Network Security Use Case Description Tuscaloosa County School System (TCSS): Approximately 18,700 students, 2,500 staff members (teachers and support staff), 35 schools, and one central office Challenges Providing safe methods to access the internet, while effectively monitoring network traffic, websites, and scanning all attempted downloads that are accessed across large BGP network Preventing malicious attacks on the network, preventing and remediating spam/phishing emails, and allowing users to externally access required web-based servers Backing up entire virtual environment with onsite backup appliances (with additional cloud-based storage) Solution Barracuda CloudGen Firewalls Barracuda Sentinel Barracuda Web Security Gateway Barracuda Web Application Firewall Barracuda Cloud Control (Barracuda Backup, Email Security, Archiver) 36 firewalls

Network Security Use Case Results Total visibility of network/user traffic and downloads, while having the ability to quickly and efficiently troubleshoot issues in order allow/block access to specific websites for TCSS end users Securing internal web-based servers behind Web Application Firewall so end users can access them securely, outside of the network Visibility into all external/internal emails, notification of attempted malicious downloads/installs on TCSS devices, as well as a solution to send “faux phishing” emails, and mitigate the effects of spam/phishing emails on end users, their accounts, and the network as a whole Physical on-site backup appliances for effective restorations, and the option to revert back to older, cloud-based backups if needed