Coen Company, Inc.
Proofpoint™ Helps Coen Successfully Protect Their Messaging Infrastructure
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Coen needed to save time and limit their
liability resulting from workers viewing offensive
content from spammers. Coen desiredan
anti-spam solution that stopped
the non-solicited advertising and inappropriate
content while not significantly impacting
IT's current budget or resources.
PROOFPOINT SOLUTION
The Proofpoint Protection Server was
installed, integrated and operational in
Coen's messaging environment in just
hours. Immediately after the install, spam
rates dropped significantly. And, after
simply customizing a few spam detection
rules, Coen began seeing unprecedented
results.
RESULTS ACHIEVED
With Proofpoint, Coen has been able to
regain employee's time previously lost to
manually fight spam. The solution successfully
and automatically identifies
about 50% of Coen's incoming email as
spam. “The results speak for themselves,”
says Michael Parenti, Information Technology
Manager at Coen, “The Proofpoint
Protection Server has blocked virtually all
spam messages with minimal IT overhead,
and with almost no false positives.”
PRODUCTS DEPLOYED
Proofpoint has built a real enterprise solution that combines effectiveness with manageability. The solution has already paid for itself due to the time it's saved me and my team.
Michael Parenti
IT Manager,
Coen
NOT JUST SPAM, BUT OFFENSIVE SPAM Over the past 12 months employees at Coen were inundated with spam and it was hampering
their use of email for normal business communication. Upon further investigation,
it was clear that a large portion of inbound email to executives and employees was actually
unwanted spam containing non–business related content—and the amount of spam
was ever-increasing at an alarming rate. Employees and executives alike were frustrated
at spam's costly impact to their daily operations. To limit their liability and return business
productivity, Coen needed to find an anti-spam solution soon, but not one that
impacted their currently budgeted resources or required constant maintenance.
A CONSOLIDATED APPROACH TO MESSAGE PROTECTION
After evaluating anti-spam solutions that didn't seem to fit Coen's business, Coen discovered
the Proofpoint Protection Server™. In a matter of hours, the server was installed
at their messaging gateway to most effectively stop spam from clogging internal networks,
employee inboxes and networked storage devices. Proofpoint's solution also
consolidated anti-spam and anti-virus solutions to
a single server and provided a centralized management
console that gave Coen's administrator
control over spam detection and virus protection
features. “Not only does the solution eliminate
spam and viruses,” states Michael, “it practically
manages itself, leaving me free to complete other
important objectives.”
PROOFPOINT FREES PRECIOUS RESOURCES
Proofpoint has made an immediate and positive
impact to Coen's business operations by stopping spam and viruses at the gateway.
The solution was installed in just a few hours and without downtime to existing infrastructure. Moreover, Proofpoint's Implementation Services representative worked in
conjunction with Coen in order to tailor spam detection settings to their business. Today,
the Proofpoint Protection Server is correctly identifying and stopping almost 50%
of Coen's email traffic—and preventing offensive content from reaching the desks of
employees. Praises Parenti, “From the ground up, Proofpoint has built a real enterprise
solution that combines effectiveness with manageability.
The solution has already paid for itself due
to the time it's saved me and my team.”
ABOUT COEN
Since 1912, Coen Company, Inc. has
specializedin the design, manufacture,
servicing,and maintenance of burner
equipment and combustion systems
with over 15,000 installations worldwide.
Coen's unparalleled commitment to results-
oriented engineering keeps them at
the forefront of innovation.
