Keeping Data Safe In Construction and Engineering Organizations

The Challenge

Recent Mimecast research finds that over 80% of construction organizations believe they are likely to suffer a negative business impact from an email-borne attack. With large numbers of sub-contractors and high value projects, the opportunity for impersonation attacks is high. Building architectural plans and schematics are also frequent targets. And with a large percentage of employees at work sites or visiting customers, a pervasive security solution must provide anywhere, any device protection.

In an industry where customer service, consistent communication, and reputation are key differentiators, system downtime and brand damage are not options. Employees need access to email archives and the confidence that customer communications will go through no matter what happens.

The Mimecast Solution

Mimecast provides the Construction and Engineering industry with pervasive email security. With advanced email security at, inside, and beyond your perimeter, Mimecast keeps impersonation, ransomware and other threats like spear-phishing from damaging your organization’s users, customers, and brand. Email continuity keeps employees in the field and customer service staff sending and receiving email, even in the event of a disruption of your primary mail server. And with an independent archive and fast recovery tools, important construction communications can be retained, identified and purged when necessary.

Mimecast's email solutions help:

Pervasive security at, inside, and beyond your perimeter.

Prevent email-borne spear-phishing, ransomware, impersonation and other advanced attacks.

Reduce cyber risk by improving security awareness.

Eliminate the impact of email outages to maintain productivity.

Encrypt mail messages and share attachments securely.

Simplify archiving, data protection and e-discovery.

Support regulatory compliance regimes.

Recovering From a Ransomware Attack

Protect your construction organization from ransomware

Neil Murray, Mimecast's co-founder and CTO, discusses the impact of a ransomware attack and how an organization can recover after an attack.

Share Confidential Information Securely

Secure Messaging

Detect personal and sensitive information being sent externally and automatically apply encryption. Protect and share confidential information securely both internally and externally, while demonstrating best endeavors for GDPR.

Expert Insight.

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Spear-Phishing and Targeted Threats

Targeted Threat Protection

Email remains the most common entry point for attacks.

Most gateway solutions stop spam and viruses, but fail to address spear-phishing, ransomware and targeted threats –some of the biggest challenges facing construction and engineering organizations today.

Email Archiving

Reduce the cost and complexity of data growth while meeting demands for retention, search and e-discovery. With Mimecast Sync and Recover, restoring email, personal folders, calendar and contacts has never been easier.

A Sound Continuity Strategy

Email Continuity

Even the most secure, well-planned email systems go down. With Mimecast, immediate failover means email flow is not interrupted in the event of a mail server outage or planned maintenance. Mimecast keeps sending and receiving email, and gives employees access via Outlook, web, mobile and Mac when cloud, on-premises or hybrid email systems go down.

Supports Regulatory Compliance Regimes

Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory compliance regimes like the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may be imposing and onerous, as organization determine the best way to institute controls to manage personal data in email, which include individual consent, subject access rights, the right to be forgotten, and data portability.

This can also be an opportune time to clean out old databases and collecting the right information with due consent, leading to better customer engagement.

Mimecast provides numerous ways to help simplify GDPR compliance.

Raise Security Awareness

Change Employee Behavior to Reduce Security Risk

Even the best employees can be maddeningly careless and resistant to change. Their casual mistakes can lead to disaster — and the cost can be staggering to your organization. Improve security culture with engaging content and advanced risk scoring.

Block more threats

Improve Web Security

While the majority of cyberattacks continue to be delivered through email, 91% of malware uses the web – and specifically DNS – to function once it lands. When combined, email and web represent the initiation point for 99% of successful breaches.

Block activity initiated by user action or malware and access to inappropriate websites. Enhance protection with fully integrated web and email security.

Construction and Engineering Cybersecurity

Cyber resilience for firms tackling big projects

The Challenge

The Mimecast Solution

Recovering From a Ransomware Attack

Protect your construction organization from ransomware