Email Security Case Study: Why Grand Valley State University Switched to Proofpoint Enterprise Protection

We recently published an updated case study on Grand Valley State University's use of Proofpoint Enterprise Protection for anti-spam, anti-malware and email policy enforcement. The university switched to Proofpoint from McAfee's IronMail solution (originally developed by Ciphertrust). Grand Valley State University is a four-year public university with more than 23,000 students and 4,000 faculty members.   

The university originally deployed McAfee’s IronMail solution to combat the plethora of spam messages being sent to its 20,000 mailboxes but did not find the effectiveness and flexibility it was looking for.  Many legitimate messages were misidentified as spam and some malicious emails were getting through to end users causing IT administrators to waste time sorting email.

Email administrator Tom Norman, noted, “We needed to find a new product that would excel at correctly identifying spam and viruses and reduce the amount of time IT staff spent on email administration. We were also looking for a vendor to provide a superior level of customer service and support.”

Grand Valley State University turned to Proofpoint’s Enterprise Protection deployed as appliances to meet its requirements.  Proofpoint’s appliance deployment model is easy to integrate with any SMTP mail server, features real-time reporting tools and an intuitive interface. 

With its 99%+ spam detection rate, Proofpoint's high performance email security solution provided much needed relief for Tom Norman and his team. Norman says, “Proofpoint has just been a godsend to me because I’m now viewed as the ‘good guy’ for finally fixing our problem with spam and viruses.”

Read the full case study (PDF format) on Grand valley State University and visit our Learning Center for more case studies.