- Fewer impersonation attacks: Pam Golding Properties experienced a substantial reduction in unauthorized use of its email domain and successfully prevented numerous impersonation attacks targeting agents and customers.
- Stronger brand protection: DMARC validation reduced the risk of brand spoofing, ensuring secure communications and protecting Pam Golding’s reputation across 8 core countries and 2,500 users.
- Easy for a small IT team: Mimecast’s user-friendly interface let a small team proactively monitor and detect threats without weeks of training, while also surfacing valuable insights into mail delivery volumes.
Pam Golding Properties, Southern Africa’s leading independent real estate group, operates across 8 core countries with roughly 2,500 staff and agents, many of them franchise businesses Duncan Smit, Head of Group IT, can only recommend security practices to rather than enforce directly. That decentralized structure, combined with the real estate industry’s growing appeal to cybercriminals targeting agents and small conveyances, made email domain security a critical gap to close.
Pam Golding partnered with cybersecurity provider Grove to deploy Mimecast’s DMARC Analyzer, addressing domain spoofing without requiring a dedicated security specialist. ”We need a solution that’s really easy to use, and that’s where Mimecast really showed value,” Smit said. The result was a substantial drop in unauthorized use of the company’s email domain and numerous blocked impersonation attempts, giving Pam Golding confidence that both its brand and its clients’ trust remained protected as digital threats in the real estate sector continue to rise.
