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Piaggio Aero Industries Security takes off at Piaggio Aero with Symantec

As part of a project to overhaul its IT systems, Piaggio Aero Industries—a world leader in aerospace—has adopted a comprehensive portfolio of Symantec solutions. Symantec Multi-tier Protection™ and Symantec Premium AntiSpam™ are being implemented. The deployment and management of the solutions has been overseen directly by Symantec Corporation through its Consulting Division team, as part of an overall migration project lasting 18 months.

Organization Profile Established in November 1998, Piaggio Aero Industries is the only company in the world to be active in both aircraft; aero-engines, and aerostructures manufacturing. The company is one of the world’s leading aerospace companies. It designs, develops, constructs, and maintains aircraft, engines, and aircraft structural components. Industry Aerospace Solution Endpoint Security IT security management

One of the World’s Leading Aerospace Companies Established in November 1998, Piaggio Aero Industries is the only company in the world to be active in both aircraft; aero-engines, and aerostructures manufacturing. The company is one of the world’s leading aerospace companies. It designs, develops, constructs, and maintains aircraft, engines, and aircraft structural components.

“The real advantages of Symantec solutions are its ease of use, the ability to centralize processes and automatic on-line updating, in addition to an excellent performance/

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price ratio.

Roberto Zuffada Chief Information Officer Piaggio Aero

Piaggio Aero has an internal team dedicated to hardware, systems and applications management. Two years ago it began a process to renew the Microsoft Windows environment, switching from Windows NT 4.0 to more up-to-date machines with an HP server. The goals were three fold: to optimize efficiency, manage the entire system with one centralized security policy, increase the efficiency of processes, including checking client logs of clients and the traceability of data. Daily client updates—which is carried out automatically using Symantec Multi-tier Protection—has enabled the company’s network to attain high security standards. During the delivery of these solutions, Piaggio Aero relied on direct consultancy from Symantec Consulting Services professionals to assess the security of its network. As part of this, a Penetration Test was carried out by specialist technicians, making it possible to determine whether the network could be violated from the outside. Symantec Multi-tier Protection also enables better management of accesses, with accurate and detailed profiling of the users. “The real advantages of Symantec™ solutions are their ease of use, the possibility to centralize processes and automatic on-line updating, in addition to an excellent performance/price ratio,” says Roberto Zuffada, Chief Information Officer, Piaggio Aero.

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Piaggio Aero Industries

Eliminate Almost All Spam Mails

Leading aerospace company eliminates 95% of spam with Symantec

The Symantec Premium AntiSpam solution has enabled Piaggio Aero to eliminate almost all spam mails (around 95 percent of e-mails). Part of the reason for this is the use of the dual cascade control system on two servers (the first in overflow and the second to analyze the remaining material) and the systems’ ability to update every 15 minutes. Thanks to the implementation of Symantec security solutions, Piaggio Aero has eliminated 95 percent of company spam, saving more than 30 percent of the work hours dedicated to managing the company’s IT systems. From a financial point of view, compared to competitor solutions the saving has been around 10 percent, with an immediate return. In terms of global performance, Symantec solutions allowed Piaggio Aero to optimize the flow of data to all systems, making them more efficient and ensuring optimal reliability. Today Piaggio Aero’s objectives are the implementation of a mail box management system and continuity back up, through the adoption of a centralized policy for sharing data. Next year, the objective is to define the concept of disaster recovery, create development processes, and subsequently implement all the relative Symantec solutions.

SOLUTION AT A GLANCE Business Drivers • Optimize efficiency • Manage the system with a centralized security policy Technology Challenges • Increase efficiency of processes and the computer system • Check logs of clients and the traceability of all data Solution Centralized management of all IT security Symantec Products • Symantec Multi-tier Protection™ • Symantec Premium AntiSpam™ Technology Environment • Servers: 60 HP® servers • Operating system: Microsoft® Windows® and Unix • Applications: Windows Exchange®, SAP® Symantec Global Services • Symantec Consulting Services Business Results • Eliminated 95% of spam • Reduced systems management time by 30% • Led to a 10% cost saving with an immediate return on investment • Enabled the company to check the log and traceability of client data

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