CASE STUDY
WE NOW HAVE FULL
VISIBILITY OF ALL EMAILS
AND THE ASSURANCE THAT
EMAILS SENT BETWEEN
INTERNAL USERS ARE
ANALYSED.
It purchased Mimecast’s Secure Email
Gateway with Targeted Threat Protection,
Continuity, Archiving and Sync and Recover,
to improve its cyber resilience. It also
adopted Mimecast Awareness Training and
Internal Email Protect services, and Grove’s
24/7 Support service.
“Mimecast ticked all the boxes for us –
monitoring, reporting, comfort, protection
against all kinds of attacks, but especially
impersonation attacks, alerts, a commitment
to research and development, a high level of
ethics, and – most importantly – a value-
adding service,” said Goonmeter.
“With Grove and Mimecast, it was always
about more than the solution. We felt
comforted by the fact that there would be a
skilled team looking after our interests and
guiding us to make the right decisions. What
started out as a scope for protection from
external threats and the ability to recover in
the event of an attack, expanded to include
internal threat protection and user awareness
training – services that we weren’t looking for
in the beginning but that were proposed by
Grove to help us address our challenges.”
An important part of improving their
defences was adopting Mimecast Internal
Email Protect. Both Goonmeter and Fayolle are also
excited about rolling out Mimecast
Awareness Training.
“We noticed that quite a few threats came
from within our perimeter, which is why we
also opted to analyse our internal emails as
well,” said Fayolle. “We haven’t implemented this yet, but I’ve
seen the videos and I love the characters
– and I’m sure our users will also love the
engaging content,” said Goonmeter.
“If we were to only protect the business from
external threats, we would have only covered
a portion of our attack surface, leaving
us exposed. We now have full visibility of
all emails and the assurance that emails
sent between internal users are analysed.
Infected emails and/or attachments are
automatically removed from users’ inboxes.” Fayolle, meanwhile, notes that security
awareness training is a focus area for IBL
Group because human error was often part
of the attacks.
Results
IBL Group saw immediate results after
implementing Mimecast. “Even when we
were in ‘relaxed’ implementation mode,
we could already see the benefits in terms
of the number of emails and attachments
that were being blocked,” said Goonmeter.
“Implementation and fine-tuning happened
so smoothly and, if there were any issues,
Grove addressed them before they became
problems. The entire experience was positive
and one that we now want to make available
to our investment companies.”
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