Case Study: Canterbury Christ Church University achieves 6x faster FOI/SAR searches and stronger data-risk protection with Rubrik Sonar & Radar

Canterbury Christ Church University Uses Rubrik Sonar and Radar to Identify and Mitigate Data Risk

Canterbury Christ Church University is a public university in Kent with over 15,000 students. The IT team faced limited visibility into where sensitive data resided, rising ransomware and data‑exfiltration threats, time‑consuming Freedom of Information (FOI) and Subject Access Request (SAR) searches, and growing compliance risks (PCI‑DSS, UK PII, NHS data).

The university deployed Rubrik Sonar and Radar to discover sensitive data in backups, continuously monitor for anomalous behavior, and protect Microsoft 365 with immutable backups. This enabled keyword searches across shares (cutting FOI/SAR turnaround from ~3 days to ~12 hours, a 6× improvement), significant FTE savings with no extra infrastructure or production impact, rapid remediation of misplaced PCI data, and ongoing compliance visibility and self‑service incident resolution.

Canterbury Christ Church University

Andy Powell

Head of Infrastructure