Case Study: Bechtle achieves modern, scalable email security—blocking 70% of inbound mail and stopping targeted attacks with Proofpoint

Bechtle Secures Email with People-Centric Approach from Proofpoint

Bechtle AG, a leading European IT company with more than 11,000 employees and dozens of data centers and e‑commerce operations, needed to consolidate and modernize its email security as it built a major new data center in Frankfurt. Its bespoke open‑source mail stack had become labor‑intensive and struggled with growing user numbers, complex routing across multiple domains, rising spam volumes and advanced targeted attacks.

Bechtle deployed Proofpoint Email Protection, Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) and Threat Response Auto‑Pull (TRAP), integrating threat data into Splunk for richer detection and faster response. The solution blocked millions of unwanted messages each month—about 70% of inbound mail—stopped targeted attachments and malicious URLs before they reached users, and delivered regular health checks and vendor partnership support that keep the platform optimized and resilient.

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Matthias Weber

IT leader