Data leak prevention solutions protect critical business information

Data leaks represent a serious threat to the business. While most leaks are inadvertent-Forrester has estimated that 80 percent of data leaks are the result of a lack of user awareness of information policies. Regardless of this trend, any leak of proprietary or private data can result in significant risk and damage to the organization. Data leak prevention solutions offer the best protection against potential legal exposure, regulatory fines, and loss of reputation and business. A variety of data leak prevention solutions are available to businesses today. Host-based prevention solutions run on desktop PCs and servers and are designed to prevent unauthorized copying of data. Network-based data leak prevention solutions sit in the network and monitor traffic looking for protected data. And solutions built specifically around data leak prevention implement strict policy-based rules that can be hard to manage. Each of these solutions results in an islands of protected data governed by different policy systems - and may fail to prevent leaks once the data leaves the boundaries of the solution.

For superior protection, Mimecast provides a holistic approach to data leak prevention solutions as part of a unified email management system.

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Mimecast delivers holistic data leak prevention solutions

As a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, Mimecast provides a unified email management system that includes holistic data leak prevention solutions designed to deliver maximum protection with minimal cost and administrative burden. The Mimecast platform provides a comprehensive set of tools for administering all aspects of email management, and "smart perimeter" technology that provides gateway and security controls similar to those found with on-premise policy control solutions.

Mimecast's Smart Perimeter technology enables superior data leak prevention solutions by giving administrators the tools to set policies that can detect critical confidential or restricted content with email messages and attachments. These tools include:

• Regex testing. Regex (regular expression) search strings can detect variable data in headers, subject lines, content, and attachments. This may include private or protected information such as credit card numbers or Social Security numbers. With regex testing, Mimecast enables the prevention of confidential data from being leaked maliciously or unintentionally.
• MDS hash detection. With MDS hashing, Mimecast can detect known attachments transiting the gateway. By loading documents into Mimecast and generating an MDS hash, administrators use the hash to set a control policy and establish a secure boundary to prevent known data from leaving the organization.

Email data archive solutions, and spam prevention

As a unified email management system, Mimecast also provides:

• Email archiving solutions. Mimecast provides up to 10 years of email storage without requiring an investment in additional hardware or software. Mimecast's archiving service simplifies email archiving policy by transparently and automatically archiving all incoming, outgoing, and internal emails.
• Email continuity services. Mimecast supports email continuity policy by enabling users to access and send email during catastrophic and planned outages.
• Email antispam. With an on-the-wire approach to scanning incoming email, Mimecast leaves 99.5 percent of spam undelivered at source.
• Email antivirus protection. Mimecast's anti-virus technology has a perfect track record in stopping email-borne viruses.

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