American Showa develops and manufactures suspension systems for motorcycles and automobiles. The company also develops the center drive shaft for AWD as well as provides race support mainly for motocross.
After suffering a phishing related security breach, American Showa needed to find a solution to plug the security risks in their manufacturing facilities. They needed a solution that could be managed by their small security team. Their Mimecast solution was rewriting URL as well as blocking users when they were attempting to access legitimate sites because the solution was using legacy domain reputation and URL inspection, which missed malicious threats and also created many false positives. Alternatively, if they removed the protection or whitelisting legit domains, users were exposed to risks, and maintenance was time-consuming.