CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 22, 2026--
Barracuda Networks, Inc., the cyber resilience platform leader making security easy for all size business, today announced that the BarracudaONE ® cybersecurity platform has been named Best Unified Cybersecurity Platform in The Hacker News 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards. The recognition highlights Barracuda’s innovative, integrated platform strategy and its impact in helping resource‑constrained organizations and MSPs strengthen cyber resilience.
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The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards honor leading organizations, solutions and teams advancing the cybersecurity industry through technical excellence, innovation and measurable impact. Winners are selected by an independent panel of judges based on innovation, effectiveness and industry contribution.
“The threat landscape is shifting at unprecedented speed, from email and identity-based attacks to the emerging risks created by generative AI,” said Neal Bradbury, Chief Product Officer at Barracuda. “Defending against this new era of cyber risk requires platforms that are integrated, intelligent, open, and easy to use. Organizations shouldn’t have to choose between strong security and operational simplicity. By applying advanced intelligence across the platform, we’re helping teams strengthen resilience and respond faster with confidence.”
A Unified Platform Built for the AI Era
BarracudaONE delivers unified protection, detection and response across email, data, networks, applications, identity, and endpoints — strengthened by integrated Managed XDR and 24/7 managed SOC expertise to surface the highest risk signals and help teams act quickly and confidently. By consolidating capabilities into a single platform, it reduces blind spots and eliminates the operational burden created by fragmented security tools, improving visibility, simplifying day‑to‑day security management and giving customers and partners greater control over their environments.
The platform’s open ecosystem and APIs integrate seamlessly with existing tools and workflows, preserving prior investments while enabling orchestration across the broader environment. BarracudaONE shows how risk evolves over time, helps teams prioritize effectively and converts technical insights into measurable value and ROI.
Built on the Barracuda IQ™ engine and enriched by one of the industry’s largest threat intelligence datasets, the platform continuously refines detection and response. Barracuda’s Bailey™ AI assistant provides clear explanations and guided actions that help teams onboard quickly, scale operations with ease and maintain oversight of every automated decision.
Among the platform’s latest advancements is Barracuda Integrated Email Protection, an evolution in email security for the agentic AI era. It continuously detects, reevaluates and automatically remediates evolving threats, including those that emerge after delivery, and strengthens Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace with high-efficacy, full-lifecycle protection and resilience.
Industry Recognition for Innovation and Impact
“We're pleased to recognize Barracuda as the winner of Unified Cybersecurity Platform at the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards. BarracudaONE brings together email, network, application, identity, data, and endpoint security in a single platform, helping teams reduce the complexity that comes from using many separate tools,” according to The Hacker News. “We appreciate their work to help mid-market organizations manage their security more effectively with a unified approach.”
About Barracuda
Barracuda is a leading global cybersecurity company delivering complete resilience made easy to buy, deploy and use through a partner-first model. Our intelligent BarracudaONE platform provides cyber resilience across email, data, applications, networks, and managed XDR within an open ecosystem. Trusted by hundreds of thousands of organizations and partners worldwide, Barracuda delivers industry-leading solutions and support, powered by people and enhanced by AI, for all size business.
Barracuda Networks, Barracuda, BarracudaONE, Barracuda IQ, Bailey with the AI stars logo, and the Barracuda Networks logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Barracuda Networks, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other names and brands may be claimed as the property of their respective owners.
BarracudaONE delivers unified protection, detection and response across email, data, networks, applications, identity, and endpoints — strengthened by integrated Managed XDR and 24/7 managed SOC expertise to surface the highest risk signals and help teams act quickly and confidently.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — World Cup tickets are expensive. Flights to North America are expensive. Hotel rooms in many places are expensive.
Then there's the price of beer.
There are some fun — and yes, sometimes pricey — food and drink offerings at the venues playing host to the World Cup. A $75 caviar-topped tray of tater tots and a $40 empanada weighing in at 5 pounds (2.2 kilograms) for the daring or for sharing in Miami. Rib-eye tacos for $8 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Something called a Twinkie cheeseburger that has nothing to do with dessert for $22 in Los Angeles.
Prices, in many cases, aren't all that different from what U.S. fans would experience on NFL Sundays or college football Saturdays. But some international fans aren't used to such pricing and are calling foul, especially over beer prices that can top $20.
“It's unfair. It's not right. It's wrong,” said Thomas Schüller, an engineer from Germany in Toronto to watch his national team play over the weekend, as he held a beer that cost him 24.25 Canadian dollars (about $17 or 15 euros). “It's three times the cost of what I pay in my country.”
But is that stopping him?
“Well, no,” Schüller acknowledged.
