Mimecast Announces Protection for Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive Solutions to Secure Essential Collaborative Software

LEXINGTON, Mass., March 5, 2024 -- Mimecast, an advanced email and collaboration security company, today announced the release of Mimecast^® Protection for Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive. Building on the Mimecast^® Protection for Microsoft Teams product launched last year, these expanded offerings enable Mimecast customers to Work Protected^® across the modern work surface where collaboration tools are critical platforms.

While email security continues to be the primary entry point for threat actors to enter an organization, the forthcoming Mimecast research report “State of Email and Collaboration Security 2024” found that 70% of IT and cybersecurity professionals believe collaboration tools pose urgent, new threats to their organization.  Mimecast’s expanded collaboration security solutions will help businesses get in front of this concern and effectively protect employees across all communications platforms.

“As businesses continue adjusting to the world of hybrid work, critical platforms like the SharePoint and OneDrive tools are not only driving new opportunities for collaboration, but they’re also creating new threat vectors for bad actors,” said David Mitchell, VP of Product Management. “At Mimecast, we recognize that the shifting cyber landscape is creating an expanded attack surface, and our new collaboration security products extend our best-in-class email protection to these increasingly targeted and often vulnerable tools.”

These expanded capabilities will allow employees to store, share and collaborate on documents securely within the SharePoint and OneDrive platforms. With near real-time scanning of new files and continuous scanning of recently edited files, the Mimecast solutions help keep dangerous content out of IT environments while also defending against zero-day threats.

Mimecast Collaboration Security protects the Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint solutions with a single, easy-to-manage offering. The product is now generally available globally for Email Security Cloud Integrated customers. 

To learn more about Mimecast’s unparalleled protection for Microsoft 365 visit here. 

Mimecast: Work Protected™ 

Since 2003, Mimecast has stopped bad things from happening to good organizations by enabling them to Work Protected. We empower more than 42,000 customers to help mitigate risk and manage complexities across a threat landscape driven by malicious cyberattacks, human error, and technology fallibility. Our advanced solutions provide the proactive threat detection, brand protection, awareness training, and data retention capabilities that evolving workplaces need today. Mimecast solutions are designed to transform email and collaboration security into the eyes and ears of organizations worldwide. 

Mimecast and Work Protected are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Mimecast Services Limited in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.  All rights reserved. All other third-party trademarks contained in this press release are the property of their respective owners.