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What is Mimecast Advanced Email Security?
The Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is a messaging security option with anti-spam / anti-malware, data loss prevention, large file send, and other features, from UK company Mimecast.
A very solid and reliable product that does what it should
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Mimecast Advanced Email Security solved all our problems!
Tackle the rising threat of spam!
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway - eliminates email filtering headaches
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Mimecast - Good Email Security for Small Business.
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is much more than a spam blocker!
You really do get what you pay for - Top Notch Protection with a Modular Approach
Total protection using Mimecast
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway. Simple to use.
Mimecast works well
The Benefits of Mimecast
Mimecast - Worth The Time and Money
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- Threat Detection (21)8.282%
- Anti-malware (22)8.080%
- Management Tools (22)8.080%
- Customizability (22)7.474%
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What is Mimecast Advanced Email Security?
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Secure Email Gateway
Secure email gateway software prevents the transmission of emails that contravene company policy or contain malware, phishing attacks, spam or other unwanted emails
- 8Anti-malware(22) Ratings
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- 7.4Customizability(22) Ratings
Customizing email security gateways can improve detection capabilities
- 8Data Loss Protection(19) Ratings
A set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.
- 8.2Threat Detection(21) Ratings
Threat protection defend against sophisticated malware or hacking-based attacks targeting sensitive data.
- 7.2Sandboxing(19) Ratings
Sandboxing is a software management strategy that isolates applications from critical system resources and other programs providing an extra layer of security
- 8.8End-to-End Encryption(18) Ratings
In end-to-end encryption the data is encrypted on the sender's system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it
- 8Management Tools(22) Ratings
Management tools include administrator dashboards, reports, etc.
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What is Mimecast Advanced Email Security?
A Secure Email Gateway in the cloud, Mimecast Email Security Cloud Gateway is designed to keep any type of email environment, even the most complex, secure.
Mimecast Email Security Cloud Integrated is an integrated cloud email security solution that does not require an MX record change, and is purpose-built to enhance and extend M365 protections.
Both solutions include AI-powered protection, include a range of specifically designed benefits, and offer a complementary suite of additional capabilities like collaboration security, awareness training, and archiving.
Mimecast Advanced Email Security Features
Secure Email Gateway Features
- Supported: Anti-malware
- Supported: Customizability
- Supported: Data Loss Protection
- Supported: Threat Detection
- Supported: Sandboxing
- Supported: End-to-End Encryption
- Supported: Management Tools
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Mimecast Advanced Email Security Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | Global |
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We also utilize Business Continuity and Archiving functionality of Mimecast Advanced Email Security.
- URL Protection
- Impersonation Protection
- Archiving
- Email Threat Protection
- Simplifying the UI and providing more guided setup processes or contextual help could enhance usability.
- More user-friendly reporting tools, including drag-and-drop report builders or pre-configured templates for common report types, would be beneficial.
- Expanding native integrations and providing more seamless integration capabilities through APIs or connectors would streamline security operations.
Advanced Threat Protection
Enhanced detection and mitigation of advanced threats, safeguarding sensitive data and intellectual property is well suited to our Organization.
With the use of Office 365, it's not the most suitable product if running both in conjunction.
Before Mimecast we were using the Microsoft Defender built in email security and it took us about 30 minutes daily to review and resolve the last 24 hours of emails that had been incorrectly caught as SPAM, or others that were held.
- Now that we're using Mimecast we don't spend any regular time at all, as its all automated and false positives are quite rare. If they do get caught its very quick to find and release the email in question.
- If I have a technical problem, Mimecast support is very quick to respond and they have good technical skillsets to resolve.
- Can be customised very well, and easily laid out to understand
- none at present
Its suited very well to complex environments due to the customisation that is possible.
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- Link redirections with a tad of user training mixed in
- Spam email engine does a great job of recognition
- Sprinkle of user training mixed in
- easy to use and configure
- Better explanations of stationary items
- Better explanations of email rejection status in message tracking
- gui interface could use a update
- Cloud based
- Easy to use
- Simple for users
- Hourly spam digests
- Speed of sandboxing can sometimes take time
- Directory sync to O365 only 3x per day
- Quite a few false positives
Tackle the rising threat of spam!
- Deliver mail
- Reduce spam in inbox
- Clear digest reports
- Easy admin console for security team
- Mail delivery speeds
- Processing time for sandbox
- Better support team
- Great spam filtering services
- Filtering of potentially dangerous attachments
- Link protection
- Highly customizable
- Less than intuitive admin console. I've found a few things to be difficult to understand and implement.
- There are A LOT of features that can be implemented. It's hard to decipher which ones should or shouldn't be implemented.
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- Blocking Emais
- Re writing URLS
- Blocking Senders
- Allowing multipe atachments to be released in one click
- Orgainised folders in the mobile App
- Keeping rejected messages longer instead of going to the cvs data folder
Mimecast - Good Email Security for Small Business.
- Spam Filtering.
