Email virus protection

Email is central to all organizations and has become the primary communication and collaborative platform for any organization. More than just a communications vehicle, email helps to process transactions, confirm purchases, document negotiations, and provides business continuity. When a virus or some other threat shuts email down, business grinds to a halt, opportunities are lost and competitiveness suffers.

The traditional approach to email virus protection is no longer effective. In-house virus protection products require major tradeoffs in performance and manageability, and also are time consuming to maintain. Managed service providers restrict a company's visibility and control and penalize legitimate email delivery during attacks and peak usage. As threats evolve the financial ramifications of poor email virus protection become evident.

To safeguard their networks against security breaches and email virus attacks, organizations are turning to holistic email management solutions that provide functionality for security.

Mimecast - a leader in unified email management solutions - has the answer.

Learn more about Mimecast's email virus protection solution now.

Mimecast - an innovative approach to email virus protection

Mimecast offers a holistic approach to email management with a Software-as-a-Service platform that provides a unified solution to email archiving, continuity and security. Mimecast's security approach is a next generation spam & virus protection service that effectively eradicates unwanted email and viruses, without the resource intensive demands that other products require . Mimecast security extends the standard security stack by delivering a set of proprietary real-time counter measures with advanced protection technology to deal with known and unknown threats at OSI layers 3 to 7. In basic terms, Mimecast runs all security measures in real-time, leaving spam with the spammers.

Why Mimecast security if more effective:

• Email virus protection tests are applied at every phase of the physical IP and SMTP conversation.
• Where other solutions wait to perform on-disk tests once the message has been received, Mimecast looks for the earliest possible opportunity to reject problematic emails on the wire and to give legitimate messages priority in processing.
• Mimecast uses a multitude of logic tests, reputation tests, pattern matches, anomaly tests and heuristic analyses to deliver highly effective email virus protection.

Email protection against virus threats that beats the industry

The results are impressive. Mimecast's email virus protection solution consistently blocks 98 percent of attacks at the SMTP initiation phase, 1.9 percent during SMTP transmission, and 0.1 percent in the post receipt phase, for a 100 percent virus protection record since Mimecast was introduced in 2004. Mimecast also leaves 99.5 percent of spam undeliverable at the source. And because Mimecast is a multi-tenant service platform, resourcing is applied to clients processing independently and in real-time without affecting mail delivery. It's no wonder that thousands of companies trust Mimecast with the security of hundred of millions of messages every day.

Visit www.mimecast.com to learn more about email virus protection and other features including:, email data leak prevention for greater security and compliance; email continuity software for continuous access to email even during catastrophic outages; email archiving services for instant access to up to 10 years of email; email spam filtering to prevent unwanted message; and email recovery solutions for enhanced access to historical data.