The UK's Rugby Football League Wins Security Scrum with Mimecast

Case Study

The UK’s Rugby Football League Wins Security Scrum with Mimecast

Customer Vision At a Glance There may not be fans in the stands, and • Rugby Football League is the national governing scrums and huddles have been temporarily body for Rugby League in England. suspended, but the UK’s Rugby Football Problem League (RFL) is moving full steam ahead When COVID-19 hit and workers had to head through the COVID-19 pandemic. home, the RFL needed to keep functioning normally to steer the sport through uniquely challenging As the national governing body for Rugby times – for example in ensuring the resumption of League in the UK, keeping the games on the Super League and Challenge Cup competitions the field (and on TVs) has been especially through late summer and autumn. important in 2020 for so many reasons, Solution not least in ensuring the sport has been • Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection able to fulfil broadcast contracts with Sky • Cloud Archive and the BBC. • Email Continuity

The RFL’s Head of Technology, Matthew • Awareness Training Dews, was the man responsible for keeping Benefits the RFL up and running when the pandemic • Integration with MS 365 delivers superior email hit and everyone in their two head offices security and continuity abruptly relocated. Because he took a cloud • Awareness training is an invaluable tool for the strategy for email security and archiving work-from-home phenomenon with Mimecast, the sudden transition to • Stops attacks before they can spread work-at-home was a non-issue from an email continuity perspective.

“Mimecast is very efficient at stopping attacks—it gives us the message ID and within 10 seconds we’ve put an end to it.”

Matthew Dews - Head of Technology, Rugby Football League

“The company just kept on functioning with Matthew says Mimecast Awareness Training everyone working from home,” Matthew says. has been very useful in promoting safer “We were well prepared across the board – remote work habits. “User awareness has the only thing special we had to do was to become really important in this environment, buy four laptops for employees who didn’t because people using their own networks have them.” makes things harder to secure,” he says. “With Mimecast Awareness Training, we Customer Strategy send a nice, sharp video to everyone once Matthew is a long-time Mimecast customer— a month, with a different topic each time.” the RFL initially started by using Mimecast Matthew says he also conducts regular for archiving 12 years ago, and added email phishing tests and is able to identify the security, email continuity and awareness employees who need extra attention based training as new needs arose. on the results. More than anything, Matthew appreciates Customer Outcome how quickly Mimecast enables him to When all 150 of the RFL’s email users shifted identify and remediate email security to work-from-home in the early spring of issues. “Mimecast is very efficient at stopping 2020, the need to secure endpoints became attacks—it gives us the message ID and more critical than ever for Matthew. As part within 10 seconds we’ve put an end to it,” of this, employee education is paramount, he says. “This is really important because since employees are more likely to engage you can shut down attacks before they in risky email and online behaviour at home impact others, which not only makes us than they are in the office. more secure; it also saves an enormous amount of time.”