Case Study: The Cam Academy Trust achieves comprehensive Microsoft 365 email security and cloud-to-cloud backup—blocking 24,000+ threats/month and saving 18+ hours/week with Barracuda Networks

Ticking all the boxes for comprehensive email security and backup at leading UK schools group

The Cam Academy Trust, which manages 13 schools and around 7,000 staff and students across Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon and Bedfordshire, faced scale-related security challenges after migrating to Microsoft 365. Native M365 protections produced numerous false positives and negatives, were time-consuming to administer for a large user base, and lacked the breadth of security and backup capabilities the trust needed.

The trust deployed Barracuda Email Protection and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, gaining advanced anti-phishing and impersonation defenses, incident response, and granular SaaS backups for Teams, Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. The solution blocks more than 24,000 threats per month, has cut the security team’s routine workload from about 20 hours a week to 1–2 hours (saving 18+ hours/week), and delivers fast restores and responsive vendor support.

The Cam Academy Trust

Michael Terry

Cybersecurity Engineer