easyJet: Moving Email Security to the Cloud

Today's Proofpoint press release presents information about Proofpoint customer easyJet, who have been using Proofpoint's SaaS email security solution for several years now.

In case you're not familiar with easyJet, the company is the leading low-fare airline in Europe, serving more than 27 countries on more than 500 routes. And with 7000 employees across the globe, easyJet's IT team of just 59 is always looking for ways to streamline its operations while improving service.

When easyJet first evaluated Proofpoint's email security solutions, the company was looking to improve performance against inbound spam and viruses, but also to simplify their IT infrastructure, simplify ongoing maintenance and reduce costs.

IT services manager Mark Beard told us that moving email security functions including anti-spam and anti-virus to a SaaS model was the right way to go.

"It means one less thing for our IT team to worry about while greatly reducing our overall costs of providing email security. Proofpoint’s solution has reduced the administrative strains placed on the team while still retaining complete control over our email environment. Anti-spam and anti-virus performance has been excellent, resulting in a greatly improved experience for our email users."

By using Proofpoint ENTERPRISE Protection, easyJet has been able to get all those benefits without giving up the level of control and customization that large enterprises require. Features such as LDAP integration, so they can apply different sets of email filtering rules to different groups of end users, and multi-lingual end-user interfaces (to support easyJet's international staff) were important.

You can read the full press release here:

Press release: easyJet Looks to Proofpoint's Cloud for Email Security