Secure Email Communications
Vibram is the world leader in high-performance rubber soles for sports, leisure, and workplace footwear. The company, which operates in five countries, relies on Libraesva Email Security to keep 650 global mailboxes free from malware and phishing trips.
Vibram adopted Libraesva in 2019. Since then, the volume and sophistication of cyber crime has multiplied – and Libraesva has kept pace. So it was no surprise that Afro Luca Platania, the Group ERP & IT Manager who joined Vibram in 2022, had no doubts about retaining Libraesva (a “best-of-breed product”) to protect a fast-moving, multinational, multilingual operation.
“Libraesva Email Security is a best-of-breed product within the market, particularly for spotting phishing attempts.”
Afro Luca Platania GROUP ERP & IT MANAGER, VIBRAM
A company at the forefront of innovation
Vibram provides hard-wearing, high-performance rubber soles for a huge range of sports, leisure, workplace, and orthopedic footwear. Within its sector, Vibram is the world leader, constantly engaging, especially through its Milan and Shanghai Connection Labs, with new ideas, enthusiastic customers, and evolving technology. The Connection Labs combine multidimensional sensory excitement with cutting-edge biomechanical testing and digital design. Vibram, which devotes more than a million kilometers’ worth of footsteps to testing, has a presence in 120 countries, and manufacturing, research, and representation bases in the USA, China, Japan, Brazil, and Italy.
Vibram’s email-security challenge is greater than most. With a multilingual, multicultural team spread across four continents and numerous time zones, the opportunities for inadvertently opening a threat-laden incoming email are huge.
So in 2019, Vibram upgraded to Libraesva Email Security. It was a solution that gave Vibram 360° protection for both inbound and outbound mail and near-zero false positives. It gave them the confidence that truly important emails would not be mistakenly blocked.
Powerful email security; minimal management time
Fast-forward six years, and Vibram has a new Group ERP & IT Manager. Afro Luca was already familiar with Libraesva, so had no doubts about the product’s effectiveness.
“Libraesva Email Security,” says Afro, “is a best-of-breed product within the market, particularly for spotting phishing attempts.”
Afro leads an international team of ten people, spread across four countries: Italy, the USA, China, and Japan. Since this small and efficient team is responsible for all IT issues, they need a product that offers top performance without becoming a drain on management time.
“Libraesva is easy to manage,” he says. “Day-to-day administration is straightforward because security is automated. In an average day, it takes us just half an hour to an hour, depending on the number of email-release requests to check.”
“Libraesva is easy to manage. Day-to-day administration is straightforward because security is automated. In an average day, it takes us just half an hour to an hour, depending on the number of email-release requests to check.”
Afro Luca Platania GROUP ERP & IT MANAGER, VIBRAM
Libraesva strengthens the team against evolving threats
Two aspects of Libraesva that are particularly useful to an organization with a widely dispersed international team are the insights and threat visibility it provides.
With Libraesva, we can gauge the frequency of email threats and compare the data with other sources, such as SMS or phone,” says Afro. “We get a much clearer picture of our changing threat landscape which helps us prioritize. We check the most frequent phishing attempts and tailor our training to deal with our greatest sources of threat.”
Security that’s as innovative as the organizations it protects
An innovator like Vibram soon picks up on similar traits in its suppliers.
“The addition of new tools and AI shows that Libraesva is a forward-looking organization,” says Afro. “For example, the Adaptive Trust AI feature has learned effectively about the way we work: it catches unusual activities in our email conversations with suppliers. And we’re looking forward to seeing the results from Libraesva’s new Semantic AI capability that analyzes message content and meaning to understand the intent behind emails.”
Afro says that he’d be happy to recommend Libraesva to similar organizations that need robust email security. “Libraesva is a very powerful tool for protecting our company against the threats of ransomware, business-email compromise, and data leaks.”
“The addition of new tools and AI shows that Libraesva is a forward-looking organization. For example, the Adaptive Trust AI feature has learned effectively about the way we work: it catches unusual activities in our email conversations with suppliers. And we’re looking forward to seeing the results from Libraesva’s new Semantic AI capability that analyzes message content and meaning to understand the intent behind emails.”
Afro Luca Platania GROUP ERP & IT MANAGER, VIBRAM
