Unified Threat Management

Case Study

Organization
Hero Honda, New Delhi

Hero Honda, New Delhi

Industry
Automobile

Hero Honda Motors Selects Cyberoam for

Reliable and Cost-effective Network Protection
Background
In April, 1984 Hero Cycles, India and Honda Motor Company, Japan inked a
joint venture and the world's single largest motorcycle company was born.
Hero Honda Motors Limited (HHML) is the World No. 1 two wheeler company
and one of Honda Motor Company's most successful joint ventures, globally.
HHML's performance was nothing less than a revolution on two-wheels. Hero
Honda has sold over 15 million motorcycles and has consistently shown a
double digit growth since its inception. Today, every second, a motorcycle sold
in the country is a Hero Honda.
In two decades, Hero Honda has built two world-class manufacturing facilities
at Dharuhera and Gurgaon in Haryana. These facilities now churn out over 3.5
million motorbikes per year.

"Cyberoam's maximizes
Return Over Investment.
We are fully satisfied with
Cyberoam Unified Threat
Management solution.

Mr. Avnesh Jain

(Sr. Manager, Information
Systems, HHML)

The Challenge
Our external mail server forwards the corporate mails to the internal mail
server that is deployed in our LAN over SMTP. The internal mail server is a
central mail repository from where all the employees pop their individual mails.
We have ISP level security which consists of a firewall, spam filter and antivirus, Mr. Avnesh Jain (Sr. Manager, Information Systems, HHML) informed.
However, we soon found that ISP level security was inadequate.
HHML faced Internet access and security issues related to:
Spam mails
Malware attacks originating from mail and Web
Web filtering
Bandwidth choking
HHML received around 26000 mails per day, which translated to almost 1GB
of storage space. Out of these at least 70% were spam. That was around
18500 spam mails per day. The ISP was able to filter out around 50%. Still,
almost 9000 mails hit our internal mail server each day.

HHML received around

26000 mails per day; out of
these at least 70% were
spam. That was around
18500 spam mails per day.

We did try out a few standalone, software-based spam filters with little
success, said Mr. Jain.
Mails are the front-end for any organization. Apart from a vast number of
employees, HHML also has a vast chain of dealers and service stations
spread across the country. So mails exchange often got lost in the maze of
spam and the business suffered. Often business mails were wrongly classified
as spam false positives and deleted while spam still poured in.
Mail boxes were clogged with spam mails. All the employees based in New
Delhi, Dharuhera and Gurgoan plant, POP their mails from the local mail
server.

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Approximately 9000 spam mails hitting the local mail server was simply not
acceptable as:

! Downloading the legitimate mails and approximately 9000 spam mails from
the external mail server to the local mail server was a painfully slow and quite
frequently a frustrating process.

! Bandwidth consumption did not just increase, it shot through the roof and to
keep adding bandwidth was not a viable solution.

! Once the mails reached the individual's mailboxes, they had to be checked

and deleted manually. Many times the recipients were tempted to read the
spam mails and the mail processing time kept increasing at the cost of
productivity.
! Legitimate mails were often lost in the maze of spam.
! The management began questioning the IT department regarding the extent
of spam, which was mostly unanswerable, despite IT's best efforts.

"Our Slow browsing and low

bandwidth availability
problem was solved without
further bandwidth
investments."

! Employees stationed at remote locations like Gurgoan and Dharuhera

plant were the worst hit. For them, the mail was first downloaded to the local
mail server and then had to be POPed to their remote individual mail box. The
download time of an individual mail was very high this was particularly
frustrating since at least 50 % of the mail was spam.

! The spam mails had a good share of Phishing mails which slipped through
the primary security layer stationed with ISP.

Malware entering through mails and Internet browsing was also a major
source of concern.
! A lot of mails contained malicious payload which consisted of viruses,
spyware and Trojans. These malware, once it entered the network, consumed
the bandwidth and caused system crashes.

! Unprotected and unrestricted Internet browsing also left gaping security

holes. Malicious site surfing left the organization vulnerable to malware,
malicious tracking cookies, spywares and keyloggers.
Cyberoam's identity-based
Web filtering ensures
employee accountability,
which in turn leads to
decrease in harmful and
unproductive surfing. IP
spoofing has also been
curbed effectively

In absence of web filtering and access accountability, the little bandwidth that
was left was consumed by unrestricted surfing. This proved detrimental to the
organization's productivity. Lack of Internet usage accountability led to
malicious sites being surfed, which in turn infected the network with a host of
spyware.
As a remedy to slow browsing and other bandwidth problems, HHML was
forced to upgrade its initial 64kbps Internet connection to a 4MB pipe. Yet, the
complaints persisted.
Cyberoam Solution
HHML purchased a total of four Cyberoam appliances; one 250i Cyberoam
UTM appliance for our corporate office in New Delhi and one each for the
production plants at Dharuhera and Gurgaon, said Mr.Jain. We have
purchased a 100i for our upcoming new facility Haridwar unit. We have
deployed all the Cyberoam appliances in bridge mode. While the first layer of

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We reclaimed our inboxes

they now are clean and
safe.

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defense existed at the ISP level, while Cyberoam provides the crucial second
layer of defense as the entire mail and web traffic passes through it, said he
added.
Cyberoam maximizes Return Over Investment. It even exceeded our
expectations, said Mr. Jain.
Cyberoam's anti spam feature effectively got rid of 9000 odd spam mails per
day. The employees were pleasantly surprised to find spam-free inboxes.
We reclaimed our inboxes they now are clean and safe, said Mr. Jain. We
saved time and our legitimate mails were no longer buried in a heap of spam.
As spam disappeared, inter-office connectivity benefited greatly. Employees
at the remote site no longer have to wait indefinitely for their mails to be
downloaded. Bandwidth used to connect remote offices was also saved.
Cyberoam's anti-spam solution not only blocked spam, but also proved
effective against any type of mail-based threats. The solution used Recurrent
Pattern Detection technology. It is content-agnostic and equally effective
against image based spam. Pattern detection technology ensured minimum
window of vulnerability, providing zero hour protection to the HHML network.
Cyberoam's anti-virus solution scans SMTP, IMAP, POP3 mail protocols and
HTTP and FTP protocols, leaving no security gaps. As all the web-based
traffic is scanned for spyware and malware, clean and secure web surfing
became a reality.

Clean virus free network,

safe and responsible surfing
and spam free mail boxes
resulted in a drastic fall in IT
helpdesk
calls. The
company's IT resources are
productively focused."

Cyberoam's identity-based web filtering ensures employee accountability,

which in turn leads to decrease in harmful and unproductive surfing. The IT
department has created groups and assigned Internet access rights based on
their business profile in HHML. Cyberoam's HTTP client is used to
authenticate the user. As the web filtering rules are implemented on the user's
identity and not just on the IP address, IP spoofing has been curbed effectively.
Internet access is now productively focused. This is amply reflected in the
bandwidth usage. Once insufficient, bandwidth availability is now satisfactory.
Total bandwidth consumption fell sharply and the ISP bills also took a nose
dive.
Clean network, safe and responsible surfing and spam free mail boxes
resulted in a drastic fall in IT helpdesk calls. The company's IT resources are
productively focused.
We are satisfied, completely with Cyberoam UTM, said Mr. Jain.

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