Case Study: Cornwall Education Learning Trust achieves ransomware-ready Office 365 protection with Barracuda Networks

Cornish Schools Trust Chooses Powerful Backup Tools to Tackle Ransomware Challenge

Cornwall Education Learning Trust (CELT), which manages 14 primary and secondary schools in southwest England with around 6,500 students and 2,000 staff, faced rising ransomware risk as it migrated key teaching resources to Office 365. The trust had no consistent backup for mission‑critical cloud data, lacked cloud replication for on‑premise backups, and was operating under tight education-sector budgets and variable WAN performance at remote sites.

CELT deployed Barracuda Cloud‑to‑Cloud Backup alongside Barracuda Backup appliances to provide encrypted, cloud‑replicated protection with unlimited retention and per‑user pricing. The solutions were quick to roll out, offer granular restore and strong deduplication for lower storage and bandwidth use, and have been tested successfully—delivering easier management, reduced costs and the peace of mind that all teaching resources are protected across the trust.

Cornwall Education Learning Trust

Andy Gasiorowski

IT Manager