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Celebrating Barracuda’s 2024 CRN Women of the Channel winners

MspPortal Partners Inc is a large partner of Barracuda and does large investments in tech firms for it 400 plus MSP partners from the East Coast to the West Coast Alaska and Canada service over 4000 companies amongst the 400 plus partners.

Congrats to the ladies below..But in my opinion they failed to mention 2 ladies that are part of the glue that keeps Barracuda alive

Both these ladies are the glue that  run and mange support teams and staff inside the Barracuda organization (West Coast and East Coast)

Kris Louie and Ginger Janukaitis, they both run the folks who answer the phones for support calls and informs the staff who to direct the calls to if need depending the nature of the support call

Today, CRN announced its highly respected Women of the Channel list for 2024. We’re excited to share that a total of six Barracuda team members made the list!

This annual award highlights a list of women who have made significant strides in their respective fields and at their organizations, underscoring their leadership and dedication to promoting continuous innovation and success. This year, six of our very own female leaders have been featured on the list. The honorees include:

Maria Martinez, VP of Channels, North America

Karen Ward, Regional VP, MSP Sales, Americas, Barracuda MSP

Lindsay Faria, Senior Director, MSP Marketing, Americas, Barracuda MSP

Jenna Renaud, Director of National Accounts

Alli Oneal, Senior Manager, Global Partner Programs & Partner Experience

Aisha Eugene, Senior Manager, Partner Enablement, Barracuda MSP

To help get a sense of their roles and responsibilities, we asked these six women about some of their channel-related accomplishments over the last year as well as a few goals that they have for our channel business in the coming months.

Roy Miehe | MspPortal Partners Inc. | Ceo/President
Security Software Distributor: Bitdefender , Barracuda, Phishing Simulation & Cyber Security Training
“Where Service and Technical Skills Count”

Action required: 90-day notice – Barracuda DMARC policy Must Read Please

Barracuda Networks, Inc. is taking steps to harden our email-sending domains by moving our DMARC policy into an enforcement configuration. 
 
This important measure will prevent the potential threat of an adversary looking to impersonate Barracuda. As we implement this control, we advise all our customers to change their notification email address and the SMTP server setting on their Barracuda appliance(s) to use their domain/email address instead of ‘barracuda.com‘. Doing this will ensure your email provider accepts your notification emails from your Barracuda appliance.  
 
Please note this is a 90-day notice that we plan to enforce our DMARC policy. If you have not moved to the new product version that supports this change by July 19, 2024, your product (see list below) will no longer be supported. 
 
Below are articles to assist in making these changes to your Barracuda appliances where Barracuda DMARC policy will be enforced, please click on the one(s) that are relevant to you or locate them on Barracuda Campus by searching for “DMARC.”  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Please note, if you have not moved to the new version by July 19, 2024 your product will no longer be supported.  

 
We greatly appreciate your cooperation in this matter to improve your security posture and reduce potential email impersonation attacks. 
 
If you have questions or need assistance, please reach out to the support team at support@barracuda.com.

 
  
Thank you! 
 
TheBarracudaTeam

Roy Miehe | MspPortal Partners Inc. | Ceo/President

Security Software Distributor: Bitdefender , Barracuda, Phishing Simulation & Cyber Security Training

“Where Service and Technical Skills Count”

CISA Issues Emergency Directive 24-02: Mitigating the Significant Risk from Nation-State Compromise of Microsoft Corporate Email System

CISA Issues Emergency Directive 24-02: Mitigating the Significant Risk from Nation-State Compromise of Microsoft Corporate Email System

04/11/2024 02:15 PM EDT

Today, CISA publicly issued Emergency Directive (ED) 24-02 to address the recent campaign by Russian state-sponsored cyber actor Midnight Blizzard to exfiltrate email correspondence of Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies through a successful compromise of Microsoft corporate email accounts. This Directive rhttps://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-24-02-mitigating-significant-risk-nation-state-compromise-microsoft-corporate-email-systemequires agencies to analyze the content of exfiltrated emails, reset compromised credentials, and take additional steps to secure privileged Microsoft Azure accounts.

While ED 24-02 requirements only apply to FCEB agencies, other organizations may also have been impacted by the exfiltration of Microsoft corporate email and are encouraged to contact their respective Microsoft account team for any additional questions or follow up. FCEB agencies and state and local government should utilize the distro MBFedResponse@Microsoft.com for any escalations and assistance with Microsoft. Regardless of direct impact, all organizations are strongly encouraged to apply stringent security measures, including strong passwords, multifactor authentication (MFA) and prohibited sharing of unprotected sensitive information via unsecure channels.

