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$2.9 Million Saved with eSafe Secure Web Gateway

Increased Productivity, Reduced Strain on IT Department Leads to Increased ROI

“eSafe is low cost and very effective. I spent $11 thousand on the eSafe system, and my cost saved is $2.9 million. eSafe is one of the best purchases I’ve made.”

Paul Kotula
Director of Information Systems,
GRTC Transit System

Company Profile

GRTC Transit System is responsible for the public transportation system serving the greater Richmond, Virginia area. Thousands of people rely on GRTC to provide safe, reliable service.

Business Challenge

To reduce network suffering under the weight of enormous amounts of e-mail spam, causing frustration among employees who relied on the Internet to keep Richmond’s public transit running

Solution

eSafe Secure Web Gateway - the most complete Web content security available. eSafe not only filters the Web in real time to rid traffic of malware, but systematically blocks spam from entering GRTC’s network. “The spam was killing us,” said Kotula. “Now spam and viruses don’t even touch my network.”
Saved $2.9 Million - in time saved from wading through overflowing inboxes of spam e-mails. Kotula calculated the ROI on eSafe and found he’d reduced costs by almost $3 million. “I spent $11 thousand on the eSafe system, and my cost saved is $2.9 million. eSafe is one of the best purchases I’ve made.”
Increased Productivity - Today, eSafe rejectes 95% of GRTC’s incoming e-mails as dangerous or spam. Because eSafe gets rid of encumbering spam, productivity and storage capabilities have increased.
Policy Enforcement - eSafe has helped enforce GRTC’s workplace policy by blocking access to nonproductive or harmful web sites. Only web sites with acceptable material are allowed onto GRTC’s network, reducing the risk of infecting the network with a virus, Trojan, key logger, spyware or other malicious program. Two percent of GRTC’s Web traffic was identified as a virus and blocked before it touched the network.