Businesses require more innovative
anti-virus email protection.

Email is now one of the most critical applications in every business. In addition to serving as a primary form of communication and collaboration, email is used to transact business, document purchases, record negotiations, and ensure continuity. A virus can cause damage and disrupt business. It takes time to clean and rebuild a computer systems - if this is a widespread virus it can cause havoc to the most resourced of IT departments.

Solutions for anti-virus email protection have proliferated but they are oftennot effective - in fact most businesses end up paying multiple times for layers of protection In-house anti-virus email solutions are burdensome to manage and maintain and, as a result, can negatively impact performance. Managed service anti-virus solutions take away visibility and control and are slow in delivering legitimate email.

For effective anti-virus email strategy, organizations are looking to holistic email management solutions that include anti-virus email security. As a leader in unified email management solutions, Mimecast anti-virus email technology offers a 100 percent track record of preventing viruses and threats.

Learn more about Mimecast's anti-virus email solutions now.

Mimecast delivers highly effective
anti-virus email solutions.

Mimecast provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and offers a holistic approach to email management and anti-virus email protection. Mimecast's next-generation approach protects against virus threats and offers anti-spam protection without making resource-intensive demands on the network. By introducing real-time countermeasures that address known and unknown email threats at OSI layers three to seven, Mimecast delivers comprehensive, scalable, anti-virus email protection.

Mimecast's anti-virus email solution is more effective than other solutions:

  • Mimecast's anti-virus products use real-time protocol-based techniques to assess the legitimacy of each message at the earliest possible opportunity, either rejecting problematic emails on-the-wire or giving processing priority to legitimate messages.
  • Mimecast continues to perform legitimacy tests and risk assessments from the initiation phase of the SMTP conversation through to the transmission and acceptance phase.
  • Mimecast uses a host of reputation tests, logic test, pattern matches, anomaly tests, and heuristic analyses-many applied in real-time to the byte stream.

Proprietary Good Traffic Protocol (GTP) technology makes Mimecast the only Internet-based email security provider offering holistic anti-virus email security that avoids the shortcomings of both LAN-based and managed-service-provider solutions.

Mimecast anti-virus email protection delivers remarkable results.

The success of Mimecast's solution has been extraordinary. Since its introduction in 2004, Mimecast's approach to anti-virus email protection has consistently thwarted 98 percent of attacks at the SMTP initiation phase. An additional 1.9 percent of viruses have been stopped during the SMTP transmission phase, while the remaining 0.1 percent of attacks have been stopped post-receipt-a 100% success rate. And Mimecast solutions leave 98.5 percent of spam undeliverable at the source. This record of achievement is the primary reason that thousands of companies the world over rely on Mimecast to secure their messaging systems.

Visit www.mimecast.com to learn more about Mimecast solutions for email virus protection and spam filtering, as well as Mimecast's email archiving service (including a Microsoft Exchange archive solution), and services that enable email monitoring and email data leak prevention.




Customer Success Stories

What our customers say

Butterfield Bank Cayman
"With Mimecast in place, spam and viruses are no longer a problem as they are stopped at source and never even reach our network.”

Osborne Clarke
“In the first week the service was stopping in excess of 1.5 million spam messages a day."