Case Study: Syntra, a Belgian education leader, achieves complete Office 365 email security and cloud backup with Barracuda Networks Total Email Protection

Education leader secures and protects cloud assets Syntra gains simple, powerful backup and complete email security for Office 365

Syntra, a leading private education provider in Flemish Belgium with six sites, roughly 3,000 teachers and 10,000 students, faced growing risks after moving core services to Office 365: phishing and account‑takeover attacks, accidental permanent deletion of files, and limited native recovery options under Microsoft's shared‑responsibility model. The IT team needed robust third‑party email security, reliable cloud backup, and better user security awareness.

They deployed Barracuda Total Email Protection (Essentials, Cloud Backup, Sentinel, PhishLine, and Forensics & IR), which was quick to implement and supported by dedicated engineering. The result: effective defense against modern threats, full visibility of email activity, restored domain reputation, easy granular Office 365 backups and restores, improved user awareness from simulations and training, and faster, more precise incident response.

Syntra

Eddy Debauve

IT Network Infrastructure Designer