INDUSTRY WATCH multiple firewalls in a group and then configuring them to be synchronized , thus preventing a single point of failure in any office location .
“ At the same time , we could see the firewalls were able to meet our new requirements and so took the decision to deploy additional appliances . The most recent were deployed in our offices in New South Wales and Western Australia during 2020 .”
Earlier this year , the company extended its protection by deploying Barracuda CloudGen Firewall in New Zealand .
Comprehensive security
Additionally , Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Barracuda Total Email Protection have been implemented to provide a holistic solution across all potential threat vectors that Cross Hydraulics were concerned about .
WE NOW HAVE IN PLACE A COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY AND ARCHIVING INFRASTRUCTURE THAT COVERS OUR NEEDS ACROSS ALL OF OUR OFFICE LOCATIONS .
With Barracuda solutions now live in both Australia and New Zealand , Cross Hydraulics is enjoying significant benefits . All offices are fully protected from attacks and can seamlessly share data as required . Staff in the New Zealand location can share data and access applications as though they were in the same country .
“ We ’ re using Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup to protect our critical Office 365 data as well as Barracuda Backup Appliance to protect our other core servers and applications ,” said Burrows . “ This means we are able to backup our data to a managed appliance and also send a copy of those backups to the cloud . This helps us protect our data by having it in multiple locations .” Burrows says Barracuda Essentials also helps the company cope with email traffic that regularly reaches 10,000 messages in a single day .
“ Of those , around 2000 are usually found to be malicious and capable of causing harm to our systems ,” he said . “ Barracuda automatically stops these messages and sends us a report if any look particularly nasty .”
Burrows also says that Barracuda Message Archiver automates the process of archiving all email that is both sent and received while Barracuda Sentinel continually scans user inboxes using Artificial Intelligence that can identify potential threats .
“ We now have in place a comprehensive security and archiving infrastructure that covers our needs across all of our office locations ,” he said . “ With Barracuda , we have a technology partner that we know will continue to support our growing operations in the years ahead .” p
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