Case Study: Lanes Group Plc achieves baseline security improvements and automated email protection with Barracuda Networks

Driving baseline security improvements for fast-growing utility specialist Lanes Group

Lanes Group, a fast-growing tier‑one utilities contractor with over 50 sites, 3,500 staff and £500m+ revenue, faced rising security risks after recent mergers and a largely mobile workforce (≈80%). Its previous email solution was letting phishing and BEC messages through and required significant manual work from a small IT team, leaving the company needing better visibility, automation and multi‑layer protection for its new Microsoft 365 environment.

Lanes deployed Barracuda Email Protection and Cloud‑to‑Cloud Backup—including gateway defense, AI‑driven impersonation protection, automated incident response, data inspection, security awareness training and cloud archiving. The solution was quick to roll out and has reduced malicious messages, automated clean‑up across mailboxes, sped recovery of Microsoft 365 data, supported ISO 27001 evidence gathering, and freed the IT team to focus on consolidation and planned user training and DLP initiatives.

Lanes Group Plc

Mo Dawood

IT Director