Case Study: O’Connor Catholic College achieves improved classroom focus and centralized application control with Barracuda Networks CloudGen Firewall

Barracuda Helps O’Connor Catholic College Build a Better Environment with Increased Control over Applications

O’Connor Catholic College, a co-educational secondary school in Armidale, NSW with about 500 students and 60 staff, struggled to keep classroom internet use appropriate and distraction-free. Manual blocking of sites and pop-ups was time-consuming and ineffective, leaving the IT team unable to reliably restrict unwanted content or manage application access for students.

The college deployed the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall F-Series F600 to gain centralized control, URL filtering, application visibility and user-aware policies. The solution simplified content management, blocked pop-ups and inappropriate sites, and improved classroom focus and security, eliminating the need for time‑consuming manual interventions.

O’Connor Catholic College

Mark Harris

ICT Coordinator