SaaS-based solution ensures email data leak prevention.

Email data leak prevention must be a primary concern for every business. As email has become the central tool for business communication, more and more sensitive data is being transmitted via email, and the potential for data leaks is significant. Most leaks are inadvertent; according to Forrester, only 20 percent of email data leaks are malicious. But intentional or not, a data leak represents a dangerous threat to the organization. Trade secrets may be exposed, private customer information made public, business plans and negotiations shared with competitors - the results can involve a loss of competitiveness, damage to credibility and regulatory punishment. While a number of email data leak prevention solutions are available, savvy companies will invest in a holistic solution that also address business continuity, email security and a unified approach to managing email policy.

As a Software as a Service (SaaS) company, Mimecast offers a holistic approach to email data leak prevention that is affordable, easy to implement, and highly effective.

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Mimecast delivers the market-leading email data leak prevention solution

Mimecast's groundbreaking approach to managing email security, archiving, and continuity allows companies to forgo the typical stack of email technologies in favor of an SaaS approach that simplifies administration and provides a comprehensive set of tools for managing email. Included in those tools are email data leak prevention capabilities that can help increase organizational security. Mimecast's Smart Perimeter component delivers gateway and security controls that allow administrators to deploy extensive security and policy control to inbound and outbound external email. Using Mimecast email data leak prevention tools, administrators can set policies that detect key confidential or restricted information within emails and attachments.

The regular expression (regex) testing tool, for example, can be used to detect variable data like Social Security or credit card numbers-information that would normally not appear in an email. The tool can detect keywords or phrases in message content, headers, subject lines, and attachments. Attachments can also be protected with the MDS hash-detection feature that detects known attachments transiting the gateway. Administrators can load documents into Mimecast to generate an MDS hash and apply it to a control policy. Using MDS hashing, organizations can create a secure boundary to prevent known data from leaving the organization.

Anti-data leak solution, email archiving, virus prevention, and email continuity

In addition to email data leak prevention, Mimecast's comprehensive approach to email management provides:

• Email archiving services that can archive emails automatically and transparently, as well as ensure email compliance by providing detailed audit trails of access and searches.
• Email continuity service that delivers 100 percent email uptime, even during catastrophic outages.
• Email spam filtering services that leave 99.5 percent of spam undeliverable at source.
• Anti-virus email protection with a perfect track record in virus prevention.

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