“With the rise of impersonation and phishing attacks, Bidvest Services needed to take every measure to ensure our employees, customers and supply chains were protected from cybercriminals.”
Gareth Burmeister
Chief Financial Officer – Bidvest FM Cluster
Revenue in ZAR
Employees
Companies
Customers
Consumer
Pharmaceutical & industrial products
Financial services
Freight management
Office & print solutions
Outsourced hard & soft services
Travel services
Automotive retailing
The security of the Bidvest brand and its stakeholders is a priority for the company, and “significant attention has been given to the identification and management of cybersecurity risks” across the Group’s 25 companies.
The fraudulent use of Bidvest’s brand identity, impersonation of employees, and the cloning of its website were identified as risks at Bidvest. To ensure that the highest security standards for email security were in place across its entire email environment, the company brought in Sendmarc and its implementation partners Executive Solutions, BUI, and Cube IT.
Bidvest’s email real estate is vast with 140 registered names, 85 of which are actively in use. Each year over 132 000 employees on four continents send over 15 million emails bearing a registered Bidvest name, and over 300 000 customers receive email from the company annually.
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Protecting Bidvest’s large cyber real estate and extensive stakeholder groups was identified as a priority.
Email is the Group’s most-used business communication tool, and the highest security standards and protocols needed to be implemented.
It was critical to ensure that the Group’s email environment is protected from fraudulent use. Making sure employees, customers and partners can be confident that emails with a Bidvest company name are the real thing required specialist skills in this area.
“We chose Sendmarc, an experienced security services provider, and managed services provider Executive Solutions to ensure timeous and cost-effective DMARC compliance across all our domains.”
Gareth Burmeister
Chief Financial Officer – Bidvest FM Cluster
DMARC: Domain-based Messaging Authentication, Reporting and Compliance
SENDMARC + ES + BUI + CUBE IT
