Case Study: BNBuilders strengthens email defenses and stops AI-powered phishing attacks with Barracuda Networks

BNBuilders strengthens defenses and stops AI-powered phishing attacks with Barracuda Email Protection

BNBuilders, a general contractor with about 1,000 employees and offices across the U.S., was facing a surge in increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks that overwhelmed its legacy on-prem email filtering and archiving tools. The company needed better visibility, reporting, and automated remediation after AI-generated phishing emails and Microsoft 365 Direct Send bypasses began slipping past traditional defenses, and it turned to Barracuda Networks’ Barracuda Email Protection as part of BarracudaONE.

Barracuda Networks implemented BarracudaONE with Barracuda Email Protection and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, giving BNBuilders centralized incident response, impersonation protection, and AI-powered detection. The result was the removal of more than 12,000 malicious emails during the summer attack wave, including over 5,000 during one active incident, the stopping of a year-long impersonation campaign, closure of the Direct Send loophole, and a 50% reduction in inbox clutter, all while eliminating tedious manual cleanup and improving daily efficiency.

BNBuilders

Morgan Tickner

Information Security Specialist