2020

Calia & Kaspersky:
comfort andexcellence intotal safetyKaspersky Endpoint Security for Business provides thebest security, ensuring Calia Italia can focus on its corebusiness: excellent furnishings, found in homes worldwide.
Calia Italia’s beautifully designed and expertly built furniture has been guaranteeing the comfortof its customers for 55 years.

Retail• Retail sale of high-end furniture• Operational headquarters in Matera, Italy• Uses Kaspersky Endpoint Securityfor Business Advanced

Founded in 1965 in the ancient city of Matera, in southern Italy, Calia Italia is now an iconic
furniture brand, with a worldwide reputation for quality and distinctive style.
Fully owned and managed by the Calia family, the company plays an important role in theregion’s local economy, society and culture. It provides around 1,500 direct and indirect jobs
in its headquarters, factories, supply chain and in its €19 million state-of-the-art warehouse,from where its furniture is exported to 90 countries.

Challenge
Although its roots, inspiration, headquarters and production facilities are all in southern
Italy, Calia Italia is a truly international business, constantly developing new furniture
ranges and supplying thousands of its products to stores around the world.

“ From the beginning
the Kaspersky producthas worked extremelywell. It was so easy todeploy, it’s a productthat ensures a quick
return on investment(ROI) and we’ve had nocomplaints from anyone
about slow performanceor interference.”
Ezio Baratta, Chief Information
Officer, Calia Italia

It is renowned as an innovator and style setter and for the cutting-edge work of its
research, development and design teams, appreciated by furniture retailers and theircustomers.
Protecting the business’ valuable data and that of its staff, suppliers and international
partners is of paramount importance for Calia Italia. The company has grown rapidly inrecent years and has built a strong reputation for the professionalism of its operations
and business relationships.
Its executives travel extensively too, visiting partners, customers and suppliers and so
Calia Italia’s IT ecosystem needs to perform consistently well to ensure secure mobile
working using a range of digital devices for instant, reliable 24/7 communication.
When Chief Information Officer Ezio Baratta spotted a significant increase incyberattacks, he immediately moved to strengthen Calia Italia’s IT security profile.
“We have been a target for many attacks and intrusion attempts, mostly automatic via
botnets,” Ezio explains. “In fact, I would say that over the past three years the attack
rate has doubled.
“We know how important cyber security is. We need to protect the data that gives us
our competitive advantage – about our products, our business and our people – bothhere in Matera and for everyone working remotely and on the move.
“Although we had cyber security solutions in place already, they were not integrated or
centralized so I was keen to explore how we could improve our security profile.”

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Solution

the Calia Italia story begins

Calia Italia was supported in its search for the best solution for its needs by trusted
local Italian partner Comunica.Live, with offices in Potenza and Bari.

256“During our selection process for security products we analyzed lots of options,”
explains Ezio Baratta. “In addition to the need for excellent security we wanted asolution that would do its job efficiently in the background, without interfering with
our work or affecting the smooth running of our applications.

direct employees (1,500 jobs
supported by related activities)

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countries supplied“Comunica.Live’s help was instrumental in the selection process. Together, weshortlisted three potential solutions before choosing Kaspersky Endpoint Security
for Business Advanced, which had the best combination of features, performanceand price.”
Kaspersky security experts spent time with Calia Italia and Comunica.Live to gaina detailed understanding of the business’ requirements and to demonstrate thesuitability of the solution and its capabilities in a comprehensive proof of concept
process. Kaspersky’s close collaboration with Comunica.Live had a crucial role in the
success of this engagement.
Calia Italia bought endpoint protection licenses and, within just one week, had deployed
the solution on 200 PCs, 60 smartphones and 30 tablets.

Constant monitoring
Ezio Baratta says: “From the beginning the Kaspersky product has worked extremely
well. It was so easy to deploy, it’s a product that ensures a quick return on investment(ROI) and we’ve had no complaints from anyone about slow performance orinterference.
“The software can identify safe applications from dangerous ones and with themanagement console we can control its use, enable updates and new releases andsee how it is performing centrally. We think this alone is saving our IT team about
200 hours a year.”

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Keeping all commercial
and personal data safe

Flexible
Maintained by using theflexible management console“It’s also very important psychologically for our IT team to know that Kaspersky, with
its global experts, is constantly identifying new malicious behaviors on endpoints
across the globe and protecting us from attack with multiple engines, including
Adoptive Anomaly Control. So our people can work normally and are unaffectedby cybercriminals.
“Finally, with cyberattacks likely to grow in the future, we feel confident that we canincrease our defenses whenever we need to by adding further products and services
from the Kaspersky portfolio.”

MobileWorks on any device ensuring
secure 24/7 communications

High ROI
The solution ensures a quick
return on investment and saves
IT staff 200 hours a year

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