Email filtering technology provides increased security

As email has become a critical business communications tool, organizations have become increasingly aware of the need to monitor and filter both inbound and outbound messages. Email filtering technology enables organizations to scan inbound email for threats, malware and spam, and to prioritize messages according to content. Email filtering can also be applied to outbound email to ensure compliance with company policies, legal regulations, and to prevent against malicious or inadvertent data leaks.

Mimecast-a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company-provides sophisticated and effective email filtering as part of a unified approach to email management.

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Mimecast delivers affordable and effective SaaS-based email filtering

Mimecast's Unified Email Management (UEM) platform offers organizations a comprehensive set of tools for administering all aspects of email management. Mimecast's service delivers extensive functionality to both end-users and administrators, combining the best features of many common-point products for managing email into a single robust service for controlling messaging.

Mimecast's unified approach to email filtering technology provides a single interface to manage gateway and security tools for monitoring inbound and outbound email:

Content policies allow the organization to deploy extensive email filtering and content checking, detecting specific content, and applying a pre-defined action or control. Content policies can be enabled to detect any type of content within the email.

Policy settings allow administrators to set global policies, group policies, and individual policies.

Spam policies are a major element of Mimecast's email spam filtering SLA, eliminating 99.5% of Spam.

User list features give users control and visibility over their own personal address lists for whitelisting, blacklisting, and rejections.

Allowed-senders technology - establishes a series of reputation-based tests that determine known-good and known-bad relationships for a particular domain.

Attachment controls introduce fine-grained inbound and outbound settings for attached documents.

Regular expression (regex) testing can detect potential data leaks by searching for variable data within email content, headers, subjects, and attachments.

MDS hash detection can detect known attachments transiting the gateway, helping administrators to create an information-centric secure boundary to prevent known sensitive data from leaving the organization.

Email archiving, filtering, and continuity

In addition to email filtering and data leak prevention solutions, Mimecast's solutions also provide:

• Email archive solution. Mimecast's email archiving technology allows organizations to automatically archive email in a secure offsite location that users can search quickly and intuitively.
• Email continuity. Mimecast provides 100 percent access to incoming email during a catastrophic outage or planned downtime.
• Email antivirus. Mimecast's antivirus technology has a perfect track record in preventing email-borne viruses.

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