Dakota Growers Pasta Company Adopts SaaS Email Security from Proofpoint

One of the interesting things about working in email security is that the problems we solve are extremely horizontal—every organization needs anti-spam, anti-virus and email policy enforcement features. So one gets exposed to many different types of companies in this line of work. Case in point: Proofpoint issued a customer case study press release today about Dakota Growers Pasta Company, which is apparently the third largest pasta manufacturer in North America.

Like so many enterprises today, when it came time to re-evaluate its email security solution, Dakota Growers opted for a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution for stopping email spam and malware. Using Proofpoint PROTECT, one of our SaaS email security solutions, provided a more better performing, more cost-efficient way for the company to deal with email secuirty issues. Dakota Growers's director of IT, Jeffrey Strang, says:

"We wanted a solution that resided outside of our own network, as we've had issues in the past with email security software impacting our hardware assets. Proofpoint PROTECT was our first experience with a SaaS solution of any kind, but given the positive results we've achieved with Proofpoint, we're actually moving to hosted solutions in other areas of our business."

As I've noted before, moving inbound email security features to the cloudis pretty much a "no-brainer" for companies of any size. By deploying Proofpoint PROTECT, Dakota Growers has radically reduced the volume of spam and virus-infected email entering its network, making employees more productive and reducing the time that IT staff spends on email security-related administration and helpdesk tasks to near zero.

If you'd like to learn more about using cloud computing to solve your organization's email security challenges, attend our next live web seminar, Wednesday, November 18th. To register, please visit the link below:

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And here's a little bonus for reading this far: Apparently, the other type of spam (the canned meat product) makes a fine addition to any sort of pasta. Here's a recipe for angelhair pasta with spam cream sauce. Enjoy.