2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions
Mimecast’s recognition comes at a pivotal moment as AI reshapes the future of governance.
We’re excited to share that Mimecast has once again been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions (DCGA), evaluated on its Ability to Execute and its Completeness of Vision.¹ We’re proud of this achievement.
Traditional governance was built one function at a time, and risk and data no longer stay in designated lanes. Security, legal, compliance, privacy, HR and IT increasingly need immediate access to the same business-critical information, often at the same time and for very different reasons.
We believe governance programs can no longer be designed solely from the perspective of a single function, and that any governance technology will need to account for this new and rapidly changing business environment. That is the thinking behind our continued investment in our Mimecast Apex™ Data Governance offering.
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¹ Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions, Michael Hoeck, Rizvan Hussain, Apurva Singh, October 2026
The 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions defines digital communications governance and archiving (DCGA) solutions as those designed to support an organization’s communications governance, risk management and regulatory compliance processes, and derive insights from an expanding number of digital communications tools. Across communications involving human users, AI assistants, AI agents and other non-human identities, DCGA solutions enable more consistent digital communications policy management, monitoring, investigation, enforcement and reporting, and reveal communications data intelligence.
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