Adaptive Shield

Integrate with Adaptive Shield

API 2.0 Compatible

By integrating Mimecast with Adaptive Shield, organizations can strengthen their SaaS security posture by combining Mimecast’s advanced email security with Adaptive Shield’s SaaS misconfiguration management. This integration helps detect and remediate security gaps, ensuring consistent compliance and reducing risk across cloud applications while enhancing overall threat protection.

Solution overview

1. Mimecast scans incoming emails for threats such as phishing, malware, and impersonation, ensuring safe delivery to recipients.
2. Threat intelligence from Mimecast is integrated with Adaptive Shield to assess and monitor security configurations across the organization’s SaaS applications.
3. Adaptive Shield uses Mimecast’s threat data to identify misconfigurations, enabling automated remediation and ensuring a secure, compliant SaaS environment.

Mimecast + Adaptive Shield use cases

• Phishing-Driven SaaS Configuration Remediation

  When Mimecast detects a phishing attack targeting an organization, the integration with Adaptive Shield triggers a review of the organization's SaaS security configurations. This ensures that any vulnerabilities related to the attack are quickly addressed and remediated, reducing exposure.

• Improved SaaS Security Posture

  By combining Mimecast’s email security insights with Adaptive Shield’s continuous monitoring of SaaS environments, organizations can proactively identify and correct misconfigurations, ensuring a secure, compliant cloud infrastructure.

• Incident Response and Compliance:

  In the event of a security incident, Mimecast provides real-time threat intelligence that Adaptive Shield uses to immediately assess SaaS application settings for potential gaps or risks, helping organizations meet compliance requirements and mitigate further damage.

Key benefits

1. Quickly detect and address threats across email and cloud applications, reducing overall risk exposure.
2. Ability to monitor and remediate SaaS misconfigurations, helping organizations stay aligned with regulatory requirements.
3. Organizations can centralize their security efforts, to improve overall efficiency in threat detection, response, and prevention.
4. Provides a comprehensive view of both email and SaaS security, enabling better decision-making and faster response to emerging threats across the entire IT ecosystem.