Case Study: Gloucestershire College achieves proactive cybersecurity and flexible Microsoft 365 backup with Barracuda Networks

Helping Gloucestershire College protect staff and students with proactive cybersecurity

Gloucestershire College, a further and higher education provider in Gloucestershire with three campuses and about 6,000 students, was facing thousands of daily phishing attempts, ransomware and data‑theft risk, end‑of‑life firewalls, a need for SD‑WAN support and the requirement for third‑party Microsoft 365 backup despite uncertain account and retention needs.

The college deployed Barracuda Email Protection, Cloud‑to‑Cloud Backup and CloudGen Firewall (one per site). Backup provided unlimited retention and now protects data across ~19,000 student and ~900 staff accounts; CloudGen delivers SD‑WAN and advanced threat protection; Email Protection adds AI impersonation detection and Automatic Remediation. The result: faster administration and incident response, more proactive threat detection and reporting, reduced downtime and reputational/financial risk, and cost savings from SD‑WAN.

Gloucestershire College

Kevin Agnew

Head of IT