Article (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/04/11/cisa-issues-emergency-directive-24-02-mitigating-significant-risk-nation-state-compromise-microsoft)

Folks be smart get off O365 they are compromised ever since they were invefected by solarwinds a leaking timebomb

2020 was a roller coaster of major, world-shaking events. We all couldn’t wait for the year to end. But just as 2020 was about to close, it pulled another fast one on us: the SolarWinds hack, one of the biggest cybersecurity breaches of the 21st century.

The SolarWinds hack was a major event not because a single company was breached, but because it triggered a much larger supply chain incident that affected thousands of organizations, including the U.S. government.

Suggestion at least use our malware protection products (Like Mail Protection to start off with)

Roy Miehe | MspPortal Partners Inc. | Ceo/President
Security Software Distributor: Bitdefender , Barracuda, Phishline Training
“Where Service and Technical Skills Count”

FTC: Americans lost $1.1 billion to impersonation scams in 2023

By Bill Toulas April 1, 2024 12:03 PM

At MspPortal Partners Inc we/partners can train your employees for Work and Home. With our # 1 Mail Protection and Phishing Education rated and used by the top 500 firms.

“Many scammers impersonate more than one organization in a single scam – for example, a fake Amazon employee might transfer you to a fake bank or even a fake FBI or FTC employee for fake help.”

The top Five scam types FTC highlights are:

1) Copycat Account Security Alerts: Scammers send fake alerts about unauthorized account activity, tricking victims into transferring funds for protection.
Phony Subscription Renewals: Emails claim a subscription you never had is renewing, coaxing you into a refund scam that involves returning over-refunded amounts via gift cards.

2) Fake Giveaways, Discounts, or Money to Claim: Scams offer bogus discounts or giveaways from known brands, leading victims to buy gift cards or send money to claim the non-existent offers.

3) Bogus Problems with the Law: Impersonators claim you’re implicated in a crime, pushing you to move money or buy gift cards under the guise of resolving the issue.

4) Phony Subscription Renewals: Emails claim a subscription you never had is renewing, coaxing you into a refund scam that involves returning over-refunded amounts via gift cards.

5) Made-up Package Delivery Problems: Fraudulent messages from carriers about delivery issues, aiming to steal credit card information or account details under the pretense of resolving a delivery problem.

The agency provides tips for consumers to protect against this type of fraud, which include avoiding clicking on URLs arriving via unsolicited communications, distrusting requests for money transfers, and taking the time to verify suspicious communications.

148,0000 Phone Calls
120,0000 Phishing Emails
65,000 Text Messages
45,000 Other Methods

Article (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-americans-lost-11-billion-to-impersonation-scams-in-2023/)

Roy Miehe | MspPortal Partners Inc. | Ceo/President
Security Software Distributor: Bitdefender , Barracuda, Phishline Training
“Where Service and Technical Skills Count”

Lock up inbound mail From

If you use Barracuda with MspPortal Partners do the following if you have not already done so

 

Article
(https://campus.barracuda.com/product/emailgatewaydefense/doc/96023036/email-gateway-defense-ip-ranges)

Customers Using the Following Instances of Email Gateway Defense
Network Traffic to Email Gateway Defense (SMTP) Network Traffic from Email Gateway Defense (SMTP and other)
Australia (AU) 3.24.133.128/25 3.24.133.128/25
Canada (CA) 15.222.16.128/25 15.222.16.128/25
Germany (DE)

35.157.190.224/27

18.185.115.192/26

18.184.203.224/27
35.157.190.224/27
United Kingdom (UK)

35.176.92.96/27

18.133.136.128/26

18.133.136.96/27
35.176.92.96/27
United States (US)

209.222.80.0 / 21
64.235.144.0 / 20

209.222.80.0/21
Ensure Connectivity and Redundancy

Follow these tips to ensure connectivity and redundancy:

Open your firewall ports to allow the IP address ranges, based on your Barracuda Networks instance.
(Optional) Configure your mail server or router to block inbound email not originating from your Email Gateway Defense IP address ranges.
If you have a Barracuda Web Security Gateway or Barracuda Web Application Firewall: You might need to exempt ess.barracudanetworks.com from filtering.
Exempt traffic coming from Email Gateway Defense IP addresses from any kind of throttle or rate controls, RBL, and SPF or DKIM scanning.

