Mimecast email security
Overview

Resources

  • Video

    How it works

    Email Security in the cloud

  • Product snaphots

    A series of snapshots that allow you to look into the heart of the product

  • Video

    Customer interview

    What's the effect of spam on your business?

  • Email security solution brief

    Protect your organization against malware, spam and data leaks - cutting complexity from your network without compromising on performance.

  • Datasheet

    Email security datasheet

     An always-on, cloud-based email security service that reduces the complexity of protecting your organization from malware, spam and data leakage.

As the range of email threats has grown, systems for email security and encryption have become ever more complex. Users demand ever higher levels of protection while at the same time expect more business enabling functionality. Businesses are left spending significant amounts of money trying to secure email systems, even in the face of industry consolidation and gateway commoditisation. Mimecast is bringing the value of the Secure Email Gateway back.

Mimecast Email Security provides the most comprehensive, cloud-based email risk mitigation available in the market today – that’s why we are critically acclaimed by Gartner and CRN Security Vendor of the Year, and it’s why we gained ‘Visionary’ status in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways 2012.

Backed by stringent availability and security SLAs, along with flexible email encryption options, it cuts cost and complexity, removing threats in the cloud to reduce your risks and improve overall email server performance. It is also built to ensure you can meet data security and privacy obligations governing everything from health information to payment card processing information in emails. Uniquely, Mimecast Email Security allows end users to manage their Secure Email Gateway, as well as manage their safe and blocked senders list, or even report spam, all from directly within Microsoft Outlook.

We protect against inbound and outbound email-borne threats. This includes malware, spam, phishing, DHA & DDoS attacks, deliberate or accidental data leaks, outages, and social engineering attacks.

End user benefits

  • No more unwanted email
  • Users never leave Outlook to manage email
  • Interactive email quarantine digests from Outlook
  • Minimal administration for users
  • End user Secure Email Gateway policy actions for encryption, email routing and email stationery
  • Direct access to block and allow lists within Outlook
  • Spam reporting and blocking from directly within their inbox

Mimecast email security
Key features

Resources

  • Video

    How it works

    Email Security in the cloud

  • Product snaphots

    A series of snapshots that allow you to look into the heart of the product

  • Video

    Customer interview

    What's the effect of spam on your business?

  • Data leak prevention

    An organization's value and competitive advantage are inextricably linked to the knowledge it holds. When stored digitally, that asset becomes even more beneficial as it can be shared easily with colleagues and third parties via email. While this flexibility undoubtedly brings great benefit, it also increases the risk of data leakage.

  • Datasheet

    Email security datasheet

    An always-on, cloud-based email security service that reduces the complexity of protecting your organization from malware, spam and data leakage.

Mimecast Email Security protects your organizations reputation and productivity from all email-borne threats – inbound and outbound - without robbing you of the controls you need:

Rapidly deployed and immediately effective

Up-and-running in just hours, you’re protected immediately – while our reputation management capabilities minimize false positives, and prioritize good email.

SLAs you can depend on

We offer a set of demanding  security SLAs - 100% service availability, 100% virus protection and 99% spam protection (0.0001% false positives) - all backed by tough financial penalties.

Always responding to new risks

We were the first provider to offer cloud-based data leak prevention.  Our threat response experts specialize in anticipating email security threats and tackling them as they emerge. And our proprietary connection-based spam filtering technology is without peer.

Power Tools that strengthen your whole email management system

Designed and built to fully integrate with all Mimecast services, Mimecast Content Power Tools offers a more powerful email management system. When run in conjunction with our email archiving service, you can identify, via a data leak stored email, if the leak was malicious or accidental.

Simple email security policy administration

Tight integration with Active Directory simplifies the setting and enforcement of organization-wide email security policies. Like all Mimecast services, it dramatically simplifies email management, offering real-time control through a single web console.

Secure communications

Policy based email encryption and a web-based secure email delivery channel ensure message content remains private and secure.

Data leak prevention

Mimecast guards against honest mistakes, identifies malicious intent, and safeguards evidence if there’s a policy breach – securing everything from confidential documents to credit cards and social security numbers.

Improves mail server performance

By removing harmful and unwanted email before it reaches your network, your email server no longer has to process large volumes of unnecessary mail and your bandwidth is kept available to deliver your legitimate messages.

Mimecast email security
How it works

Resources

  • Video

    How it works

    Email Security in the cloud

  • Product snaphots

    A series of snapshots that allow you to look into the heart of the product

  • Video

    Customer interview

    What's the effect of spam on your business?

  • Email security solution brief

    Protect your organization against malware, spam and data leaks - cutting complexity from your network without compromising on performance.

