This Law Firm Found a Game-Changer in Email Security with Avanan
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Avanan
- Mimecast
- Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration
Tech Stack
- Microsoft 365
- APIs
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Applicable Industries
- Professional Service
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- Cybersecurity Services
About The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
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