Email Scanning

Stopping threats with email scanning.

Organizations today are increasingly turning to email scanning to prevent a wide variety of threats.

Email represents the #1 attack vector for cyber criminals attempting to breach an organization's defenses. It's no wonder why – email is the most widely used application for business communication, and employees can be notoriously naïve when it comes to spotting and avoiding email-borne threats.

With email scanning technology, organizations can automatically review every email message to check for viruses, malware and spam. Even more importantly, scanning solutions can evaluate links and attached files to identify malicious URLs and weaponized attachments that may be part of a ransomware attack. Email scanning services can also look for suspicious addresses, domains and other signs of email spoofing that is often used in an impersonation attack.

Choosing the right email scanning solution is key. With so many other priorities and strategic initiatives to manage, IT administrators need an email scanning technology that is easy to implement and simple to use. That's why so many companies worldwide turn to email security solutions from Mimecast.

Email scanning for a broad range of threats.

Mimecast uses email scanning technology to identify:

• Viruses, malware and spam. Mimecast Email Security Gateway scans all inbound email to provide powerful anti-virus and anti-spam protection.
• Malicious URLs and attachments. Mimecast provides URL protection by performing URL analysis on all inbound email to spot potentially malicious links. Mimecast also scours attachments for malicious code and rewrites or sandboxes suspicious documents.
• Social engineering techniques. Mimecast's email scanning technology identifies content that may signify a phishing or spear-phishing attack.
• Ransomware attacks. Mimecast helps to address the threat of ransomware, using email scanning to prevent attacks and email archiving to neutralize the impact of an attack.
• Impersonation attempts. Mimecast scans headers, domains and email body content to identify suspected spoofing attacks.
• Insider threats and data leaks. Mimecast also uses email scanning of outbound and internal email to spot potential leaks and identify potentially malicious activity by people inside the organization.

Learn more about email scanning with Mimecast.