CASE STUDY
Command to defend against the daily onslaught of email-based cyberattacks .
“ Our legacy technology forced us to manually build custom rules and filters and apply them across the state ’ s 14 email gateways ,” said Jason Franzman , Senior Security Engineer in OMES Oklahoma Cyber Command . “ We also had to manually verify whether suspicious emails were actually a threat . It was impossible to keep up with the speed at which we were getting attacked .”
In addition to these security issues , the geographically dispersed gateways made email monitoring and management processes difficult and time-consuming .
Singleton , Franzman and the rest of Oklahoma Cyber Command knew the key to overcoming these challenges was to consolidate and modernize its secure mail platform .
Singleton said : “ We conducted a comprehensive evaluation of several email security vendors , and Mimecast came out on top . The company offers an extremely robust feature set that is available through a single platform and it ’ s delivered at an affordable price point . Today , OMES is benefiting from Mimecast ’ s Email Security , DMARC Analyzer , Brand Protection and Security Awareness Training offerings , as well as add-on features including Secure Messaging and Large File Send .
Customer outcome
“ Moving to Mimecast has modernized , consolidated and transformed how the State of Oklahoma handles email security ,” said Singleton . “ We faced several major challenges over the last 18 months , including securing the state election , and protecting agencies and citizens from contract tracing and vaccine rollout phishing attacks . Having Mimecast on board put us in a position to better defend against these threats .”
AT A GLANCE
Problem
Franzman adds : “ Beginning on day one with Mimecast , we saw a dramatic decrease in the number of IT tickets related to spam , malware and fraud . Mimecast has also automated threat detection and response , significantly accelerating our response time .”
OMES Oklahoma Cyber Command needed to modernize legacy email gateways to strengthen email security and simplify email management .
Solution :
Email Security , DMARC Analyzer , Brand Protection , Security Awareness Training , Secure Messaging , Large File Send .
Benefits :
• Modernized email security platform
• Decrease in volume of email-based threats targeting the State of Oklahoma
• Automated threat detection and response
• Simplified email management
• Integration and orchestration resulting in a ‘ smart ’ cybersecurity network
Oklahoma Cyber Command is also benefiting from simplified email management through a single platform , and integration and orchestration capabilities that have been critical in the battle against cyberattackers .
“ Mimecast integrates with our firewall , endpoint protection , SIEM and cyberthreat intelligence solutions , which helps us build a smart security network ,” said Singleton . “ There are 61.5 million attacks targeting the State of Oklahoma each day . No human team can keep up with those numbers ; integration is the only way to combat the volume and velocity of attacks against the state . The ability to have Mimecast become part of our cybersecurity ecosystem has been a game changer .”
He continues : “ With Mimecast ’ s innovative email security platform , we ’ ve been able to take a proactive approach to cyberdefense and greatly strengthen our overall cybersecurity posture .” p
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