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Cisco Email Security Case Study

Introduction

This case study of a non-profit organization is based on a June 2018 survey of Cisco Email Security customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Cisco Email Security decreased spam by 40% and saves us $40K per year.”

“The high rating given is due to Cisco Email Security being a cloud-based service, having a great response time, no patching needed, and always on!”

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
- Cisco encryption products (Cisco Registered Envelope Service or Zix-Gateway with Cisco Technology/ZCT)
Evaluated the following vendors prior to choosing Cisco Email Security:
- Proofpoint
- Symantec
- Trend Micro

Use Case

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

Purchased Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) after purchasing Cisco Email Security.
Using the following Cisco products in addition to Cisco Email Security:
- AMP for Endpoints or AMP on another product
- AnyConnect
- Umbrella

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 week after using Cisco Email Security.

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