Real World Solutions from People in the Trenches Featuring Mailprotector and PGT Trucking

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PGT Trucking is one of the largest flatbed trucking firms in the United States, with more than 900 trucks in the field and over 300 employees. The company services the metals and building construction industries, providing customized transportation. PGT’s primary concern for email security was the amount of spam that can disrupt business operations. The company sought a solution that would protect internal and external email communications, reduce spam and the administrative resources required to combat it, without imposing hefty licensing fees.

“We needed to get rid of the spam clogging our email system, both for internal operations as well as critical outward facing customer relations,” says Ed Patterson, network administrator at PGT Trucking. “With Mailprotector, not only have we been able to effectively take care of the spam problem, but we’ve reduced the costly resources required to deal with it, including management, hardware and software.”

According to the company, benefits of the Mailprotector offering over software or appliance-based solutions include:

• Dedicated team of full-time security professionals
• Protection from outside the perimeter
• No capital investment
• Community learning benefits
• Increased email infrastructure redundancy
• Rapid deployment

“Mailprotector’s ‘Store and Forward’ functionality also gave us a powerful tool for business continuance, providing email recovery in the event our Exchange* server goes down,” adds Patterson.