Case Study: Australian Football League achieves real-time email security, Privacy Act compliance and frees IT resources with MailGuard

Australian Football League - Customer Case Study

The Australian Football League (AFL), Australia’s leading professional sporting competition, was struggling with an escalating volume of spam and viruses—spam reportedly doubling every two months—creating rising antivirus costs, heavy IT workload, and reputational and privacy/compliance risks. To address this, the AFL engaged MailGuard to provide cloud-based, fully managed email security and content-filtering services.

MailGuard deployed its hosted content-filtering and hybrid AI threat-detection solution, blocking tens of thousands of junk emails and viruses before they reached the AFL network and protecting AFL corporate HQ, the AFL Coaches Association and numerous clubs representing over 50% of membership. The MailGuard service reduced time and cost spent on spam/virus fallout, provided real-time reporting for planning, ensured Privacy Act 1988 compliance, and freed IT staff to focus on higher-value projects.

Australian Football League

Tony Abate

IT Manager