Case Study: NCC Education achieves rapid cloud backup, five-minute email recovery and AI-powered spear‑phishing protection with Barracuda Networks

Global provider and awarding body of British education consigns archaic data backup to history books

NCC Education, a global provider and awarding body of British education with offices and remote users across China, Africa and South‑East Asia, was struggling with an antiquated tape‑based backup process, no email archiving, only 30 days of Office 365 retention and a growing risk of sophisticated spear‑phishing. A small IT team faced long restore times, compliance pressures (GDPR/BCDR) and the operational overhead and cost of offsite tape storage.

The organisation deployed Barracuda’s suite — Essentials Complete, Cloud‑to‑Cloud Backup, Cloud Archiving, Barracuda Backup, Sentinel and Web Security Gateway — in a seamless, sub‑day rollout. The cloud backup and archiving now provide unlimited retention and one‑click restores (emails retrievable in about five minutes), Sentinel’s AI quickly detects and remediates spear‑phishing, and a unified management portal reduced admin overhead and reclaimed valuable staff time.

NCC Education

Steven Bettoni

IT Support Manager