Case Study: Irish Life & Permanent achieves secure, reliable email delivery and drastic spam reduction with Axway MailGate

Axway MailGate Reduces Risk Through Email Security and Antispam Capabilities

Irish Life & Permanent, a leading Irish financial services group with over 1 million customers and more than 5,000 staff, faced rapidly growing online communications that pushed its email system toward capacity. Increasing volumes of spam, viruses and other unwanted content were degrading delivery performance and exposing the business to security risk, creating an urgent need for an integrated policy, spam and antivirus solution to protect some 5,500 employees and restore reliable email service.

The company deployed Axway MailGate (Email Firewall) with Dynamic Antispam Service via local partner Kerna, a straightforward implementation that now blocks spam and malware at the perimeter while updating defenses in real time. The result was immediate improvement in delivery and employee productivity, a very low false‑positive rate (about 1 in 100,000 messages), easy management and a payback within a year, with scope to add further edge and encryption capabilities as needed.

Irish Life

Martin Farrelly

Group IT Manager