What is email security?

Email is cybercriminals’ method of choice for entering business networks and stealing from them; email is also most organizations’ primary means of communications. Thus, email security safeguards employee communication and reduces risk with targeted threat protection, data leak prevention, and enforced email security controls. Multiple layers of email security protection are required to stop known and emerging email-borne threats before they reach your organization’s environment.

Why is email security important?

Organizations are seeing a massive rise in cyberattacks. Legitimate business emails can contain the sensitive information cybercriminals need in order to access and exploit critical business systems. Phishing emails can give cybercriminals instant access to an organization’s entire network in just one click. Even with proper email security training, data breaches can still occur. Organizations need cloud-based email solutions that offer encryption, targeted threat protection, data leak prevention, and enforced email security controls.

What should organizations look for when evaluating email security companies?

Organizations need an email security solution that stops malware, spam, and advanced threats using targeted threat protection, data leak prevention, and enforced email security controls. While team members should always be trained in proper email security, solutions need to be automated, cloud-based, and offer encryption. Email security solutions should work in the background and not impede user productivity. When evaluating email security companies, organizations need to find an email security partner with the right tools to prevent, detect, and respond quickly to phishing attacks and other email-based threats.

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As the top attack vector, email demands the strongest possible protection. Defend against even the most sophisticated attacks and stay one step ahead of threats with Mimecast Email Security.

From phishing and ransomware to social engineering, payment fraud, and impersonation, we block the most dangerous attacks.

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A Secure Email Gateway in the cloud, Email Security, Cloud Gateway is designed to keep any type of email environment, even the most complex, secure.

Offering advanced administration capabilities and a range of complementary solutions and integrations, it’s ideal for IT and security teams that want to control risk and tame complexity.

Features:

Optimized protections for any type of email environment — M365, Google Workspace, hybrid, on-premise
Support for large and complex email environments (FAA, AAA)
Advanced administration capabilities
Fast, easy integration with other security tools
Integrated, complementary solutions (e.g., Continuity, Archive, DMARC)
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An Integrated Cloud Email Security solution that does not require an MX record change, Email Security, Cloud Integrated is purpose-built to enhance and extend M365 protections.

Deploying in minutes and providing optimized protections out of the box, it’s ideal for IT and security teams that want to bolster M365 while making email security administration a snap.

Features:

Optimized M365 protections
Deployed in minutes
Out-of-the box settings
Minimal configuration
Simplified administration
One-click remediation
Extensibility through rich APIs
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Product Enhancements

One attack vector, one problem — what if that was all you had to solve for? You have to do more, so Mimecast does more too. Our fully integrated product suite lets you address a wide range of challenges simply, effectively, and affordably. Each of these solutions works seamlessly with your Mimecast Email Security service to enhance protections, increase visibility, and reduce complexity. The result? You can focus on controlling risk, not managing technology.

Insider risk protection

Prevent attacks from spreading internally and to your supply chain by applying best-practice inspections to internal and outbound email.

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Continuity

Keep email flowing in the face of planned or unplanned downtime with easy-to-manage, intuitive mailbox continuity capabilities.

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DMARC management

Get full visibility and control of who sends emails on your behalf by accelerating and simplifying implementation of the DMARC protocol.

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Social Engineering Defense & AI Cybersecurity

Empower users with AI-driven email warning banners surfaced and updated in real time based on risk.

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Message encryption

Let users securely send sensitive information with message encryption that’s easy for them to use and simple to administer.

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Email incident response

Decrease the dwell time of cybersecurity threats and reduce the burden of threat response and remediation on your Security Operations Center (SOC).

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Mimecast has been a valued partner for 5 years. The provide an affordable, configurable email security platform that is both very effective and easy to use. Their account and technical support is top notch, and their product teams meet their roadmap commitments.

Director, IT Security in the Media Industry
Since implementation of the Mimecast Product Suite, we have been able to streamline our retention, recover, and discovery processes to a level that has reduce overall effort for these activities by more than 90%. The team now uses the functionality more in their day to day activities than was ever anticipated. The features are much better suited for our type of business then the native tools in MS O365.

Security Specialist in the Services Industry
Mimecast provided an easy to implement, easy to use yet robust and effective security solution. They were open to considering out of the normal deployments. Their customer support and engagement is first rate. Overall a great, a solid product with an experienced and professional team supporting it.

Product Head: Cyber in the Finance Industry

Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.

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