Case Study: Greeneville City School System cuts spam 96% and saves ~60 hours/month with Proofpoint Enterprise Protection

Greeneville City School System - Customer Case Study

Greeneville City School System, a Tennessee district serving about 2,750 students across six schools and the Greene Technology Center, was inundated with email-borne threats—receiving 31 million emails a month, roughly 30 million of them spam. This caused severe bandwidth pressure, compliance and data-loss risk, and lost productivity as the three-person IT team spent about 15 hours a week manually reviewing suspicious messages; their previous provider also had slow support turnaround.

Greeneville deployed Proofpoint Enterprise Protection and Enterprise Privacy, which stopped spam at the network perimeter, applied DLP and encryption for sensitive data, and was installed within hours. The result: spam and malicious email dropped by 96% (from 31M to ~1.6M/month), roughly 60 hours a month reclaimed for IT, significant bandwidth savings, and freed technology resources focused on core priorities while maintaining compliance.

Greeneville City School System

Larry Jones

IT Network Administrator