The Challenge Insufficient level of inbox protection: Implenia employees were receiving too many phishing and spam emails. |
The Solution xorlab ActiveGuard Advanced Threat Defense & Automated Incident Response |
The Results • 2x more potential threats detected • Customizable defense policies • Simplifed policy management • Significantly less false positives • Fast resolution time for reported emails |
As Switzerland’s leading construction and real estate service provider, Implenia develops and builds homes, workplaces and infrastructure for future generations in Switzerland and Germany. It also plans and builds complex infrastructure projects in Austria, France, Sweden and Norway. Formed in 2006, the company can look back on around 150 years of construction tradition.
Implenia, with its headquarters in Opfikon, near Zurich, employs more than 9,000 people in Europe and posted revenue of almost CHF 3.6 billion in 2022. It is a multinational company that requires an effective and reliable email security solution to manage and protect thousands of email addresses.
Cybersecurity has always been a main concern for Implenia–and rightly so. Every year, as construction and real estate companies adopt a wider range of technological solutions, they become more prone to cyberattacks. In 2023, the construction industry appears to have been the hardest hit by ransomware.
Thus, when the team started facing increasingly more email security challenges that were disrupting operations, they set out to find a better solution to properly safeguard their projects, processes, and people from today’s most sophisticated threats.
As their new security solution would impact thousands of email users, it was critical for Implenia to find a provider that would fit their diverse and complex needs.
"We started looking for a new filtering solution because the level of protection provided [...] was not sufficient. We wanted to look at other solutions to see what is available in the market and what could address our needs the best." - Alexander Bösch, CISO at Implenia
Implenia’s requirements for a new email filtering solution were:
Following a request for proposal (RFP) with a thorough evaluation, Implenia decided to integrate xorlab’s platform to protect its users from phishing, ransomware, and other emerging threats.
Soon enough, the company began noticing the benefits of using xorlab:
"ActiveGuard on top of Microsoft 365 is the ideal combination for me. xorlab’s relationship-based threat detection engine stops targeted attacks [...] and produces very few false positives. This makes a significant difference and is a welcome deviation from blacklists and signature-based approaches. [Also], the design of xorlab’s user interface facilitates quick decision-making." - Alexander Bösch, CISO at Implenia
With xorlab, Implenia managed to solve the email security problem they initially had, and so much more.
“We detect two times as many threats as before. [...] We also are much faster at analyzing employee-reported emails and thanks to that, we can tackle a problem that was unmanageable before,” the CISO explained.
“Being a very happy cloud customer of such size, we would encourage companies with similar requirements to those of Implenia’s to try xorlab. Our fears that cloud implementation could be an issue, due to the size of xorlab at that time, completely dissolved as soon as we started working together with the xorlab team. They were very professional, the roll-out went fast, and we’re finally having the level of threat protection we wished for. xorlab answers all our needs and we’re happy to serve as a reference customer.”
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