Case Study: L&Q achieves hybrid cloud application protection and reduced IT overhead with Barracuda Networks' WAF-as-a-Service

Leading housing association chooses SaaS-model app security

L&Q is a large UK nonprofit housing association serving about 250,000 people in more than 105,000 homes. Facing a hybrid environment with sensitive resident and IoT telemetry data, the team needed stronger protection for online applications and a solution that would support an ongoing migration from on‑premises to Azure—while moving beyond their traditional appliance mindset.

They deployed Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service, a SaaS web application firewall that delivered full-featured protection across on‑prem and cloud apps, immediate visibility into probing and attacks, and seamless security as apps migrated to Azure. The result: reduced IT overhead, reliable, easy management without new appliance staff, and greater confidence to continue their cloud migration.

L&Q

Kieron Prince

Cloud and Infrastructure Lead