Email security risks are broader than just spam and malware

Mimecast® aim to provide the broadest possible email risk mitigation and compliance solution as a single service deployed over the Internet. The battle against malware and viruses is constantly evolving, but email is also subject to security threats such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, eavesdropping on non-encrypted email, phishing and accidental or malicious data leaks. Litigation and regulatory compliance have also driven the need for retention of email records with legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, CPR, FRCP, MiFID, HIPAA, and the Data Protection Act.

Benefits-at-a-glance

1. Broad protection from email-related risks
A single cloud-based service offering protection from email-related risks, including malware infections, application and OS exploits, spam, phishing, DoS & DDoS attacks, data leaks, outages, social engineering attacks, staff non-productivity due to spam, litigation and compliance.

2. Rapid deployment and immediate effectiveness
Deployed in hours, Mimecast’s reputation harvesting capabilities, minimizes false positives from day one.

3. Constant innovation to match evolving risks
Mimecast security R&D focus on all email-related threats and was the first provider to offer cloud-based data leak prevention for email and one of the first to offer protection via a layer-7 intrusion prevention system.

4. Integration with wider email management systems
Email security should not be deployed on its own – ideally it should be tightly integrated with the entire email environment.  For instance, in the event of disciplinary, civil or criminal action, connection to the archive is required to determine the context of a data leak (accidental or malicious).

5. Single policy-focused, not technology-focused administration
As a cloud-based security service tightly integrated to Active Directory, Mimecast provides a single view and central point to set and enforce organization-wide security policies, as opposed to setting fragmented policies across point technology systems.

6. Robust Service Level Agreements
The Mimecast service operates at 99.5% spam protection, 100% virus protection and 99.999% uptime guarantee in our online Service Level Agreement.

Competitors VS Mimecast Security

Defense in depth Dated techniques applied, generally heavily focused on content scoring Multi-layered security practices with deep scanning and interrogation of all data
Key Requirements Competitors Mimecast
Performance Performance degradation during peaks and outbreaks Consistent performance
Block spam & viruses Inaccurate and highly administrative 99% spam blocked. 100% virus protection record
Protect legitimate email Legitimate email quarantined. Disruptive to users Zero content-based false positives

What Next?

Key features:

  • Comprehensive Malware Protection
  • Mimecast Advanced Reputation Management (ARMed SMTP™)
  • Single administration interface
  • Protection from Application and OS Vulnerabilities
  • Integrated archiving for investigation and evidence
  • Connection-based analysis
  • Policy-based encryption, without the hassle - TLS & Closed-circuit messaging
  • Data leak prevention:
    • Keyword/phrase
    • Weighted dictionaries
    • Intelligent identifiers
    • File attachments
  • Continuous email protection and compliance
  • Effective Protection from DoS Attacks

Mimecast provides email continuity software solutions for end-users through any planned or unplanned outage of the customer's email environment. Regardless of whether the problem is with the mail server such as a database corruption, or with a supporting system like an Active Directory outage, Mimecast ensures users can still work normally from a variety of email clients including Microsoft Outlook, mobile devices or a webmail interface. Mimecast provides data leak prevention and email antivirus solutions that work with your email client, combined with constant email monitoring and email archive services.

Mimecast delivers an email continuity solution as part of a unified approach to email archive service that can deliver 100 percent access to email, even during catastrophic outages and server recovery.

An exchange server spam filter can cut down on spam by up to 99.5% as part of Mimecast's exchange management system which also provides cloud based exchange archive solutions that maintains email compliance.