- 3-week onboarding: A one-month implementation schedule accelerated into a smooth three-week rollout.
- Remediation in a couple of clicks: Email remediation that used to take 20 to 30 minutes and several steps is now possible in just a couple of clicks.
- 10x more threats caught: The volume of suspect emails spotted grew tenfold overnight after deploying Mimecast.
As cyberattacks against higher education increased, especially with impersonation attempts targeting senior staff, the University of Chichester’s existing Microsoft 365 email protections weren’t enough to keep pace. IT Service Development Manager Haydn Tarr and Senior Technical Specialist Andrew Thompson evaluated four vendors before choosing Mimecast’s Perimeter Defense, Internal Email Protect, and Sync & Recover, ruling out at least one competitor that would have required too much administrative overhead to maintain.
Onboarding finished a week ahead of schedule with no service disruption, and the results were immediate: suspect email detection increased nearly tenfold, remediation dropped from 20-30 minutes down to a couple of clicks, and fewer outgoing messages landed in recipients’ spam folders. ”I found the interface a lot friendlier than the Microsoft interface,” Thompson said. ”It’s easier to find everything, work out what’s a threat and then get rid of it.” After an initial year and a half with Mimecast, the university added DMARC Analyzer to further protect against domain spoofing.
