AEFFE S.p.A.
conquers
its fear ofcyberattacks

Aeffe S.p.A.
     aeffe.com

The company, which manages several of the world’s biggest fashion brands, opted for Kaspersky Endpoint Security
for Business to protect all its endpoints.

Market Sector:
Fashion
Key Points:• Head office located in San
Giovanni in Marignano, Italy• Established in 1988
• Using Kaspersky Endpoint
Security for Business

AEFFE is the parent company of someof the world’s biggest fashion brands,
including Moschino, Alberta Ferretti andPollini, and manages 248 stores, including
63 directly-operated stores (DOS).
Listed on the STAR segment of the Italian stock exchange, AEFFE owns
major Italian fashion brands that are sold and loved worldwide; it also holds
licenses for several international brands. The company has approximately 1,307
employees, 850 of whom are based in Italy, located in four different offices.
Almost all employees are supplied with personal computers (mostly desktops,
some employees are not office-based and use laptops).

Challenge“As an internationalorganization, we feelthat Kaspersky Lab'sstrong points are thesupport of its global
user network andthe exclusive holistic
protection against
CryptoLocker-typethreats.
Diego Picciani
CIO
AEFFE S.p.A.

After nine years of using an antivirus solution that was effective but no longer
capable of protecting the company from new threats, AEFFE began its searchfor software that would protect the endpoints used by all employees acrossthe four Italian offices.
Despite the various layers of protection implemented in the company’s IT
infrastructure, the AEFFE group was still vulnerable to the most sophisticatedphishing attacks, for example those originating from increasingly complex andrapid international communications.
“In view of the increased speed of business and the exchange of information,
the old antivirus solution left us open to new attacks,” explains Diego Picciani,
CIO of AEFFE, “especially increasingly dangerous attacks that exploit zero-dayvulnerability. We needed a new, more robust and modern solution, that could
also be managed centrally.”
AEFFE immediately contacted the major suppliers of antivirus platforms
and embarked on a comparative evaluation. The company soon decided that
Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business was the product that best satisfied
the group’s protection requirements.

2Proactive
Protection against zero-day andadvance threats

SecureHolistic approach against
CryptoLocker attacks

Controllable
Centralized management of thesolution

FasterRapid and simple migration from theprevious solution

The Kaspersky Lab solution“Kaspersky Lab offered us the opportunity to work directly with theirorganization,” explains Picciani, “to create a proof of concept (POC) with a test
server that we used to carry out numerous tests, before requesting a formal
proposal from a partner.”
AEFFE purchased 850 Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business licenses.
Other tests were then carried out and, over the next three months, thesoftware was rolled out to all the devices used by the company’s Italy-based
employees.
“The phase of evaluating the various solutions, each with its own specificcharacteristics,” explains Picciani, “concluded with our selection of theKaspersky Lab product. The main strengths of this product are the peer-topeer network that connects Kaspersky Lab customers worldwide and provides
real-time updates on the threat landscape, as well as the holistic technologythat protects against CryptoLocker attacks.”
Picciani concludes: “We believe it is important to protect our resources using
effective countermeasures based on modern prevention technologies that use
machine learning and behavioral analysis techniques, coupled with traditional
security solutions, as part of a multi-level approach. We opted for Kaspersky
Lab as the efficacy of their solutions has been demonstrated in numerousorganizations.”3

312.6

million turnover (2017)4

offices in Italy

1.307

employees worldwide, 850 in Italy

Centralized management
The other essential features for AEFFE were centralized management anda satisfactory performance level associated with a lightweight software
engine, given that some of the endpoints were dated and therefore had limited
resources in terms of memory or processors.
“Since adopting the Kaspersky Lab endpoint solution, integrated with
server software from the same company, and of course with other securitytechnologies,” concludes Picciani, “we have had no problems resulting fromdirect attacks or threats. We are currently exploring the possibility of rolling out
Kaspersky Lab to the company’s mobile devices, representing a total of around50 endpoints.”

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