 

Roy Miehe | MspPortal Partners Inc. | Ceo/President

Security Software Distributor: Bitdefender , Barracuda, Axcient

“Where Service and Technical Skills Count”

 

RMM Issues Today

CloudFare- Service Outage
Datto Kaseya Firm -Datto BCDR – Users are unable to access the BCDR Status Page
Kaseya – Service disruption for target in DENC DC
Barracuda- UK Region Outage- ECHOplatform and IBU currently unavailable outside North America
Barracuda MSP- US02 – RMM Service Center is moving

 

Roy Miehe | MspPortal Partners Inc. | Ceo/President

Security Software Distributor: Bitdefender , Barracuda, Axcient

“Where Service and Technical Skills Count”

Barracuda identified a vulnerability (CVE pending) in our Email Security Gateway appliance (ESG) on May 19, 2023.

Investigating – Barracuda identified a vulnerability (CVE pending) in our Email Security Gateway appliance (ESG) on May 19, 2023. A security patch to eliminate the vulnerability was applied to all ESG appliances worldwide on Saturday, May 20, 2023. The vulnerability existed in a module which initially screens the attachments of incoming emails. No other Barracuda products, including our SaaS email security services, were subject to this vulnerability.

We took immediate steps to investigate this vulnerability. Based on our investigation to date, we’ve identified that the vulnerability resulted in unauthorized access to a subset of email gateway appliances. As part of our containment strategy, all ESG appliances have received a second patch on May 21, 2023. Users whose appliances we believe were impacted have been notified via the ESG user interface of actions to take. Barracuda has also reached out to these specific customers.

We will continue actively monitoring of this situation, and we will be transparent in sharing details on what actions we are taking. Information gathering is ongoing as part of the investigation. We want to ensure we only share validated information with actionable steps for you to take. As we have information to share, we will provide updates via this product status page (https://status.barracuda.com) and direct outreach to impacted customers. Updates are also located on Barracuda’s Trust Center (https://www.barracuda.com/company/legal).

Barracuda’s investigation was limited to the ESG product, and not the customer’s specific environment. Therefore, impacted customers should review their environments and determine any additional actions they want to take.

Your trust is important to us. We thank you for your understanding and support as we work through this issue and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience it may cause. If you have any questions, please reach out to support@barracuda.com.
May 23, 2023 – 20:28 UTC

Roy
If you need assistance let me know 9 years with Barracuda

Do You Need To Step Up Zero Trust Strategy?

Folks if you are reading this you have to lock down your security products
Quick Outline please do not be lazy and take to heed my comments. Most companies I have seen lately are calling your clients, As I have instructed my own MSP’s/Resellers make up these accounts in the DB, you own them they do not.. but legally if you provide that information to them you grant them access

See 6 new breaches below

RMM

RMM programs are hurting and trying to entice you into one window pane of glass RMM is nothing more the remote management with some reports as to the health of a machine/device that is it even there Remote tools are 3rd party API’s or hooks remote tools should only be Point to Point from a dashboard to the endpoint. The best program is Barracuda ( over 50% or more off SRP through MspPortal Partners Inc) no security breaches like Kaseya and Enable(formally Solarwinds, GFI, LogicNow, Houndog). Kaseya is on a spend Spree and is acquiring firms to add to there portfolio’s churn and burn at your expense. Read the EULA’s all they have to do is apologize and not compensate you a dime for your time to fix.

Every Security company out there has escape clauses WRONG. QUIT Signing contracts We do 3rd line support ourselves.

Mail-Filtering and Backups of O365

O365 is a joke. If you let your client sway you and setup O365 for them you have better protect yourself and your clients.
Barracuda has 3 mail programs Essentials, Complete Mail Protection, Total Mail Protection, MspPortal Partners Inc is a major player Barracuda Arena we offer almost 50% off of SRP if you were to buy direct thru Barracuda that is if a Salesperson contacts you back. We do 3rd line support ourselves.

Malware Detection/Antivirus

Bitdefender is the only product rated # 1. All other firms do extensive marketing with pretty pictures. This is truly a tech dashboard you control the client and the actions. Bitdefender claims (per article they wrote) that MspPortal Partners Inc is there largest provider to MSP’s. We do 3rd line support ourselves.

Hosted Mail
Last we are a partner with ZOHO. We have worked for over 4 months with them fixing there bugs to make it a competitor to O365..Downfall no US support they are based out of India. You need somebody like MspPortal to support you.

If you need pricing contact us, no contracts only month to month we believe if we are doing our job you stay if not you leave no grief. All we expect is you pay your invoices once a month.

