Allen Lund Company: Strengthening Email Security Across a Nationwide Network
Allen Lund started his transportation brokerage with $1,000 and a lot of determination. In 1976, he opened the first Allen Lund Company office in Los Angeles, next to the produce market, with his wife Kathie by his side. What began as a single office grew into a nationwide operation and has become a $1 Billion business—one of Allen’s original dreams realized.
That growth brought a larger, more distributed workforce and a bigger target for cybercriminals. Today, protecting the company’s people and systems is treated with the same seriousness as protecting the freight it moves.
The Problem:
The Allen Lund Company supports 750 users across a nationwide network running on a Microsoft platform. As the business expanded, its existing email security point solution increasingly failed to keep pace with modern threats.
Response times were slow, particularly for sophisticated attacks like phishing and spoofing, where delays gave threats more time to reach employees. The solution also struggled with basic classification: it routinely flagged legitimate business emails as gray mail rather than distinguishing it properly. Managing that gray mail correctly would have required additional licensing the company didn’t have, leaving IT with no practical way to handle it.
For a company built on relationships with shippers, growers, and a wide network of offices, that combination of slow detection and poor visibility was a real liability.
“Protecting people and information is one of the keys in an industry like ours, where there’s a lot of people power,” said Kenny Lund, Vice President at Allen Lund Company.
Chetan Tandon, CIO at Allen Lund Company, recognized the company needed a more accurate and efficient way to secure and manage email—one that could scale with the business rather than slow it down.
The Solution:
The Allen Lund family has had a longtime friendship and relationship with Joe Kadlec, Consiliant Principle. They continue to partner with Consiliant Technologies to evaluate and deploy various technologies including a stronger email security solution. Consiliant guided the company through proof-of-concept testing and implementation of Proofpoint Core Email Protection, which uses AI-powered detection and automation to block advanced threats such as business email compromise, ransomware, and phishing.
During testing, Proofpoint consistently outperformed the company’s incumbent solution at catching threats before they reached users. Once the team confirmed Proofpoint’s detection capabilities, Consiliant worked with Allen Lund Company to ensure the solution integrated smoothly into its existing Microsoft email environment with minimal disruption to daily operations.
The Result:
With the new solution in place, delivered and supported by Consiliant Technologies, Allen Lund Company moved well beyond the limitations of its previous email security setup. The platform is straightforward to use and gives the IT team meaningful control across pre-delivery, post-delivery, and click-time protection.
Email classification issues that once created extra work and licensing headaches have been resolved, and the team now has clear, defined remediation steps instead of a single blunt option.
Proofpoint Core Email Protection blocks 99.999% of advanced email threats, including phishing attacks, BEC, ransomware, and beyond. Powered by AI, it enhances Microsoft 365 with real-time threat intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analysis.
Beyond the technology, Allen Lund Company has leaned into Proofpoint’s human-centric approach to security, with Chetan Tandon’s team running ongoing communications and training to help employees adopt smarter, safer email habits.
Quotes:
“Proofpoint gives us the email protection and control we need, working in a strong, seamless way across our organization.”
— Chetan Tandon, CIO, Allen Lund Company
“Allen Lund Company came to us wanting a partner who could match their standards for reliability and care—the same values that built their business. Getting them onto Proofpoint wasn’t just about better detection, it was about giving their team the confidence that comes from knowing your systems can keep pace with a company that’s still growing.”
– Joe Kadlec, Principal and Vice President Sales & Marketing, Consiliant Technologies
