TechValidate Research on Cisco Email Security


Cisco Email Security Case Study

Muscogee County School District

Introduction

This case study of Muscogee County School District is based on a May 2018 survey of Cisco Email Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Deploying Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) with Cisco Email Security has helped my organization protect against stealthy malware and remediate it faster.”

“It has reduced the amount of phishing and malware email in our district by 40%. We are able to focus on different tasks.”

“Cisco Email Security is a very easy to use product. The devices are cloud -based, which covers disaster recovery. It is very efficient on detecting malicious malware and phishing email messages. "

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select Cisco Email Security:

  • Chose Cisco Email Security to protect their Office 365 email because Cisco has:
    • Stronger protection from advanced email threats (business email compromise (BEC), advanced malware and/or phishing)
    • Better spam efficacy
    • Global presence and more comprehensive threat intelligence
    • More robust data loss prevention and encryption capabilities
  • Protects sensitive information in outgoing emails with:
    • Cisco data loss prevention (DLP) for email
  • Evaluated the following vendors prior to choosing Cisco Email Security:
    • Barracuda
    • Microsoft

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Cisco Email Security that the surveyed organization uses:

  • We are demoing AMP right now.
  • Using the following Cisco products in addition to Cisco Email Security:
    • Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    • We are demoing Umbrella, Stealthwatch, and AMP currently.

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with Cisco Email Security:

  • Achieved the following with Cisco Email Security:
    • Protected users from threats in incoming email to prevent breaches
    • Contained the impact of threats due to faster detection
    • Remediated stealthy malware faster
    • Prevented data loss of sensitive content in outgoing email
    • Encrypted sensitive data in outgoing email to achieve compliance with regulations
  • Reduced their time to detection of threats by more than a month after using Cisco Email Security.




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of Cisco Email Security by TechValidate.

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