Top Ten Cybersecurity Companies: Mimecast

We take a look at Mimecast, a cybersecurity company that was featured in our comprehensive list of cybersecurity companies.

Business Overview:

Mimecast is an international company specializing in cloud-based email management for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365, including security, archiving, and continuity services to protect business mail. The company was founded in 2003 by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray. And, has offices in London, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Munich and Israel.

At Mimecast, building resilient communities is core to who they are, and giving back is at the heart of the Mimecast Way. The company’s employees deliver cyber resilience every day to the organizations that we are privileged to call customers. As part of its commitment to global resilience, they have built our Resilience Together program to bring meaningful and sustained support to the global communities where we live and work.

Keep your emails safe:

Mimecast’s cloud-based Secure Email Gateway protects organizations and employees using any cloud or on-premises email platform. It defends against inbound spear-phishing, malware, spam and zero-day attacks by combining innovative applications and policies with multiple detection engines and intelligence feeds.

Your information, and ultimately your business’ reputation, is protected by outbound scanning of all emails to block threats and prevent malicious or unintentional loss of sensitive or confidential information.

For most, inbound email-borne spear-phishing style attacks are the primary focus for security teams, but that doesn’t sufficiently protect an organization. It is important to recognize that internal-to-internal emails as well as outbound emails are regularly used to spread threats and spam. In addition, organizations need to ensure they are protected against delivered email-borne files which are later determined as malware.

Mimecast Internal Email Protect extends Mimecast’s security controls to your organization’s internally-generated emails providing 360 degrees of email protection.

Mimecast DMARC Analyzer protects your brand by stopping direct domain spoofing, Mimecast Brand Exploit Protect neutralizes brand imitation on the web.

Protect your data:

Mimecast Cloud Archive has long set the industry standard for enterprise information archiving, helping to keep corporate knowledge available, protecting and preserving it, all while simplifying management and administration.

By aggregating data across multiple platforms, organizations gain long-term business insights and create a secure, digital corporate memory while reducing costs and risks for legal and compliance teams. IT teams can reduce administrative overhead with streamlined management and simplified data recovery. Anytime, anywhere access to archive data improves employee productivity and workflow efficiency.

Delivered from a single, unified platform and administration console, integrated archiving and recovery means less risk and stronger resiliency. Mimecast Sync and Recover provides simplified administration and streamlined recovery so that organizations can manage compliance archiving and data resiliency from a single Administration Console, without the need for dedicated backup and recovery solutions.

Detect threats:

Staying current with the strategies cyber attackers use can be, let’s face it, overwhelming. Mimecast makes it easy to keep your finger on the pulse by giving you threat intelligence specific to your environment, letting you see how you’ve been targeted, what cyber threats have been blocked and why, how you compare with others, and what actions you can take to ensure protections are optimized.

This threat intelligence data is used to enhance Mimecast’s Email Security 3.0 protections across all three zones — at your perimeter, inside your network & organization, and beyond your perimeter. And thanks to our flexible and growing library of APIs, it can also easily be integrated with third-party tools to make your IT team and entire security ecosystem smarter.

Mimecast Threat Intelligence gives you information specific to your environment — how you’ve been targeted, what cyber threats have been blocked and why.

Why Mimecast?:

Mimecast has made it their mission to mitigate the risks you face from email, and support you in reducing the cost and complexity of protecting yourself by moving this workload to the cloud. They live and breathe cloud technology. They developed their proprietary cloud architecture to offer you comprehensive email security, service continuity and archiving in a single subscription service. Their goal is to make it easier for you to protect your business in today’s fast-changing security and risk environment.

“Mimecast Has Provided Essential Solutions That Have Met Our Business Needs And Requirements In Legal And Compliance, Archive, Message Hygiene, Message Tracking, URL Threat Protection, DLP, Reporting, Alerting. DR And Many Other Features All Within A Single Manageable Dashboard. They Continue To Grow Their Solutions To Meet The Ever-Changing IT Landscape.” — Doug Blankenship, Enterprise Architect, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute.