{"id":2969,"date":"2020-12-29T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2021-01-05T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:27:30","slug":"mimecasts-email-security-and-awareness-come-up-clutch-for-the-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/2020\/12\/29\/mimecasts-email-security-and-awareness-come-up-clutch-for-the-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimecast\u2019s email security and awareness come up clutch for the Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Despite Boston Red Sox being one of the most high-profile franchises in Major League Baseball, its transformation into a data-driven organization was hindered by increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. With email continuity, Disaster Recovery (DR) and employee security awareness becoming essential it turned to Mimecast.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major League Baseball used to be powered by arms, legs, gloves and bats. Today, it is also powered by data \u2013 \u2018Moneyball\u2019 analytics driving big decisions ranging from when to pinch hit, to which free agents to sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Randy George, Vice President of Technology Operations and Information Security for the Boston Red Sox, protecting this data-driven enterprise from compromise is job number one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost people think \u2018Fenway Park\u2019 or \u2018the Green Monster\u2019 when they think of the Red Sox,\u201d he said. \u201cI think of technology and securing the data that makes our club tick \u2013 from scouting reports to ticketholder personal information. And for that job, our \u2018ace\u2019 is Mimecast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customer vision<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Red Sox underwent a significant Digital Transformation a decade ago, fuelled by the \u2018Moneyball\u2019 analytics success of the Oakland A\u2019s, and the need to bring the entire organization into the digital age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a result, our data center footprint has exploded since I joined the team in 2002,\u201d said George. \u201cThat really made information security a top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As email became the main form of communication for the organization, George needed a way to protect against attackers trying to gain unauthorized access to systems and data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith the sophistication of attacks constantly on the rise, it\u2019s critical that we prevent attacks from ever arriving in an employee\u2019s mailbox,\u201d said George. \u201cBut we also needed to go a step further and \u2018harden\u2019 our employees against attacks with a security awareness program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customer strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first boost to the security line-up came in 2013 when Major League Baseball created a league wide security operations center (SOC) to help clubs respond to cyber incidents. But George and the Red Sox didn\u2019t stop there. He needed to remove any threats to email continuity, since it is the lifeblood for everything from concessions operations to field maintenance, competitive intelligence and ticketholder loyalty programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, competitor vendors weren\u2019t offering the level of continuity George desired. But Mimecast did and he decided to make the switch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was no comparison. Mimecast was simply ahead of the competition on the continuity and Disaster Recovery front,\u201d he said. \u201cEmail is as important to our business as power and running water. We needed to know that messages and data would always be available and secure, and Mimecast delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customer outcome<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

George says the added layer of redundancy that Mimecast provides is paying off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was a critical point in our decision to partner with Mimecast for email security,\u201d said George. \u201cAnd Mimecast\u2019s products are very user-friendly, allowing our staff to securely manage junk mail right in Outlook or even on the go with Mimecast\u2019s mobile app.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mimecast is even helping George spread the word on email security throughout the Red Sox organization with Mimecast\u2019s security awareness platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is far and away the best security awareness training I\u2019ve seen on the market. The humor they incorporate is important to make sure employees don\u2019t view it as \u2018just another training exercise\u2019. It\u2019s a big hit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, when the Red Sox see bad actors trying to steal home \u2013 they know Mimecast is there to block the plate and tag them out, every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite Boston Red Sox being one of the most high-profile franchises in Major League Baseball, its transformation into a data-driven organization was hindered by increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. With email continuity, Disaster Recovery (DR) and employee security awareness becoming essential it turned to Mimecast. Major League Baseball used to be powered by arms, legs, gloves and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,510,14,50,17,43,514],"tags":[1339,1337,1338,209,1340,625,1336,1341],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-case-study-newsletter","category-digital-transformation","category-east-coast","category-enterprise-security","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-disaster-recovery","tag-email-continuity","tag-mimecast","tag-red-sox","tag-security-awareness"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}