Case Study: E-recruiting firm StepStone reduces phishing and boosts visibility with Mimecast

StepStone “Steps Up” User Awareness and Visibility with Expanded Mimecast Suite

StepStone, an e‑recruiting company with more than 3,600 employees across 20 countries, was overwhelmed by email noise and attacks—handling nearly 10 million messages a month with 70–75% unwanted and facing hundreds of monthly phishing and impersonation attempts. A high‑risk impersonation incident highlighted gaps in visibility, investigation speed, and user awareness that threatened business continuity.

StepStone partnered with Mimecast and rolled out Email Security, Web Security, Archiving, Awareness Training, Internal Email Protect and related tools, plus API integration with CrowdStrike. Within a month across 70% of environments, spear‑phishing dropped from 10.2 to 2.5 incidents per month, forensics and archive searches now run in seconds, and engaging awareness training has improved employee cyber hygiene—creating a stronger “human firewall.”

StepStone

Serge Groven

Corporate IT Manager