Case Study: Pacific Sense achieves protection against account takeover and spear‑phishing while cutting IT admin time with Barracuda Networks

Leading electrical and mechanical engineering company takes smart approach to outsmart scammers

Pacific Sense Enterprise Limited, a well-known electrical and mechanical engineering firm based in Hong Kong with over 100 employees, narrowly avoided a sophisticated impersonation and account takeover attack that exposed employees to targeted phishing, domain spoofing and potential financial and reputational loss. The incident revealed an active intruder and highlighted gaps in email security that threatened customer trust and sensitive operations.

Working with cloud partner Superhub, Pacific Sense deployed Barracuda Essentials and Barracuda Sentinel after an Email Threat Scanner quickly identified a compromised account and a non‑Hong Kong IP origin. The cloud solutions automated inbound and outbound email protection, stopped business email compromise and spear phishing, provided detailed domain visibility and daily reporting, and cut IT admin time by about 60%, restoring trust with minimal disruption.

Pacific Sense

Steve Leung

Technical Manager