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CUSTOMER STORY: MAKING THE GRADE

Written by Abhishek Iyer
Customer Success Stories / 10.12.21


SHADY SIDE ACADEMY SHAVES 92% OFF PHISHING INCIDENT RESPONSE TIMES WITH
ARMORBLOX


THE CUSTOMER

Shady Side Academy is an independent preparatory school located in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Shady Side Academy enrolls approximately one thousand students
annually and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and
the Association of Boarding Schools.

For Shady Side Academy to uphold its mission of “challenging students to think
expansively, act ethically and lead responsibly”, it’s vital that students have
a secure learning experience. A key component of this security ideal is keeping
malicious emails out of the inboxes of students, faculty members, and staff.


THE CHALLENGE

Shady Side Academy had built-in email security from Office 365 to protect
against spam, malware, and mass phishing attacks. While spam and known malware
was largely taken care of by native email security, targeted email attacks were
still making their way into inboxes.

Email risk is a reality for every educational institution. The 2021 Verizon Data
Breach Investigations Report found that 50% of breaches in the Education sector
involved social engineering. Around 80% of these social engineering breaches
involved Pretexting as a tactic, which is heavily associated with BEC.

Tim Winner, Director of Educational Technology at Shady Side Academy, said:

> “We would routinely get hit with phishing and impersonation emails. These were
> usually sent from Gmail accounts and started off as a ‘quick email’ to check
> if the victim was in office or a request from someone pretending to be their
> manager. If even a few users fall for the attack, it becomes a challenge.”

The security team were also burdened by time-consuming investigation and
remediation processes for every email threat and false positive. Leaving a
suspicious email in a student’s mailbox could also lead to parental concerns
being raised.

Tim said:

> “If a student falls for an email attack, their accounts can be used as a
> vehicle for more attacks and spam delivery. It’s important for us to find and
> remediate any bad emails in students’ inboxes, but it has also been time
> consuming. A help desk process for a student usually took between 1-3 hours
> before Armorblox.”

Shady Side Academy was looking for an email security solution that augmented
built-in Office 365 capabilities, provided effective protection against advanced
phishing and targeted email attacks, and saved time for the security team
without affecting email delivery.

Tim said:

> “We were looking for something that didn’t impact email delivery by being
> inline. We were also looking for sophisticated threat detection - something
> beyond wholesale blocklisting that could more accurately detect targeted
> attacks.”


THE SOLUTION


ARMORBLOX INBOUND EMAIL PROTECTION

Armorblox connects over APIs with Office 365 to provide highly effective
protection against targeted email attacks like BEC, account takeover,
impersonation, and credential phishing. By using Natural Language Understanding
(NLU) and other detection algorithms, Armorblox stops advanced email attacks
from endangering Shady Side Academy students, faculty, and staff.

Emails are automatically classified under granular threat categories (e.g.
payroll fraud, payment fraud, phish URL in mail body, email account compromise),
minimizing the need for custom policy setup and upkeep. Armorblox also
automatically remediates a vast majority of detected threats, based on
remediation actions configured by the security team (e.g. delete, quarantine,
lock user account, apply warning banner).


THE RESULTS

Armorblox has helped Shady Side Academy meet its email security objectives while
also positively impacting its people and processes.


IMPROVED PROTECTION AGAINST TARGETED EMAIL ATTACKS

Armorblox provides highly effective protection against socially engineered email
attacks targeted at Shady Side Academy students, faculty, and staff. The vast
majority of targeted email attacks are automatically remediated by leveraging
Office 365 APIs, keeping people safe without negatively affecting email
availability or overloading the security team.

User-reported email threats at Shady Side Academy have reduced by 75% since
Armorblox deployment due to improved inbound threat detection.

Tim said:

> “Armorblox is exactly the sort of sophisticated solution we were seeking. It
> detects threats that blocklists would never have caught. I don’t have to risk
> email delivery anymore by applying heavy-handed filters to domains.”


TIME SAVINGS FOR THE SECURITY TEAM

Armorblox has simplified and automated large portions of email threat protection
at Shady Side Academy. The platform is easy to use and provides quick time to
value for the security team without interrupting their daily work. Armorblox
automatically remediates suspicious emails across user mailboxes.

For Shady Side Academy, Armorblox has reduced triage and remediation times for
user-reported phishing emails by 92%.

Tim said:

> “Since implementation, Armorblox has saved the Shady Side Academy IT team a
> few hours per week on average. Identified messages aren’t lost because they’re
> moved to the user’s Deleted Items folder, where they’re still accessible, but
> clearly marked as unsafe with rationale provided. End users and IT staff can
> easily identify why a message was mitigated. Armorblox has proven its accuracy
> and effectiveness to the point that I rarely even think about dangerous emails
> getting through!”

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Armorblox secures enterprise communications over email and other cloud office
applications with the power of Natural Language Understanding. The Armorblox
platform connects over APIs and analyzes thousands of signals to understand the
context of communications and protect people and data from compromise. Over
56,000 organizations use Armorblox to stop BEC and targeted phishing attacks,
protect sensitive PII and PCI, and automate remediation of user-reported email
threats. Armorblox was featured in the 2019 Forbes AI 50 list and was named a
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