Keys Energy, a power company based in the Florida Keys, found that spam was sapping company resources and employee productivity.
As with most organizations, email is a mission-critical tool at Keys Energy. Executives complained that spam emails cluttered their laptops and mobile devices rendering them less effective. Also, there were strong concerns about business emails that got lost in the sea of spam.
Perry Hill, the IT administrator at Keys Energy, was particularly concerned about liability issues associated with spam emails, particularly those with pornographic and sexual content. With 175 employees increasingly complaining about spam, and executives struggling with spam deluge over slow connections outside the office, Hill sought a solution to the spam problem.
Interested in taking individual employees out of the equation and stopping spam at the server level, Hill then implemented Cloudmark Server Edition (CSE)."There was really nothing at all to do in terms of management," Hill said of the implementation. "You install it and it's good to go." With a thinly spread IT staff, Keys Energy simply can't afford to have IT administrators spending time managing spam emails when there are more significant, potentially revenue-impacting projects in the queue. Importantly for Hill, CSE is a server-level security blanket that blocks harmful files from penetrating the Keys Energy's network.
"In just over one and a half months, CSE has stopped 26,000 spam emails. It consistently achieves 98 percent accuracy with very few false positives," Hill says.
An additional benefit Hill has noted: "CSE blocks many virus-infected executable files. It's just a fabulous product," Hill concludes.