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BARRACUDA EMAIL PROTECTION TAKES A COMPREHENSIVE , AUTOMATED APPROACH WITH EMAIL THREATS DETECTED AND REMEDIATED WITHIN MINUTES .
Drive on any road or highway in Australia and chances are you will see the striking fireengine red livery of Lindsay Australia trucks as they haul trailers of essential goods to markets and distribution centers nationwide .
Founded in 1953 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange , Lindsay Australia is a leader in integrated transport , logistics and rural supply , servicing customers in the food processing , food services , rural and horticultural sectors .
Responsible for the technology infrastructure and cybersecurity for 1,400 employees in 36 locations involving 48 core applications and 385 endpoints , Robert Hodgkiss , IT Infrastructure Manager at Lindsay Australia , said : “ We receive an average 300,000 to 450,000 inbound emails a month and send thousands of outbound messages on logistical data and other correspondence .
“ Unfortunately , the legacy email protection we had in place was unable to cope evidenced by the upswing of spam and other threats . We were having to manually inspect suspicious messages placing a severe strain on IT resources .”
This caused significant problems for employees who were regularly receiving unsolicited , unchecked and often malicious messages with harmful content or intent . Of course , there was always the worst-case scenario lurking in the back of Hodgkiss ’ mind ; that of an unseen attacker hidden within the network .
“ I ’ m sure what we had in place did work at one time . But , as threats intensified and became more sophisticated , the solution designed to protect the network was overwhelmed ,” he said . The system was bandwidth hungry , there was low threat visibility , spam appeared frequently , and to cap it all , a complex double filtering process with on-premises data archiving resulted in high network utilization .”
As Hodgkiss succinctly puts it : “ The situation was a mess , unattainable and had to change .”
Barracuda delivers comprehensive single subscription solution
Following a discussion with senior management , the decision was made to overhaul the email protection system .
“ Simplification was key . Rather than multiple vendors supplying pieces of the email protection jigsaw like we had , we wanted one vendor to provide an externally hosted solution under one subscription ,” said Hodgkiss .
“ This had to include email archiving , spam control , visibility , archiving , backup , reporting and incident management , and security awareness training tools .”
These strict criteria proved to be a stumbling block for all vendors in the selection process , apart from one – Barracuda .
Barracuda takes customer first approach
Entrusted by over 200,000 customers worldwide to safeguard their employees , data and applications from email-borne threats , Barracuda delivers easy , comprehensive and simplified email protection solutions . According to research , 91 % of all cyberattacks originate with email and can have a financial and reputational impact and disrupt business .
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