Case Study: Saint Anselm College achieves 90% reduction in email phishing risk with GreatHorn

Saint Anselm College Defends Students, Clergy, and Staff from Targeted Phishing Attacks

Saint Anselm College, a private Catholic liberal arts college with about 2,000 undergraduates, faced a rising tide of targeted phishing attacks that preyed on its publicly accessible faculty, staff, student, and monastery email addresses. Scams ranged from fake job‑offer identity theft to clergy fundraising fraud, and email remediation consumed the IT team’s time (the systems administrator had been spending roughly 70–80% of her time on phishing). To address this, Saint Anselm selected GreatHorn and its Cloud Email Security Platform to provide proactive, automated email protection.

GreatHorn implemented its Cloud Email Security Platform along with Extended Monitoring and a dedicated Customer Success Manager, using automated quarantines, smart banner alerts, bulk remediation, and tailored risk policies. The result: a 90% reduction in email‑scam risk, crypto scams disappeared, impersonation and account takeovers were nearly eliminated, and administrative burden dropped enough to repurpose the former systems administrator’s role—delivering clear ROI and a defensible email security posture for Saint Anselm.

Saint Anselm College

Steven McDevitt

Chief Information Officer