Bird & Bird achieve full compliance with a managed service to protect clients

With Red Sift OnDMARC, international law firm Bird & Bird achieves full DMARC protection to protect its clients, partners, and reputation.

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Industry

Law

Employees

1300+

Locations

Meet the company

Bird & Bird is an international law firm with a focus on helping organizations being changed by technology and the digital world. With over 1,300 lawyers in 29 offices, they send in excess of 600,000 external emails per month.

Clients must be able to trust legal communications

As DMARC became more widely adopted, the Infrastructure and Infosec teams at Bird & Bird were finding that more and more clients were requesting a p=reject policy. Jon Spencer, Infrastructure Manager at Bird & Bird, led the DMARC initiative with an understanding that this would not only protect their clients, but also the firm’s reputation by actively blocking email impersonation.

What Bird & Bird say about us

"OnDMARC has a nice and easy to use platform with great technical support, making it easy to manage the entire process. This was the key to not impacting genuine traffic or starting the project and losing momentum."

Jon Spencer

Infrastructure Manager

Jon Spencer

Infrastructure Manager

OnDMARC’s support team manage the DMARC journey to full protection

Due to rapid growth within the firm, everyone understood the need for DMARC, the challenge then was in internal resourcing to manage the project itself. This meant ensuring DMARC was correctly configured so that no legitimate emails were blocked along the way. OnDMARC provided ongoing managed support throughout the process for Bird & Bird. Here are some of their achievements:

Cleaning up traffic
Bird & Bird discovered 200+ illegitimate sending sources, successfully blocking them in the process of configuring DMARC for the @twobirds.com domain.
Shutting down spoofs
By investing in DMARC for email security and getting to a p=reject state, the firm noticed that 2% of their external email traffic was being spoofed and successfully blocked by DMARC.
Eradicating shadow IT
OnDMARC automatically surfaced a number of sending services that weren’t malicious, but in use by the firm without IT’s knowledge. With a clear view of all mail being sent, Bird & Bird were able to identify what traffic was genuine and sign it correctly.

OnDMARC deliverability, location and senders report

Safe in the knowledge that all threats were identified and rectified

Bird & Bird already had Mimecast in place as a foundational secure email gateway. However, the IT team understood the benefits of DMARC for preventing email impersonation outside of their network boundary and explored the email security protocol only to find the project seemingly too broad and difficult to execute independently. This is a very common reason why organizations hesitate to adopt DMARC due to a lack of internal expertise and knowledge, which also explains the 6.5% adoption rate this year (2022) based on research powered by the Red Sift platform.

"Red Sift... The best on the market"

After hearing about Red Sift by a trusted source a year later, Jon Spencer, Infrastructure Manager at Bird & Bird, reported being told: “these guys are the best on the market” and when it came to engaging with OnDMARC “everyone came across as very professional, and the support team knew what they were doing for us. I came to the realization that OnDMARC had a nice and easy-to-use platform with great technical support. It was clear OnDMARC could manage the entire process, I haven’t had to keep a close eye on the platform as I’m safe in the knowledge that we’ve identified and rectified all the genuine senders with OnDMARC’s support team”.

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