There is clearly some sticker shock among international visitors to this World Cup, especially when it comes to the concession prices. In Europe, it's not uncommon for beers to be perhaps around 4 or 5 euros (about $5-6 USD).
There's also no shortage of intrigue on the menu at the concession stands at stadiums across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
“Never seen anything like it,” said Janine Arbetter, a fan from Austria, as she waited for a hot dog, chips and soda combo in Miami last week. The pre-tip price: $19.35 (about 17 euros), which included a discount for using Visa. “It's a lot of food for a little snack.”
Some Argentina fans happily showed off their $34 lobster rolls from a match in Kansas City on social media, but in Toronto, the brisket sandwich with chips and a bottle of soda for nearly 40 Canadian dollars ($28) had some online commenters lamenting it as “robbery.”
“It's OK, more or less, for the World Cup,” German fan Daniel Feldmann said of the food prices while watching a match in Vancouver last week.
FIFA, the sport's governing body and the tournament organizer, has very specific rules on just about everything related to the World Cup — and there are guidelines that concessionaires have to follow as well. But prices can vary by market, as do the food and drink offerings. And that means the experience in one city might look, or taste, nothing like what's offered in another.
The “Fancy AF Tots” for $75 at Miami Stadium aren't really tots at all — it's three deep-fried hash brown patties, with caviar, creme fraiche and chives. (For those who just want the caviar, it'll be $70.) Southern California's Twinkie cheeseburger is in fact a burger topped with a Texas Twinkie — a bacon-wrapped jalapeño stuffed with brisket and cream cheese.
But there's also a slew of choices specific to a local market; for example, Vancouver offers short rib poutine (an iconic Canadian dish of fries loaded with beef gravy, pulled short rib and cheese curds) along with a maple bacon smokie (smoked sausage topped with bacon onion jam that features Canadian maple syrup).
And in Miami, the signature offerings include pan con lechon (a Cuban-style sandwich with pork, infused with citrus mojo sauce and served on a toasted full Cuban loaf) and Empanada Mundial (the five-pound, handmade, chicken-and-cheese-stuffed dish named after the World Cup).
Both Vancouver and Miami have Sodexo Live as a food and beverage provider, and the typical game-day menus in both stadiums were revised a bit to accommodate a soccer crowd.
“We want it to feel like Miami when you’re here,” said Zach Williams, the stadium's vice president of operations. “Everything we do around the Miami Stadium, we want to make sure everybody understands that when they come here, they’re getting a Miami experience.”
In Mexico City, a beer could cost a day's pay — literally. The daily minimum wage in Mexico City is just 315.04 pesos (roughly $18). Some beers at Mexico City Stadium were selling for between 299 and 310 pesos — about twice as much as fans would ordinarily pay in the same stadium when the World Cup isn't in town.
But in Atlanta, where Falcons owner and stadium operator Arthur Blank promised the low concession prices he's championed for many years would hold for the World Cup, pizza slices were $3, 32-ounce sodas were $4, a cheeseburger was $5, chicken tenders with fries were $6 and beers could be had for as little as $8.
Jonathan Arango, a 33-year-old from Greenville, South Carolina, was at a match in Atlanta with his wife, daughter and father.
“In total for what we got — three orders of tacos, a slice of pizza, two waters and a Coke — we spent like $50,” Arango said. “Compared to what we’ve paid at other events ... it's nice after you paid a lot for a ticket.”
And Schüller pointed out that even though the tournament does come around every four years, it still feels like a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
“The entire football world is having fun,” Schüller said, “so cheers to that.”
Associated Press journalists Tales Azzoni, Maura Carey, Andrew Dalton, Carlos Rodriguez, Alanis Thames, Stephen Whyno and Ben Kule contributed to this story from various World Cup venues. Kule is a student in the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.
AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/FIFA-World-Cup
A $75 dish called “Fancy AF Tots” is shown containing fried hash brown potatoes, caviar, crème fraiche and chives at a World Cup match at Miami Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., Sunday, June 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Tim Reynolds)
A Netherlands fan takes a drink on the stands while waiting for the World Cup Group F soccer match between the Netherlands and Sweden in Houston, Saturday, June 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Lazaro Luya, the concession chef at Sol Cubano, displays their special, empanada mundial at Miami Stadium Sunday, June 21, 2026, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Fans attending the World Cup soccer game between Mexico and South Korea in Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico, Thursday, June 18, 2026, buy food at a concession stand inside Guadalajara Stadium. (AP Photo/Tales Azzoni)
Lazaro Luya, the concession chef at Sol Cubano, displays their special, pan with lechon and fresh mariquitas at Miami Stadium Sunday, June 21, 2026, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
