Data leak prevention solution for email governance, risk, and compliance

Email is one of the most likely routes by which data may be leaked from your business, either maliciously or, more often, accidentally. A successful Data Leak Prevention (DLP) system will address the issue of email leaks by policy in a way that integrates with the systems your business has in place to address email governance, risk, and compliance rather than through a series of standalone tools. A holistic DLP solution can increase governance by catching internal email leaving the organization, or it can reduce operational risk by removing credit card numbers from messages.

A DLP solution also needs to consider business continuity-and any implementation needs to cover all aspects of security and document management in order to maintain email governance, risk management, and compliance policies. A continuity system for email must also cover continuity for archiving, anti-spam, anti-virus, and DLP. The resulting system should provide a unified framework for managing policy, provisioning rules, and a reporting interface for all aspects of governance, risk, and compliance around the specific business issue the solution is trying to solve. For instance, an email governance, risk, and compliance solution will incorporate hygiene, policy, continuity, retention, and discovery. Using a DLP solution, the same policy for the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data will be applied across the entire organization for the data's entire lifetime.

For organizations seeking a holistic DLP solution to address email governance, risk, and compliance issues, Mimecast provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that is affordable, easy to manage, and highly effective.

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Mimecast delivers a comprehensive solution for email governance, risk, and compliance

Mimecast provides a complete email lifecycle management solution that includes data leak prevention, and is designed to provide the best platform to manage email governance, risk, and compliance issues. By integrating security, hygiene, policy, continuity, retention, and discovery services through a single management and reporting interface, customers can get an instant snapshot of their most critical communications platform. The Mimecast offering is software-as-a-service that can be deployed in hours, providing a unified email governance, risk, and compliance solution that replaces multiple independent point solutions.

Mimecast provides tools for:

• Email archive services. Mimecast provides an email archive and Microsoft Exchange archive solution that can store up to 10 years of email in a secure offsite location. Emails are archived automatically and can be searched easily via Outlook or a webmail facility.
• Email continuity software. Mimecast Services for Outlook automatically connects to the Mimecast service during an email server outage. Users gain full access to their email including full access to their archive either via Outlook ar Mimecast's webmail client. Once servers have been restored, Mimecast routes queued email and new email created during the outage to the appropriate mail servers.
• Email data leak prevention. Mimecast uses content control policies to detect inappropriate or confidential content that may be maliciously or inadvertently included in outbound email.
• Email spam protection. A unique "on-the-wire" technology enables Mimecast to block more than 99.5 percent of spam without a degradation of system performance.
• Email security. Mimecast anti-virus email technology has stopped 100 percent of email viruses since its introduction.

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