Case Study: Ploeger Oxbo Group achieves near‑elimination of phishing and automated incident response with Barracuda Networks' Total Email Protection

Global farm-equipment manufacturer upgrades security for Office 365

Ploeger Oxbo Group, a Roosendaal-based global farm-equipment manufacturer with 700+ employees serving 40+ countries, faced a rising wave of advanced phishing and impersonation attacks after moving to Office 365. Many users were responding to malicious emails and the built-in Office 365 protections proved inadequate, putting the company at increased risk and creating heavy incident‑response burdens for its small IT team.

The company upgraded from Barracuda Email Security Gateway to Barracuda Total Email Protection (Essentials, Sentinel, PhishLine, Cloud-to‑Cloud Backup, and Forensics & Incident Response). The deployment quickly stopped nearly all phishing and impersonation emails, boosted user security awareness through simulations, automated incident response to cut IT overhead, and—with cloud-native backup—enabled fuller, safer use of Office 365.

Ploeger Oxbo Group

Maikel Rooyakkers

IT Manager