EasyJet and Proofpoint, Inc--Real World Solutions

By Stephanie Jordan
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EasyJet—Europe’s leading low-fares airline, which operates 182 aircraft and employs about 7,000 supported by an IT staff of 59—sought to greatly reduce the costs, administration and maintenance burdens associated with managing email security. Simplicity, ease-of-use and control for end-users were also critical selection criteria. The company chose a cloud-based email security solution from Proofpoint, Inc.

According to the companies, easyJet signed a multi-year subscription to Proofpoint’s SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) email security solution in 2008. Following a competitive evaluation and two-week pilot, the airline chose Proofpoint Enterprise over competing solutions because of “its highly configurable, modular approach, unrivalled anti-spam effectiveness and built-in reporting capabilities.”

EasyJet leverages Proofpoint Enterprise features including LDAP integration to automatically apply different sets of email filtering rules to different groups of users, without requiring intervention by the airline’s email administrators. Multi-lingual end-user interfaces allow EasyJet’s internationally-distributed staff to interact with the system in their native languages, based on each user’s individual preferences.

“Choosing an on-demand solution for our inbound email filtering seemed an obvious decision,” says Mark Beard, IT services manager at EasyJet. “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.”

Published March 25, 2010