Email Collaboration Threat Protection

    Mimecast Continues to Lead in Email Security Platforms

    The shift from a focus on secure email gateways to email security platforms represents a renewed emphasis on this critical market

    by Andrew Williams

    Key Points

    • Market change has driven vendors to expand beyond traditional secure email gateway models to offering holistic email security platforms.
    • Mimecast is recognized as a leader in both traditional secure email gateways and advanced email security platforms.
    • It’s time for security professionals to shift their thinking away from piecemeal security tools to comprehensive email security platforms.

     

    The shift in the cybersecurity industry, including a focus among analysts, from talking about secure email gateways to instead now talking about email security platforms reflects the evolving needs of the market.

    Throughout the industry, key stakeholders are emphasizing comprehensive solutions that go beyond just providing a secure email gateway to delivering and entire email security platform.

    This market change has driven vendors to expand their offerings beyond traditional gateway models, focusing on holistic email security strategies, aligning with the growing adoption of cloud-based infrastructure and the demand for integrated, scalable solutions.

    What to Consider When Looking at Email Security Platforms

    As customers shift their own thinking from looking at individual email security products to considering the possibility of implementing an email security platform for their organization, there are some key insights and trends to keep in mind:

    • Cloud transition and ICES dominance: The shift to cloud-based email infrastructure has driven the adoption of integrated cloud email security (ICES) solutions, which simplify implementation through API integrations and focus on post-delivery protection. This challenges traditional SEGs and emphasizes the need for organizations to evaluate their ideal implementation approach.
    • Advanced threat detection with AI: Vendors are increasingly leveraging advanced technologies like natural language processing, large language models, and social graph analysis to combat sophisticated threats such as business email compromise and social engineering. These capabilities are becoming essential for effective email security.
    • Market consolidation and innovation: The email security market is experiencing significant mergers and acquisitions, with vendors expanding their capabilities through acquisitions or integrating adjacent security functionalities. This trend reflects a focus on vendor consolidation and innovation to address evolving threats.
    • Evolving buyer priorities: Organizations are prioritizing platforms that offer comprehensive protection, including phishing and malware detection, data loss prevention, encryption, and account takeover prevention. Buyers are also seeking solutions tailored to specific industries or geographies, with an emphasis on usability, automation, and managed services.

    Mimecast Continues to Lead

    Mimecast continues to be recognized as a leader in email security platforms. We have been cited as a vendor that has both vision and the ability to execute on that vision. This recognition validates our sustained innovation, operational excellence, and strategic growth through acquisitions, solidifying our position as a trusted provider of collaboration security solutions and our alignment with the broader vision of human risk management.

    While Mimecast has offered email security and focused on providing solutions for human risk since 2003, this year we stepped up our efforts to provide comprehensive, integrated, scalable solutions to customers through our connected human risk management platform that delivers not only an advanced email security platform, but also collaboration security, brand protection, data retention, archiving, DMARC tools, and security awareness and training.

    Mimecast’s strength in product strategy aligned to operational excellence, and focus on human risk mitigation differentiate us from competitors. We remain well-positioned to be a market leader with our innovative approach and commitment to customer success and are a reliable partner in addressing email and other collaboration tool security challenges.

    The Bottom Line

    Our over 42,00 customers are a testament to our hard work in developing email solutions to meet market demands with or without a secure email gateway, while ensuring the highest levels of protection as the threat landscape evolves with advanced business email compromise solutions and continued threat Intelligence reporting.

    Our acquisitions of Elevate Security and Code42 have been instrumental in strengthening our market position in the evolution of email security to human risk management, and have been an integral part of our journey towards our new north star of human risk management. These acquisitions give Mimecast an even strong ability to support a broad range of organizations through our product portfolio which includes both of our email security deployment methods, Secure Email Gateway and Cloud Integrated.

    Our sales strategy focuses on aligning packaging configurations with customer needs and strengthening VAR partnerships to drive long-term customer engagement. Supported by our well-resourced global operations, including above-average staffing in technical support as evidenced in our 4.5 score in Gartner Peer Insights, product management, and analytics, as well as regionally aligned infrastructure and broad language support, we are uniquely positioned to provide high-quality, localized service to a diverse global customer base.

    View a complimentary copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms to learn more about email security platforms.

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