MHM Services Streamlines IT Business Operations, Prevents Ransomware Attacks with Barracuda Essentials

Singapore, June 16, 2017 – Barracuda
Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), a leading provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection
solutions, today announced that MHM Services, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare services to government agencies, has
selected Barracuda Essentials to protect its employees from advanced email
threats. Faced with a growing number of threats, including ransomware and targeted
phishing attacks, as well as strict HIPAA requirements, MHM selected Barracuda
due to the flexibility, functionality, and cost savings to help securely and
efficiently scale for hyper growth.

MHM currently employs more than 8,000 clinical, managerial and
administrative professionals, and serves more than 330,000 individuals across
300 facilities nationwide. The MHM business model requires that its IT
business operations remain flexible and able to scale up and down depending on the
contracts in place at any given time. At the same time, the company was getting
hit with phishing attacks that its previous email security vendor could not
stop. As a long-time Barracuda Backup customer, the company was familiar with
the central management capabilities via Barracuda Cloud Control that made it
simple to protect its data and assets across multiple locations, devices, and
users.

Before working with
Barracuda, MHM was facing an increasingly diverse technology environment which
was expensive and difficult to manage across multiple vendors and platforms,
resulting in significant burden on its IT organization. By standardizing on Barracuda
Essentials, MHM was able to add sophisticated Advanced Threat Protection to
block ransomware and phishing attacks that could have put its customer privacy
at risk. They also added Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service as a primary storage
for data retention, in order to help meet HIPAA requirements. The MHM IT team
was also able to streamline and offer a more user-friendly interface for
eDiscovery and compliance searches, saving the IT and legal teams an estimated
8 -10 hours per week while simultaneously reducing legal spend. Barracuda
Essentials gives MHM the ability to cost effectively scale up and down
depending on the needs of the business – all managed from a single interface
with Barracuda Cloud Control.

Barracuda Essentials offers
multi-level security including Advanced Threat Protection (APT), which protects
against ransomware and phishing attacks, and Link Protection, which protects
against typosquatting and malformed URLs. With ransomware and other targeted
attacks on the rise, this capability is proving to be a requirement for
organizations of all sizes. Barracuda’s ATP
combines behavioral, heuristic, and sandboxing technologies to protect against
zero hour and targeted attacks. Barracuda ATP automatically scans email
attachments in real-time and suspicious attachments are detonated in a sandbox
environment to observe behavior. In addition to blocking the attachment, the
results are integrated into the Barracuda Real Time System. Barracuda
Essentials also includes cloud archiving, which assists organizations with
compliance and eDiscovery requests. This capability includes a cloud-based
archive, granular retention policies, search, auditing/permissions, as well as
mobile applications for end users to search and retrieve email at any time from
any device.

MHM’s small IT staff is able to cost effectively purchase and
manage multiple Barracuda solutions and technologies from a single web-based
interface via Barracuda Cloud Control. Barracuda Cloud Control leverages Barracuda’s global cloud infrastructure to
give administrators a holistic view of all their Barracuda appliances and
services, as well as the ability to centrally manage policies and configuration
with minimal IT overhead. This central management capability allows them
the freedom to focus on more strategic assignments such as evaluating and
implementing new technologies.

“When I joined MHM about a year ago, the business
was going through hyper growth. Our IT group was drowning in technology, and we
didn’t have resources to support it, so we knew we needed to consolidate
technology and vendors to make it easier to manage,” said Shant Tossounian, IT infrastructure & operations manager
at MHM Services, Inc. “At the same time, we were getting hit with a high
amount of phishing attacks, and in order to get the right protections in place
with our previous vendor, it was going to cost more, both in money and time. We
were using Barracuda Backup and the Barracuda Cloud Control management
interface, so it was a no brainer for us in making the decision to move to
Barracuda Essentials. Barracuda makes IT simple, while also giving us the
flexibility we need for our business to scale.”

“As a healthcare services provider, we must
remain compliant with HIPAA regulations in multiple aspects of the business,
especially as we scale up and down per the demands of our business model,” explained
Christie Nader, vice president of information technology at MHM Services, Inc.
“During
our evaluation of Barracuda Essentials, we found that it offered the security,
compliance related features, and archiving we were looking for,
delivered as a service in a cost effective manner. The cost and ease of use of
Barracuda Essentials is important to me, as it will allow my team to remain
tight and nimble as the company grows.”

“The rise in ransomware and phishing puts MHM’s critical systems,
patient data, and reputation at risk,” said Michael Hughes, senior vice
president of worldwide sales at Barracuda. “Barracuda Essentials adds an
important layer of protection for MHM’s team and customers with features like
Advanced Threat Protection to identify and block threats like ransomware and
phishing. We designed Barracuda Essentials for customers like MHM who need
that advanced protection, as well as an easy and flexible way to manage it
across a growing number of users and devices, without impacting day-to-day
operations.”

For more information about Barracuda Essentials, please visit cuda.co/ees.

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For
more information about MHM Services, Inc., visit www.mhm-services.com/

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