Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance X1070 Guida Informativa
Customer Case Study
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
EBS BUILDING SOCIETY AT A GLANCE
Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland
Employees: 665
Members: 450,000
Business: Mutually held financial institution that
provides mortgages, insurance, personal lending,
savings, investments, credit card services, and
more
provides mortgages, insurance, personal lending,
savings, investments, credit card services, and
more
Total Assets (2007):
€19.5 billion
THE CISCO IRONPORT ADVANTAGE
● Accurate detection and classification of illicit
images and content
● Minimized exposure to legal liability as well as
loss of brand image and reputation
● Easy management with maximum visibility
into acceptable-use policy violations
● Complete integration with content filtering and
reporting infrastructure
● Nonintrusive, reliable results for superior user
satisfaction
Cisco Provides Analysis and Management for a Leading Financial
Institution
Institution
Overview
Serving 450,000 members, EBS Building Society provides a
comprehensive range of financial services, including mortgages,
savings and investments, pensions, personal loans, credit cards and
insurance. The Dublin-based organization operates through a network
of offices across Ireland.
EBS places a premium on the trust it has earned through its many
years in business. It has also been recognized as one of Ireland’s top
years in business. It has also been recognized as one of Ireland’s top
places to work. With an eye on sustaining its market appeal and the
loyalty of its more than 600 employees, the company turned to Cisco
®
to provide it with robust protection against a rising tide of illicit images
and content.
The Situation
With a trusted brand built on a long history of providing quality products
and service, EBS Building Society is one of Ireland’s most respected
and service, EBS Building Society is one of Ireland’s most respected
financial organizations. However, in recent years, the email-based
proliferation of illicit images posed a serious threat to its hard-earned market stature as well as the safety and security
of its employees and members. Based on its satisfaction with its existing Cisco IronPort
®
C-Series Email Security
Appliance, the organization looked to Cisco for a new means to combat these increasingly complex threats.
Technical Challenges
With roughly 1200 users on its system, EBS realized that manual detection of suspect images was an unsustainable
task given the drain on productivity and probability of human error (which continually posed the risk of allowing
inappropriate content to infiltrate its network). The company needed a more efficient means to analyze the threats
posed by external users who create, upload, and share inappropriate images. Employers are required to provide a
safe work environment for their employees, and block message content that can compromise their brand identity or
reputation in the market. With that in mind, EBS sought a powerful resource that would accurately identify
inappropriate content at the gateway, and maintain it in quarantine until its risk could be evaluated. After a rigorous
two-month trial, EBS selected Cisco IronPort Image Analysis (Figure 1).