracuda solutions to get network-wide Zero Trust security, along with single-pane-of-glass administration and management.

Barracuda Email Protection: Includes advanced email gateway with ATP, AI-based anti-phishing, cloud backup for Microsoft 365 data, message archiving, automated incident response, and more.

Barracuda SecureEdge Access: Enforces Zero Trust Access controls to ensure only authorized persons are accessing corporate apps and data.

Barracuda Web Application Firewall: Mitigates fast-growing risk of application-layer attacks by stopping bad bots, protecting APIs, blocking DDoS and other attacks, and providing granular visibility into app traffic and activity.

Barracuda XDR: This SOC-as-a-Service offering from Barracuda delivers 24/7/365 live monitoring, detection, and response, ensuring incidents are contained and remediated before any serious impact can occur.

Get the whole story

Find out all the details about how Sparc Group is able to leverage a variety of Barracuda products to ensure company-wide Zero Trust security while supporting continued rapid expansion. Reserve your spot now for this eye-opening, live online event.