Founded in 1875, Wellesley College is a prominent liberal arts college for women located near Boston. Faced with an increasing volume of malicious spam and virus-containing emails, the college turned to PureMessage to help them effectively keep up with spammers and virus-producing hackers without blocking legitimate email.
"We believe Sophos PureMessage will continue to adapt to our needs in the future. We're in it for the long run, and we expect our vendors to do the same"
Tim Cantin, Director of Systems and Networks, Information Services, Wellesley College.
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Founded in 1875, Wellesley College is a prominent liberal arts college for women located near Boston. Faced with an increasing volume of malicious spam and virus-containing emails – which were taking a serious toll on IT resources and on the productivity of faculty, staff and students – the college turned to Sophos PureMessage to help them effectively keep up with spammers and virus-producing hackers without blocking legitimate email. Download now
Fact file
| Sector: |
Higher education |
| Location: |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Environment: |
3,400 users receive more than 60,000 messages per day through Sun Microsystems Solaris servers |
| Solution: |
PureMessage, part of Email Security and Control |
Business challenge
- An increasing volume of malicious spam and virus-containing email were taking a serious toll on the productivity of faculty staff and students.
Technology solution
- The IT team evaluated five anti-spam and antivirus products, choosing PureMessage for its flexibility and ease of configuration.
- The college combined the anti-spam and antivirus components of PureMessage with a hardware upgrade to provide increased stability and help deliver mail more quickly and eliminate backlogs.
Business results
- Wellesley's computer users have experienced a notable reduction in mail traffic, which has benefited the overall health of the IT system, with email being delivered faster.
- Fewer users receive virus-containing emails, which as led to significant gains in IT productivity.