Case Study: Turlock Unified School District achieves AI-driven phishing protection and rapid incident response with Barracuda Email Protection (Barracuda Networks)

California school district sticks with proven email security

Turlock Unified School District, a regional California district serving 15 schools, about 13,500 students and 2,200 staff, was facing growing impersonation and phishing attacks that led to credential theft and staff financial fraud. Manual incident‑response processes were time‑consuming and unreliable, and the district needed reliable tools to meet California regulatory and Public Records Request obligations.

The district deployed Barracuda Email Protection (cloud-delivered, AI-powered impersonation protection, incident response and archiving) across its hybrid Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 environment. Since implementation it has blocked roughly 100 impersonation attempts, sharply reduced phishing incidents, enabled automated removal of malicious messages from all inboxes in minutes, saved significant IT hours, and simplified compliance and records retrieval.

Turlock Unified School District

Robert Brogdon

Director of Technology Operations