Evan Delivery Company is a nationwide transportation company offering flatbed and ocean container transportation. The company has a fleet of 1,650 tractors and 110 terminals throughout the United States that deliver services to a variety of transportation markets. Based out of Schuylkill Haven, Pennsyl-vania; the Evans Delivery Company consists of a team of over 600 employees. Tim Schneider, Network Administrator, is responsible for the company’s various network components.
Evans Delivery business relies heavily upon bids and contracts delivered via email. One of the company’s delayed the delivery of emails up to 20 minutes, which subsequently caused the company to miss out on key bids and opportunities. These delays occurred because as a software based solution, Symantec Brightmail shared computing resources with the Exchange server that it resided on. This resulted in server resources being dedicated to mail filtering rather than main processing and delivery. “Once a potential customer submits a job, an email is sent out to multiple companies, it then becomes our responsibility to respond with a competitive bid so that the customer receives all the necessary informa-tion in a timely manner.” said Schneider. Not only was Symantec’s solution impacting Evans Delivery’s revenue with delayed emails, it was also expensive and lacked reliable spam accuracy. It was clear that the best possible business decision was to begin to look for an alternative email security solution.
After evaluating multiple email security solutions, Schneider decided that the Barracuda Email Security Gateway 300 was the best solution for their organization. Five years later, Schneider does not regret that decision. With an easy-to-use interface, granular email management policies, and a solution that delivers email in a timely fashion, Evans Delivery Company could not be happier with their Barracuda Email Security Gateway 300’s. The user-friendly interface and granularity allowed Schneider to make the necessary adjustments to customize filtering policies to work with their business needs. Their previous solution had false positives that blocked purchased orders, invoices and attachments with bar code scanners. “When we first purchased the device, I set it up and have not needed to touch it since. Every once in a while, I check the configuration and look for new updates, but generally I spend very little time managing the box,” Schneider added.
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One feature that Evans Delivery Company utilizes on the Barracuda Email Security Gateway is email encryption, a simple, yet secure email service offered by Barracuda at no additional charge. This allows their employees to send out sensitive information and ensure secure communication. A cloud-based approach to encryption ensures that keys are stored centrally, eliminating the need for end-user key management. Administrators can set rules and patterns to designate what emails should be encrypted and which ones don’t sending and receiving encrypted messages, it was extremely intuitive and easy to use,” Schneider raved. To learn more on Barracuda’s email encryption service, download the Email Encryption white paper here.
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