Case Study: Sparebanken Vest achieves enhanced email security and €250,000 cost savings with Proofpoint

Bank Elevates Email Defenses While Reducing Costs

Sparebanken Vest, a major Norwegian savings bank, faced rising ransomware and email-fraud risk while relying on a multi-tenant gateway and basic AV with no visibility or control. The IT team couldn’t monitor or report on attackers or threat vectors, and customers demanded TLS email encryption—an expensive per-connection change that threatened high costs.

The bank deployed Proofpoint’s turnkey cloud suite (Email Security, Targeted Attack Protection, DLP and Email Encryption), integrated it with Splunk and migrated users to Office 365. Within a week the solution stopped spam and malware, delivered 99% detection for targeted attacks, gave granular email-forensics and automation capability, and eliminated €250,000 in encryption costs.

Sparebanken Vest

Anders Lunde

IT Technology Architect