What is Mimecast?
Mimecast was founded in 2003 by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray and has offices in London and Lexington, Massachusetts, among other locations. Two of its products matter most to email teams: Advanced Email Security and Cloud Archive.
Advanced Email Security protects Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and on-premise email. Mimecast offers it with or without a gateway. Its AI-based detection uses anomaly detection with social graphing, sandboxing, on-click protection, and computer vision to spot branding and login page impersonation. It also adds contextual email banners for risk assessment and remediation of threats such as QR code phishing and BEC.
Cloud Archive is a separate product for retention and compliance. It gives IT, legal, compliance and HR teams self-service tools to collect, discover, preserve and review collaboration data, and it includes an archive for Microsoft Teams. The two products are licensed and configured independently, so confirm which are in scope before comparing quotes.
Key capabilities
- Email protection AI-based detection with sandboxing, on-click protection and impersonation checks.
- Deployment choice Email security delivered with or without a gateway.
- Archive Self-service tools to collect, discover, preserve and review collaboration data.
- Teams archive Encrypted copies of Microsoft Teams data.
- Sync and Recover Protection for files, folders, contacts, tasks and notes.
Where Mimecast fits
- Phishing, BEC and QR code phishing defense
- Gateway and gateway-less email security deployment
- Email and collaboration archiving
- E-discovery and legal hold support
- Backup and recovery through Sync and Recover
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