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