IronPort Customer Spotlight

Johns Hopkins University

IronPort Serves Up Healthy, Spam-free Email at One of the Nation's Top Universities

"We were up and running in a day with the IronPort appliances."
- Anthony Snead,
 Senior Systems Engineer
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

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At A Glance

Headquarters: Baltimore, MD
History: First research university in the US
Locations: Multiple in-state and international campuses
System Specifics: Multiple email systems with over 36,000 users

JHU's Challenges

  • Meeting the needs of 36,000+ email user population
  • Adapting to different Notes, Exchange, GroupWise, Irix, Solaris and other Unix-based systems
  • Spam level above 60% of total message volume
  • Providing security, particularly for email containing protected health information (PHI)

The IronPort Solution

  • Protection of hundreds of on-campus mail servers
  • Effective in heterogeneous environment; compatible with a variety of mail systems
  • Appliance functionality reduces staff costs
  • SMTP Authorization supports university personnel while they travel
  • LDAP routing per domain
  • TLS support for improved security