Customer Success

Piaggio Aero Industries

Security takes off at Piaggio Aero with Symantec

As part of a project to overhaul its IT systems, Piaggio Aero Organization Profile

Established in November 1998,
Industries—a world leader in aerospace—has adopted a Piaggio Aero Industries is the only
company in the world to be active
comprehensive portfolio of Symantec solutions. Symantec in both aircraft; aero-engines, and
aerostructures manufacturing.
Multi-tier Protection™ and Symantec Premium AntiSpam™ The company is one of the world’s
leading aerospace companies. It
are being implemented. The deployment and management designs, develops, constructs, and
maintains aircraft, engines, and
of the solutions has been overseen directly by Symantec Cor- aircraft structural components.
poration through its Consulting Division team, as part of an Industry
Aerospace
overall migration project lasting 18 months. 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
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 en-
vironment, 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.

centralize processes Daily client updates—which is carried out automatically using Symantec Multi-tier
and automatic 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
on-line updating,
Symantec Consulting Services professionals to assess the security of its network. As
in addition to an part of this, a Penetration Test was carried out by specialist technicians, making it
excellent performance/ possible to determine whether the network could be violated from the outside.

price ratio. ” Symantec Multi-tier Protection also enables better management of accesses, with
accurate and detailed profiling of the users. “The real advantages of Symantec™ solu-
Roberto Zuffada tions are their ease of use, the possibility to centralize processes and automatic on-line
Chief Information Officer updating, in addition to an excellent performance/price ratio,” says Roberto Zuffada,
Piaggio Aero Chief Information Officer, Piaggio Aero.
Customer Success Piaggio Aero Industries

Eliminate Almost All Spam Mails

SOLUTION AT A GLANCE
The Symantec Premium AntiSpam solution
Leading aerospace has enabled Piaggio Aero to eliminate al- Business Drivers
most all spam mails (around 95 percent of • Optimize efficiency
company eliminates e-mails). Part of the reason for this is the • Manage the system with a centralized
security policy
use of the dual cascade control system on
95% of spam with two servers (the first in overflow and the
second to analyze the remaining material) Technology Challenges
Symantec and the systems’ ability to update every • Increase efficiency of processes and the
15 minutes. computer system
• Check logs of clients and the traceability
of all data
Thanks to the implementation of Symantec
security solutions, Piaggio Aero has elimi- Solution
nated 95 percent of company spam, saving
Centralized management of all IT security
more than 30 percent of the work hours
dedicated to managing the company’s IT
Symantec Products
systems. From a financial point of view,
compared to competitor solutions the • Symantec Multi-tier Protection™
• Symantec Premium AntiSpam™
saving has been around 10 percent, with
an immediate return. In terms of global
Technology Environment
performance, Symantec solutions allowed
Piaggio Aero to optimize the flow of data • Servers: 60 HP® servers
• Operating system: Microsoft® Windows®
to all systems, making them more efficient and Unix
and ensuring optimal reliability. • Applications: Windows Exchange®, SAP®

Today Piaggio Aero’s objectives are the Symantec Global Services

implementation of a mail box management • Symantec Consulting Services
system and continuity back up, through the
adoption of a centralized policy for sharing Business Results
data. Next year, the objective is to define
• Eliminated 95% of spam
the concept of disaster recovery, create • Reduced systems management time by 30%
development processes, and subsequently • Led to a 10% cost saving with an immediate
return on investment
implement all the relative Symantec • Enabled the company to check the log and
solutions. traceability of client data

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