Roy Miehe | MspPortal Partners Inc. | Ceo/President
Security Software Distributor: Bitdefender , Barracuda, RackSpace, Axcient
“Where Service and Technical Skills Count”
Phone: 480-275-6900
tech@mspportal.net

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Microsoft 365 outage blocks access to web apps and services

By Sergiu Gatlan April 20, 2023 10:24 AM

My Comments:
Why do you folks put up with Microsoft?? If you want to safe guard your clients information at least use MspPortal/Barracuda product called Total Mail Protection, save it off the Microsoft Network wholesale pricing is very inexpensive but call for pricing

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage blocking customers worldwide from accessing and using web apps like Excel Online and online services.

The list of affected services includes Microsoft 365 suite, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Yammer Enterprise, Planner, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 for the web, and Project for the web.

According to reports, customers are experiencing problems when trying to sign into their accounts and will see that no web apps are available once in.

“We’re investigating access issues with Microsoft 365 Online apps and the Teams admin center. Further information can be found under OO544150 within the Microsoft 365 admin center,” the company tweeted earlier today.

“Users may be intermittently unable to view or access web apps in Microsoft 365. We’re reviewing service monitoring telemetry to isolate the root cause and develop a remediation plan,” the admin center incident report says.

In some cases, a banner displayed at the top of the screen asks “new” users to reach out to their IT department to help with the issue.

“New to Microsoft 365? This is your Microsoft 365 home page where you can see and access all of your apps. If it’s empty, it could be that your user license was very recently assigned to you,” the notification reads.

“Wait 10 minutes and refresh this page. If you still don’t see any apps, contact your IT department. They can help you get up and running.”

We’re investigating access issues with Microsoft 365 Online apps and the Teams admin center. Further information can be found under OO544150 within the Microsoft 365 admin center.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) April 20, 2023

According to the latest updates provided by Microsoft in the admin center, the out was caused by caching infrastructure performing below acceptable performance thresholds and leading to timeout exceptions.

“Analysis of diagnostic data has identified an unusually high number of timeout exceptions within our caching and Azure Active Directory (AAD) infrastructure. We’re working to isolate the cause of these exceptions whilst identifying steps to remediate impact,” Microsoft said.

Until this Microsoft 365 outage is addressed, users can access applications through direct URLs. Microsoft provides the following examples:

Microsoft 365 Admin Center – admin.microsoft.com
Outlook – outlook.office.com
Microsoft Teams – teams.microsoft.com
Word Online – microsoft365.com/launch/word
Excel Online – microsoft365.com/launch/excel

Another outage took down multiple Microsoft 365 services in January after a router IP address change caused packet forwarding issues between routers in Microsoft’s Wide Area Network (WAN).

Services affected by the January 2023 outage included Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, Outlook, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Intune, and several Microsoft Defender products.

Update April 20, 13:23 EDT: Microsoft is investigating high CPU usage impacting infrastructure processing back-end navigation feature APIs.

Until the outage is resolved, customers can access the Microsoft 365 admin center via http://admin.microsoft.com.

We’re investigating high CPU utilization on the components which process back-end navigation feature APIs. Further details are under MO544165 in the admin center. As the admin center currently does not appear within the Waffle, use https://t.co/EdTvCQNMih to access the service.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) April 20, 2023

Link (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-blocks-access-to-web-apps-and-services/)

Roy Miehe | MspPortal Partners Inc. | Ceo/President
Security Software Distributor: Bitdefender , Barracuda, Axcient
“Where Service and Technical Skills Count”

 

MspPortal Partners Steps up with a Major Purchase

Most everybody know MspPortal Partners supplies security software at wholesale price’s
We now have added Total Email Protection with Barracuda
This allows us to offer 3 different flavors at wholesale pricing.
1) Advanced Email Protection-
Combine email gateway and artificial intelligence to block threats Ensure protection against all 13 email threat types. Automatically remediate post-delivery email threats.

2) Complete Mail Protection-
Includes everything from Advanced. Backs up all O365 and Gsuite components off the O365 and Gsuite Servers

3) Total Mail Protection-
Includes everything from Premium. Protect and restore your Microsoft 365 data. Protect your Microsoft 365 applications from lateral attacks. Plus Phisline-Sentinal

You will be provided as normal up to 3rd level support which puts MspPortal Partners on top of the distributors in the Security Software Arena.
We have 24x7x365 support
Working hours are M-F 7:30am- 5pm MST/Arizona
Coming soon this month will be bundle pricing Mail Filtering (Barracuda), RMM (Barracuda), Antivirus/Antimalware (Bitdefender) this will ensure all Partners and there Customers are protected at all times.

Roy Miehe | MspPortal Partners Inc. | Ceo/President
Security Software Distributor: Bitdefender , Barracuda, Axcient
“Where Service and Technical Skills Count”