- Impersonation Protection.
- On-hold Queue.
- Outbound Encryption.
- Granular Email Views.
- BEC Detection.
- Slow, messy UI.
- Process for trusting emails is confusing.
- Creating blocklists is all or nothing.
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is much more than a spam blocker!
- Provides secure email transactions.
- Ability to send and receive very large files.
- Blocks a large amount of unwanted spam and dangerous files.
- Allows to train users about bad email actors.
- Web filtering and blocking.
- The new updated portal when released was very difficult to use.
- The customer support via phone is not always on par.
- Email support when used could be a bit quicker when responding.
- CyberGraph implementation is taking too long.
- Feature requests should not take that long to complete.
I would say it would be less appropriate for smaller companies as the cost may not be a good fit.
Added to the feature-set of Large file send and additional optional addon's you really get what you pay for!
- Anti Spam
- Anti Phishing
- URL Protection
- Attachment Management
- Anti Spoofing
- User Awareness
- Secure Transmission of Large or/and Sensitive Files
- Admin Complexity is High - To Fine Tune Features you need to invest in training or high level support
- Flexibility in delivery could be better, some solutions are on or off
- Cost is high and inflexible when it comes to trying out new features
Works well in terms of end user experience with the Outlook plugin ideally with SSO enabled (so they don't have to remember to keep logged into it if their pw changes). The web plugin is less detailed and feature rich.
Total protection using Mimecast
- Sandboxing incoming attachments, instead of opening directly on your computer.
- Scanning links in emails for websites that could harm the organization
- Keeping SPAM out of users email boxes and increasing efficiencies by reducing the number of emails a user has to wade through.
- Archiving all emails so if a use deletes something they can go back to the archive and retrieve an old email.
- There is a lot to learn to be good with Mimecast and it can be confusing at times
- It is easy for a user to Whitelist a email address or domain, but cumbersome to do it for the organization
- They have made many changes to the interface to make it easier to navigate, but sometimes it still is not intuitive where you need to go.
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway. Simple to use.
- Maintain Confidentiality
- Able to maintain our brand awareness
- Easier access to your contacts
- Automatic Read Receipts
Mimecast works well
- Email retention - convenience for the end-users to access older messages even if they've deleted them from Outlook
- SPAM management - allows us to prevent SPAM and Phishing attacks with custom policies that fit our organizational needs
- URL protection - allows incoming emails with a URL to be scanned and protects our end-users from clicking on malicious URLs
- Policy management could be easier to use and more intuitive
The Benefits of Mimecast
- Catches spam and phishing emails
- Saves and archives all emails for the designated period
- Sends large files that are too big for Outlook to handle
- It has a great search feature for finding old emails.
- Phishing scams are getting more and more sophisticated so it could always improve on catching phishing emails.
Mimecast - Worth The Time and Money
- Anti-Spam.
- Anti-Malware.
- Death by details - admins can screw things up easily when it comes to advanced message routing.
- How-to's to train users/admins on more difficult functions.
It's good for any company that wants to block spam before it gets to your on-premise servers and end-users. Their anti-spam engines are amongst the best in the business. The number of customizations on sending and on-premise delivery available can be mind-boggling at first, but are incredibly powerful to get your messages to the right place.
- Allows you as the user to not expose your SMTP gateway to the internet. All emails go to Mimecast and you just need to allow SMTP traffic from Mimecast only.
- Very reliable in up time with rarely an issue receiving or sending mail through it.
- They have limited electronic resources available for support. It is rare that I find the answer to an issue without having to call them.
- They are frequently emailing in an attempt to sell extra services...which can be annoying.
Mimecast remains the gold standard of email edge filtering.
- Sandbox filtering of mail attachments is great, and we are alerted to caught items.
- Greymail tagging is useful to some employees.
- There have been issues of downtime or slow delivery, but we have not lost any mail.
- The initial setup is a bit counter-intuitive.
Mimecast, Great for DR.
- Standing up an exact 1:1 copy of email inboxes for DR purposes.
- Scanning any incoming email to be filtered for spam/threats.
- Automatically encrypting all outgoing email.
- Email filtering can be hit or miss. Will incorrectly filter out emails that will go noticed by end-users.
- Admin web UI can be confusing and not so intuitive.
- Inability to release incorrectly filtered messages to the end-user mailbox.
An Invisible, Powerful, Magnetic Net that Catches Everything!
- Runs relatively unnoticed in the background, not interfering with daily tasks.
- Has a very powerful search feature.
- Has a very intuitive management console for users to manage blocked addresses, their online inbox, and various other configuration settings.
- Requires each device used with it to be enrolled to open links. This enrollment is removed every time cache is clear.
- Links that are opened in e-mails are first scanned, and then the user is asked to confirm that they think the link is safe, and then only do you possibly get access to where the link is pointing.
- Sometimes Mimecast will place e-mails on hold, without sending a notification, resulting in delayed delivery. This can be avoided by working within the online mailbox and keeping a look-out for held mails.
