Case Study: Avalon Biomedical (Management) stops phishing and prevents business email compromise with Barracuda Networks (Essentials & Sentinel)

Asia’s leading life science company uses multi-layered, AI driven approach for advanced email protection

Avalon Biomedical, a Hong Kong–based next‑generation healthcare company founded in 2013 with about 130 employees, faced a surge in email‑borne threats — spam, phishing, spear‑phishing and business email compromise — that heavily targeted executives and procurement/finance staff. A sophisticated impersonation attack that bypassed their gateway revealed gaps in defenses, strained IT resources, and put the company at risk of financial loss, data leakage and operational downtime.

After trialing Barracuda’s Email Threat Scanner, Avalon deployed Barracuda Essentials and Barracuda Sentinel, using multi‑layered, AI‑driven filtering, behavioral analytics, sandboxing and Office 365 integration to stop inbound threats and prevent outbound data exfiltration. The three‑day deployment produced an immediate drop in scam traffic, delivered detailed attack reports and predictions of vulnerable users, streamlined IT workloads, and significantly reduced the risk of fraud, data loss and reputational damage.

Avalon Biomedical Management

Ryan Lee

Senior IT Manager