  • Datasheet

    Email security datasheet

    An always-on, cloud-based email security service that reduces the complexity of protecting your organization from malware, spam and data leakage.

The email security service has two main elements: a Mimecast Secure Email Gateway and Mimecast Content Power Tools – offering data leak prevention and enhanced email stationery.

Together they offer the best possible way to protect your business’s email-borne IP from all threats – internal and external:

  • Switch corporate MX records to point to Mimecast
  • Route all outbound traffic through the Mimecast platform
  • All email traffic routed via the Mimecast platform
  • Suspicious connections are dropped
  • Multiple signature-based malware inspection is performed
  • Zero-hour threat analysis performed to identify emerging threats
  • Messages found to contain malware are automatically rejected prior to receipt
  • Message content filtering is applied to further reduce unwanted emails
  • Policy-based email content, attachment and image filtering is performed
  • Messages which trigger a policy are held in a queue for optional review and release
  • Secure delivery methods invoked based on message content or sender and recipient rules
  • Real-time queues are available allowing you to manage live messages
  • Online traffic analysis available for managing live messages

Mimecast secure email
gateway

Resources

  • Video

    How it works

    Email Security in the cloud

  • Product snaphots

    A series of snapshots that allow you to look into the heart of the product

  • Video

    Customer interview

    What's the effect of spam on your business?

  • Email security solution brief

    Protect your organization against malware, spam and data leaks - cutting complexity from your network without compromising on performance.

  • Datasheet

    Email security datasheet

    An always-on, cloud-based email security service that reduces the complexity of protecting your organization from malware, spam and data leakage.

The Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is built on our massively scalable mail transfer agent (MTA), which acts as your email bridgehead in the cloud, delivering multi-layered malware and spam protection that stops both known and emerging threats before they reach your network. It’s backed by market-leading SLAs: 100% virus protection, 99% spam protection and 0.0001% spam false positives.

It also includes real-time, online queue management, end user email digests for personal quarantine management, and advanced email traffic routing capabilities.

Mimecast Service Platform

  • Centrally administered via single, web-based administration console
  • Backed by financially punitive 100% service availability SLA
  • Mimecast Personal Portal for user access to held messages
  • Automated synchronization with company directory

Advanced MTA capability

  • Advanced routing capability
  • Real-time view of all SMTP connections and rejections
  • Online queue management
  • Detailed transmission data for every email that is processed by Mimecast
  • Reports email usage patterns
  • Protection from email-based attacks e.g. denial of service (DoS), directory harvest (DHA)
  • Large attachment management with strip and link capability

Email threat protection

  • Multi-layered malware protection against known and zero-day threats
  • Comprehensive connection-based and content-based spam and phishing protection
  • Personal permit and block lists to fine tune spam preferences
  • End user email digests for personal quarantine management
  • Image scanning for policy enforcement
  • Policy-based attachment management rules
  • SLAs: 100% virus protection, 98% spam protection, 0.0001% spam false positives

Mimecast email security
Content power tools

Resources

  • Video

    How it works

    Email Security in the cloud

  • Product snaphots

    A series of snapshots that allow you to look into the heart of the product

  • Video

    Customer interview

    What's the effect of spam on your business?

  • Solution brief

    Mimecast stationery

    Integrated email branding and marketing solution. Enhance everyday email to support marketing activity without adding IT cost and complexity.

  • Datasheet

    Email security datasheet

    An always-on, cloud-based email security service that reduces the complexity of protecting your organization from malware, spam and data leakage.

Mimecast Content Power Tools complements the Mimecast Secure Email Gateway with data leak prevention and enhanced stationery. It allows you to respond rapidly to new threats with granular and flexible email content and secure communication policies that can be applied in real-time.

Mimecast Content Power Tools also provides document metadata stripping, disclaimer and legal notice management, secure message delivery, and email stationery management and marketing tools.

Data leak prevention capability

  • Granular email policy setting with Active Directory (AD) secure synchronization
  • Content examination of email body text, attachments, HTML, headers and subject
  • Weighted dictionaries for threshold policy triggering
  • Intelligent identifiers for the recognition of structured data e.g. credit card numbers
  • Recognition of known confidential files
  • Risk management options; block, hold pending review, bcc a group, add content
  • Metadata stripping and MS Word to pdf conversion

Secure message delivery

  • Email encryption with best-effort and policy-enforced TLS
  • Secure communication with Closed Circuit Messaging (CCM)

Email stationery management and marketing tools

  • Flexible, policy-based signature and legal notice creation and application
  • Corporate branding and imagery management
  • Recipient click tracking capability
  • Microsite creation and publishing