Clayton Homes Strengthens Email Security for its Mobile Workforce

In a special mobile security edition of SC Magazine, Clayton Homes demonstrates how they are leveraging Proofpoint to increase email security.

Clayton Homes, established in 1934 and acquired by Warren Buffet in 2003, is the largest manufacturer of mobile, modular, and manufactured houses in the United States.  In order to keep in touch with its customers at all times, Clayton Homes encourages its employees to use consumerized IT devices to send and receive emails.  These email messages often contain sensitive data such as financial, manufacturing, and proprietary designs that could lead to a loss of customer confidence and regulatory compliance fines if stolen or lost.

After evaluating several solutions, Clayton Homes chose Proofpoint Enterprise Protection (SaaS email security) and Enterprise Privacy (data loss prevention and email encryption) to help manage the substantial security and compliance risks posed by mobile email. 

Jodie Swafford, information security manager at Clayton Homes, noted, “We looked for one that was cost effective and could provide us with strong security and compliance across multiple mobile platforms as well as offer control, flexibility and scalability.”

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection helps to prevent spam, viruses, malware, and phishing for inbound and outbound email while Enterprise Privacy defends against leaks of confidential information and ensures compliance with common international, industry and US data protection regulations.

Swafford outlined how easy it was to start protecting sensitive data, “With Proofpoint, we were able to use out-of-the-box rule sets, tweak them slightly as needed, and even create custom rules for different business units.  Once rule sets were defined, we really only need to turn Proofpoint on.  It immediately began governing all email communications at the rate of thousands per day.”

As with many of our customer cases, Proofpoint’s products can help reduce overall costs by lowering time spent on IT administration, saving employees from time spent sorting spam and preventing data breaches and regulatory fines.

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