Superior email monitoring technology simplifies email security and management

Savvy organizations today employ email monitoring technology to track user compliance with company email policy, ensure adherence to statutory regulations, and prevent malicious or inadvertent data leaks. Email monitoring can also play a role in preventing spam and email viruses. For organizations seeking a cost-effective email monitoring system, Mimecast provides email monitoring as a component of a unified email management solution.

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Mimecast-SaaS-based email monitoring

As a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, Mimecast provides organizations with a robust set of tools for administering all aspects of email management. Mimecast's service enables companies to avoid investment in the traditional stack of email management technologies by delivering a single comprehensive service for controlling messaging, with extensive functionality for both end-users and administrators.

Mimecast's email monitoring technology provides highly effective gateway and security tools for scanning and monitoring inbound and outbound email messages:

• Regular expression (regex) testing can detect variable data within email messages, including data such as Social Security and credit card numbers and other potential data leaks. Mimecast can search for variable data within email headers, content, subjects, and attachments.
• MDS hash detection enables Mimecast to detect known attachments transiting the gateway, assisting administrators in creating an MDS hash, and applying it to control policy.
• Spam scan policies can be deployed to resolve problems with particular users and to reduce false negatives, since Mimecast's email spam filtering service stops 99.5 percent of spam from entering the network.
• Content policies enable the business to use extensive email monitoring and content checking in order to detect specific content, as well as to apply pre-defined actions or controls. 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.

Email continuity, monitoring, and archiving

In addition to email monitoring and data leak prevention technology, Mimecast provides:

• Email continuity service. 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
• Email archive service. Using Mimecast's email archiving software technology, businesses can automatically store up to 10 years of email across Mimecast's multiple secure offsite locations.
• Email security. With a perfect track record in preventing viruses, Mimecast's antivirus technology enables companies to improve security against email-borne threats.