Mimecast is not well suited to smaller businesses in which communication volume is low, and the staff is very technically savvy. These staff can typically ascertain the safety of e-mail content themselves and speed up their working experience.
Very Satisfied Mimecast Customer!
- Excellent filtering of spam and unwanted messages. It really cleans things up in this regard without producing a lot of false positives.
- It has great security features that enable us to protect our users from email borne threats.
- Powerful configuration options that help you to dial in exactly how you want Mimecast to behave.
- A great Outlook add-in for users that is simple and convenient.
- Mimecast offers the ability to spool mail if your mail server is down. Users can access this spooled mail for business continuity.
- The admin console is powerful, but it isn't always intuitive. It seems like things could be a little better organized to make it easier for admins to use.
- The impersonation protection rule is good and keeps getting better, but could still use work.
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway Keeps it Real
- Mimecast really minimizes Spam distraction by providing an hourly or daily digest (time length is fully customizable) of questionable emails. Now, our users only have to monitor those occassionally, and can train the system to prevent spam in the future.
- Mimecast's sandbox can analyze any questionable email and prevent it from ever getting delivered or executed by our users.
- The software prevents any malicious links from getting through and even obfuscates to real link until it is proven safe.
- While the daily or hourly digest of spam/questionable emails is very useful, it does make it easy for users to forever block senders - which they may actually needd those emails in the future. Providing a link to the management console with blocking may be a better option - training the user how to unblock and use the more sophisticated management console.
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway will make your email spam and malware filtering a breeze...
Filter out spam.
Detect and block emails containing dangerous malicious links and attachments.
Manage whitelisting and blacklisting senders, both on a firm-wide bases and by individual users.
Detect outgoing email with potentially dangerous content.
Cache email during production email system downtimes and then deliver it when the production system comes back online.
- Filters spam well. About 66% of our email is rejected and never hits user Outlook Mailboxes. There are very few times when a legitimate email is blocked.
- Catches malware-laden attachments. Mimecast catches the vast majority of these.
- Filters and blocks dangerous links embedded in email. Mimecast blocks almost all of these.
- The Outlook plugin is intuitive and works well.
- Has been extremely reliable. Virtually no down time.
- The user interface could be a little more intuitive on the admin side.
- Sometimes response times for accessing features via the Outlook features is slow
- Proper configuration to optimize filtering can require quite a bit of tweaking.
- Mimecast has a great spam engine, and great controls to permit, deny or release spam it puts on hold.
- Mimecast does a great job of preventing impersonation and phishing attacks.
- Mimecast does a great job of providing failover Outlook connectivity if our on premise Exchange server is down.
- Mimecast administration is complicated, I wish the admin console and policies were more intuitive.
- I wish Mimecast error messages were more granular, you get the same error message for multiple issues.
- Other than those two minor issues, Mimecast is great.
Mimecast - Finally in love with my spam filtering solution
- Impersonation Detection - We've received a lot of fake CEO emails recently. The previous product we had had limited ability to detect this. Mimecast on the other hand can use multiple factors to help determine whether an email from outside the organization is impersonating an employee.
- It allows you to customize rules for specific people or groups
- It has a lot more features
- The web interface, while powerful, can be counter intuitive to use. If you're not in there all the time and very familiar with how it works, often you will have to reach out to support to remind you how to get something done
- The email support is just okay. I would be very frustrated if I didn't opt for the option for phone support.
Mimecast - End User's Dream for Spam and Malware
- Mimecast is fantastic as a spam blocker. Our users get the traditional noon day email with their "held" items for release at their discretion, but we have a small rate of failure for recognizing true spam vs. true emails.
- It is extremely easy for the users to use, especially with the Outlook ribbon feature enabled so that they can access their held (spam) emails, allowed senders list (white list), blocked senders list (blacklist) and other features quickly.
- We have experienced a few outages or maintenance windows internally for our on prem email system, but we have not had Mimecast unavailable for us once. It's been 100% reliable.
- The Admin Management console is absurdly complicated. For every first time we wanted to setup we've had to call their support for assistance. Support is quick and fantastic but it's so difficult to do anything yourself. They seem to have gone out of their way to call features unique things instead of using standard language from other providers so you as an IT professional know what you're looking for to setup.
- They have lots of KB articles, which their support will point you to. They are written on the most basic level and don't actually provide the help you need. For example, the KB page will tell you the list of options on the page... but not actually tell you what you do, why you might use them, or define their terminology.
- Their email threat management system has several nice features. One of the features available is that it will rewrite links in emails so that users click the link and it sandboxes the link, testing it on their server space and the user sees it there. This means the actual link in the email gets changed to the address of one of their servers. As a law firm, the EXACT LINKS are important to maintain in our communications and editing actual data from our clients to point to a Mimecast server is an unacceptable practice. I wish they had an alternative that did not edit the link itself on the page.