Case Study: Mid‑America Carpenters Regional Council Benefit Funds achieves easy-to-manage network security, cost-saving cloud backup, and seamless email protection with Barracuda Networks

Large trade union benefits fund sticks with Barracuda

Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council Benefit Funds, a Chicago‑based organization managing benefits for a 52,000‑member trade union, needed stronger, easier‑to‑manage security to meet HIPAA requirements. Their existing SonicWall firewalls were complex to administer, tape‑based backups were costly and unreliable, and their on‑premises email security didn’t support an upcoming Microsoft 365 migration.

They deployed Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, Barracuda Backup, and Barracuda Email Protection, gaining an intuitive firewall with outstanding support, scalable VPN for rapid remote work, cloud‑replicated backups with fast bare‑metal recovery and significant cost savings from retiring tape services, and cloud email protection that streamlined the move to Microsoft 365. The result was improved security and compliance, reduced operational overhead, quicker recovery, and long‑term confidence in Barracuda as their cybersecurity partner.

Benefit Funds

Brian Lesters

IT Manager