Barracuda spring 2024 webinar lineup

If you’ve attended previous Barracuda webinars, I hope you found them informative and engaging, with genuinely expert presenters, real-world live demos of solutions when appropriate, and timely, actionable insights to help you continuously improve your cybersecurity infrastructure.

Our upcoming series of webinars each cover a specific aspect of the ever-evolving threat landscape. Attend all three, and you’ll gain an excellent overview of what threats to expect in the coming year and how to combat them.

Web app and API attacks surging — how to stay safe

March 20, 2024, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. PT

A lot of businesses have been deploying and updating apps — and their associated APIs — to the point where they can’t even render a thorough accounting of all those exposed APIs. And cyber crooks love this.

At this webinar you’ll find out why vulnerable apps and APIs are such an irresistible target for cybercriminals. And you’ll see just how much criminal profit these attacks are bringing in, as you explore some of the key findings of the Barracuda/Ponemon “Cybernomics 101” report.

A deep dive into Barracuda’s latest Threat Spotlight will deliver actionable insights you can use to implement best practices for combating sophisticated web-app and API-based threats.

AI-enhanced ransomware: Best practices for fast recovery

March 28, 2024, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Ransomware continues to dominate the threat landscape. But in a growing trend, cybercriminals are leveraging newly available AI capabilities to optimize their techniques for greater success, while also vastly increasing the volume and frequency of attacks.

When ransomware strikes, destroying or encrypting critical data, some organizations take weeks or months to recover, and pay staggering costs. Others, however, are able to recover quickly and completely at little cost, with only a few days’ disruption at most.

Attend this webinar to understand why and how ransomware is evolving, and to gain the insights you need to ensure a rapid, easy recovery in case the worst should happen.

Join us and see for yourself:

• How to develop and practice a comprehensive recovery plan — before there’s an incident
• Why you should enhance your team’s security and recovery expertise with XDR and/or SOC-as-a-Service
• Which features and capabilities to look for in a modern backup solution that can get you up and running quickly after an attack

When it comes to ransomware, the difference between a catastrophe and a bump in the road is being prepared. Attend this webinar to find out how.

Exploring the deep: Understanding AI's role in deepfake security

April 3, 2024, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. PT

Did you hear about the businesswoman who, at first suspicious, asked for in-person confirmation of an exec’s request to transfer $100 million? She found herself in a live Zoom meeting with half the company’s executive team, getting on her case and demanding that she make the transfer. So, she did. And it was all a deepfake-powered scam.

AI is being very effectively leveraged to create deepfakes to use in phishing attacks, and they represent a fundamental shift. Security awareness training is still immensely useful in reducing phishing attacks, but these new deepfakes can fool anybody. So, a technical solution has to be the primary mode of defense.

This is the webinar where you’ll get a deep dive into how exactly these new attacks operate and why it takes AI-powered detection to fight back.

Attend and learn:

• Why the FCC’s new rules on AI-generated robocalls may be very hard to enforce
• How crooks are using deepfakes to scam ordinary people — and to pull off multimillion-dollar heists
• How scammers are evolving from fake voices to highly convincing fake video
• How people are leveraging deepfakes for personal vendettas and harassment
• How political actors are using deepfakes — openly or not — to manipulate opinions

At the webinar, you’ll see just how fast the financial impacts of this new technology are growing and what we can expect going forward as AI’s capabilities continue to evolve. And you’ll understand why your peers are increasingly relying on advanced technical security to block these attacks.