Case Study: Stowe Valley Multi Academy Trust achieves simplified, secure Office 365 cloud backup and email protection with Barracuda Networks

Starting from scratch schools group simplifies and secures cloud backup and security with Barracuda

Stowe Valley Multi Academy Trust, a UK group of nine schools serving around 6,200 staff and students, faced rising phishing and account-takeover attacks during COVID-19 plus the need to back up vital teaching data in Teams and OneDrive while managing GDPR and reputational risk. With four separate networks and a new centralization onto Azure/Office 365, the IT team needed a simple, scalable way to secure email and protect cloud data.

Working with partner Epaton, the MAT deployed Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup and Total Email Protection—quick to install (about three hours per tenant) and cost-effective. The solution has blocked thousands of threats (in one month it quarantined ~1,100 emails and blocked ~4,600), speeded incident response from half a day to minutes, reduced IT workload, mitigated GDPR and reputational exposure, and provided peace of mind for Office 365 data.

Stowe Valley Multi Academy Trust

Stephen Hardy

Director of IT