USE CASE
Sensitive data leaves organizations every day through email, shadow AI, cloud apps, and endpoints. Mimecast sees and stops data exfiltration from every modern work channel using one data loss prevention solution.
Connect with Sales Data Security AssessmentTHE PROBLEM
Managing policy to identify known exfiltration or piecing together CASB, DLP, and UEBA tools means teams can miss critical events.
Data generates, flows, and changes across email, cloud apps and GenAI tools, far beyond what traditional controls can monitor.
Without a behavioral baseline and risk context, security teams can't distinguish normal collaboration from high-risk data exfiltration events.
OUR SOLUTION
Mimecast combines cloud-based email DLP with Incydr’s real-time data protection to provide comprehensive data loss prevention. Together, they enforce content policies on outbound communications, monitor file activity across endpoints & cloud services, and apply adaptive controls to stop data exfiltration events before they happen.
WHY MIMECAST
Inspect outbound email and attachments in real time to prevent sensitive or regulated data from leaving the organization.
Track file movements across endpoints, browsers, cloud apps, and email to detect exfiltration to untrusted destinations.
Automatically prioritizes high-risk events using behavioral analytics and risk context so security teams focus on real threats, not false positives.
Apply adaptive controls to block data leakage, nudge users, and isolate devices, cutting incidents and accelerating response. Leverage agentic AI to streamline workflows even further.
Traditional DLP relies on static content-matching rules that require extensive tuning and generate high false-positive rates. Mimecast Incydr’s provides unmatched visibility from day 1, a flexible suite of adaptive controls, and automatic AI-driven risk prioritization & agentic AI workflows for faster deployment and response. Integrated policy-based email DLP adds another powerful protection layer.
Mimecast helps prevent both accidental and intentional data loss across the web and endpoint. This includes sensitive files shared via email, data uploaded or pasted to unsanctioned cloud apps or GenAI tools, intellectual property exfiltrated during employee off boarding, and regulated data like PCI, HIPAA, or GDPR information leaving the organization.
Our IRM and DLP solution is Incydr, which monitors file activity in the background without blocking normal collaboration. It uses behavioral context to distinguish routine work from genuinely risky behavior, and provides a range of adaptive controls including real-time educational nudges and temporary allow workflows to correct mistakes rather than slowing people down.
Because the platform is cloud-based and Incydr doesn’t depend on predefined content policies to start detecting risk, organizations can gain visibility into data movement within hours or days, not the weeks or months typically required by legacy DLP solutions.
Contain the risk immediately by revoking access and isolating affected devices. Review the incident using Incydr’s detailed activity logs including file downloads to understand what data was moved, where it went, and whether it was intentional. Escalate to your legal and HR teams as needed, and use the findings to strengthen policies and response workflows.
Data loss prevention refers to the practices and technologies designed to stop sensitive or regulated data from leaving an organization, whether accidentally or maliciously. DLP solutions monitor channels like email, endpoints, and cloud apps to identify, block, or secure data that violates corporate policies or compliance standards.
Mimecast scans outbound email content, attachments, subject lines, and metadata using content policies, pattern matching, and document fingerprinting. When a policy violation is detected, Mimecast can block the message, quarantine it for review, or route it through secure messaging automatically.
Depending on your configuration, Mimecast can block the email, hold it for administrator review, send it via secure messaging, or strip sensitive metadata from attachments. These actions are automated and customizable by user, group, or content type.
Yes. Mimecast Incydr extends data protection beyond email by monitoring file activity across endpoints, cloud storage, browsers, and web apps. Together, email DLP and Incydr provide coverage across the most common channels where sensitive data is lost.
Mimecast helps organizations meet requirements for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and other frameworks by enforcing content policies on sensitive data, providing tamper-proof evidence of policy violations, and securing how regulated information is shared.
Yes. Mimecast integrates with Exchange and Microsoft 365 as a specialized security layer, applying DLP policies to all outgoing email without disrupting existing workflows or requiring users to change how they send messages. Mimecast Incydr can ingest Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) tags from Microsoft Purview to tailor adaptive controls and enhance understanding of data movement.
Email DLP focuses on scanning and controlling sensitive data sent through email. Endpoint DLP monitors file activity on devices, including copies to USB drives, uploads to cloud apps, and transfers through browsers. Mimecast covers both through its email DLP policies and Incydr's endpoint monitoring.
Mimecast Large File Send lets users share files up to 2 GB securely while enforcing DLP policies. This gives employees a safe alternative to unsanctioned file-sharing services and keeps sensitive transfers under organizational control.
Bring shadow IT into the light. Expose use of unsanctioned apps to take action when data moves to tools you don’t trust.
Detect and prevent source code exfiltrations to untrusted repositories. without the need for complex policies.
