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Mimecast Advanced Email Security

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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.

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Mimecast works well

8 out of 10
March 14, 2021
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Popular Features

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  • Threat Detection (18)
    8.2
    82%
  • Anti-malware (19)
    8.0
    80%
  • Management Tools (19)
    8.0
    80%
  • Customizability (19)
    7.4
    74%

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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.

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  • No setup fee

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Product Details

What is Mimecast Advanced Email Security?

Mimecast offers advanced email and collaboration security through two different deployment methods.

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

Mimecast Advanced Email Security Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Abnormal Security, and Proofpoint Email Protection are common alternatives for Mimecast Advanced Email Security.

Reviewers rate End-to-End Encryption highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Mimecast Advanced Email Security are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses Mimecast to secure all incoming and outgoing email, and filter out any incoming spam or malicious emails. Mail is received first by the Mimecast servers where it is thoroughly analyzed before it is delivered to our on Microsoft 365 Exchange environment. All outgoing mail is also sent through the Mimecast servers so recipients can rest assured the email is safe when it gets to them. We also make use of the stationary layouts to add a legal disclaimer to all of our outgoing mail. Mimecast has dramatically limited our end user exposure to spam, phishing attempts, and malicious emails.
January 26, 2024

Mimecast Review

James Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mimecast sits in front of our On Premise Virtual Machine Exchange 2019 Exchange Server. Used for blocking filtering emails, checking contents of Emails and attachments for suspicious activity stripping, rejecting or holding emails or attachments and re writing urls. Allowing users to access email via the mobile App with 2 factor authentication
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Mimecast for all of our incoming and outgoing email filtering. Mimecast helped deal with a lot of spam. It also handled our outgoing email encryption. It also helped with VIP impersonation protection. We were customers for a little over five years. We out-grew the platform as our security needs increased.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As our primary protection gateway for all incoming and outgoing email against current and next gen threats. Increased levels of phishing, weaponized links, attachments, nested documents and social engineering attempts make this an essential toolbox for our business.

Added to the feature-set of Large file send and additional optional addon's you really get what you pay for!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using Mimecast Services including Secure Email Gateway for many years now. It addresses our need to communicate with our clients in a secure fashion and maintain Attorney Client privilege. It also allows for us to discuss patient medical records in a secure format.
March 14, 2021

Mimecast works well

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Mimecast Secure Email deployed organization-wide to manage all of our email services - it processes all incoming messages before sending them on to our Office365 environment for delivery. We use it to enforce our 5 year retention policy on all e-mails and it allows all of our users to access their older emails even if they've been deleted from Outlook which they appreciate. We also use it to manage our mail policies and prevent SPAM and Phishing emails from reaching our end users and I would say it has about a 90% efficacy in blocking malicious emails - there are several false positives with the medium or high setting for SPAM scanning, but we would much rather have to release a held message than have several users reporting SPAM to our helpdesk.
February 28, 2020

The Benefits of Mimecast

Jessica Rondash | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mimecast is used across our whole organization. It serves as our email archiving system as well as our spam filter. It is also a great tool for catching phishing emails before they get to our end users. Mimecast also allows us to send large files, basically serving as a dropbox but cutting out the step of uploading the files.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mimecast is used as the primary spam filtering software for our company. Mimecast protects our main mail services by being an intermediary between our company and the outside internet. We then go further and only permit Mimecast to send our company email directly. Furthermore email is smarthosted out of the Mimecast gateway, so our customers can be assured clean emails.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is first and last stop our email makes as it traverses to and from us. We have our MX records set such that all email sent to our domain is actually sent to Mimecast first and they forward it to our on-premise mail server. All users in the company benefit from it. Having it as our front end gives us the capability of knowing it is very unlikely an actual virus laden email makes it through while also blocking the majority of phishing type emails. It also benefits us by not having to expose our SMTP services to the internet.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Mimecast as our mail delivery point for the entire organization. Both incoming and outgoing mail is filtered and scanned through the service. It addresses the serious issue of malicious emails entering our environment. We find that it is a much more effective solution than what it replaced, which was a third party adaptation of spam assassin.

November 16, 2019

Mimecast, Great for DR.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is being used by our whole organization, but our end-users typically do not interact with it on a daily basis. We use Mimecast behind the scenes to scan all incoming email and filter out ones that may be considered spam or threatening. We also use it to encrypt any outgoing email. We use this in conjunction with Proofpoint to further protect our end-users from email attacks. We also utilize Mimecast for disaster recovery purposes. In the event of a disaster where we are unable to connect to our on-premise exchange server, we utilize Mimecast to allow our users to log in and see an exact 1:1 copy of their email inbox. This also allows them to send and receive an email if our exchange server is down.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is being used across our entire organization for e-mail security. The security solution covers both desktop and mobile clients. Being in the defense industry, a lot of very sensitive information is transmitted via e-mail, and to ensure that this is securely done is very important. Protection against unsafe links and phishing is another key problem that Mimecast solves.
Jeff Nickles | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We switched to Mimecast Secure Email Gateway for our entire organization three years ago when our former provider discontinued the product we were using. It was a great upgrade for us! Mimecast does an excellent job of filtering spam and other unwanted messages. It also provides a lot of control in terms of the ability to modify rules, make exceptions, and search to find what happened to an email message. Furthermore, Mimecast offers additional security features which protect our users from threats. For example, Mimecast rewrites the URLs in all incoming messages and checks those when a user clicks to block malicious URLs.
Jon Shurtliff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implemented Mimecast Secure Email Gateway to combat the many vulnerabilities that have blossomed through email over the past decade. This is implemented company wide and integrates with our G Suite email architecture. With Mimecast we have been able to limit phishing scams, minimize spam, prohibit unsafe links and give our users a customizable experience to keep them focused on the safe, secure and important emails that they need to perform their job.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mimecast's Secure Email Gateway is being used by our firm for all users to perform the following critical functions:
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our law firm uses Mimecast Secure Email Gateway to protect our network from email malware delivery, spam and phishing attempts. Everyone in the firm uses Mimecast and I couldn't be happier. We saw an immediate reduction in the number of malicious emails getting through to end users.
Debbie Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mimecast is used by our entire organization for our business continuity plan as well as our production email security. We added the email threat management package to our original subscription in 2017. We license each user and use it in conjunction with high availability Exchange on prem and SMSMSE for antivirus.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Mimecast Secure Email Gateway to scan all of our incoming and outgoing e-mail for approximately 10 unique domains, and 1400 users. It performs multiple security functions: scanning for unsolicited commercial email (spam), scanning and removing malicious content, preventing impersonated emails for all internal users, phishing prevention, and preventing users from sending out sensitive content like credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc.
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is being used by our organization to filter unwanted email for half of our company. We had been experiencing less than stellar filtering results with our previous vendor and decided to go with Mimecast, who was viewed as a leader in the field.
Hans Huang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our entire organization uses Mimecast Secure Email Gateway; it handles all of our spam/junk email bounce/blocks as well as offers other features such as attachment threat scanning/blocking, anti-phishing measure (replaces URLs with a Mimecast URL), and DR continuity. Mimecast offers even more products and services at the perimeter but we do not use all of their features.
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