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Thumbs down for malicious email viruses

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Thumbs Up (Bury) Ltd, a manufacturer and supplier of plastic housewares and storage products, faced a major disruption to their business due to the infection of their computers with the Zeus Trojan. This disruption included downtime of their email system. The infection occurred while the company was in the process of swapping their email system from BTpop to Microsoft Exchange to improve productivity. However, even after the implementation of Microsoft Exchange, email-borne viruses continued to disrupt the business. In addition, about a week after the infection the company’s telephone lines were temporarily hijacked by hackers posing as BT engineers, so that if the bank phoned to verify any transactions the calls could be intercepted by the hackers and it would appear that they were speaking to the company. Read More
About Customer	Thumbs Up (Bury) Ltd is a manufacturer and supplier of plastic housewares and storage products. The company supplies its products to major supermarkets, high street retailers, garden centres and online outlets throughout the UK, Ireland and the European Union. Formed in 1978, the company now employs around 250 staff and produces more than 70 million injection moulded items across some 2000 product lines at its production and distribution facility in Bury, Lancashire, UK. Read More
Solution	The company signed up to Censornet’s cloud-based Email Security to combat the issue of email-borne viruses. Censornet Email Security is a cloud-based email security and backup service that scans both inbound and outbound email for viruses, phishing threats, content violations and spam. By doing this in the cloud it removes the processing and bandwidth burden on the local email server and also provides a layer of resilience in case of local mail server failures. Email for the customer’s domain(s) is redirected to Censornet servers before it is delivered to the local email server, such as Microsoft Exchange or Exim. At the core of Censornet Email Security is a sophisticated rules engine that allows the IT administrator to customise exactly how email flows in and out of the organisation. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Thumbs Up (Bury) Ltd, a manufacturer and supplier of plastic housewares and storage products, faced a major disruption to their business due to the infection of their computers with the Zeus Trojan. This disruption included downtime of their email system. The infection occurred while the company was in the process of swapping their email system from BTpop to Microsoft Exchange to improve productivity. However, even after the implementation of Microsoft Exchange, email-borne viruses continued to disrupt the business. In addition, about a week after the infection the company’s telephone lines were temporarily hijacked by hackers posing as BT engineers, so that if the bank phoned to verify any transactions the calls could be intercepted by the hackers and it would appear that they were speaking to the company.

About Customer

Thumbs Up (Bury) Ltd is a manufacturer and supplier of plastic housewares and storage products. The company supplies its products to major supermarkets, high street retailers, garden centres and online outlets throughout the UK, Ireland and the European Union. Formed in 1978, the company now employs around 250 staff and produces more than 70 million injection moulded items across some 2000 product lines at its production and distribution facility in Bury, Lancashire, UK.

Solution

The company signed up to Censornet’s cloud-based Email Security to combat the issue of email-borne viruses. Censornet Email Security is a cloud-based email security and backup service that scans both inbound and outbound email for viruses, phishing threats, content violations and spam. By doing this in the cloud it removes the processing and bandwidth burden on the local email server and also provides a layer of resilience in case of local mail server failures. Email for the customer’s domain(s) is redirected to Censornet servers before it is delivered to the local email server, such as Microsoft Exchange or Exim. At the core of Censornet Email Security is a sophisticated rules engine that allows the IT administrator to customise exactly how email flows in and out of the organisation.

Impact #1	The implementation of Censornet Email Security removed the processing and bandwidth burden on the local email server.
Impact #2	The solution provided a layer of resilience in case of local mail server failures.
Impact #3	The sophisticated rules engine of Censornet Email Security allowed the IT administrator to customise exactly how email flows in and out of the organisation.

Impact #1

The implementation of Censornet Email Security removed the processing and bandwidth burden on the local email server.

Impact #2

The solution provided a layer of resilience in case of local mail server failures.

Impact #3

The sophisticated rules engine of Censornet Email Security allowed the IT administrator to customise exactly how email flows in and out of the organisation.

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Thumbs down for malicious email viruses

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