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Customer Case Study 

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Headquarters: Poznan, Poland 

Market Area: Eastern Europe 

Business: Online auction hosting, online 
payment systems, price comparison services, 
online classified advertisements and more 

Year Founded: 1999 

Customer Base: Over 10 million users 

●  Proprietary operating system to ensure the 

email infrastructure is never overwhelmed 

●  The industry’s most effective reputation and 

virus outbreak filters 

●  Maximized throughput to deliver critical mail 

much faster than most traditional systems 

●  Single gateway appliance with hassle-free, 

low-maintenance management helps ensure 
low total cost of ownership (TCO) 

 

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Email Security 

As one of Eastern Europe’s leading e-commerce platforms, the Allegro 

Group relies exclusively on email to conduct its business transactions, 

which include general merchandise and trading, as well as automotive 

and real estate auctions. 

With the proliferation of spam and viruses, the fast-growing Poland-

based business demanded an email security system that would protect 

its outbound and inbound flow of email traffic by helping to ensure that 

client notifications, bidding schedules, pricing comparisons, and 

subscriptions would not be jeopardized by malicious traffic infiltrating its 

expanding network. 

Operating as a unit of Naspers (a multinational provider of electronic 

media and print media products), the Allegro Group has grown to more 

than 1100 employees throughout Eastern Europe, with branch offices located in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, 

Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, the Ukraine, and Hungary. 

The expanding organization required an agile security system to help ensure that its email-based commerce would 

not be compromised by Internet threats. Allegro demanded a low-maintenance solution that would deliver zero false 

positives and result in minimal downtime, regardless of traffic volumes. Following an extensive search and rigorous 

testing, the organization turned to Cisco

®

 to help meet its security needs. 

 

With more than 100 servers sending email through its system, 550 employees at its headquarters, and a rapidly 

growing customer base in excess of 10 million users across Eastern Europe, Allegro required an upgrade to its 

existing threat solution that would safeguard the basis for all of its commercial exchanges: email. 

Allegro’s existing system proved unable to keep up with the demands of this dynamic organization. Its legacy system 

was unreliable and demanded frequent manual updates and filter reconfigurations to prevent spam, viruses, and 

other malware from penetrating its system and jeopardizing the speed and reliability its online customers expect. 

In the Cisco IronPort

®

 C-Series Email Security Appliance, Allegro found a low-maintenance, problem-free solution to 

help ensure the uninterrupted flow of legitimate email traffic. Built on the revolutionary Cisco IronPort AsyncOS

®

 

operating system, the all-in-one appliance consolidates the capabilities of multiple servers by employing a range of 

“Our old system required constant tuning. We don’t have to manage or 
maintain the Cisco IronPort C-

Series appliance. It just works.”