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This Law Firm Found a Game-Changer in Email Security with Avanan

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Applicable Industries	Professional Service
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	Cybersecurity Services
Challenge	Brodeur and Giroux, a New England-based law firm, had been using Mimecast to protect its Microsoft 365 users. However, they began to notice a pattern in the types of attacks coming through to the inbox. These Business Email Compromise attacks are of particular concern since they are incredibly effective and tough to stop. Beyond that, the firm was struggling with standard credential harvesting schemes, including fake invoices. All he was left to do was hope “that our end-users catch and don’t fall for it,” he says. For Reaves, that’s a risk he wasn’t willing to take. Read More
About Customer	Brodeur and Giroux is a law firm based in New England. The company had been using Mimecast to protect its Microsoft 365 users. However, they began to notice a pattern in the types of attacks coming through to the inbox. These Business Email Compromise attacks are of particular concern since they are incredibly effective and tough to stop. Gartner has found that BECs increased by nearly 100% in 2019 and through 2023, they predict that BEC attacks will continue to double each year, at a cost of over $5 billion to its victims. The payment for a BEC attack nearly doubled between the first and second quarter of 2020, now at an average cost of $80,183. Plus, the so-called gift card scams are actually quite popular. The Internet Crime Complaint Center tracked a 1,240% increase in 2018 of these types of attacks. Read More
Solution	When looking at solutions that excel against Business Email Compromise attacks, he came across Gartner’s recommendations for stopping such attacks. When he spun up the trial of Avanan, he quickly found that it ticked off all the boxes for stopping BECs. Specifically, he liked how it started with a deployment-day analysis of a year’s worth of email conservations to build out a trusted reputation network. He appreciated that Avanan scanned and quarantined internal emails and files in real-time, to better protect against east-west and inside attacks. Finally, he appreciated how Avanan’s AI consistently trained itself on the most evasive attacks, including BECs. Further, he was getting slammed with fake invoices. Fake invoices are an incredibly popular form of a credential harvesting scheme, as it’s a relatively easy way to get users to click. Reaves realized that his solution needed to do a better job of doing sophisticated sender reputation and relationship graph analysis to stop them. Mimecast wasn’t doing that. On the trial, though, he saw how Avanan excelled at it. Read More Log in to view content
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Applicable Industries

Professional Service

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

Cybersecurity Services

Challenge

Brodeur and Giroux, a New England-based law firm, had been using Mimecast to protect its Microsoft 365 users. However, they began to notice a pattern in the types of attacks coming through to the inbox. These Business Email Compromise attacks are of particular concern since they are incredibly effective and tough to stop. Beyond that, the firm was struggling with standard credential harvesting schemes, including fake invoices. All he was left to do was hope “that our end-users catch and don’t fall for it,” he says. For Reaves, that’s a risk he wasn’t willing to take.

About Customer

Brodeur and Giroux is a law firm based in New England. The company had been using Mimecast to protect its Microsoft 365 users. However, they began to notice a pattern in the types of attacks coming through to the inbox. These Business Email Compromise attacks are of particular concern since they are incredibly effective and tough to stop. Gartner has found that BECs increased by nearly 100% in 2019 and through 2023, they predict that BEC attacks will continue to double each year, at a cost of over $5 billion to its victims. The payment for a BEC attack nearly doubled between the first and second quarter of 2020, now at an average cost of $80,183. Plus, the so-called gift card scams are actually quite popular. The Internet Crime Complaint Center tracked a 1,240% increase in 2018 of these types of attacks.

Solution

When looking at solutions that excel against Business Email Compromise attacks, he came across Gartner’s recommendations for stopping such attacks. When he spun up the trial of Avanan, he quickly found that it ticked off all the boxes for stopping BECs. Specifically, he liked how it started with a deployment-day analysis of a year’s worth of email conservations to build out a trusted reputation network. He appreciated that Avanan scanned and quarantined internal emails and files in real-time, to better protect against east-west and inside attacks. Finally, he appreciated how Avanan’s AI consistently trained itself on the most evasive attacks, including BECs. Further, he was getting slammed with fake invoices. Fake invoices are an incredibly popular form of a credential harvesting scheme, as it’s a relatively easy way to get users to click. Reaves realized that his solution needed to do a better job of doing sophisticated sender reputation and relationship graph analysis to stop them. Mimecast wasn’t doing that. On the trial, though, he saw how Avanan excelled at it.

Impact #1	Avanan's robust AI easily snuffed out BEC attacks and used sophisticated machine learning to block credential harvesting attacks.
Impact #2	Since Avanan blocks emails before they reach the inbox, he didn’t have to worry about his users clicking on them.
Impact #3	Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is a cloud email security platform that pioneered and patented a new approach to prevent sophisticated attacks. It uses APIs to block phishing, malware, and data leakage in the line of communications traffic.

Impact #1

Avanan's robust AI easily snuffed out BEC attacks and used sophisticated machine learning to block credential harvesting attacks.

Impact #2

Since Avanan blocks emails before they reach the inbox, he didn’t have to worry about his users clicking on them.

Impact #3

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration is a cloud email security platform that pioneered and patented a new approach to prevent sophisticated attacks. It uses APIs to block phishing, malware, and data leakage in the line of communications traffic.

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This Law Firm Found a Game-Changer in Email Security with Avanan

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