USE CASE

Anti-Phishing Software

Stop phishing attacks, business email compromise, and malicious links.

Why anti-phishing protection matters for your business

Phishing drives more than 90% of successful cyberattacks, and AI is making it harder to detect. A single successful attack can trigger ransomware, a BEC transfer, or a data breach averaging $4.44M million in total cost.

The Problem

Phishing makes up 77% of all observed threats, with attackers using AI-crafted messages, QR codes, and payloads that only activate post-delivery.

Our Solutions

Mimecast inspects every inbound, outbound, and internal email in real time, scanning URLs at click, sandboxing attachments, and applying 40+ detection layers to catch what others miss.

The Impact

Organizations reduce phishing exposure, prevent credential harvesting & BEC incidents, and security teams gain visibility into targeted campaigns without disrupting email flow.

Why Mimecast

Mimecast's Email & Collaboration Threat Protection suite neutralizes phishing across every stage of an attack — before delivery, at the moment of interaction, and after the fact.

URL protection

Computer vision visually renders and analyzes web pages, detecting fraudulent login forms and impersonation even when attackers use cloaking and freshly registered domains.

Attachment sandboxing

Suspicious files run in an isolated environment for deep inspection, with active content like macros converted to a safe, static format for instant delivery — stopping ransomware without delaying legit emails.

Impersonation & BEC defense

NLP, social graphing, and behavioral anomaly detection catch BEC attempts with no malicious link or attachment, while computer vision detects login page spoofing at the pixel level.

Internal email & automated remediation

Scanning extends to internal email, catching compromised accounts before they spread, and automatically purges post-delivery threats from all mailboxes.

Our approach

The consequences of neglecting anti-phishing measures

Financial Impact

Phishing breaches average $4.88M, with BEC fraud driving 55%+ of losses and fraudulent transfers exceeding $180,000 per incident.

Reputational Damage

A breach can drive 30–40% of customers away, with recovery taking 12–24 months — and 60% of SMBs close within six months.

Legal & compliance risk

GDPR, NIS2, and HIPAA impose steep penalties — up to €10M or 2% of turnover — with newer frameworks holding senior executives personally liable.

Direct benefits and business outcomes

Prevent breaches and reduce costs

Stopping a single phishing attack can save millions in ransomware payments, legal fees, and recovery costs — turning a potential $4.44M incident into a blocked email.

Maintain business continuity during attacks

Stopping ransomware and account takeovers in your environment avoids downtime that can cost $2,000–$5,000 per day in lost productivity.

Reduce security team burden

Automated investigation, remediation, and reporting reduce alert fatigue, while Mimecast's MSOC analyzes billions of emails daily to keep intelligence current.

Compliance & reputation

DMARC enforcement protects deliverability and trust, while built-in compliance reporting supports GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS with audit-ready evidence.

Trusted by over 42k customers

Mimecast is proud to protect and support 42,000+ organizations globally, helping them navigate the ever-expanding threat landscape since 2003.

How is Mimecast’s anti-phishing approach different from standard email filtering?

Traditional filters rely on known threat signatures and static content rules. Mimecast uses AI, NLP, and computer vision to detect novel attacks, including malware-less BEC, lookalike domain impersonation, and URLs that turn malicious after delivery. Time-of-click URL rewriting means protection continues even after an email lands in the inbox.

Can Mimecast protect against phishing attacks that don’t contain links or attachments?

Yes. Mimecast’s detection is specifically designed for text-only BEC attacks. It analyzes email headers, sender domain similarity, and message sentiment to flag social engineering attempts, even when there is no malicious payload to scan.

What happens if a phishing email is delivered before it is identified as malicious?

Mimecast’s automated remediation capability allows the platform to search for and purge a malicious email from all user mailboxes after the fact. Time-of-click URL protection also ensures that even if the email was delivered, users are blocked from reaching harmful destinations when they attempt to click.

Does Mimecast scan internal emails, or only inbound messages from outside the organization?

Mimecast scans inbound, outbound, and internal email. By scanning internal email, Mimecast specifically addresses the risk of a compromised internal account being used to spread phishing links or malware to colleagues, a scenario that perimeter-only tools miss entirely.

How does Mimecast help with employee phishing awareness?

Mimecast includes dynamic security awareness training with phishing simulations and places warning banners on emails from external or unknown senders. Regular simulation-based training has been shown to reduce employee click rates on phishing links by up to 90%.

Does Mimecast support compliance with data protection regulations?

Yes. Mimecast’s anti-phishing controls, DMARC enforcement, and detailed security reporting help organizations meet requirements under GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and NIS2. Tamper-proof logs of policy violations and remediation actions provide the audit-ready evidence regulators require.

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