Mimecast Engage

    Human Risk-Centric Security Awareness & Training

    Mitigate real risk and revolutionize security awareness with a human-centric approach.

    It’s time to re-envision security awareness

    Your security starts and ends with people. But human risk is still an unsolved problem for security teams of all sizes, with 68% of breaches involving a human element. Transform the way you address human risk with Mimecast Engage, a revolutionized security awareness solution powered by Mimecast’s Human Risk Management Platform. Mimecast Engage leverages risk signals and behavioral insights to deliver the right intervention and training to each employee, at the right time. 
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    Human risk is real risk

    Human risk is cybersecurity’s biggest gap, with 8% of employees causing 80% of incidents.

    Traditional solutions just don’t work

    Simulation metrics alone can’t measure real risk. One-size-fits-all training programs struggle to produce results.

    Security teams are stretched thin

    Conflicting priorities and a barrage of security alerts push human risk to the bottom of the to-do list.

    Reduce human risk at its source

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    Identify your
    riskiest employees 

    Gain unprecedented visibility, based on real
    security data and threat analysis.

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    Spark real change
    in behavior

    Tailor training and intervention to each
    employee’s actual behaviors.

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    Reset your
    team’s focus 

    Deliver real security outcomes from a
    platform built for simplicity and scale.

    Forrester Human Risk Management Solutions Wave

    Mimecast has been recognized as a strong performer in The Forrester Wave™: Human Risk Management Solutions, Q3 2024 report. Mimecast's investments in product development cement our positioning as a key player in this growing market.

    Mimecast Engage at a Glance

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    Unprecedented risk visibility

    Analysis of employee email behavior, inbound attack data, and training and simulation metrics centralizes human risk signals in a single, actionable view.
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    Personalized engagement and training

    Behavioral insights create training experiences unique to each employee, featuring Mimecast’s best-in-class video-based content.
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    Rapid deployment in minutes

    A guided first-time setup experience accelerates your rollout and fine-tunes your program for results.
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    Effortless user experience

    Powerful automation and an easy-to-use design reduce your workload and simplify administration.
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    Frequently Asked Questions

    Security awareness training refers to employee understanding of cyber hygiene, identifying the many ways attackers try to breach critical business systems or personal accounts, and how users play a critical role in stopping attacks to protect their organization.

    Research suggests that human error is involved in more than 90% of security breaches. Security awareness training mitigates user risk by educating employees about the potential mistakes and proper procedure they need to follow when utilizing email and the web. It promotes more secure behaviors to protect personal and organizational data.

    Companies look to security awareness to mitigate user risk. But traditional methods take on a one-size-fits-all approach and struggle to produce tangible results.


    For security awareness to be effective, it needs to be powered by real-world risk insights that consider what kind of training and intervention an employee needs and when they need it.


    By leveraging risk insights from across an organization, human risk-powered awareness & training programs can tailor a security awareness program specific to each individual employee. This includes responding to real employee actions with timely intervention that can address negative behaviors or reinforce positive behaviors.


    Security awareness programs should also provide persistent and consumable training with broad coverage for the security concerns that are most relevant to an employee’s work environment. Training should be engaging and interactive to ensure learning retention while not over-burdening employees too much.

    The length of security awareness training programs varies widely. Mimecast's approach is to provide short training sessions on a monthly basis, delivering ongoing education that keeps security best practices fresh on employees' minds.

    Security awareness trainings need to be reimagined for human risk factors, taking complex topics and making them fun and understandable through humor.


    Users should be trained on the risky behaviors they exhibit, which generally relate to phishing, information protection, office hygiene, data in motion, and data privacy and protection. In addition, awareness topics can deliver role-specific content for DevSecOps, healthcare, and executives, and they should align with key industry standards such as ISO, NIST, PCI DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA.

    The human attack surface is the entirety of risk an organization faces because of humans and their actions (or, inaction). Everyone plays a unique role in the day-to-day operation of a business. Some people have privileged access to systems, data, information, or financial processes.


    All of these factors represent opportunities to threat actors who may seek to exploit human behavior – whether by complex attacks or cunning social engineering tactics. What's more, these threats don’t just originate from outside the organization. Security teams must also be mindful of both unintentional and intentional insider threats. The challenge is assessing all these dynamic factors to develop an effective human risk management strategy.

    Historically, security awareness is a siloed function, separated from the rest of the organization’s security strategy. As leaders scrutinize investments in security awareness, they find themselves asking tough questions like:

    • Does training work?
    • Are employees' behaviors changing?
    • Who are our riskiest employees?

    The reality is, traditional security awareness training solutions have a hard time answering these questions. But why? In general, security awareness takes on a one-size-fits-all approach, it’s largely output-oriented and doesn’t measure real-world behaviors.


    When security awareness adopts a human risk management approach, it gives security teams the opportunity to revolutionize security awareness, starting with unprecedented risk visibility. When training is powered by a human risk management platform, it can be tailored to each employee’s unique risk profile.


    The result? Re-envisioned security awareness, featuring hyper-personalization, alignment with real security outcomes, and real-world risk insights.

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    Keep ahead of the ever-evolving threat landscape with Mimecast

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