Case Study: PerkinElmer achieves 99% reduction in malicious email threats with Proofpoint

PerkinElmer stops advanced threats in their tracks

PerkinElmer, a global provider of detection, imaging, and informatics solutions for scientists and clinicians, was targeted by sophisticated email attacks—phishing, business email compromise, malicious attachments, and botnet-driven spam—that put user credentials and corporate finances at risk and forced IT to spend excessive time isolating and cleaning infected machines.

PerkinElmer implemented Proofpoint Email Protection, Targeted Attack Protection (TAP), and Email DLP, quickly changing MX records and rolling out TAP to all users in about 10 days with professional services support. The deployment delivered a 99% reduction in malicious emails, attachments, and URLs getting through, faster detection and remediation, prevention of sensitive data leaks (supporting PCI compliance), and high accuracy with minimal false positives and flexible filtering.

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Jim Forsyth

Senior Network Engineer Global IT Infrastructure