Protecting Cisco's Front Lines with AI-powered Email Threat Defense and Splunk
Responding to intensifying email threats, Cisco took a bold step forward to protect 130,000 inboxes by implementing a layered security approach powered by AI-driven Email Threat Defense and Splunk.
Email remains a leading attack vector for security breaches across the globe. As bad actors increasingly attack and innovate, Cisco IT needed to strengthen its defenses.
Challenge
Facing increasingly sophisticated email threats, Cisco IT needed to go beyond base-level filters. With over 326 million incoming emails per quarter, they needed a plan that could:
Clear out all the spam and marketing clutter that kept slipping past native email filters and filling up employee inboxes.
Protect our business from all kinds of email threats — like phishing, fake invoices, and other scams — that put companies at risk every day.
Provide our security teams with the AI-powered analytics necessary to counter the growing sophistication of cyber attacks.
Solution
We augmented our existing layers of security by adding Email Threat Defense and Splunk — combining advanced analytics, automation, and AI-driven threat detection. Cisco IT now uses:
Splunk Attack Analyzer automating threat analysis and digital forensics, broadening our response and analytics capabilities.
Additional products across the Cisco portfolio to provide layers of protection for users on any device, anywhere they connect.
Outcomes
Threats stopped at scale
Millions of email threats blocked each quarter, reducing risks, protecting users, and cleaning up inboxes across the entire organization.
Enhanced efficiency
Automated threat detection streamlines investigations, improves accuracy, and gives our analysts time to tend to more urgent tasks.
Seamless user experience
Cleaner, more secure inboxes, with zero friction or negative impact on user productivity since deployment.
Data-driven insights
Analytics provide deeper visibility into threats, enabling smarter decisions and proactive risk management.
Testimonials
Speed is everything
“With manual analysis there's a delay, because somebody's got to look through and figure out all the different moving pieces. The automation, the speed at which we can pull those messages out is vitally important to our safety as an enterprise.”
Imran Islam, Director, Information Security
Cisco
Compromise becomes containment
“Being able to remediate 500 messages within 2 minutes — we've never been able to react that quickly before.”
Joe Allesi, Technical Systems Engineer, Email
Cisco
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